AN OLD FRIEND WITH A NEW FACE.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume V, Issue 227, 20 June 1885, Page 4

AN OLD FRIEND WITH A NEW FACE.

Here is the latest version of an old, olcl story which has onee more heen disinterred to go the rounds of the Continental press. A missionary who had been sent out to Greenland had to be recalle 1 after having lived for a considerable tune : among the iisqiiiraaux becau e he had not j ma,do a single convert. Onreae.aing homo ' lie was interrogated by the ['resident of i . tho society as to the reason for his j failure. tk Sir," ho replied, " the natives | i listened to me with the greatest attention, | and would crowd round 1110 in the bitterest I cold and the deepest darkness, until I > began to speak of the terrors of hell lire ! which would be prepared for all those ' wha did not give heed to my words. The 1 thought of going to a place where it was j always warm affected them differently from what I expected, for the prospect appeared so desirable to the poor. creatures trembling with cold that from the same hour they left me and never came back." It is said that another missionary was shortly after sent out by the same society, who was warned to be less explicit in his description of the place of torment awaiting unconverted Greenlanders after death.