AN OLD FRIEND WITH A NEW FACE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2022, 22 June 1885, Page 2

AN OLD FRIEND WITH A NEW FACE.

Here is the latest version of ail old old story which has once more been disinterred to go the rounds of the continental press. A missionary who had been sent out was recalled, after having lived for a considerabletime among the Esquimaux, because he clid npt qjake single siivert. Qn reaching haine he was interrogated by tile President af . tlio society a§ to the reason for his failure, "Sir,"he Replied, "the"natives listened to me with the greatest attention, and would crowd round me in the bitterest cold and the deepest darkness, until I began to speak of the terrors of hell lire which would be prepared for all those who did nofc give heed to my words, The thought of going to a place where it was always warm affected them differently from what I expected,for the prospect appeared so desirable to-.the poor creatures trembling wil'coldj'that from that hour they left, and never came back." It is said that another, missionary was shortly after sent out by the same society, _ who was warned to be loss explicit in his description of. the .placo of torment awaiting' unconverted Greenlanders after death. ■■ j'' ■ '