I DO not envy the men who find this little book uninteresting. The simple facts, simply told, of experiences such as these give to the dullest of us food for thought. What we call civilization makes life easy for us in the quiet round of home experience, and it is wholesome as well as stimulating to be thus reminded by a devoted servant of our Lord of the struggles nobly made, year in and year out, by a pioneer who is facing the hardships of the frozen North. We thank God that we have such a one among us to tell us thus simply of the kind of life which the Christian Missionary in those regions has to live in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils in the wilderness in weariness and painful ness, in watchings often, and, very markedly, in hunger and thirst and cold. No one can read the book without feeling how the writer loved his life work for all its trials. It is because he thus loved it that others were brought to love the Master whom he serves so well.
