God Speaks to an Eskimo Boy

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 9, 1909

God Speaks to an Eskimo Boy

WHERE there is a loyal heart but no teacher, God can and does speak direct to the soul in darkness. Said Adlooat, an Eskimo boy:—

“When I am little boy, I use tobacco, and like it very much. By and by God speaks to me, out on Bering Sea in a storm, and I know God saves me. But do you think I give up tobacco then? O, no! I love God; I love tobacco. No one tells me tobacco will hurt me. One day when walking down by the beach, something seems to speak to me inside, just the same as in the storm, and it says: ‘What for do you use tobacco?’ I say: ‘I don’t know.’ Then I walk along a little way, and again the voice speaks to me and says: ‘What good is that stuff anyway?’ I say: ‘No good, I guess.’ The third time the voice speaks to me and says: ‘Why don’t you quit?’ And I quit, and never use that tobacco again. Now I am poor Eskimo boy, and no missionary or teacher to tell me what is right, and so God tells me himself.”