AN INCIDENT OF MISSION WORK IN LABRADOR.
A GLIMPSE into the difficult conditions under which missionary work is carried on in Labrador is given by one of the Moravian brethren. A member of his church had passed away, and in order to conduct the funeral service, the missionary had to set out early in the morning and travel two full days through the snow to the house of mourning. On the third day the little company started for the churchyard, the coffin being placed on a sledge, and the mourners following in similar conveyances drawn by dogs. In the lonely churchyard, situated near an abandoned trading-station, a number of fishermen from the bay had assembled, and here the body was laid to rest under snow and ice, the scene on that desolate shore lending peculiar impressiveness to the blessed message of everlasting life for those who die in the Lord.—Missionary Review.