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Excerpt from A Thousand Miles From a Post Office: Or, Twenty Years'' Life and Travel in the Hudson''s Bay Regions
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.
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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.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Joseph Lofthouse
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ISBN - 9780364417249
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Page Count - 216
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ISBN - 9781331925293
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