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That Egede regarded his wife's opposition as more formidable than that of all the rest of his kith and kin put together, may be gathered from the fact that he says, on her coming over, that his "joy was complete," and that he "believed every obstacle to have been vanquished."
These, under his persuasive powers, subscribed forty pounds a-piece towards a mission fund. Egede set a good example by giving sixty pounds. Then, by begging from the bishop and people of Bergen, he raised the fund to about two thousand pounds. With this sum he bought a ship, and called it the Hope.
As a matter of fact they were not, for the soldiers joined in the mutiny against Egede as the cause of their having to live in such a place, and had not sickness and death smitten the malcontents, neither he nor the governor would have come safe through the winter. On the Eskimos this view of the supposed fruits of Christian teaching made its own impression.
Déscription et Histoire Générale du Gröenland. Par Egede, traduite du Danois. Genève, 1763. 8vo. In 1788-9, Egede published two other works on Greenland in Danish, which complete his description of this country. Crantz's History of Greenland, translated from the High Dutch, 1767. 2 vols. 8vo. A continuation of this history was published by Crantz, in German, 1770, which has not been translated.
To them he was in their ice-bound home what Father Damien was to the stricken lepers in the South seas, and Dr. Grenfell is to the fishermen of Labrador. Hans Poulsen Egede, the apostle of Greenland, was a Norwegian of Danish descent. He was born in the Northlands, in the parish of Trondenäs, on January 31, 1686.
At this point a middle-aged man with a burly frame and resolute expression started up, and said in an excited yet somewhat reckless manner "I don't believe a word that you say. Everything exists as it was from the beginning until now, and will continue the same to the end." "Who told you that?" asked Egede, in a prompt yet quiet manner. The man was silenced. He resumed his seat without answering.
Summer and winter Egede was on his travels between Sundays, sometimes in the trader's boat, more often the only white man with one or two Eskimo companions, seeking out the people. When night surprised him with no native hut in sight, he pulled the boat on some desert shore and, commending his soul to God, slept under it. Once he and his son found an empty hut, and slept there in the darkness.
"He may give you some trouble." "Fear not," returned Okiok, with a grin, in which there were mingled fun and contempt. "I have thought twice three four ten times," and he extended the fingers of both hands. "Very good; we'll keep an eye on you," said Rooney, with a laugh. "He runs no risk," remarked Egede, taking up one of the paddles to share in the work.
In 1701 King William III. of England had granted a charter to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. In 1714 Frederick IV. of Denmark established a College of Missions and two Danish missionaries were laboring in India. In 1721 the famous Danish missionary, Hans Egede, began a work in Greenland. In 1732 the Moravian missionaries, Dober and Nitschmann, went to St.
However, they were not without resources. It was the day of long Sunday services, and the Eskimos were a restless people. When the sermon dragged, they would go up to Egede and make him measure on their arms how much longer the talk was going to be.
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