When Dr. E. K. Kane was searching the Arctic regions for the lost Sir John Franklin party in 1853-55, one thing was quite prominent in that Expedition. Regardless of their manifold trials, temperatures at minus 30 to 75 degrees, the long dark night of the Arctic winter, the lack of food and other necessities, the whole party stricken down with scurvy, grim Death lurking continually around their brig-in spite of all these trials, they continued to make observations and sketches of the coast line, to strike out by sledge and whaleboat for evidences of the missing party, to take temperatures and observations, and otherwise follow up the work they had set out to do.

This was Paul's experience in a better cause. "In all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the Word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report:as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things" (2 Cor. 6:4-10).

"Thus ever on through life we find
To trust, O Lord, is best;
Who serve Thee with a quiet mind,
Find in Thy service, rest.
Their outward troubles may not cease,
But this their joy shall be,
'Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
Whose mind is stayed on Thee.'"

F. B. Tomkinson