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. They faced a great many trials,
temperatures at minus 30 to 75 degrees, the long dark night of the Arctic
winger, the lack of food and other necessities, the whole party stricken down
with scurvy, grim Death lurking continually around their brig. But 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 otherwise follow through on the work they had set out
to do.

This was the apostle 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 longsuffering, 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).

(From Help and Food, Vol.
47.)