When the missionary arrived at Nome, which is the Eskimo capital of the North, he found a sad little family of children in a deserted cabin. Their father and mother had both been put in the federal jail. This was another one of the many homes in Alaska ruined by the dreadful curse of drink. Before this father began to drink he was the world’s fastest dog team racer known. Every year for many years he won the great Cape Nome Eskimo Dog Race.
But now he and his wife were in prison, and how hungry those little children were for the love of the Lord Jesus when the missionary first met them. They had thought that no one really cared for them, and it seemed to good to be true that the Lord Jesus had loved them enough to die for them.
The missionary was given permission to take the five youngest back to a splendid children’s home, where loving hearts welcomed them and cared for them. The time came when the four little Eskimo sisters accepted the Lord as their Saviour, and their little three-year-old brother, Jackie, already shows a sweet love for the One who loves him so much.
Now, the children of the famous dog team racer have started out on a far more important race: “Looking unto Jesus!” Christian boys and girls, who know and love the Saviour, can pray for these little Eskimo children, that the Lord will draw them to Himself and keep them in the midst of so many dangers and evils.
ML-09/03/1978