The writer in the "Newfoundland Express" made the following practical
reflections on Kalli's early death, which suggest serious though
cheering thoughts:--
"It may seem to some persons but folly, and to others but mere
boasting, to point to this young man, as any fruit of, or recompense
for, the costly and calamitous Arctic expeditions. But others may not
think it all in vain, if thereby one soul has been saved, and an
example left to a few young men, of thankfulness and kindness to men,
duty and devotion towards God. Such was Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua,
once a poor benighted Esquimaux, but brought out of darkness into the
marvellous light of the Gospel, to be a pattern to some, who, with
much greater advantages, are far inferior in the best graces of the
Christian."