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to share in their every trouble. He adopted,
too, a manner of preaching in accordance
with the Indian mode of thinking and ex-
pression, using comparisons and illustrative
stories. He was, likewise, a man of duty, as
attested by the fact that during his nineteen
years on the fourteen missions attended to
from Stuart Lake he never missed a single
visit to a village when the time for the visit
arrived. He had, according to the season, to
travel by canoe, portage, and horseback, and
on snowshoes and by dog-train. At times his
path was so beset with fallen timber that he
could not make more than five miles a day,
frequently travelling all night that he might
keep his appointment and tend spiritually to
his benighted and beloved children of the
wilds.

One of these night voyages took place be-
fore he was inured to the hard task of snow-
shoeing. After having travelled since the
preceding Monday morning on the frozen
expanses of Babine Lake and part of the ad-
joining forest, he had reached on a Friday
night a point on the northern end of Lake
Stuart when his native companions declared
they could not go one step farther. One of

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