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tried to justify himself. ‘“ He would never have killed
the whites, if they had not killed his people, first, by
sending small pox, and had threatened to kill more of
them by sending it again.” Once more he was calmed
when I told him he was mistaken; small pox was not
sent by the whites. It was God’s visitation. He said
yes, he understood that now, but he had not done so
before: and the white man had said he would send
small pox and destroy them. I put it to him if he had
not been unjust in killing men who had not injured him,
and ungrateful in putting to death those who had been
kind to the Indians? latsassan admitted this. And
had he not other crimes to answer for, which he had
owned to me, one of which deserved death? Yes, he
admitted it. Well, he must acknowledge all this to God,
else he could not be forgiven. He really must humble
himself and pray for pardon and a new heart. I said
much the same to all the rest. “But oh, it was uphill
work to make them really feel they had done wrong!
As a cartwheel will readily slip from off the level road
on to which (not without difficulty) you have raised it,
into the deep muddy rut which through years of attrition
it has worn, thus easily would their mind fall back into
the habit of self-complacency and self-excusing in which
all their lives long it had travelled. But every time it
became less difficult to lift it out of that old habit, and
there was a better hope of its keeping out of it. They
were soon brought to acknowledge again the sinful, lost,
and disobedient state of their souls by nature; how
adverse to God’s law; how continually breaking it, and
bringing themselves under its penalties. They all, one
after the other, said they had sinned, and wished to be
forgiven. They were always thinking of Jesus Christ,
they said. They had done with earthly things and they
desived to think only of the Great Father. Did they
forgive their enemies? Tasked; and those who had given
evidence against them, the whites, and Indians of other
tribes? They said they forgave them all. There seemed,
accordingly, nothing to prevent their admission to the
Sacrament.

Tt is vain to expect in Red Indian savages that amount
of preparation that we have to look for in educated
Christians. Less is required, we are taught, of them to
whom less is given. The dying thief was accepted,
simply on the strength of his confession of the justice of
his sentence and of his faith, vague and untheological
enough, in the crucified King. The gaoler at Philippi
was baptized with his house, because, when conscience-
stricken, he did what he was commanded, and, at the word
of Paul and Silas, believed in the Lord Jesus Christ.
The grace of God is great, and it is enough that the
sinner should repent and believe in Christ as well as he
ean, and in the Church, as presenting Christ to him, if he
understands this much. ‘This I believe my Indians did,
and therefore there was hope in their death. They had
learnt by heart, in their own language, not only the verse
7 will arise,” but also that other, * This my Son was dead
and is alive again, was lost and is found,” and they
never ceased to repeat these in their prayers—together
with others of the sacred words which they had been
taught; and thus, without dwelling more upon their
repeated assurances of penitence, I promised to come and
administer the Holy Communion to them in the morning.

We conversed together ina friendly way on many things
for long on that same last sad evening. One principal

ELATSASSAN.

subject of conversation, I remember, was the future.
After the present race of whites had passed away, I said,
there would come a better generation. Indian children
would be educated and taught to understand prayer. They
should also learn trades.

to find pleasure in useful work. They should no longer
live an unsettled and irregular life, a life in which virtue
and religion were alike impossible. ‘They should build
good houses and till the soil, and wear respectable
clothing; each having his own separate dwelling, being
each the head of his own family, having but one wife, as
the Lord had ordained. A race of Indian priests should
be trained up who should understand as well as the
white priests the knowledge of the Highest, and proclaim
it in the Indian language to the Indian tribes. Then
they would no longer be at constant war with other

Indians, but should dwell in peace. Whites and Indians, |
too, should live together in peace and righteousness. |

For the whites would not leave the land. No, they had
been sent here by the Great Lord of all! Up till now,
that goodly land had been turned to small account. Its
inhabitants had been but a handful. Vast regions had
been given up to the fox and the wolf, the beaver and
the bear. The Hudson Bay Company whites had done
nothing in it but trap animals for the sake of their furs.
But the Highest, the Maker of all, had cther purposes
for the land. Thousands of snows ago, He had commanded
that men should replenish the whole earth and use it.
This command was obeyed by a land like theirs being
peopled and developed. No doubt, it was painful for
them to see it in the hands of strangers, but it was for
the good of mankind, and for the greater, glory of the

land itself. Above all, it was the will of the Highest. |

He, who had made so goodly a land and sowed its rocks
with untold gold and silver, intended their treasury to
be dug out for the advantage of the world. This would
in fact be done. Many King George men would come
and work, and bring gold and silver out of the mountains,
and other metals as valuable, such as ion and lead.
They would cultivate the soil. They would explore
unknown regions. They would search out ali its lakes
and rivers, and put steamboats on them. They would
stretch a mighty trail of iron’ across the land, even from
the big mountains in the east (the Rocky Mountains) to
the coast of the mighty water (the Pacific), and men
would travel along this road in moving houses fast as the
eagle flies; night and day for ten suns they would travel
towards the rising sun till they reached the great ocean far
away. There, I said, «re great steamboats, each holding
more people than all the Chilcoaten tribes together;

floating cities, which sailing farther east ten days, go to |
England, the mother-land, where dwells the great mother |

queen, who rules over all King George men in all the
world, ruling in the name of the one universal King, the
Father Almighty. Yes, the land would one day become
a great nation, consisting of Indians, their descendants,
and of whites, living together happy and contented. And
thus the will of the Most High would be accomplished.
For them, they were not to see this. No, they musi
goelsewhither. This again was the will of the Most High.
For it was He, and not the King George men who were
driving them hence, in punishment for their crimes.
But He was merciful as well as just. He would forgive,
He had forgiven; He would receive them from death

Their people would be raised |
above the low and sensual life they now led, and learn |