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CHAPTER IV.

A CRY AND A RESPONSE.

“T pray to God, to Whom belong
All souls of every race on earth.”

N 1889 the Bishop attended the Lambeth Conference,
returning to his Diocese in May, 1890. Six months
later he wrote the letter now to be quoted. His

account. of the death-bed of one of his Indians seems an
echo of the words “ O death where is thy sting?” and proves
that the Gospel is able now as of old to lighten the dark
valley to those passing through it, and to comfort the
hearts of those left behind. Such a scene lends fresh
emphasis to the appeal from an Indian chief who longed
that his own tribe should have the same privileges, and
which had, for the time at least, to be refused. No wonder
that the Bishop writes with a sense of shame; but one can-
not but ask, whose should the shame be? Theirs who go, or
theirs who stay away? However, this time Christians in
England responded, as will be seen from the next letter.
Immediate steps were taken to send the necessary funds,
and two days after the telegram arrived the Hvangeline
was ready to carry the good news to the waiting chief.
““ Metlakatla, Nov. 5th, 1890.
“The widow of Moses Venn, one of the best old men I
have known, paid me a visit to-day. I had administered
the Holy Communion to him last night, after Hvening
Prayer. He was then dying, but fully conscious, and with
signs of inward peace stamped upon his wan face. When