The Romance of the Early Days 33

thirty-six logging camps. In some of them I had
service as often as five times. Later the Home
Mission Committee sent me a good, big rowboat
and I discarded my dug-out. In my new skiff I
made the round of Jervis Inlet (sixty miles) and
visited the camps there. That was the summer
that the General Assembly met in Vancouver.
The thought often came to me that it would have
been a source of great enlightenment to them if I
could have had some of the ‘“‘ Fathers and Brethren”
from that august gathering with me on some of |
my trips. So the work went on until autumn when |
it was impossible to travel with any degree of safety
or comfort in an open boat. I then went back to
college.

In 1904 I was back at it again. My brother
Charles, stationed at Vananda, used to come with me
at times to help with the rowing. All summer long
with oars or sail I kept moving. I held service in a
different camp practically every evening. In 1905 \
I went north to Atlin to relieve Rev. E. Turkington .
who had gone east.

In 1906 my brother Charles and I were ordained 1
in Mount Pleasant Church. At eleven o’clock the 1
same night we were in overalls working with might |)
and main in Ross and Howard’s Iron Works to fit up |
the old steamer Psyche which the Home Mission ii
Committee had purchased for use in the Loggers’ lI
Mission. At the end of eight weeks of hard work we /
got the old boat in seaworthy shape. It was in
August we set out, my brother Charles and I, as mis-