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A TRIUMPH SONG.

“God’s tools cut through a knotty will,
And turn by turn He drove His drill,
Until His light flashed clearly through
And so the soul saw all things new.”

HE story of Sheuksh, the Indian Chief, contained in
the following letter, is now well known as one of
the most wonderful triumphs of grace in the history of

Christian Missions. After eight years of fervent, believing
prayer, the answer came, so complete, so. glorious, that the
letter announcing it was well headed in the C.If. Gleaner
“A Triumph Song from the North Pacific.” He who had
been “a blasphemer, a perseeutor, and injurious,” became
by the grace of God a humble follower of Christ, and his
after life bore witness to the reality of the change. On
February 7th, 1901, the Christian Chief, after ten years of
consistent witnessing for Christ, passed away to his rest :—
‘“ Metlakatla, Nov. 19th, 1891.

* Four stout Indians came into my study an hour AZO,
newsladen, ‘Their ereeting was quiet, and their faces afforded
no token of the nature of their embassy. They sat full in
front, and distant the width of my writing table. There was