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immense stretch of coast-line, the amazing complex
of islands and channels, and the hundreds of the
missionaries’ “‘ points of call.” There are ten thou-
sand little islands that have been crowded clean out
of the picture.

However, as far as it goes, this book can be ac-
cepted as authoritative and correct. To insure this
I submitted copies of my manuscript to our British
Columbia Home Missionary Superintendents, to all
the members of Vancouver Presbytery’s Home Mis-
sion Committee, to pioneer coast missionaries now
living with whom I could conveniently get in touch,
and to each of the present marine missionaries.
They were all asked for corrections and suggestions
of any kind. In the final draft for publication these
corrections have all been made and _ suggestions
adopted if acceptable.

I shall be satisfied if this little volume becomes
a source of enlightenment to anyone, old or young,
in the Church or out of it, who really wants to know
the truth about the service the Church renders
Canada in her Home Missions. Perhaps, in addi-
tion, it may prove an inspiration in some small de-
gree to those who long for the time to come, in this
Dominion, when ‘‘no man shall need to say to his
brother, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Him,
from the least unto the greatest.”

GEORGE C. F. PRINGLE.

Mission-boat, the Sky Pilot.
Home Port, Vananda, B.C.
June, 1927.