Scene on the Stikine River.

CHAPTER VII.

NEW WORK AND OLD.

** Wave on wave, a courier be,
Carrying tidings joyfully,
Spread, O Spirit, idle sails,
Filling all with steady gales.”

ATER letters will tell of the work on the Stikine River.
Although much on the Bishop’s heart, it was up to
this time almost untouched, till the fund provided in

answer to the appeal of one of the Indian chiefs [See page
48] made it possible to go forward. Even so, it was only a
beginning. The work did not really develop until later
years, when it became amemorial to Mrs. Ridley, whose life
was devoted to the Indians, and whose death made such a
deep impression on them. The Bishop wrote at the begin-
ning of 1892 :——

“Ten years ago I made an attempt to go among the Stikine
River Indians, but just as I reached the mouth of the river
the only steamer on it was wrecked ona bar. So I returned.
Since then I have several times been on the point of making
another attempt, but the troubles near at hand always

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