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edified the hearers ina marked manner. .‘We had some
links,’ said one intelligent man, when the reading of St.
Matthew was complete ; ‘now we have the chain.” Another
remarked at the same time, ‘We saw through a narrow
slit; now the door is wide open; we see the whole picture!’
These are results to be expected from a larger knowledge
of Holy Seripture. The translations into the vernacular
will make it impossible to any false teachers to impose their
errors on a people who can themselves read the words of
the Great Teacher.

“Lack of knowledge has been their curse, and the trans-
lational and «ducational labours of the missionaries are lifting
it off them. The four Gospels and most of the Prayer-book,
including its extracts from the Epistles, and some hymns, are
translated into Zimshian. The Gospels of St. Matthew and
St. John, some hymns and prayers are put into Kwagutl,
St. John’s Gospel, and portions of the Prayer-book and some
hymns into Nishka. Portions of the Prayer-book are being
printed in Haida. These works indicate solid progress.”

Some letters written to the Rev. Canon W. W. Gibbon,
of Ripon, in December, 1887, and January 1888, at the
close of the seven years of trial, show the spirit of the little
“community of Christian Indians, when they had learned
the lesson of that time of sifting, and also tell of more of
those voyagings which are the necessary means through
which direct missionary work is carried out in British
Columbia. From the nature of their office, the Bishops have
even a larger share of these than the other workers.

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“We have now to try to forget our past miseries, and to
lose no time in restoring what is necessary for the advance-
ment of Christ’s cause. We stand in sore need of help.
Those who have extended to us their sympathy will, I
hope, make some sacrifice on our behalf.

“It is natural to put these our sorrows to the front, but
it is not because we have no progress to record. God has been
using His pruning-knife, and consequently the plant of His

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