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nursed, the children regularly taught twice daily, and
Bible-classes held for adults. |For the Sunday services a
band of suitable Indians was organized, and what is more
important, carefully instructed in the subjects of the ser-
mons. The Divine blessing has manifestly sealed these
strenuous efforts with a success that disarms criticism. At
first the white men asked what they had done to have a
woman sent among them, forgetting they had threatened
(though they were idle words and not really meant) to drown
the parson if he ever came again among them. It was the
old outcry, ‘ Let us alone, what have we to do with thee.’ This
is all changed now. Frowns have been turned into smiles
and rudeness to respect. They saw how true womanliness
accorded with self-sacrificing service for Christ, and therefore
dropped their scornful arguments, ashamed to use them
against this type of ministry.

“Miss Appleyard, our latest arrival, entered on similar
work the week after her arrival, and will continue it to the
close of the fishing season.

“It must not be inferred that only the unmarried ladies
actively promote the great work. The missionary’s wife in
several instances resists the tendency of absorption by
domestic affairs. In these instances they have succeeded
in speaking the native language, and so become valuable yoke-
fellows with their husbands in spiritual husbandry. But
those who do not attain tothis standard often prove them-
selves valuable accessories in their vocation.

“You will again exclaim at the length of my letter if I
proceed further, but as I have more to write I will stop here
and begin afresh when I can make the leisure. This is the
fourteenth anniversary of my consecration, and now I stand
seventh in chronological order of Canadian Bishops instead
of sixteenth, as in 1879. I have had seven years of storm
and seven of fair weather, but fourteen of guidance gratia
Der.

“Sully 26th, 1898.

“The only fiction about this is the calling it a second
letter. J wrote the former pages working till nearly mid-