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challenge those who trust in other methods of elevating the
uncivilized races of the earth, to show results equal to those
consequent on preaching Apostolic doctrine? The Bible is |
the Book for perishing souls. Its words are still winged |
with a Divine power to convert, to build up, and to ripen for
eternity. We could not do without it, and those who try
1 will waste their pains.”

The following letter is not in chronological order, but as
it is occupied with the subject of the response to the Indian
Chief’s appeal it seems better to place it here. By the time
that the Bishop could use the funds so generously provided,
| a Canadian Society had undertaken the work, but it will be
Hay seen from a later letter that the money was applied for the
furtherance of the Gospel in another direction :—

“ Vetlakatla, June 4th, 1891.

“The telegram about the Indian Chief’s appeal reached
me late on April Ist; on the 3rd the steamer Hvangeline
was ready for sea. A hurricane squall, worthy of the tropics,
on the next day, did fearful damage along the coast, and
threatened to sink the ship at her moorings. The oth was
Sunday ; on Monday she sailed and had a fine passage. As
I was crippled with rheumatism, I sent, as the Church’s

| messenger, the best man I could find. Besides a letter to
nie the chief, I had carefully prepared him for his embassy, and
| he fulfilled it excellently.

4 “Five months had then elapsed since the appeal came,

and I thought it possible that as it failed here it might be
repeated in some other quarter. This had happened in the

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F case of the most southerly of the three villages. Its chief
i had gone beyond the bounds of my diocese, and he was per-

suaded to migrate with his tribe, and building materials were
given him and others to erect new houses at a Christian
Mission station far to the south, and worked by another
Society. As soon as the news arrived that I could help
them, the migrants were for returning to their old homes
and putting themselves under our instruction. But I had

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