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 FROM ITS BEGOWING IN 1S3S to 1900. 
 
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 Before the Be v. Henri Olivier and Mn. Olivier came 
 to Canada in 1834, with a view to do miaaionary'work 
 among the North American Indians, and deoided to remain 
 in Montreal to evangelize French Canadians, and before he 
 asked Madame Feller to come to Quebec, there had been a few 
 attempts at such work by two at three religious men of very 
 different types. One French Evangelist, a Methodist, tried 
 some evangelization in Quebec without any permanent 
 results. Another, a descendant of Huguenots, but a^ Quaker, 
 named Etienne or Stephen Grellet, abbut 1880, came to 
 Lacadie, the , parish of wiiioh Oronde-Ligne formed a part 
 and where quite a commotion was created, but a meeting 
 with the Gur6 forced him to abandon his evangelistic 
 attempts, though at first he was welcomed by the people. 
 One of Mr. Olivier's associates, Mr. Dentan, also was for 
 two months teaching a schpbKIn the notthem end of Qrande 
 Ligne. It would seem as if the Spirit of God through some 
 of his servants, like the dovd from Noah's Ark, had 
 fluttered over this spot withou|r finding a place to set 
 foot on, but a little later bipught the proof . that therQ 
 was some dry soil where one could land and raise a 
 harvest After almost fruitless attempts in Montreal 
 and in St Johns, Mr. Roussy came to Qrande-Ligtie (a 
 
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 wry poor wtlleraent thcin) whor. . boginning «u flonlly 
 nude by the oon».™i„„ of Mr.. Lor., . widow wom.D, who 
 nwl > largo hniily. 
 
 *>"• h"* iuggMtwl that thi. WM not . good .tmugrtll 
 point Tro. th.r. wm nothing of roiKtary twtio. about it, 
 th.y found no footing, .nd y.t, r,n..mb.ring the dilHouIti.. 
 •noounl«rM), on. cnnot but believe that thi. litae of road 
 
 r'j'.?"!i"j"' ** ' '"'" "•"«'•«<' " el-ewhore, •„ 
 marked by he flnger of Ood for the U.gi„„ing „f a„ in,men« 
 work of n,fo,n,ation. People tell u.. you are only dis- 
 turbing a religiou, and Chriatian p«,ple; why don't you 
 go and work among pagan.) Wo anawer that w. have two 
 very groat Mample. to ju.tify our kind of work. The 
 Bl...cd Urd himMlf, who did notVgo to „.ng.li„ ,h4 
 pegan.. but the hou« oT^mI, i„ which he reproved pagan - 
 .dea. and praetice^ and the repeating .f meaningbl. 
 prayer^ and the work of th. great Hoformation of the 16th 
 «««ry which .wept away .o mudi paganLn. „ut „f th. 
 debawd /ind corrupted Chriatianity of th. timofc 
 
 When the Olivier, came to Montreal in 1884, it wa. a 
 eity of «,me 80,000. inhabitants and the whole popuUtion 
 
 French Canaduin. ahn^it all in LowW Cam«h and all 
 Cathohc. formed a little more than half that nunkbor. 
 About one m ton of then, eould read and writ., and their 
 religion wa. one of form., but of very little moral or 
 «..nlual valu.^ Mr,. Olivier, who wa. 7 very intelUgen 
 
 of the French Canadian, of MontM at that time. Thair 
 ^ZL T^.'^ •""" day. ha. been extremely 
 
 .noc^ft ,""""««*<» *• Grande-Ligne Mi»ion begin it. 
 
 wTaS whrL*"' *? '"'"' "'""» '"""celyabl: 
 to walk when .t wa. nearly cru.hed to death by the W 
 
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 Motion of 1837-88. The MhwionariM and th«lr oonverU, in 
 
 order to avert tieitructlon, pMwdover the boundary to ipend 
 
 the winter in the village of Champlain. in tb« Stote of 
 
 New York. They returned in the apring of 1888, and Oo^, 
 
 ^o overruled thU misfortune aa to give them kind in^ 
 
 •feneroua English friends, to enable them to repair their 
 
 houses and oulUvate their farms. Some generous frienda 
 
 foremost among them the Rev. John Qilmour, Pastor in 
 
 Montreal, came to their help, in- building a achool house. 
 
 It seemed as if this improvement had forthwith prompted 
 
 the missionaries and their friends to attempt a much 
 
 larger enterprise, even the building of a substantial 
 
 stone h<ftise for the reception of pupils and for public worship, 
 
 . The Rev. Mr. Kirk, then pastor in AlUany, N.Y., accom-. - 
 panied Mad. Feller to secure the Urgest portion of necessary 
 funds. It was finished and dedicated in August, 1340, and . 
 soon became a great center of work, expansion and radiation, 
 as well as of attraction. In point of important conversions, it 
 was perhaps the most brilliant moment in the history of tho 
 Mission. At the outset was the conversion of Dr. Cote, a ' 
 prominent political leader and orator of former days, and who 
 was at the tim» in exile at Swantoi^, Vermont, where 
 Mr. Roussy went tjH> visit liim. Then the conversion of a 
 priest. Rev. Mr. Normandeau, forinerly Professor in the 
 Seminary of Quebec, who came to visit Grande-Ligne. and re- 
 mained there as a convert and teachar. Two young men from 
 the neighboring village of Napieryilfe, Me88% Nailsis*^, C^- 
 and Theodore Lafleur, were also tonverted, and joined th#*J 
 Church at Grande-Ligne. Both studied for a time jit the ,^ , 
 Grande-Ligne School, and then went to study in Gene vtf%nd 
 returned to labor here. In th*l meantime, there had beeii 
 remarkable openings at St. Pie, through a New Testament 
 taken there by a visitor to Grande-Ligne and compared 
 with an old Bible in the fatmily Auger, who have left a nanao 
 in the annals of the Mission. Some 12 miles from St Pie, 
 several families in the townships of Roxton and Milton wew 
 
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 converted. A young Canadian T R,«n^ 
 
 the iTbited States came to 0^;/; .^'®"^?"» converted in 
 
 asa teacher. C'Zlrl^d^^^^ 
 
 ^ Btit before that succeaaful decade was end«H fi,. u 
 darkened, the clouds lowered S «n« i ^ f ' ^® "^^ 
 heart of the M,«.,n„ . '^®'®** a^^ enveloped the mind apd 
 
 which XlTthe hVartTalaT '"f "' "^^ ^^^^^^^ 
 helpew The Mi«ir k ^ number of old friends and 
 
 -tiook began to impC ^I>J^;"^^^ 
 then renewed missionary activit^LT ^here was 
 
 ways. Mr Cvr ho^ ""^y activity, and progress in many 
 
 /o. mr, i.yr had returned to Canada in ifidfl ««^ k 
 his labow in connection with th.i^' t' *°**%an 
 
 and at NamervilirT ^"'*''° *' Gmndc-Ligne 
 
 started the S^^^^^^^ place Where in 1849'he 
 
 afewyeaw w^^'^^^^^^^^ 
 
 fitted L rhani^^To'rlc ^Tf ""'''' -« ^^^ 
 
 . years, meanwhile devotin^tr^^^^^^^ ^"!"^^ ''^'^' 
 
 work; °^ P*'''<»^ *>" time to evangelistic 
 
 On his return from Geneva in iRnn i>r t ^ 
 panied Mad. Feller on .T J ^' ^'' ^euraccom- 
 
 Ignited States^ir?. !f ?""' ^"^°'^°« '«"' ^^ the 
 fieW at aP^^^' end Of which he was assigned to the 
 
 the lV>wnsh^';; Mn^^"^^» °[ f ^'- and Berea. in 
 
 helping himl ^^^i^^^^^'^ ^^^^ ^- ^treau. 
 
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 ST. PIE SCHOOL. 
 
 W erected there in 1842 J,h !! . ** """''"' 
 ,««cna.nt« formed a congregation of more 
 
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 than a hundred on Sundays. In 1852 Mrs. Lafleur came to 
 take the leading part in the teaching of the school. 
 
 LONGUEUIL SCHOOL. 
 
 When in 1 864 the Mission house at St Pie was destroyed 
 by fire, the school was removed to Lpngueuil, to a much larger 
 house— a substantial stone building. Mr. and Mrs. Lafleur 
 took the direction of the Institute, and Miss Jonte was 
 the valuable matron and indispensable helper. For many 
 years this school, so near Montreal, made the general Mis- 
 sion much better known. It was visited by a great many 
 fHendft among the number being the Kev. Mr. Gilmour, 
 who hid baptized the Oliviers. 
 
 "^4 For many years it was a flourishing Institution, often 
 fiiVored with gracious revivals. Among the thrilling events 
 was the rescuing of a young nun, an American girl, from 
 the Convent of Longueuil. 
 
 In 1851 a most remarkable work oif grace took place 
 at Ste. Marie de Monnoir,^ in connection with the labors of 
 Mr. Roussy and his helper, the young Evangelist Louis Auger. 
 Several prominent families of the parish leftthe Cfauroh of 
 Rome, accepting the Gospel, so that in the summer of 1862 
 a nice chap6l was built very near the village. At the dedi- 
 cation it was remarkable that most of the speakers were 
 Roman Catholic Converts. Dr. Cote, who had also labored 
 there, had died after a very short illness in S wanton, Vt., in 
 1860, at the early age of 42. 
 
 This success in the parish of Ste. Marie appeared of such 
 importance to the clergy that they sent their now famous 
 Father Chiniquy, the champion of temperance, to oppose ifc 
 hence a public discussion took place between Mr. Roussy 
 and Mr. Chiniquy. It caused a great uproar, both sides 
 claimed a victory. This is the first time the renowned priest 
 came into contact and in strong opposition to our work, but 
 we shall have more to do with him later on. 
 
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 It„ow.w„,twoI„.tit„r;lTGlT-r'" '""»•'"''• 
 
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 . Ca««d«„ „ „^„ of tir;Zj '■ " *" *« *^' 
 in that same vear mriA /« 
 to the Gospel. tIo ^-^iy^^^u T ^^'''^^ ^<"^ omed 
 f~m Home. Eloi 4 .ad zrh"f i' ;°''""*'"^ "^""'^ 
 work .nd were the mean, rft," ^"«°»>«'«. entered the 
 P«" of the co„i,tryTfr"f "^""'""o"' over . I.,ve 
 
 _^ In the winter of 1854-6 M.d p«.i ' 
 
 in health that the phv,ici.„, "*' *" «> enfeebled 
 
 Mori<ia. InI8SStheG^i.T r'""'"«««onin 
 •ted. After an at^^rrf'^"*"^'"' *" ■•-corpor- 
 «t„medto her beiov^d workaro,:: T?"" '''^- ^'"^ 
 way back .topped at Phila^fpC^rd'^ f' '""'•™ l"" 
 »eet the need, of the p"r Gr!». r^"* "* '" "«'" «» 
 found there her beIoV«iSd^";r«w^'""y- S** 
 Before the end of tifal^J". """ ''"""-«'«'"• 
 "■nstbenoted. "™ decade three important fact. 
 
 mobw'andt,d;/tl"n 'on'lT"*"' '» «-"»« had been 
 
 '^t«retop,^:t'a°h,niteTr?'' "•■"'-'«' - 
 generoM suggestion of o«r, ale- .?''*■ Th"'"?'" the 
 M«»b. the Baptist brethZl™;ST"V""''. ««-■ Mr. 
 fe'vices. For«ver.,s„n2r„o",^''''''''»»^f"evening ^ 
 
 '•^ »no«e«. Seeing thi/S iT" *" ^°" "^ '■' 
 
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deau were invited to go and preach there for several 
 Sundays. The result was a small nucleus. of converts, and 
 Mr. Normandeau, a converted priest, became pastor of*a 
 little church of 12 members. He labored there for ten 
 years with varying success. ^ 
 
 It was but a short time after that, in 1868, that Mr. 
 Lafleur's attention was drawn to a public letter of Father 
 Chiniquy's in the French papers of Montreal, which led him 
 to write to the noted priest still personally unknown to him. 
 A secret correspondence of six or seven months ensued, 
 after which, Mr. Chiniquy invited Mr. Lafleur to visit him 
 at St. Anne^ de Kankakee, Illinois, which he did incognito 
 in the summer of 1858. He returned there in the autumn 
 of 1859, and was the first to preach in French in the still 
 nominally Catholic Church to more than 600 people. Two 
 pr threeonflttths after, more than 200 persons made a public 
 profession of their adhesion to the Gospel, and wonderful 
 to say, they retained their church edifice. Mr. Lafleur 
 was accompanied there by Mr. Louis Auger, who remained, 
 and later on formed a small Baptist church. 1 have b6en 
 asked oftentimes, how is it that you did not make a Baptist 
 of Mr. Chiniqtfy? My making him would have had but 
 poor results. I wanted God to make first a true Christian, 
 and then a Baptist. Mr. Chiniquy remained some time ^- 
 decided between the claims of diverse denominations, and 
 finally cast his lot among the Presbyterisins. I have wished 
 sometimes that he had made pwblijB Ihe part our Mission 
 had in enlightening hin^ and in furnishing him much needed 
 material aid, but he did not do so! there is a slight allu- 
 sion to his indebtedness to the Mission in his last work: 
 " Forty years in the church of Christ." It is difl&cult to realize 
 now the great sensation produced by his cpnversion to 
 Protestantism. 
 
 In the fall of 1859; for reasons of health, Mrs. Lafleur 
 was advised to visit Switzerland and Mad. Feller joined her. 
 
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 tained Fr*.n.», p ^^^/^^'f State, every one of which con- 
 
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 . ^e following decade was filled with trials and sorrows 
 
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 sombre yearp of ananciW difflcnltiea, and of Mad. Feller's 
 tiling health, a new field full of promise of future harvest, 
 Was opening for the af ssion, at South Ely/ in the Township 
 /bf Leslie, ^y remarkible conversions. If there were shadows 
 at the cefitre there were luminous points at the circumference, 
 Some of the Grande-Ligne students had ijust entered the 
 pastoral work, Mr, F. X. Smith at South Ely, our youthful 
 brothel Therrien at St. Pie, brother Riendeau at Ste. Marie, 
 and Brother J. N. Williams at Granby and neighborhood, j 
 The next division | is from the time of Mad. FellQr*a 
 delith to Mr, RoussyV death, 1868 to 1881. It was a 
 time of many changJa on the Ihission field, of days of 
 elation and of depregsicln, we have only time to glance at this 
 period so full of varied experiences. The hour of our great 
 mourning was at hand,) in the'beginning of 1868 we were to 
 lose the founder of the \ Mission^ the one .who from the first 
 had been its daily inspiration, its wise coiJnsellor, its most 
 assiduous advocate befJre God aii4 men. She was very ill 
 •only a few days, her mind being occupied all the time about^ 
 the salvation of the pupils of the house. She fell asleep in 
 the Lord on the^ 29th of March, 1868, at the kge of 68 years. 
 Dr. Cramp has related at some length and touchiifgly the 
 last days of this remarkable servant of God, the services at. 
 her burial, and on the occasion of the erection of tf monument 
 to her memory by French Canadian con verts] so we may be 
 excused for only alluding to the sad but inspiring events. 
 The work of the Mission though suffering in many ways by 
 the loss of this wonderfully gifted instrument was not 
 stopped, but in some respects it slackened for i few years. 
 
 During this very trying period 'the Mission was again 
 crippled for want of means, and thus lost ieveral of its 
 laborers, Messrs. Cyr, Williams ^nd Bossier jgoing |io the 
 United States. ^ 
 
 Mr. ajid Mrs. Normandeau were called to Grand eiLigne 
 to assume the direction of the Institute, and so| Quel)?c was 
 abandoned for a time. 
 
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 Feller I J;:^^;"^::-^""-^"'. bu^g of the 
 
 work of the teaohil H . "^ 'o concentrate the 
 
 •».kingit.l!^e?«Ll '"0^°°' "' G»«de.Ligne, thu, 
 
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 contact with Montreal Chri.7 f ? """"o" » doser 
 
 »»ot«ary of thr^e«t Tv "'"' '^' " "*' '^'' '"o 
 other hand, there CZn bntfTw"""'" '""'" °'' ""> 
 out8id,e, in the viW^Z, t ! ^ oo^vewons irom the 
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 The missionaries never lost sight of their first duty, 
 viz., to bring soule to Christ as soon as a spirit t)f enquiry 
 "appeared among the> pupils. Mr. Therrien, then in Bur- 
 lington, was invited to come to Grande-Ligne to hold 
 meetings, in which Mr. Lafleur came to help. They wit- 
 nessed a goodly number of conversions ; in the course of 
 the winter forty-three were baptized. Our old missionary, 
 Mr. Roussy, now in feeble health, said he had never seen a 
 revival of such intensity. 
 
 After a few years of successful work in Burlington, 
 Rdv. Mr. Therrien came back to work in Canada, and began 
 by replacing Mr. Lafleur in Montreal, during the latter's 
 absence in Europe in the interest of the Mission in 1879-80, 
 and in* the spring of 1880 he was called to the pastorate of 
 the church at Grande-Ligne, when the. amount of the sale of 
 the Longueuil building was applied in building the large 
 and somewhat imposing wing added to the old building. It 
 was dedicated in 1881. 
 
 Mr. Roussy was still alive, but very feeble, and it was 
 with a faltering^ step that he was helped to the presiding 
 ^ chair. From that moment the decline continued, and o^ 
 devoted missionary died in the month of November, at the 
 age of 68, the same age as that of our great missionary, to 
 whom he was ft devoted and zealous helper for many years. 
 He preceded only a few months in the field of rest another 
 devoted missionary, Madamoiselle Sophie Jonte, who had 
 consecrated forty "years of her very useful life to this, work 
 without any remuneration. 
 
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 A new and spacious house had noi^ been built at 
 Grande-Ligne for the accommodation of a large number of 
 pupils. Still for the solid establishment of thb work and 
 its development, two more buildings were needed, a church 
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 other. Mr. Oregoire;;re;rrui^'i;X:-^ 
 
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 (jbyt were devoted to commemorate the grwioug event. A 
 great number of friends from Montreal and elsewhere 
 gathered at Grande-Ligne to celebrate it with the 
 missionaries. 
 
 In the historical sketch which I read on the occasion, 
 I entered into details of persons and facts which I will not 
 repeat here, but let me say, this same year was marked by a 
 revival of great power, in which 40 persons were converted 
 and 36 of them baptized. The year that followed our 
 jubilee was marked by great activity, and several changes in 
 the personnel of the pastorates and teachers at Grande-Ligne 
 and elsewhere. In 1887 Mr. Therrien was called to 
 Montreal, and Mr. and Mrs. Roux as principals resigned 
 their positions in the Institute. The work was nevertheless 
 actively pursued in most stations, particularly in Hontreal, 
 where the work of a frail and sickly woman was unprece- 
 dentedly successful in the sale and distribution of the holy 
 Scriptures, and in many welcome visits to Roman Catholic 
 families. 
 
 In the summer of 1888, there gathered on the banks of 
 the beautiful Richelieu river, a convention of French protes- 
 tants, which more than anything else, to casual observers, 
 clearly indicated what progress had been made during these 
 few years of missionary l»bor. The Grande-Ligne Mission 
 being the acknowledged pioneer in this work, by schools, by 
 preaching, by writings, by colportage. More than six 
 hundred French Protestants were there, with converted 
 priests an^ong them, to testify to the blessed results of our 
 labor. It need scarcely be said that those 600 were only a 
 small portion of those who have left the Roman Church, 
 they were chiefly those living at convenient distances from 
 that central .s^t. The appearance of these people, the 
 orations they listened to would haVe been commended by 
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 The year 1889 was in a great meaauro devoted to the 
 raising of an Endowment and Building Fund/the business 
 men of our Board, and^tho Missionaries sharing in it. the 
 Rov. A. G. Upham.l5.D.. (he President, bearing a large 
 portion of the labor entailed. 
 
 The churches in connection with the Mission met in 
 ^ Association at Orande-Ligne. on the 26th and 27th June 
 Many of the laborers and former pupils exchanged greetings 
 in the old rooms where they used to meet Mad. Feller and 
 Mr. Roussy. little thinking, that those rooms, the shrine of 
 #80 many sacred memories, would a few months after be 
 entirely destroyed. Daring the last term of the school some 
 thirty young people accepted Christ as their Saviour ond 
 made profession by baptism. 
 
 Having fairly succeeded in the collections for the 
 • Endowment and Building Fund, the plans were already 
 - made, and tenders received for the enlarging and re 
 rpodelling of the old building, when on the Slst January 
 1890, rt was entirely destroyed by fire. Painful as this was 
 to us all, obliging us to close our school, by the loss of the 
 old house, the library, the house furniture, etc, our Board 
 of Directors lost no time in having other plans drawn for 
 a larger building, better suited in its construction to our 
 present needs. It was with a great deal of difficulty that 
 the new wing of the Institute waS saved. Even when that 
 was secured, the painful sensation of our loss came over us 
 increased by the necessity staring us in the face, that in our 
 crippled condition we must disband our pupils, most of whom 
 had lost their all. All connected with the Mission set to 
 work to repair the loss. Some deprived of their work of 
 teoqhmg went out collecting, or preaching, supplying fields 
 that needed it. Early in the spring the plans were ready 
 and materials on the ground. A whole summer of hari 
 work and at time anxious thoughts elapsed, and at last a 
 stately building, with a remodelled and enlarged wing all 
 
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 fitted up with modern improvemenU, with renewed but- 
 buildinge, were let apart with appropriate and moet 
 interesting Mrvices. On the 9th of October, 1890, a large 
 number of frionde of the cause, from Montreal esp^ially, 
 but also from many other places, came to take part in the 
 dedication of a beautiful and much larger building, suited 
 to our growing need. 
 
 In closing this decade, we have to mention the death 
 of two noted missionaries, Rev. Mr. Normandeau, the 
 converted priest, and Mrs. Normandeau, his distinguished 
 American wife. For a good many years they had labored 
 in intimate connection with Madame Feller and Mr. Roussy. 
 She very unexpectedly preceded him a few months into the 
 the mysterious sphere of the larger church, on the other side of 
 great shadow, into which she entered happily and peacefully 
 in the faith of the dear Master. Their remains repose by the 
 side of their great friends in Orande-Ligne cemetery. 
 During these ten years we added from time to time, as mAny 
 as 17 missionaries to our staff of laborers, ten of whom still 
 remain with us. During that space of time, more than 
 three hundred Qonverts were added to our churches. 
 
 We enter with some diffidence pn the ground of the last 
 decade of this missionary work, as it is difficult to write 
 history when it is being formed. The Grande-Ligne school 
 was reopened with a large number of pupils. The Grande 
 Ligne church had an accession of 20 members, that of 
 Montreal of 18, with a great revival of interest at Ste. Marie 
 A strong missionary effort by lieveral of our missionaries in 
 the Ottawa Valley, so that the Secretary could write in all 
 truthfulness, that the year 1891-92 was one of the most 
 remarkable in the history of the Mission. ; ' 
 
 In 1892 the work in the parish ©f Maskinong^ was 
 opened for our missionaries in a way so remarkable, so un- 
 expected that it is still in the minds of the friends of the 
 
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 a lo^g tiuio very'tSxioua aa to the reault of the affair. 
 Many will reinemlier that the difficulty aroae anent a church 
 building to be orectod on one or the other side of the river 
 dividing |Ko village. A wooden chapel had been "built pend- 
 ing the erection of a more fiubatantial atructuro. As a 
 discussion arose omong Catholic?* a* to its proper location, a 
 Rederaptorist Father prtachingone day in the wooden chapel, 
 cursed it on account of the opposition of the majority of the 
 attendants to thef recent decision of the Bishop about it. 
 Being now a cursed building, it was abandoned as a place of 
 worship by timorous catholics, while brave ones continued to 
 meet there, without the services of the priest. Taking 
 advantage of this state of* things, some of our missionaries, 
 and especially Brother Burwash, then in our employ, and 
 colporteur Gendroau, visited theae people, evangelized 
 them, And the j-esult was the adfhesion of some fifty followers, 
 live of.||fipi w*ro baptized on an eventful day.' Lat'er 
 he curlSTchapel where the baptisms hatd taken placfe, was 
 abandoned, u nice chopel and parsonage built and a pastor 
 settled there. Through the opposition of the clergy, the 
 work was arrested for a time, as at Marie ville, but after a while 
 it will revive. In the meantime there was also a I'emark- 
 able opening at Sorol. Brother Cat^. then at Marlboro. 
 Mass., was called to labor there and for a time met with 
 good success, being also helped by Brother Gendreau, who' 
 was beaten, and imprisoned, as all wiU remember, and 
 finally released by the verdict of a Roman Catholia Judge, 
 who severely reprimanded the men who had maltreated ouj 
 brother. The cau$e seemed to justify the expense of build* 
 ing a place of worshipMich was duly built and dedicated 
 m 1896, with very interesting services. After several years 
 labor, Brother Cot^ saw his congregation diminish by emi- 
 gration, especially on account of want of work for many of 
 
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 Now tht time o^lte ^uuiit meeting and the preeenti-* 
 tlonof the Annual ri^Ub wa« changed from February to 
 October, 1«93. Ther^p*^ been regular preaching in all the 
 eatablithed ntotions, ^LplMtio preaching and eolporUge in 
 new places, Bible woi^Ps work in Montieal, OtUwa and 
 Quebte, The immediatA resulU in actual addition to our 
 
 members by ^»apti»ra )"»%««i^ ^^- ^« *>*<* **■** ""*** ^^® 
 press more expensively tl^ «««al* A field Secretary, Be».— 
 K Bosworth, was ad<led # the forces df the Mission band. 
 The Mission owes a good leal of its progress in financial 
 ways and to the general forward movement of later years to 
 is devoted hard working -bMlher. 
 
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 In October, 1895, wo coifd write "during the past year 
 
 have had numerous tokens of God's presence and 
 
 ftproval. All the Missionary Stations have been maini- 
 
 aed^nd new ones added. The churchei have held theii* 
 
 o«n with frequent additions." - "'■ » '^ 
 
 In the follol^g years, efforts have been made by 
 the Salle Bvangelique, in Montreal, repeatedly in the Ottawa 
 Valley and elsewhere. And eachyear^heOrande-LJgne School 
 is flWed to overflowing v^ith pupils, under the care and abl© 
 and devoted teaching of the ^ws^'s and their ass^iates 
 and for nine years under the pastoral care and religious 
 Instruction of the able preacher, the man of few words but 
 much work, the Rev. M. B. Parent. That Institution haa^ 
 been so often the iacred place of gracious and yearly 
 revivals, that the missionaries would feel now very much 
 disappointed if a scholastic year should pass without oneJ/ 
 
 Now at the close of this century after these 65 years of 
 laborious service, you have a right to ask us for adequate 
 results for all the money spent. If we Mike the aggre- 
 gate results, comprising as it has a right, to all the ^converts 
 
 
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of the different misiionary efforts from the begiAniag of the 
 Grande-Ligne Mission, which has been the pioneer of them 
 all, both in Canada and the United States, we may say that 
 about forty thousand, about equally divided between these 
 two countries, have passed from Bomanism to Protestantism 
 by the labors of missionary societies, 6^nd probably not less 
 than ten thousand of those have! received some secular and 
 religious training in one or other of the missionary schools, 
 such as Grande Ligne, Point aux Trembles, and others. 
 There are ,now scores of French chapels or churches in 
 French Canada, and in the New Englond States, aiid li^ot 
 .'jdi^ than six in Montreal alone. . If they do not increase 
 more, in the United States, it is because, the converts 
 are more easily merged ijito English speaking congregations. 
 
 As for the money spent, I do nut even know approxi- 
 mately how much it has amounted to, but I can afiBrm that 
 these 65 years of intellectual, moral and spiritual warfare, 
 have cost less than 65 hours of another kind of warfare, in 
 South Africa for instance. 
 
 Of the 40,000 supposed to have been converted to 
 Protestantism, and now distributed in different denomina- 
 tions and churches, we could only show you a small part,* 
 thou^ some years ago under the Government of Mr. 
 Mercier, it was asce^ned that there were not less than 
 4000 French Protestant voters in the Prpvince of Quebec. 
 But how many churches, and how man/ members in them ? 
 We have repeatedly given these statistics in our reports, 
 and always with some uneasiness, because in actual circum- 
 stances they are misleading, they belittle our labors and 
 success, and for one I sincerely distrust them. Even in the 
 Province of Q&ebec, in the City of Montreal, where naturally 
 the children of French Protestants go to English Protestant 
 schools, colleges and McGill University, very many of them 
 find their w$y, openly or otherwise, into English Protestant 
 churches, and how much more so in the United States, and 
 
 

 
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 especially in the New England States, where the Mission 
 for French Evangelization have de(!«de(l not to form French 
 speaking churches, but merge tlya, French converts into 
 American congregations, where theif very names are trans- 
 lated, travestied and altered in all sorts of ways. Thut is 
 s natural, thing enough, but then when you have swallowed 
 us, it is enough for us to be told by Boman Catholics, that 
 in becoming Protesta,nts we become English, without require- 
 ing us to remain distinctly French quand mime. 
 
 If the missionaries had not been labouring especially in 
 view of the eternal realities of a more perfect world, they 
 would often feel humiliated. But |he}|hftd| before the eye 
 of the soul another home where they expiect to meet a great 
 many English saints. But it is not quite certain that it will 
 be an English speaking community. 
 
 Meanwhile, where to-day in France the converts to 
 Protestantism are many, and the cpn version of noted priests 
 amount to 130, (says one of them, Mr. Bourrier) in ten 
 years, these converts remain in their country and form 
 churches of their nationalities. Kdyt only that, but great 
 organs of the press, newspapers l|nd reviews say and expect 
 that Protestantism can alone savev France politically and 
 morally, that Catholicism is efifeta and hated by many. 
 And prominent Catholics write large books to show that a 
 small minority of less than a million in thirty eight millions, 
 has so much influence as to be greatly feared, is a menace. 
 We French Protestants have not come to this stage of 
 influence as yet, in the Province of Quebec, but we have 
 conquered respect, and the right to be heard in our cause, 
 even with the Archbishop, We remember the time when 
 we were often insulted in the pulpits, and the organs of 
 the press could not find epithets strong enough to malign us. 
 This has disappeared, owing in a great measure to the writ- 
 ings and criticisms of our French organ, the Aurore, which 
 has many exchanges, and ought to be better sustaii^ed by^ 
 English speaking Protestants. 
 
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 The French Protestants in France were not always so 
 powerful in their own country. Persecution forced them to 
 become English in England, Dutch in Holland, Germans in 
 Germany, Atnerjcans in America. Tb^ir nationality wRs 
 lost; but their iBt^gence, their industlRV, their morality, 
 their religion 8S»y^|f, they were still thdv light, the salt of 
 the earth, as n^SI^ o^ *^« ^"*« Church of^Christ. So we 
 pray that our ^riiflpSh Christians may so devetiope in spite of 
 their owr-shadowing. They still form a part of a purer 
 Christianity, which is bound to be the saving leaven for 
 tRis whole continent. ^ - 
 
 Great changes have taken place in this coutotry since 
 the beginning of the Grande-Ligne Missioii Work, the 
 population has increased from one million to fivb millions 
 and a half. Education which was at Its lowest ebb, has 
 increased from year to year under the impulse and competi- 
 tion of English public schools, colleges and univerpities, and 
 in this our missionary schools have had their shaip, so that 
 
 ■ to-day instead of one in ten being able to read ind write, ^ 
 fully one-half of the French population of the Province of 
 Quebec have attained to this, and here and thdre a good 
 many more. The fed,ucation given in convents W still very 
 limited, sadly tinted with anti<iuated notions. /We do not 
 work with the expressed or even implied idea that there ore 
 no true 05 real Christians among Roman Cathdlics, and we 
 do not, at least I do not, in this relation like the expression 
 of aggressiveness.- I cannot conceive that it /would be the 
 proper qualification for the way in which ou^ blessed Lord 
 
 " himself labored and evangelized, but more in the manner of 
 loving words of truth and light, letting our Wn light shine 
 in good works, as in good words, being epiitles read of all 
 men. Knowing by the experience of Birotestantism how 
 difficult it is, even with an open Gospel, to form churches with 
 a pure membership after personal profession of faith, it goes 
 without saying, that a so-called Catholic/ church, where the 
 
 
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 Gospel is very littld^known, where to become members of 
 that chnroh nothing more is required than a ceremoq^ per« 
 formed over a child in infancy, where traditions, incredible 
 doctrines so encumber the Word of God, that it is virtually 
 unknown aQd of no effect. We pursue among these people 
 our work of enlightenment, of evangelization, of moraliza- 
 tion, wi^h a clear conscience, and we shall not be boasting 
 when we say that in many places our liEibors and our teach^ 
 ingd have had that result in the moralization of coiiimunities, 
 where people are still Boman Oatholics. The church in 
 which they remain gives them light enough to understand 
 us, to respect us, and instead of damning us, they often with 
 an apologizing tone, ask the significant question, •• Don't you 
 think we may b^saved in our religion ? " 
 
 In dosing, allow us to mention with, gratitude to God, 
 that we have had for years a strong and devoted board 
 of managers, I mean the iaymen and ministers, besides 
 the missionaries, \^ho are always supposed to be devoted 
 if not strong. Without ignoring the worthy Presidents 
 of other days, the Mission has had, of late years, espe- 
 cially as presidents, men of strong executive ability, of 
 large views on the missionary work. Let me mention the 
 Bev. Dr. Upham, Rev. W. N. Clarke, Mr. A. A. Ayer, and 
 the dear brother and friend we all mourn, the late 
 Rev. Dr. Dadson, our last President. Their readiness to 
 help the missionaries with' pen, voice and time; their 
 unfailing kindness are duly appreciated by all the mission- 
 aries. 
 
 May we be allowed to say that the Grande-l^igne Mission 
 has been also blfessed in most of its laborers. They have 
 generally combined some ability, devo^edness and zeal with 
 .some knowledge, and a good maasure of common sense, in 
 dealing with the people we endeavor to evangelize and 
 instruct. And this is very largely due, we think, to the 
 fact^at we prepare most of our laborers in our own Institute. 
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 with larger means. Evangelization in a general way is very 
 good, but for the great long battle of life, we need not only 
 enlightened souls but trained minds. You cannot impart 
 talent, still less genius, but you can show them they know 
 very little, that they may never know much, and that may 
 help to make them humble, but that if they are devoted, they 
 may be fitted for higher ministries, while if they are 
 wise in winning souls, they will some day shine for ever in 
 the great Kingdom of their heavenly Father, the Grande- 
 Jiigne Mission^ in spite of its imperfections and very limited 
 means, has worked especially for that glorious result, to be 
 seen on the other side of the church universal. While 
 laboring for this country, for this continent, she often looks 
 to her Master in heaven and to her friends on earth, for 
 means to do a much larger work in the name of the 
 Eternal Master. ^ 
 
 THEODORE LAFLEUR. 
 
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