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V ..'•i t^ SifS-. gfi., J -^fc 4 f ij,i,».&li■ ^^1^* A Aontreal: PRINTED BY D. BENTLEY & CO, ,./, >— O' ■\ f I ■■."•, 'iM^MS- -■■»fl?f"*1^ 4 J A BRICP HISTORICAL SKETCH Zhc Otanbe^ligne Amission FROM ITS BEGOWING IN 1S3S to 1900. N • ♦ • 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 .■■%■■ \ 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 ^m f- 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 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 .■*■■■' ■sr^itm^' 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. Mel ST. PIE SCHOOL. W erected there in 1842 J,h !! . ** """''"' ,««cna.nt« formed a congregation of more iaWi-iis. ■f I 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. "«': i We quote from Br fjw.m« j , view the workof t»el „1 ^* * ""f-^.f '■■« M»»ion we r^ • «..» were .i,teea rnver.. Tot '^""' ^'"' "'"«»» It„ow.w„,twoI„.tit„r;lTGlT-r'" '""»•'"''• Montreal, Sherringt™,, HeLrvtil M r"""^ "'"■<"» '» . 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 ■^' .'jfii* .f-\ ■ ■ / :■ ,10. • «vjS^!.'".''" "■•" '" >""'»' J*-"""". •« full .f Atthfatiae th. Grande-Ligne MiMion eitended over 40 p««,.« or township, i„ C^ad.. a„d the norther Z of Vermont and New Ynrk fitat^ „ ""«wiern pan tained Fr*.n.», p ^^^/^^'f State, every one of which con- atu?3 Z .f T ' V^^^ *'""^ ""™^' -counted to a^2 ^'^®^' *>^ ^hom 700 wem ifa church fellowship The . ^e following decade was filled with trials and sorrows the United States whiVK .n *u i V ''"^''^v nearly S29 000 V.1, '^^^^«^e»» y«a« Xo^'^ted to 1« w« '!jtef 'f ^''''"' 'f ^■«°''"" '" """t^^. "he™ »nt.red1^ „v T*^**""'" ""' '»»'<"»1 »o* He i-tir for ^^''S: 'r;:^"" %«» ^-^--a C-a. had ,e e4e ::^£t.:S" ^t^:^ ^ r u- ^ ^4»Sfa.5ifefcw««=fc. iic >. ,jv, l^-^i.VaSjfe c- .; -*T«wfv»"' r 11 ARCMIVI* 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. ■m / T-Kt; 4 _^ ■^y-^-Iitc- -fT'.^MvS "W^. ^i^^Otl%£kjE?^ - ':■: 12 .;■ Mr. A. L. Therrien ifemcfved to St Pie '"» b, Mr. .„d M„' Z!^. ""• """'"«"«• «»<' ""y » of the'^iitl't^rfS'j'': It' V""" ""^ ""»'«" »«'•■•<'• left St. ftfLT I 1 r'° '"'■''"'■ "'-Themen Montgomery Vern,„„, i^' „ ' "o"'" "««' back to Feller I J;:^^;"^::-^""-^"'. bu^g of the work of the teaohil H . "^ 'o concentrate the •».kingit.l!^e?«Ll '"0^°°' "' G»«de.Ligne, thu, the factthat" h.1 tjt * trkTthf* '•" '" "f""" 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 tbere .y the''.2rnL;^^?XryTe:^ •■«''-■' borne the blading rtSTT'^j'^"'^'"'' »"' of the whole «hooI. meMiwhUe 1 pre^^f Z ""^ °^ being erected: wie present girls wmg was Ji 18 , 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. . /. ■ . ■ "... NEXT DECADE, 1881-1890. 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 edifice in Montreal and another at Grande-Ligne. The jv^ -^ u -""ng. Finally .ZL^Jt '"7"" ""'^ ^o" 'C hwK Mr. Lofleur «.. .k ■ >! ' ^' ' S""" "•''y draw- February 1883 "„H "",''""''"'8 """'d aid dedicated in »«ry 1883, and ,oo„ .lite, entirely f,^ f„„ debj. a..„d..rM:.:!a:di:Lt:::2:ir:--^ Li,ne.^:x:et„-:=':t"a:^rrtr*^""" Homanim. A orettv .„/ Canadian convert, from who wa, notTwed ri^ .1 ""T" "' «■•• '^""X. wo«hip, there were ™ thf '^* ^"'"»"<"' "^ "■» house of other. Mr. Oregoire;;re;rrui^'i;X:-^ to be the first candidate t^ h^ k"T !^°"^' ^"'^ ^^o was the new Church on tXwXCtd'aV*" "'^ < •rite fonnd.S:rittjZnT„r:tr""'^'^ enough to encourage u, to p^ „! » V^'" """» 'JK P«t commoUon .iong EomirUthoUc U" *J lTT .^It 16 (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 any community* ■y^. "t N. 16 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 t 17 «-'*, H-' I *« i','1. 5* « i?^ '^JyiUi^^'^" than miuiotiftry friendi enquired about OfWIfcf, and'etiMoUUy tho Catholic clergy, were for MiMioQ Mj|iQet%||||rdiiiary, and the oewa of it ao wide- ipreacl ' ^ it, and 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 *'f?^ ■^fclF- V^' ^ ^■W^- %\\9 followwni. retura«d to hfltime^lklfii raiigned, tad bM 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■' rt-: ■ h: ' >^. 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 antii"""*''^'Y^*"V. V ^■*t ^ .J'l^mjf^^ f.^fP! ^^r..i *4 "4 A fci? • . *i ^ V. r -•#►>.■ .',t>''^--.i,--'f^,-iim'"'- 'W- '"■JW T^^?S?^?53^75!!pW5^S»'^^^^^^^M^|gPP55F.'' 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