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THE MICMAC MISSION.

(N. I'. — I was on the point of drawinf^ uj) a history of the Micmac
Mission, in which I have been engaged fur tlie last thirty years .ml
more, having been urged by several friends to do so, when the article
in the Christian Messmiger, alluded to, seemed to for])id any further
diilay. This accounts for the conununication being atidressed to the
Editor of that pa])er. It is proper to add that on being shown the
mistakes into which he iiad fallen, he genei..usly and at once corrected
them. As there are, however, multitudes of our friends who need
information on the subject, it has b«en thought best to allow it tu
stand as at first, but not to be published in a newspaper.)

S. T. 11.

To the Editor of the Christian Messenger :

Dkau Sirt, —

Your reference to the Micmac Mission in your last number seems
to require a few remarks from me by way of explanation and correction.

MISTAKES COKKKCTi:n.

The only statements really calling for remark, are, nowever, first,
that the valuable property situated near }Iantsport, and hold in trust
for the Micmac Mission, cost ahouf three thousand dollars/ Is it
possible, thought I, when I read that st:>ternent, that I luul to collect
that huge sum for about four hnndreil acres of wild lands ? I had
foigotten what the exact sum was, but I well remembered that when
Mr. G. Morton and 1 walked up to Mr. .Sutherland's office to " tender '

111.' i.;iyiii''iit, w Iri'l i< 'if^ '» il'>^'K (livitlod in ."lUil p'^rtioiis in tlic
tun cikIs of a 1)M;^'. uud tliat as it was tngL;.'(] ulon;^', sliiftcil occasionally
fivni one liau'l to tin- otli.T, it ili>l seem a pivtly licavv \>m\. lUit
my inipp'ssioii was that tin-re was a little over one Iniinh-xl snn'rf't';/ui>'
in each cn.l. iWit. dear, tloar. I scenu'd to e\« aim to niys.-lf, had
tin IV hci'n ■<'■!•>, I liinidml, \V(> would surely have had to string,' the bag
across a I'olc, as tin- Spi,-.-, did their hunch of L;rapes from Ivsheol, or to
have taken a wheelbarrow, or something of the kind.' So I turned to
til.' " l>eed" for liglit, and surff eiiougii, there I foun.l tliat "all men
ar.' l^ound to know" that it " was for aad in considt.'rati(.n of the sum
.tf tin> hundred and spvf.nfy-lin' jinnudfi, lawful money of Nova Scotia,
to us in hand paid," that the said valuable property was purchasi'd.
Evidently, theref.)re, the editor of the C/in'sfiau M"m'n<j<>i' has fallen
in this matter into a pretty largo error. The statement tuiglit be said
to t).'. like the picture of liarnum's giant, .sV/y////// ex ((/(jeraff'd ,—(n(!T-
•stated l)y u'nietecn Inutdvtd dnlhirs ! ^•. ould thai all our bluu.ieia in
liguring up our uwn atfairs, or tiiose of the i)ul)lic, vironld lead to so
little trouble, and be so easily correcteil !

1 am n.it so sure about another of your statements. I hope, you
are riglit,— it woii M give me great joy to know that you arc so. 15ut I
liave not th.' m.'ans of deciding, so \ can only wisii ami hope that your
statem.'iiL may be somewhat nearer the truth than your figures. You
.say : " Hut ciunpared with other missions, instituted about the' saino
time, <his (me has had a very di.sconraging history." Tliis from the
editt.r's .standpoint. "Were I to make tlie comparison from the present
a.si)ect of affairs, which, of c.nirse, witiiout all the facts of the case
before me, woul.l be ra.sh, and most probably unjust, I should have to
exactly reverse the above decision, and say : *' Hut tliis (the Micmac)
mis.ii.m, c.jmi)ared with soiiu' others, instituted about the .same time,
lias had a very ntcouri('j!ng history." I'ut then, as just hinted, I may
not be. and certainly am not, in a po.sition to make a careful and can-
di.l comparison. I might judge as rashly an.l as falsely concerning
those oflici' missions, from not knowing any better, and not much
caring to know any better, as a certain learned doctor of Ilalifa.K, in
an article pul»li.shed in a scientilic journal a few years ago, wrote and
decided respecting the Micmac Mission. Thus he wrote : " A few
years ago many most sincere ptu'sons gave large sums of money to
civili/e them. Their m.mey and work were all wasted, if not injuring
the race they .sinc,erely sought to benefit, liy a mo.st fatal mistake in
nattn-al laws, and by teaching them their own language, by printing

'^vhat NvcTj' railed, Lut maily were nut, Miciiiac luxtks and j^o.sptls,
they mcdtllt'il with thtir faith, aixl smi-hl to cany tlnnn back to
their old worn-out lih) and lanfiuaf^'c, now sadly disjointed from tlie
jiresent times." " V/o can ualy lament so much tnoncy atid so much
lianl work sinc-rcly wnsted, in haiTassing their untutored minds with
another lant^uaj^e and another faith, before they had taught them to
wi'ar shoes an<l st.ickin^'s, or to eat from tables." "Indians of
Nova Scotia. iiy d. r,i:u^AUi) CliLriN, 11. A., M.P., M.L'.CS."
(Ifead 12th March, 1877. Transactions of the Xiitural History
Society, pa^'o 200.) Terhaps it was this able (!) (hnnnnent that my
worthy friend, the editor of the C'Am7/Voi .Vc.v.svv/'/''^, had before him
when he deemed our history so dolorous as " compaivd with some
others, instituted about the same time." Why I)r. ('.. would have
told you the history was sufliciently discoura»,dn^' without in.stituting
p.ny comparisons. Only think of it. A lew weakdieaded visionaries,
such as the late Dr. Twining', Dr. Forrester, and Dr. (.'rawley, Dr.
r. Cr. McGregor, and uwra or less of the otlicr leading ministers, mer-
chants and lawyers of Halifax at the time, actu;'lly undertaking to
cinilize the Indians by such a huge mistake in nafnral hiicf as they
made, like trying to make water run \ip hill, and hy HeehliKj to carnj
tltoii hack to their ohl Wiirii-oiit I If'- and laixjuage, now sadly disjointed
from the present times. Surely that ivaa ime. way to try to cii'di::e
them ! And to add to the absurdity, they 'dna'd to trarlt tlann tliolr
own lam/iinge ! — sending pour l!aud round amnng the alders and
bramble bushes to toatdi the Indians their own old worn-out and all-
but-forgotten Micmac!! And worse than all,— but what will not
such simpletons do 1 They actually i-rinted and taught the Indians
to read \\\\i\i iirre cal/ed, hut real/// urrr imt, Mimnar IhhiIs and
gaspeh ! ! The books really, of courst;, wer<' in Sanscrit, Chinese,
C' jek, or some other language, but they were unf, as pretended, m
Micmac!! Why really, like the little boy wdio broke his father'.s
axe, I must exclaim, " I did not know I was so strong." Not much
credit can accrue Irom the monditij of the transaction, certainly, luit
what marvellous powers of inteJIirf must have been required to make
such men as the gcntlemeii really were, whose names I have men-
tioned, believe, and to make the Indians everywhere believe, that the
books referred to really were [)rinled in hona fide Micmac, when all
the time this was not so !

Well, doctor, no wonder such a mission as you have so graphically
described in your paper, liad it ever existed, came so speedily to

t,'ri«'f. It is suiiw rt'li«'f, cprtiiiiily, to bf ahli' to reply in the wonU of
Neli«miiili to Sni.lallat : "Tlit'ie ur.; no such thin<,'s doiio lus thou
aav«;.st, Imt th"U f.-ij^ix^st tluMn out ol' thintj uvvii heart." — Neh. (> : S

An. I yet thiit is ahoiit as n.-ar the trnlh as many jH'ople seem to
have attained, re.spcetin^' tljc Mienme ^^ission. It has in their esti-
niidicn a(:c,oni|ilished notliinj,' All the money -that thret thnnsHwi
r/>//r/r*- lor land, the la r;,'e SIMMS for publishing the Scriptures,— all
lust, thrown a\»ay, and the ytars oI'lalMir and toil and' vexation in mas-
tering the hmi^uage, translating and preaching and teaching, all wasted '

.Said one of the meivhants of Truro to mu lately : " A ge.ntlemati
was in hero Just now, and lie saiil how singular it is that after all Mr.
IJaiul's labors for su many years, he has never aucc;«eded in juaking
hut (>//(' convert, and ht is one of the greatest scoinulreh out." Ho
did n<.t trll me the gentleman's name. I'.ut I hi>d beon invited to
addre.ss a pubHc meeting the next day,, and had been t(dd that scune
remarks in connection with th« Miemac Missiim would be api)ropriate.
.So 1 io«»k the above piece of information for my text, ami some
gentleman had the candor to tell me the f«jllowing day that he thought
he was the individual referred ii>, and freely owneii that the charge I
had brought against him, and all others, who should make such a
.statement, of disgraceful ignorance, was just, and richly deserved.

MLSSiON TUOUBLE.S.

To use a slang phri\s^\ T WA no (Kwposition to hlnn- on myself or
on the Micmac Mitssifti. 1 wiil institute no disj)araging compo.risons
with other missionaries oi' (tlier missions. Troubles enoagli and trials
enough we have hail all of us in our work, no doubt, both from friend.^
and foes, rerhajis 1 can sympathise with our foreign missionaries in
their toils and sorrows, aye, and in their joys too, as few who have
never left their native land can do. Yes, our history, more especially
when written liv those who know little or nothing about it, and who
judge from a few unfavorable snrfin'c specimens, is di.scouraging
enough. .Vnd without l:a\ing attended the latest ''Conventions," ami
only having listened at a safe distance to the thunder that has been
rumbling in siniw religious paptis uf late years, and merely having
wateheii a portentious cloud just now looming up in the wkstkux
/or/;'^//, T cannot lie][i seeing tliiii "some other missions" have had,
and still have, some very discouraging and trying "portion.-" of
*• history," from which the Micmac jNlission has been happily free.
And there are facts fur all to mourn over still more discouraging, from
(jiu- one-sided view. " AVhat has your Christianity ever done for tliti

7.'(irl(l ?" th'^ infi'lol and skcittic ask with an air of triiiiuph. " Yniir
I'Miristians are th»! worst (•!' pcoitle, iinlgiii;^ i'r.ini tiif spjriimMis wo skv
avouml us." In Tiiscarora, Oiitarin, wlifn: thiTe are a ft'W excellent
^Christians, ami many proftissors, and many Pagans, it was treelr
adtnittcil liy the former that tlr latft-r are tlif hest people taken
aa a whole. And after all the lahurs of mis'^ionaried in
I»nrniah and India, hy the candid ac'knouled^Mnent of tlmse best
'jnalilied to jndpe, heathenism and not Christianity is propnrtioiiahly
on the increase, so that at tho pre.s<'nt day the former is much further
in advanci^ of tin.' hitter than it was when r'avey and .Imlsnu rejoicetl
over their Hrst converts. And whit tlji-n I Will the son,'s of the,
thousands who have been saved be le>s loud ami sweet, or Ki-'s/tno'i
Pol's hymn (Xo. 844 in the Psalmist) less cheerin:,' t.. the hearts of
thousands? No indeed, (hir elforts have been amply rewardeil.

Put to retvtrn. I am not in a position to coiRjiare the two cases.
I have not all the facts of the of/itr sid«,'. 'I'liwn 1 may be carried
away by my feelinj^s and wishes to j\i.lnre the one side too favorably,
and not to })e sulP.ciently candid and careful in hearini; the otln'r sitle.
I might be somewhat like the merchant whi- umlert .')k to exidian^e
commodititis, as the story goes, with his Indian customer, by using Ir.s
Mst for a i;)ovind weight. Coi'dd the heavy tist have been dissevered
from the muscles and mind to which it was attached, a fair trade coidd
have been made. Put it was clear to tin; untutitred Indian that the
<ist weighed much heavier when the feathers and furs were in the
scale than when tlte powder and shot and toljacco, Sc<\, were put in.
To measure or weigh correctly, wiiether ftntthers, or shot, or mi.-sions,
we must, to begin with, harf n cDrrirf .--tuivhir'! as a guide, anil then
this .standard must be imjtartially applied. Nuw I ibt not know what
<it(Uid<iril Mr. Selden used when he cauie to the fctregoing conclusion.
Was it one duly " authorized " s.'Tjfl *' stamped I" or was it something
like the variable pound weight of the dealer in Indian commodities
■referred to? And to be fair, I would have to ask utyself the same
question. For myself I would much jirefer acting on Paul's advice in
1 Corinthians- " Therefore judge nothing bfftue the time, until tiie
Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness
and will maka manifest the counsels of the hearts : and then .<h<jll
•every man huce praise of if'ad" The " standard " in that day will be
a just one. For each and every one of us then there will be no
comparisons with others, — cw reference to what ethers did, but what
«ach individual / did.

Lot tli«! n-adcr tli.'H watch inc n.s I loa.l tin- sralfs. F,<t liiin jmplon
luf if my f«'«'liiit,'s will n'M seincsvlnt [m tlip w.i-lit ..f tliu .vi-l.-nce
I mi ubout t < pr...lu.r ; hut <lu nnt fliut vour i-ycs to tlie uviik-iice.

OKNKIiM. IMI'1{mV|;M1:NT «»r Tin; MR MACS.

Take iieconiit ilifii <'t tlu. i'(.ii.liti..n of tli- Mi.;iiiar Inaiins^
"fnerally. as it is today, and coini'un; it witli what it w;i.s thirty yiar-s
a"«., "when th<;s»; iiii.-iHiiiiKs cniiuiu'iu-ud." Then th<'y w.tc, so far as
civilization waj ((Miccnied, ah«>ui in tht- saiiu- mndilinn that they wi-iv
in n.r th.- i.rivi.)Urt oin- Imiidi.d yars. Dr. ( ;il|.in tdls us as iiinch in tlie
iirticK- n'ti-rrt'd to, in wliidi, 1 am happy l> >ay, uhih- tlure are si»ino
•MTioUA mistakes, thm; is mndi tliat is true, and h r whidi he deserve
mndi rrfdit IV.r hi.s industry in culUitiii;,' and n-oording. I'.ut hr
tiiitiifully till.- \is \\v h.-an "ur 'A<uk ' before they had Leon taught to
wear sIlh-s and stockings or to .at from tahk-s," (pige L'70.) Well, ico
hn>'c tnK'jht ll<-nt. to w.'ar di-'^a and stockings, and to eat from tables,
and to dre>s like tic ir white bruthers ami sister?. I cannot vemember

when I luive seen ll Id pcakt d cap oil an Indian woman's head, oi

the old blanket ai<.uiid tlirii- shoulders. And wi-: Imv Innght them
to live in houses, and to ^ciid tlcir children to .school, and in a goodly
number of cases, to be steady, sober, industrious and cnifortablc I
hay WE have taught tluMu this, fur no credit can be ti\ithlully giren
to the IJoman Catholic Churdi for any of those improvements, which
have been so marked among the Micmacs^ of late years. The Indians
know well, and there are others wlm know well, that all the power
and iidhunce of tlieir bishops and priests have been exerted to keep
them as they v/eiv, in ignorance ;uid d.avkuess and dependence. Then
those " terrible gosprl.-," printed in ' suppositioiia ' Micmac, accord
in" to fri-'iul (r.'s theorv, and wbirh it was fraied would shake their

fiith have iiidr.'d, in a goodly i.umU-r of instances done so, have

produced under < b'd wonders. Name aft-r name cumes up before
me, as T wriip, and run uiy eye batdc over the past, of those whose
days ended in liiiglitness, a bright Christian walk aiul life, and whoso
.-uii went down without a cloud, as they iteaccfully rested on the
f-reat Atonement, without needing or wanting any help from man.

I'A^RTU'l.r. VH ''ASE-S OF IU.K««SIN0.

Yes, indeed, I mind m- of do Ihooks, ujy fir.-t Indian teacher, for
whose conversion 1 long wailed and prayed, and the tears aid sob.-i
come \\ell iiigh choking me with joy, not grief, as 1 remember I found

Iiitii on(!(' in tli<3 iH'i;^lilH)nrli(ioil i4' W'l'UMili', ill in Itmly, aiid »tili
tiion; 8u in iiiiiid, uiulcr u <k'i'i) sciiso of tlio uci^'lit and 1iiii'il<ii oi' liis
sins. And iIhmi li«»\v las vyva sparkled wlaMi, iilinut ii I'l'i'tni^lit alttT,
ho tnjd nn' he had I'miiid |n kt livini,' i<<r iihdut ii Vfai iilicr, a
I'unsistcnt, ih'Voti'd life, ai I dviii:^' full of j-y and pciict', in tin-
iH'ij,dih(iMrh(Mid of St. ddlin, N. II. And littlr Mn.sr^ hi.s sun, wi'iif
ahniit tin; .sann; time in pcaci'. Tlun I think hI' j.i'wic JliMoks,
anothtT son, with whom 1 often took .sweet eoun.sel, and who assured
me tlio.se precious hooks, those gospels and psalms sustained him
throu;^!] tlie hcturs of aj^'on y he had oltiii to tudnn' frum lliit tenihle
disease, the asthma, and IVom whom the priest lahoured in vairi to
wrest and hurn the hooks he so hi,^lily prized. In relating,' the story
he said : " I'hey cannot j^et the hooks away from us." .Vml tln-n
follows iiis daughter, Mis. Paul, who dietl liere at ilantsport, s.iiiic
years later, who give us the most satisfactory evichuie*; that living and
dying she was the Lord's. Then I think of Newton (Mode, (Clmnh)
and his l)rolher tlo, two of the hnest vnung uu'U 1 over knew, residing
fornu'rly in Annapolis County, hut living at the end of their earthly
career in Cornwallis, who for industry, hniicsty, and everything good,
would have a<lorned any rank or condition of lifi'. \Vhat j"yl'ul
times wt! liad together over the Word, and w<re not the ("hristi an
friends who often visited tliem in their last sickness, d( lighted to tell
me of the proofs they gave of their lirm, unshaken trust in the I.'irij
Jesus. And tlien I think of litth- Harri(;t < 'hristnias, (daughter of pom
lien, and his excellent, aniiahhi (.'hristian wife,) whose rv!mark;'hle death
and angelic faith Kev. Mr. l)imo(k of Truro, her minister, de.scrilied so
Ijeautifuily in the Christiati Mvs^ifiKjn' -.ii \.\\(' iiww. And \»;wel also,
lier eldest hrother, who lingered in peace and hope for mouths, and diril
in Yarmouth some years ago, of wIkuu from his mnther and others I
heard a sati.->factory account. And F must not pa>s ovi'r anotlur Jn
Ghxh', who clo.sed his career at Kt-ntvflle a year or two ago. Yes, a dear,
afflicted sister, Matilda Condon of (.'ornwallis, so many years tortund
with acute rheumatism, was interested in poor do, years hdnre he had
learned to put letters togetlier into words, or understood as h:; after-
words did understand, and rejoice in, the gn-at Salvation. Urotln r
O. K. Tuft.s, then preaching at Kentville, now in tlie States, will U"!
soon forget the visit lu; and I maih) together to do's hut a few months
iK'foro he died ; nor will eomt; of his friends he likely to forget how
earnestly ami thaidcfully hrothor Tufts descrihed the scene at the
prayer-meeting in the Uaptist Yestry a night or two afterwards, what

fic liail m'U atxl lioar.l tli.il 'lay. "Tlio pile nf Ix.dks tlmt lay \>y thn
Iniliiiii's «i«l<', nii<l wli.-n Mr iJanil iiuMiti'tiu'd ft j)arli(Miliir cliaiitrr
wliirli he wisliffl to ri'iid to till tlyin;,' tatlKtr who lay i>n otic fiido of
;lit! room, ami the tlyiii;; dau^'htfr who l.iy on tlif other, Jo caufrht
ip thn (!o.s|h1 of .Fohn and found thf diaptiT, naid Mr. T., nioro
i[ui(klv tliuii I CHiild have fonrid it." Ve.-i, ami there had hecn
anolluT .lo, .lo Michatj, who will l.c reincnihcrrd port.sihly, nn having,'
been sick all on»' winter near Ipp^r l)ykc Villa;,'e, who, with very
little htl|., had h'.irned to read those wonderfid hoiiks, ho dn ided hy
the aj^'ents of IJotnanisni, and the eontents of whicli hail cheered jiini
a* he walked thron;,di the dark valley, .some twenty years nff<>.
Nor may I forget to mention my friend ddhn Paul, who.se happy
death inspired me at the time not only to contii\ne in my work, hut
to write the versesi on the, *' Dyiri^' Indi.m's Dream," Just repulilished
with revision, for which I have received .so many thanks. I read
those verses the other day to the .son-in law of dohn I'uul, and a
cheery lookin-; little ;:roup of his j^rand-childreu, in ;i very respectable
looking' house of their own, with a cnnfortahle ham attached. A
ciiristian lady wrote nie lately from Halifax, " I hojie tin will
be introduced into thtf Sunday Schools," and intimated that she read
them every Sunday to her own little tlock, with great .satijifactiou to
herself ami to them.

Jo Micliael had breathed liis la.^t in the wigwam of tlip la.st men-
fioned Jo (llo(h',and had left his))ook8 to liis frientl,and this it w.is that
had inspired the latter to attempt to master the my.«;tery of readiiiL',
which he aci'onij)lished in a few weeks, and with very little assistance.

OTHKR CA.SES.

These, and they are not all, of those who have ffone, and who in
life anvl in death have cheered tht; heart of the writer, amidst all the
" di.scoui-aj^ing history" of the Miemac Mi.ssion. And perhap.s I
<;ould name as niany or more anum^' the living were it proper to
do so, of whom T have good ho[)e. The Lord Ih; prai.se<l I

Anil names and numbers aside, can we doui-t that the Word of
(lod may have Iteen !)le,ssed to many souls, of wlioni we know nothing.
It was (jnly hy an apparent accident that I learned Jo Michael couM
read the Scriptures. " Ifow did you learn V I imiuired of him. " Ben
Ih'ooks ta\ight me the sound.s of the letters, and I drilled out the rest by
myself," he replied. I .saw him but a few times. One day I passed
the encampment, and all the rest were away, and he was alone. As I

xNcnt np to Ills wi;,'\Viim I stood unil listfiied with ^jnsit iutM-cK* for a
while 1)1 tore F went ill. Ill' Will iviiiliii;; thi' Scriiitiut's ill Mifiiiu',
uinl thti intiTvicw that fulhiwfil 1 cannot mion t'cr^'ft. Ainl I ht-arl
of II rii«! lit Shulu'iiiiciulic \vhor»! !i pii'-st ui-nt to see u yuim^' Iiiili.m
Mho was dyiii;,' of cnn«iiiinitioii. lit- f 'MihI him n-adiiiu' fhf (iospfl.
Hf siiatchf'l thu hook out lit the p'lur I'lll-iw',-. haiuls .in I I'liiMiiiiftt d
it to the; I! lines, lint h** soon fMiind .'Ut, and hid to (■<<iitt"'M to th*'
^joy, that he had hern ra«h, and dilhriilt was it to Mht.iin a heariii;^
fV(ii:i the indignant and oiitra;;«'d **niitutnrcd Indian." A little
wisdt n was, wt- may hope, Ifaiind. It wciiiM hf a ilan^'iTons cxpfii-
ment for thom to repeat very often. And I have heeii will inf..rini'd
of a sufliejcMt nnmher of ^.l^es heaiinj,' upnii ihis puint to iill'onl uw.
nud others miiidi sati f'l'tioii. hut they need ii^i h,- n-pcated heir.
Hut sei! Isaiah it^) : H \ 1

I ninst mention 'uiother incident. A white man oiie#» eonM-nfed
to cany ine t(» an indian's hn', which we reached m a lioat. We
wtrt! kindly received. '1 ne Indian had a lint, a ;,'ai'deii, had raised
ve<^otal)lc«, and as it \va^ fall, he hud an ahnndant supply d" veiiiM>u.
We were ahnndaiiLly supp'ied with food, and I was listened to as I
rend Micmac, and praye<l, and ..m;,', with glistenin;^' eyes hy tiie
Indians. 1 never learned what the etfect was on fh<-ni, hut the
^^entleman wdio was with me, to my >urpri-e and ^iiat plea.sure,
assun.'d me afterwards that it was the means ot his own cijuversion.

'.->

ADVANT.VGKS WK HAVP. DKKI VKI) KlloM T!fK M(>iS|i»S.

And 1 might nieution the great comfort I l.ave had IVmim time to
time, np to the present, in prodaiminjf the unsearehalle lich -s ot
Christ to the Indians in tluir own tongue, in which ;.l<iH' > an thev
understand a sermon, or make any sense of it. whatever, -that "old
worn-ont tonuue " of theirs has great freshness and life mi it still. For
'' know all men hy tln.'se presents" that tiie Micmac Mission i.s neither
dead nor dying, hut going on still with increasing encouragment and
success. Nt)r will it he out of place to mention some of the henetits
that have hy the grace of (rod resulted, as is always the case when
we attempt to do good to others, to ourselves. 1 mean to the white
people of these Provinces, fnjiii the Micmac Mission. A heavy and
•inpleasant hurden U[>on our (charity and jnitience has heen in some
measure lesseneil hy their improvement, if not yet wli(dly removed.
And we have gotten some li'jl<( too as well as some Uhertij. Fur
•instance, instead of heing a (question to be gravely debated in these

lays, wliether llie In.Uiuis as the Aborigines of tlie country, had any
ri<rlit. *)r any claim to tlic lands thoy had inherited from their fote-
fidhors, as" it \vas alHrnu-.l thirty years ag.) hy grave liwyins and
l.oliticians, no one now tiiinks of questioning so manifest a fact,
rhribtian people, too, are not now afraid to visit clean and well-dressed
Indians in their own dwellings, and do not raise a storm if [ndian
idiihlren attend the same schools with their own, sit with then, on the
same seats, and romp and play together with them at 'Muxaitime"
and "re.ess." This state of things was not reached at a bound, but
by slow degrees. Kven not many years ago, not far from my own
dwelling, and taught by a dear daughter, a Sunday-School was kept
(luring the summer by the roadside, and as autumn came on, in an
unoccupied building, vhere some of the more poorly clad white
(diildren were gathered, among whom were three little Indians, all
orderly and quiet, and not the least so the L.dian children, and
apparently greatly interested in their less.ms. The President of
Acadia College w..uld not in these days hesitate to allow me the use
(if an uiirinished iiu'\ /nn^^-'-itpi^'d room in the ('(allege building, were
such to be found, for the use ot the Miemac Mission a few days, to
}m occupie<l by myself and a decent Indian, in pre[)aring the Word of
(iod fa- the Indians. Ihit "about the time these missions coui-
menced," such were the prejudices of Oiftc among the white people,
that when I ai)i)lied to him for a like privilege, poor, dear, excellent
Prof. Isaac Chipman, after gravtiy weighing the matter, concluded,
reluctiUitly I doubt not, that such an imheard-of transaction would
operate to the prejudice of the Institution upon whose prosperity his
heart was set, and in whose interests he lived and suffered and died—
all honor to liim [ And so Paul and I had to part company, and I
was deprived (»f his services, for 1 cuuld (djtain a room no where else
tlien in thai enlightened, elnistia)i land. Purthermore, no leading
magistrate and commercial man at Rentville would in these days face
me down and persist in maintaining that an Indian can never be
persuaded to oroip// >; house — as was done at fhdt time, then and tlieir.
And it has been many years since I overheanl tw(» Indian women
arguing upon that same matter, one insisting that she was alway.s
nervous and irighteued, and could never sleep, when conqielled to
abide under the covert <»f a (>ottage, roof tor a Jiight, and the other
telling her that it was once so with herself, l)ut that a little use had
overcome the ditliculty, and how much more healthy and pleasant
every way it was to have a tloor under them, than to be lying on the

(lamp ground. And so I ruij^lit go on to show tlmt llio iiitenst whicli
was awakened in behalt of those long-neglected people, led tu a more
kind and friendly intercourse with tlieni, and that it has awakened ;»
generous and cojninendable ambition to cleaidiness and comfort on
the part ot the Indian women, so that instead of being able id
distingiiish them by their garb as far otf as you can see them, you
now have to look them in the face pretty carefully before you
address them in Micmac, both the men and tiie women, lest you
fall into the error which has caused me ami others no little embarrass-
ment, by mistaking a ratlier dark-complexioned young gentleman or
ladv, for Heemoo Paul or Mollv Catlin.

]5ut I must draw in the reins. This dolorous business, this sad
waste of money and energy, this sorrowful and mournful failure, this
Very "• diHcoitr'Vjing lilstonj, in comparison with other missions
instituted about the same time," has for one at least, and one too who
is as much interested in the matter as any other can be personally,
6>on>e redeeming traits — it has not l)een all gloom -bright corruscations
of glory have ever and anon tlashetl forth from the dark clouil,
growing more and more frequent and more and more ])rilliant and
beautiful as the "dohtrous" (;ortege has moved un — and never were
the prospects more encouraging thau at the present time.

AID AND OPrOSITlON.

The friends of the Micmac ^Mission nuiy well rejoice in all thf
agencies the}' have been the means of calling into operation. Despite
the deadly hostility we have had to encounter from the first, desi>ite
all the discouragements, disap[)ointment3 an '. failures, both in
ourselves and others, which we i.re free to conless and mourn over,
we are enabled to rejoice in the Lord and praise him for all Inn
goodness. i'ndy " there is no might nor coujisel nor wisilom against
the Lord." " Who is he that saith and it cometii to jiass, when the
Loril commandeth it not"? Can any caiulid christian man wlm
contrasts the condition of the Indians thirtv years a<:o with their con-
diiion to-day, doubt for a moment that some wonderful movement in
the right direction must have taken place? Ifow happene<l this
movement to begin shortly after " this mission was institvited,"
whose history has been so "discouraging" ? For two hundvt*! year*:.
the Koman Catholics had had them under tiu'ir undisturbeii control.
What have they done for theiu ? They were ready to do the long,.
heavy penances imposed on them, as Lewie lirooks \sv\\ remembered

in the case of liis oM pMiid-fatlicr ami others. They would never have
(Irt.'finieil oi" (lisnlM-yin^' tlieir "ghostly" guides. Why then did the
hisliop not tell tht!ni ''to wear slioes and stockings, to eat from tables,"
to sf'ttlt! in villages, send their childre?> to school, till the ground, and
live like their white neighbours? » > ask them why? Ask the
Indians why Ihcy lived >o lung in terror of adopting the white nian'.-^
costume and customs, ami cling to the dress, the (Uistoms ami
manners of thi'if forefatln .i>.— to that " old, worn-out life and language,"
back to whi'-li, according to the learned Dr. (I., it was the foolish
design of the sinii>lt?-niinded foundf-rs of tl)e Micmac Mission " to /fid
fjn'iii.'' Why did they cling to all this misery and folly as though
their eternal salvation depended upon it? They will soon give you
the reason why. They were taught to l)elieve that their eternal
s:ilvati(.>n (fid de|iotid on it. " D'ni't c/taitije ijmir chsIoidk" was the
solemn charge from a liishop to the Indians of Fredericton, in a letter
1 was asked some years ago to read and interpret to them. As to the
I^iible the Indians knew not that there was such a book. Not one in
five bundled, I am bold to affirm, could read an Knglish book
intelligibly, and there were none in their own tongue, except their
prayer-book, in Hieroglyphics or something similar, which they could
learn to re[)eat, but which was of no use whatever in promoting tlu'ir
civilization. It gavo them some truth, mingled with deadly ern^r,
and was well adapted to keep them in ignorance and ilarkness and
dependence upon the priest. Nor is there the slightest ground for
supposing that this self-styled, infallible church, »vhose boast it is that
she never changes, ever would have changed her tactics in her
dealing with these her children up to the present iime, if (to refer
again to the curious record in the scientific work referred to several
times already, liut slightly changing the expressions to bring them
.somewhat nearer to the facts of the case,) a lew years ago many most
sincere, beneyolent and wise persons had not given not very large sums
of money to civilize tliem. Tht-ir money and work were not expended
in vain, but have proved an inestimable boon to the race they
sincerely sought to benetit. I'.y following the dictates of Scripture,
sound sense and the "natur.d laws," and by teaching them in their
own language, instead of the idle attempt to teach them through the
medium of a language which thej' could not comprehend, and by giving
them books anil precious gospels translated into Micmac, they hav©
induced many of them to learn to road, and hundreds of them to hear the
words of truth and Ivve, and not a fyw of them to see the errors irj

wliidi lliej had been trained, and to hnow the Trutli. ami Iho Truth
lias set them free,— -wluit lioine did nnt do for two liundred years,
He.>jerve5< of excellent land the Indians hud in didrrent places. The
Ttgislature built them honses, and they had tahles in them, from
which 1 used in those days to which ])r. G. refers, often to eat with
Ihe men, while the women and children, without shoes and stufkin^'s.
took their nieals on the Hoor. And dnipel-n too they had, at 8t.
Pet'-r's, at Shubenacadie, at l>ear Kiver, and other places, where they
were taught to assemble with great regularity, zeal and ilevotion, to
mumble their prayers, count their beads, bow down to stocks ami
atones, and "adore" litf/c piecc'i of drtud dougli ! But where were
the schools and scJioolhoii.ies at that time / The Legislature of P. K.
Island once voted a sum sufticient to pay a school-teacher among the
Indians, and sent a committee to ])reak the iovful tidiuiis to their
bi.shop. Put his lordship coolly informed them they had siiui)ly
made a mistake — that the Indians were already educated, with ih>^
'•i^vij Ite.d education, ami needed none of their interference. And
afterwards, after they had foun<I out that Indians could learn to read
very easily, and that there were ''wonderful things" in the book.^
they had read and heard read, poor old Paul of Shubenacadii' waited
'i !'. the bishop at Halifax and reijuested that they might have a school
us well as a chapel, that their children might learn to read and write
and cipher,&c. " Uh," said the bishop — I simply state what the InJIirs
told me — " you don't need school ^ Why, you have got no ploughs,
no cattle, no donkeys, no shovels, &c. Wait till you get all these,
and then it will be time en»ugh to think about schools." Put, " lo !
the poor Indian " — took it as an insult. " If we had learning," he
argued, '' like the white people, this would aid us, may-hap, some-
what in rising to the dignity of ploughs and shovels, cows and
horses, and other conveniences possessed by our white neighbours."
People have often wondered how it has happened that, surrounded
so long by all the advantages of civilization, the Indians remained for
so many generations without adopting any of them. Here is the
reason. All the light they have recei\ed, and liberty too, during the
few past years, has been, not by the efforts of their priests, but in
spite of them, as some of us well know. Xominal Roman Catholics,
multitudes of them still are no doubt — a matter which gives me
comparatively very little concern — but I could give many striking
facts did I choose to do so, to prove that thc^y cannot noio be
controlled and befooled and domineered over, as they were '* when
these raissions commenced." We bless the Lord for that.

Tni: i.Aitoia.s of the last two years.

l>i)iiiiL; tlio pist \\Yo yours I have, soon hundreds of Tndinns in
Novii Si'dtia. N'l'W r.iiniswick, ;iiid Princo Kdward Isl.uid. T s;iw on
OIK' oi'iMsioii list sMtniiif'r, about four lunidred assembled at one jilaof,
and met it the time many an nld friend, and warm and earnest were
till- grt'otiiiLjs that passed l)ct\veeu us. T have aihlrosseil many of
tlirtiii, and n-ail tin- Scriiitiires to them, and lioard thom read, and laid
hitor" tli'"n the Scviiiturc si'lietne of Redemption, in private inter-
views with iiulividnals. tu ai^st-mhled comjiauies, in their wigwams, in
their fini/si's. in their h'if.<, in the houses of the white people, and in
the open air, in my own study, in I)ii:hy, in Annapolis, in Cornwallis,
in Hants ('ounty. in Ifilitax. liedfoid, Dartmouth, Truro, Andierst,
Sussex, St. .hihn. Fredericton, Summerside, Charlottetown, by the
v.'ayside, riiliiig in the cars, ;,nd in other j)laces. I have distributed
among thiMn mmy copies of those wondrous books and gospels, »o/
written iji an "i.lil, wurn-onl. forgotten tongue," but in rsdi llfiwj
Af''i')H'i\ so f'otn|irehenRive. so expressive, so musical, so sweet, that
wiiile listening to the wondrous story of the Cross, all hostility and
jirejuiliee goes down b(ifore it, and after reading and praying and
singing sweet hymns to listening groups, I have been covered with
tlianks and kimlness, and have, during the past two years, scarcely
Mw\ witii any thing that deserved the name of opposition from any
o,uarter.

On niie occa.-ion on arriving at an Indian settlement, I not only
had Collected quite a hut-full of interested hearers, bui; one of the
women left iinmeiliately and went live miles on foot to tell her father
I was there ; and he dn>pped everything and came with his family to
lueet nie. On another occasion 1 met with a poor fellow dying of
consumption whom 1 had known from a boy, but had not seen him
f-r a l'»ng tiiu". H^w delighted he seemed to see me! What com-
fort I ha<l in leading the gospel and telling him of the marvellous love
'>f Christ to sinners. How intensely he listened! Great freedom I
had in prayer by his side, and comfort. I felt sure the Lord was
tiiere. Next day I started to see him again, but he had passed away.

1 have to think at such times how it was "when these missions
(•'•mmenced." Now whenever 1 meet an Indian I seem to have found
a friend. They smile upon me, they listen with deep attention to
what 1 have to say, they thank nie for my vi.sits, and they invite me
to come again and come oftencr. Then it was not so. Then I was

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often mot with angry frowns and tierce denunciations, th. l.r.nulishin-
oi clubs and //..5aud axes. The chil.lren at th,.ir play .shunted the
alarm when they .saw me coming, — '« i/'o.7oo' ,rfrh.hnne-et"—-'[W
devil i.s cuming." The woman stood in the door-way hrandishing h.r
axe, or hohhng back the growling dogs, ami threatening to let thm.
loose upon me if I dared to come any nearer.

A ."i.VTANR' INCIDKNT.

Once I an.l Kev. J. Spenser, now of St. dohn, \. I;., n-.lknl out f:o,n
Sydney, (J. H., about seven miles to see the Indians. We were kimlly
received and had a very interesting vi.sit. We ha-l ..tarted earlv. had had
a long walk, a. d when about three or lour oVlo.,-k, the e..]-pi. that was
stewing over the lire and .stimulating our appetites by it.s hissing and
sputtering and savory perfume, came to be divided rouml, we cheer-
fully shared the meal and made a bountiful dinner, and ivturned
home well pleased with our missionary exnuMon. l!ut .das tor n.y
next visit! The priest had heard ,»f the mcroachinent. and had
madeanelfortby one crushing blow from !>,/., inhlllt,/ to put a .stop
to it forever. He had made them a vi.sit. Hr had a.ssund then, tliat
I was " the devil." .Not one of his i,ni,.< n,erely, nor one of his
servants, but the great I5eelzebub, the real old Satan himself. " Imrns
and hoof, and tail and all," (allowing a little play to the uuagination).
n dear, didn't my second visit produce a comnioti,>n ! They gathered
roun.l and stared wildly at me for a few moments, and wlu turn, d
and ran like a her<l of frightened cariboo. ( )i,e .,hi man stood hi.s
ground and exi.lained to me the cause of the change in their comluct
and of the su<lden exodus. He very civilly reqneste.l m- to take
my.self away, and I did so, of cour.se, after a little remonstrance. That,
was about^ thirty years ago, "about the tin.e the.se missions were
instituted." And those and similar scenes were nothing to what 1
liad to endure sometimes from Indians and white peopl.-."froni pri.-sts
and their adherents, from some Protestants, iV.uu friends and fn.n
foes, but out of them all the Lord deliveretl me.

C.\.^E OF ,J0 UIIOCJKS.

And when in that " i)lea.sant valley" to the west of Wojfvillo, I sat by
the .side of the poor old Frenchman, a de.^cendant of the per.srcutcd
Huguenots,* whohad lived nearly all his life anting the In-lians, wlio \. „i

♦ 1 am on reflection, not quite sure of this.

tnrnf'tl Catliolir win n lif tunud I iHlian,aii(l wlmscoms to liave been r;v.>o I
up in rruvi'lciK'c fur the siiecial bciicHt oftliis Mi,ssini>,- -f(jr witlnuit
liitii I cniild iK.t have inastercd the lan;^ni;ijff',- ainl whmi he UM inc.-
with ♦;yi's hriiniiiin^ nvcr M'itli .)i)y, Iidw he liail found tho T.crd, and
]\U SDul was ri'stiu^' in jieace on Christ as liis Saviour, and thatd<ci
me so feelingly f'r all the interest Iliad taken in him, and all the
kindness 1 hail shdun him, an<! all the truth I had taught him, 1 was,
I can assure you, mme than rejtaid fuv all the toil and lal»or, i)ersecu-
tion and trial, I hid endured in the work. " I owe it all to you," he
said, " others despised us atnl jiassi'd us by ; you came amojig us and
taught us." pour. I"! lie hid been by his own account a sad dog
ill his youthful days, and had sorely sulFered lor his sins. He had
run away from his mabter in Annapolis ('ounty, and gone to sea. 'riien.
a wild, drinkinu', thoughtless sailor, of about twenty years of age, he
}iad changed his name and taken up liis abode among the Indians. ( »f
course his relatives disowninl hiuj, and the white peojjle despised him
mor« than they iiid the real Indians. If it was bad enough, and
disgraceful, to b" an Indian, evt^u when ';he jioor fellows were not to
blame for it. but 'vere exactly whore (Jod made them and put them,
if that itself was deemed " a erime to be punished by the judges."
how much greater was the disgrace and sin when it had been his own
voluntary act. *' The priest and the Levite had passed poor do by on
the other side," as a iiopeless case. Hut the blessed fA.rd had in
grace made me to act the part of the " good Samaritan, " to bind up his
Wounds, pouring in o\\ and wine, and take him to the Inn where he
wou'il lie cared for ; and by and by up there in the glory, standing
}>y hi- sid«, n r liis alone, I expect to hear from the once despised
and crucitied, now exalte<I Lord and liedeemer, " Inasmuch as ye did
it unto one of ihe least of these my brethren ye did it unto me."
I have refern.'d to stn-eral of his ilescendante. Another of his sons
has been my most ettieient assistant in learning the language, f(.irmiiig
a grammar and dictiiui.uy, and in translating the Scriptures.
^\nd there and then tiicre will ))e no disparaging cwmparisons among
us, no jealousies, ami no taunts. And, be assured, flien the rewards
will not be dealt out according to the popularity enjoyed on earth,
and tln^ number of sermons we preached, auil the number of converts
we made and " liapti/'-d into the fellowsliij) of the Church," but
according to our faithfulness ami diligence in His service in the
station where the blaster had apjiointed. No doubt it is encouraging
to be .^v^.Yr^>;/■'//, but it is more blessed iohi.\fa'fhfaL (Sec 1 Cor., 4:"_*.)

Ami it may he fumul at last tli,\t N'unli, ami Klijuli, ami .TrTciDiali;
iuul others, who hail tho grace ami the oourage to iiiaiiitain their stainl
" tipun the burning deck, whence all but themselves had fled," and
who were left to toil on and to labor with no encouragement but thr
Kverlasting Arms under tiiem, whilr the llames crackled and roared
and ruslierl over them, till came the " thunderburst," and they wenl-
up in a chariot of tire by a whirlwind into heaven, may have alter all
more sparkling gems in the " crowns of their rejoicing" than sonus uf
your Spurgeons, Whittields, Te.'sleys^ Moody.s anil Haidveys, your
-ludsona, Careys, I'eters and Pauls, without instituting any dis[)araging
comparisons, or wishing for a monn'iit to di'traet one iota from all the
glory tho latter worthies, and others more wondLTfully blest in tht ir
labors than they, will have achieved.

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COMFORT IN OUR WORK.

Passing over many incidents of great inti'vest. I have o?ic point
more to touch upon, or my task would not seem to be fully arcom-
jtlished. How have the missionaries succeeded so fir a.n s)/j)porf, ami
their own personal comforts, their temporal wants are concerned '
It may be all well to talk of the havdslii[t.'} and trials and labors we
have gone through, and of our wonderful success, fostering not a little
pride and vanity all the time, and hardly suppressing our expectation
to be applauded for our wonderful firmnev-n and forbearance a:;d
perseverance, i^'c, &c. ]>ut we ought to have a little sunshine a3 wc
go along. We are human beings ; we have 1)odily necessities and
family necessities, children to care for, <S:c., (I'c. , and the Lord never
meant that we should be so entirely absorbed, eveji in his work, a.-> to
forget that " we have this treasure in earthen vessels," and must take
care that these are not unnecessarily broken oi injured. If we cannot
get bread to eat, and water to drink, and .sou'ciiiing to shelter us froni
cold, we must be poor "labourers" even in the be.*t of "vineyards."
" He that provides not for his own, and especially for those of iii.M
own house, would make but a sorry christian minister or missionary,
for he would have ' denied ' the faith and W(ndd be worse than an
infidel." Isow I hope those missions to which reference has been
made, have not been left to sutler unduly in these respects. Their
work has doubtless too, been congenial, and in additiiui to the good
they have done, be it less or be it more, — (a matter about which we
poor, erring mortals are happily neither competent to judge nor called
to judge — the blessed Lord will take all that business and responsi-

Ijility n|ion liiiiisulf,) — l»at in aiMilion to this wo iiiiiy trust tlu-y liavo
liiul in tliL'ir work a lai'L;i' iui;.isiir(! nl" r,';il solid comfort. I am happy
to suy that this hivs bct-n L'mpliatit;ally true of niyst It', If I occasioually
i;ontriisl my privih.';,'L's witli thnsc who an- toiling' among the heiithuu
on " ( Irctmhimrs icy niiuintains, and on India's burning [»lains," or
even in lioiuun Catholic countries, and thiidc v( the hardshijjs they
have to endure, I must say I am glad my lot was not cast there, and
I sometimes utter the words of the J'.-almist, even with resi)ect to
this: " Truly the linos have fallen to me at i)Im-^ant j^Iaccn, yea, I
have a gooilly heritage." No hot seasons, no blasting winds or
burning sands, no rainy seasons, no lions, tigers, panthers, crocodiles,
serpents, scorpions, nor men more cruel and fierce than thoy, to
encounter. I\ind friends wherever I go, houses and hearts open to
receive me, and glorious opportunities for proclaiming the unsearchable
riches of (.'hrist to crowdcil audiences of white peojde from time to
time, and of enjoying christiui fellowshii> and converse with the
Lord's ])eo[ile. The literary ^\ork, too, of the Mission, has had
surpassing charms for me, (Jur Heavenly Father knows how to fit the
instruments for the pfculiar w^.rk to which he calls them. He gives
a passion Un- the work itself, an intense interest in it, that makes the
labour its own bles.sed reward, aside and apart from all other consider-
ations. The farmer, the mechanic, the preacher, tlio teacher, the
historian, ti.'e poet, tlu; musician, the geologist, as well as the minister
or the missionary, or the follovvcrs of any other calling, who should
he merely driven on by a st^Uae uf duty or interest, or driven by the
lash of necessity, like a galley-slave, and who should bo always
asking the (question, " C'li. bunn" " what good is it," would make
soiry uphill work in his j'urney across this waste howling wilderness.
But labour itself is a blessing, and a rich reward to him who can
follow the calling he loves. Tity indeed it would bo Avore it not so.
If the musician couhl not enjoy his own sweet melotlies, nor the poet
the rich creations of his own fancy, but must be like the mill-stone
that prepares pabulum for others, but cannot eat thereof itself. Xay,
verily, the poet scaling the heights of Parnassus, on the " winged
horse," and soaring beyond the chnids and the stars, and along the
Milky Way, enjoys the ride, ami watches with unbounded delight
the blaze of braided rainbows, and showers of shining pearls, and living
sap[)hire.>, that go streamiu*; down behind hirn, to comfort and cheer
"ye dwellers in ye vahs below." Foreign languages, ancient and
modern, have always had special charms for mo, and I always, from

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could do.

Then, as just stated, I liave always had ahundant opimrtunities of
preaching to the wiiite immijiIc hs w<>11 as to the Indians, and I do hivc
to sound the gospel trumpet. And I liavo enjoyed niucli spiritual
consolalion, not only in the society of the godly wherever I have heen,
hut (jlten alono with my IWhle and my fJod. Two special seasons nf
njoymcnt 1 cannot soon fcjrget. I spent ahout a nioidh once at
Indian Town, New P.runswick, translating the gctspel of .Iclin into
Maliscet. 1 enjoyed the kind hi)S[(itality of a christian family in lie
neighliourhood, and went every day t(j my work, where a wuiiuiled
Indian, compelled to He upon a couch of i»lank, in his ^wn hut, with
a broken thigh, assisted me in the woik. What a month of refreshing
enjoyment was that I Ono night at ]\Ir. Mstabrook's during that time,
and the following day, seated at a table by the side of my wounded
brother, I had such an over[)uwering sense of the presence' of Clirist,
and seemed to be so pervaded with his love, that occasionally 1 had
to lay down my pen and cease fr(tm my work, and tell j)our Jon.-,
how happy I was, and that I could hardly go on Avith my writing.
And I often think, too, of an afternoon I once spent in the woods at
the mouth of Pictou Harbor. It was not many vears ago. T had lieen
looking after the " wandering sheep," till wearied and overcona* by
the heat of tlie day, I wandered away from the wigwams and went
into the woods. I found a place where the spruces and tir.s had been
recently cut down and trimmed, and there Mere piles of the fresh
boughs strewed around. I heaped them u[) in the shade, thr(;w
myself down upon the elastic aromatic couch and rested my wt;ary
limbs. I was soon in a sound, peaceful sleep. I awoke refreshed in
body and mind, and then I knelt and prayed. Oh, how near heaven
seemed ! How my poor heart was stirred with a sense of the everlasting
love of CJod ! I coidd never iorgetthat season of enjoyment. I could
not help longing, during the following winter, for the season to come
round, that some bright summer's day I might go up again to that
little "IJethel" where "1 had anointed the pillar," and where I had
" vowed the vow." lUit 1 couM never, strange to say, lind the spot
again, though I have searched for it more than a little.

I may not ondt to say that I have enjoyed remarkable health all
my life long. I am now within a month or so of being 72 years old.
I have no remembrance of ever having been conlined to my bed a
whole day with sickness in my life. True, I have been ill sometimes,

Mill (lanpeTonsly r.n, an.l tvi-ioe within llio ln\t seven years, from tVic
frt'ects of \vhi(!li I ^liill pntlKilily nevi'i wholly n'oover. r>ut I (li<l not
sMth.T iMudi piiin after all, and these sca.sftns were j,'roatly Mc^scil to
THf, antl T trust wcit- niado a >){<'s«in;^ al.-o to others, in niuoh. si»iritniil
consolation — '* j<>y "'H tiie Lord."

riiCUNlARV SL'PrORT.

Nor have I ever "heen allowed toRnfferninch inconvenience for lack
of teinpor.il supplies. I have experienced many remarkable answer?!
to prayer dutin|.^ the last seventeen years, which I desire to aeknow-
hd^'e to the <,dory o!' His f;.race " who <,nveth \i.s richly all things
to eiijoy." In the year \>'M'^ 1 «a.s led t^ lay aside ail reliiince
upon subscriptions, anuiiai ilonations, Sir., and to discard the advice
or assistance of all " Committees " or " I'.oard':."' I saw no authority
for such in the Word. I have ha<l no formal fixed «alary since then,
and it is only just to ^ay that I hail no guarantee for my salary hnfore
tliat. Had this been the case I .should probably have been contented
therewith. Hut at the time referred to, I was led to adopt what I
believnd then, and believe^ mori' tinr.ly now, wa.s the original apostolic
pl.m, of taking just what the Lord shouM be pleased <o put it into
"he hearts of the people to give, when they should be dispo.sed to do
so, and in their own way, saying nothing to any one of n»y want.*,
however pressing, and never asking aid of man, but in " everything
by prayer and s*,q»pli<:ation" making my requests to " o'U* Fathar who
is in heaven." I see no pre'^ept <n' example for rerusin:g aid from any
]>er«on, whetlier saint or sinner, when voluntarily protfi-red. Tn no
Instance on reconl did our Lord or his in.'ii)ircd .servants when they
were in want ever refuse assistance on any ground, when offered. They
were ready to waive their claim to a support even from christians and
••-•hristian churches, wl'.en the exaction would be misccuistrued. Seo
1 <:or., chap, ix., and -J (\n\, xi. ; 12 : Acts 20 : .13-35.) In 3 John
V.I- read, " for his name sake they went forth taking nothing of the
gentiles. But in none of these Scriptures, nor any other that T have
ever .seen, is there anv liint that we are under obligation to refuse
assistance when we have Vjeen praying for it in onr necessities, when
• reply tendered by any person. " The earth is the Lord's and the
tulness thereof, — the trorhf and f/H'i/ fliat '.hcell in if" and all hearts
aie in his hands, and the gold and silver are his. This is a reason why
we should never have recourse to any questionable methods of
replenishing His treasury, and at the same time if He chooses to send

US )i little of //m j^'oM or .silver, nr impart t>> us in nnr tk'hI a littlo of
tlie " fullness " which ii His, wts aiv not surely c lilcl tu dictito to Him
how He shall do it, un<l so refiHo a dran^jht of cold water when
sMir»rin<,' from thirst, i>r a pieoo of bread when hiiuyry, hecaiise the
party who protl'ers it may neither he uf our jntrft/, nor even a christian
at all, Tl»ere is such a thlni,' as liaviufj a zeal even for f Jod which ia
not accordih}^ to knowhdgu. (iJom. x, ;L'.) 15ut .s<'e!ilso KoUi. xtv. .1-10.

I hare k«pt for the la.st seventeen years a list of ;dl donation*
received to assist me in this work, and after deiluctin;.; wliat was paid
for i)rintiny and Lindin;^^ Micniiio houks, anil j)aid to uiy Indian
assistant, leaving' out all paid for this pnrpo.se by the IJ. <S: V. ]\\hk
Society, I Hnd on sumn)in<^ up the whole, that for our own personal
e.xpen.ses, I have received on an avera^'e, over seven hundred (ji.llars |»er
year. This will not be deemed, on coinparison, to have lie.ii an exrra
vaj,' intly lavj^'e amount, nor an extrava^'antly sh,Hf/ one. ft is about what
1 actually obtained before that, but I have received it with very mucb
less ann(»yance and trouble to my.self and to others. I v^-ry mud.
tear that were si)iiif' of the nnssions " institiite<l about the same time
with this," to be compared in this respect, it woidil be found that
those, not this, would exhibit a "discouraging history."

CONCLUDINS ttKMAKKS.

Eut enoiig]) of this. (lod alone be ))rai.'ed for all the j^'ood that
has been done either bi/ us, or in spite of us. I have never ret^retted
that I wa? led to enga;>c in this blessed work. I look for'.vahl with
no forebodings and 510 fears. T see ali failure on the put of mav,
myself and others, all faitfi/uhic^s on the part of the lUessrd ()ne "who
is O'/er all, God blessed forevermore." I am admonished that my
active labours must soon cease. lUit (^od can [Ami and execute his
own business mucli better than we. Here is an ample tield for
labourers, all " wliite to the harvest." "Why may not some of those
who have gained experience in liui'mah, and have been tlriven from
that inhospitable clime by imjjaired health, when they have recruited,
go into this field and reap. Some of them began their missionary
career in the wilds and wigwams of Xova Scotia, Let others take
their places in th«t distant land, if God calls, as these come trooping
home, and these when rested and recruited may find fresli strength,
physically and spiritually, in going forth in answer to the Macedonian
cry that comes iioni hill and daJe. fi-om forest and iilaiJi. in NoVGi

Siiotiii, N't \v IJruiiswifk, Tipo Urntim aiitl I'riiu'o Ivlwiir.l Nlaiitl,
" ('(Mill! uvcr lutd luilp U.S." The coast in all clour to what it was
whdii thcso iiuMsions coinmcnotttl.

"Now lliudtxlof ptMi'tt, tli.it l>ioii;,'hi again iVoiii tlie dead our
Lord .Ii-'Hiis, that great .Sht.'[)hi.'rd of tho sluM'p, throii^^li the bhiod of
the (^verhustii)^,' liovoiiant, make VH pci'f(!ct in t;vory ^'ood work to do
llis will, working; in vh that whi(;h is wrll j>lt'a.sinif in His sij^ht
through Jesud Christ ; to wiiom bo glory forever and ovor. Anion.''

ilnntqmi, N. S., April 2oih, ISS'2.

Silas T. Rand.

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