extending the knowledge of His Name.

Ere the sun rose, we were near the Willow Islands, and there we had our
breakfast. It was getting late in the winter season, and so the
reflection of the brilliant rays of the sun on the dazzlingly white
snowy waste of Winnipeg gave us both a touch of snow-blindness. Still,
as we could see a little, we only stopped when it was necessary, and
rapidly hurried on. When about twenty miles from Beren's River night
came down upon us; but I could not bear the idea of having again to
sleep in a miserable camp when home was so near, for at this time I was
in charge of the new work among the Saulteaux. So I said to Brother
Semmens, and to our two well-disciplined dog-drivers, "Courage, men, a
little longer; let us not stop here in the bitter cold when our homes
are so near." The Indians responded with a will, and rejoiced that we
were to go on. But my beloved Brother Semmens was completely tired out,
and my heart was filled with sorrow as I saw how utterly exhausted he
was. Throwing himself down on the cold, icy surface of the lake, he
said, "Throw me out a blanket and a piece of pemmican, and leave me
here. I cannot go a step further. The rest of you have wives and
children to lure you on to your homes; I have none. I can go no
farther. My feet are bleeding from the straps of my snowshoes. I will
stay here. Never mind me."

Thus the dear fellow talked, for he was exhausted and discouraged. I
did not feel much better, but I tried to put a bold face on the matter,
and I said, "No, indeed, we will not leave you here. We are going on,
and we are going to take you with us; and a good supper under a roof,
and then a warm bed, are to be yours before morning comes."

One of my dogs, called Muff, a magnificent but over-ambitious St.
Bernard, the gift of Mrs Andrew Allen, of Montreal, had broken her
collar-bone during this trip. The plan generally adopted, when such an
accident happens to one of the dogs, was to kill it at once, and then
push on with the diminished train. However, as Muff was such a valuable
dog, and there was a possibility of her recovering, I decided to carry
her home, although we were a long distance from it. I so arranged my
sled that she could ride upon it, and she soon became quite reconciled
to her place. But it meant a good deal of hard running for me. Before
the accident occurred, I could ride a great part of the time, although
we had over six hundred p