nd exclaimed, "My precious
Saviour! I shall soon see Him. `That will be joy for evermore.'"

Once, when conversing with him, I happened to say, "I hope you will not
leave us. We want you to remain with us. We need you to help us to
preach. We need you in the Sunday School and in the Prayer Meetings.
Your sixty class members are full of sorrow at your sickness. They
think they cannot spare you. Do not be in a hurry to leave us, William.
We want your presence, your example, your prayers."

He listened patiently while I talked, and then he looked up at me so
chidingly, like a weary, home-sick child, and exclaimed, in a voice that
showed that earth had lost all its charms, "Why do you wish to detain
me? You know I want to go home."

Shortly after, his heart's desire was his in actual possession.
Triumphantly he went home. While we felt that our Mission was much the
loser by his departure, we knew it was better for him, and an accession
to heaven's glorious company of one who was worthy to mingle with the
white-robed throng around the throne of God.

There is nothing that more roots and grounds us in this blessed Gospel,
and more stimulates us to labour on, even amidst hardships and
sufferings, than the consistent lives and triumphant deaths of our
Indian converts.

Ignorant as many of them are of the non-essentials of our religion, yet
possessing by the Spirit's influence a vivid knowledge of their state by
nature, and of the Saviour's love for them, they cling to Him with a
faith so strong and abiding, that the blessed assurance of His favour
abides with them as a conscious reality through life; and when the end
draws near, sustained by His presence, even the Valley of the Shadow of
Death is entered with delight.

The Missions among the Indians of North America have not been failures.
The thousands converted from different tribes, and now before the throne
of God, and the many true and steadfast ones following after, tell us
that although many of the toilers among them, as they went with the
seed, literally went forth weeping, yet the harvest has been an abundant
one, and has more than compensated for the tears and toils of the
sewers.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN.

VARIED DUTIES--CHRISTIANITY MUST PRECEDE CIVILISATION--ILLUSTRATIONS--
EXPERIMENTAL FARMING--PLOUGHING WITH DOGS--ABUNDANCE OF FISH--VISITS
FROM FAR-OFF INDIANS--SOME COME TO DISTURB--MANY SINCERE INQUIRERS AFTER
THE TRUTH--"WHERE IS THE MISSIONARY?