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was our Father and our Friend.

At Red River I called on the Reverend Archdeacon Cowley at his Indian
Mission home. Very cordial and sympathetic was he, as I introduced
myself, and told him I had come to accept of his kind offer, and seek in
some part of the quiet graveyard of his Mission Church a little place
where I could bury the body of my darling child. He at once went with
me and showed me all kindness and help, as also did Mr Flett and his
family, of the Hudson's Bay Company's Service. As we laid away the
beautiful child, and the solemn words, "Earth to earth, dust to dust,"
were uttered, we felt that there was now an additional tie holding us to
that country and work.

In due time I reached Toronto, and there met the Missionary Secretaries,
and obtained from them an outline of the work before me. Here it was my
great joy to meet for the first time the Reverend Thomas Crosby, the
energetic and successful Missionary from British Columbia, who has been
wonderfully owned of God in his glorious work. Uncalled by any Church,
but impelled by the good Spirit, shortly after his conversion he made
his way to British Columbia at his own expense, and offered himself to
one of the Missionaries there as a volunteer teacher among the poor,
neglected Indians, who, uncared for by any one, were prowling around the
cities and towns of that new Province, living lives of shame and sin.
Great indeed was his success.

He has also established flourishing Missions at Fort Simpson and
elsewhere in the north of that land, and through his labours a blessed
work began among the Indians in Alaska. Some of them, hearing wonderful
stories about the black-coated man and his mysterious Book, came
hundreds of miles, that they might have their curiosity satisfied. They
returned with more than they anticipated. They reached the Mission, and
from Mr Crosby, and also from some of their own tribes who lived there,
they heard the "old, old story" for the first time in their lives. It
was indeed wonderful news to them, but they accepted it with a simple
faith that was pleasing to God, and brought into their hearts the
consciousness of His smile and benediction. Rejoicing in this new-found
treasure they returned to their own land, and there they published the
glad tidings of God's love, and added the testimony of their own
personal experience that they had a new joy in their hearts, the result
of their having accepted this Saviour. Great