will be spared to us a little
longer. We need you in the Church and in the village. We want your
presence, your example, your prayers."

He was a little perplexed at first, and seemed hardly to know how to
answer. Then he looked up at me so chidingly, and gave me the answer
that outweighs all arguments: "I want to go home."

And home he went, gloriously and triumphantly. His face was so radiant
and shining that it seemed to us as though the heavenly gates had swung
back, and from the glory land some of its brightness had come flashing
down, and had so illumined the poor body that still held in its
faltering grasp the precious soul, that we could almost imagine that
mortal itself was putting on immortality. The triumphant death of
Memotas was not only a revelation and a benediction to Oowikapun and
Astumastao, and many other Christian Indians, but it caused the full and
complete surrender of many hard, stubborn hearts to Christ.

So short a time had our hero and heroine been in the way that, happy as
they were in their present enjoyment of the favour of God, they had had
their fears as they thought of the last enemy which is death. In the
quietude of their wigwam home they had asked themselves, and each other,
the solemn question, Will this religion sustain us in the valley and
shadow of death? or, How will we do in the swellings of Jordan? Natural
and solemn are these questions, and wise and prudent are they in all
lands who thoughtfully and reverently ask them.

Comforting and suggestive were the answers which they and others had
learned at the bedside of the triumphant Memotas.

"As thy days, so shall thy strength be," had a new meaning to them from
that time forward, and so as they reconsecrated themselves to God, they
resolved in the divine strength to obtain each day sufficient grace for
that day's needs--and who can do any better?

Very anxious was Astumastao to learn all she could about housekeeping
and other things which would more fully fit her for helping her less
fortunate Indian sisters at the distant Indian village, who, now that
they had become Christians, were also trying to attain to some of the
customs and comforts of civilisation.

Thus very quickly sped the few weeks during which the brigade of boats
waited at Norway House for their return cargo, which had to come from
Fort Garry. When this arrived all was hurry and excitement. Two or
three days only were required to unpack from the la