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owned the secret of manufacturing most 

 deadly medicines, and they were not slow in 

 using them to terrorize the community by 

 the mysterious death of some one who had 

 been presumptuous enough to question their 

 pretensions. 



This baneful class is now about extinct, 

 thanks to the courage and self-sacrifice of 

 the missionaries, who by canoe and dog- 

 trains travelled to those distant interior 

 regions and by their tact and teachings 

 have lifted the people up from that dark 

 nightmare of fear and dread under which, 

 for generations, they lived. Even some of 

 these once dangerous characters have been 

 transformed into honoured citizens, while 

 those who still cling to the old life have so 

 lost their power that their malisons are now 

 laughed at by the people. 



If it were thought necessary, we could 

 give many individual cases where the trans- 

 formation wrought by the reception of the 

 Gospel brought in among the Indians in 

 this way, has been as marked and delight- 

 ful as is recorded in any missionary annals. 



Some of these red men, who once were 

 bitter opposers of the Glad Tidings thus 

 brought them, have become ministers and 



