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the blessed Word scattered among them, and thou- 

 sands can read its glorious truths. 



Perhaps a little more may be culled from the 

 same source showing how greatly impressed Lord 

 Dufferin was by this character. When he was 

 Governor-General of Canada he had an interview 

 with Mr. Young and Mr. Crosby, a missionary from 

 British Columbia. The former says : " I showed 

 him my Cree Indian Testament printed in Evans' 

 syllabic characters, and explained the invention to 

 him. At once his curiosity was excited, and jump- 

 ing up he hurried off for pen and ink, and got me 

 to write out the whole alphabet for him ; and then, 

 with that glee and vivacity for which his lordship 

 was so noted, he constituted me his teacher, and 

 commenced at once to master the characters. 



' As their simplicity and yet wonderful adapta- 

 tion for their designed work became evident to 

 him for in a short time he was able to read a 

 portion of the Lord's Prayer Lord Dufferin was 

 much excited, and getting up from his chair and 

 holding up the Testament in his hand, exclaimed, 

 ' Why, Mr. Young, what a blessing to humanity 

 the man was who invented that alphabet ! ' Then 

 he added, ' I profess to be a kind of literary man 

 myself, and try to keep posted up in my reading 

 of what is going on, but I never heard of this before. 

 The fact is, the nation has given many a man a 

 title, and a pension, and then a resting-place and a 



