Introduction ix 



of the &quot;Everlasting Kingdom,&quot; the unbreakable 



link binding the Church Militant to the Church j hn iv:36-3? 



Triumphant. &quot;One soweth and another reap- 



eth&quot;; &quot;that he that soweth and he that reapeth 



may rejoice together.&quot; 



In the case and circumstances of the Church of 

 England in Canada no uncertainty exists. The 

 application of the &quot;universal principle,&quot; and of 

 the &quot;local coincidence&quot; of responsibility, is clear 

 and unmistakable. 



In this Handbook it is our purpose to trace, A Double 

 mainly in the bonds and fellowship of two great Relation8hi P 

 societies the S. P. G. and the C. M. S. the 

 footsteps of devoted men and women who, &quot;first 

 gave their own selves to the Lord,&quot; and then 

 thought it but a small thing that they should give 

 all else life, strength, service to the work of 

 winning the Indian and the Eskimo to &quot;the 

 light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the 

 face of Jesus Christ.&quot; 



We shall see, coincident with the tracing 

 of the footsteps of the pioneers of the Cross, the 

 slow, and still imperfect, awakening of the con 

 science of the white men with regard to their 

 responsibilities towards the native Braces; whose 

 land they have occupied, and whose patrimony, 

 of forest, lake, and river, they possess and enjoy. 



As members of the Church of England in Can- A Double 

 ada, in relation to the native races, we lie under Debt 

 the obligation of a double debt : 



1. The debt due to the right which they 

 possessed to the country in which we live, to the 



