Introduction 



An Import 

 ant Distinc 

 tion . 



Influence 

 of C. M. S 



very air which we breathe, and, above all, the 

 debt due to the right which they have to a joint 

 share and heritage in &quot;the faith once delivered 

 unto the Saints.&quot; 



2. The incalculable debt of reparation due to 

 the two English Societies the S. P. G. and the 

 C. M. S., which entered Canada, the one largely 

 and the other entirely, as Missions to its Indians 

 and Eskimos, and which have, directly or in 

 directly, be^n the main instruments in God s 

 hands for the founding of that Canadian Church 

 whose members we are and whose privileges we 

 possess and enjoy. 



In any comparison of the work in Canada of the 

 two Societies, the S. P. G. and the C. M. S., an 

 important distinction must be borne in mind. It 

 is this, that while the S. P. G., received its first 

 appeal from Eastern Canada on behalf of the 

 Indians, and has done much for those of the West 

 also, its efforts and abundant generosity have, in 

 the main, been concentrated, and poured out, 

 upon the work for the benefit of white settlers. 

 The C. M. S., on the other hand, is by its con 

 stitution limited to the initiation and carrying on 

 of work among heathen peoples and of converts 

 gathered out from among them. Therefore all 

 the benefit (and who shall adequately estimate or 

 describe it?) which the Church of England in 

 Canada has received through the operations of 

 the C. M. S. must be ascribed, solely, to the effect 

 of the recognition, by the Church in England, of 



