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the claim of the native races of the Dominion 

 upon its sympathy and assistance. 



Out of many possible facts which illustrate and 

 support this statement let the mention of one 

 only, suffice: 



Beginning with Moosonee, excluding Algoma, 

 and going through to the Pacific, we have fifteen 

 dioceses. Of these the founding of nine was due 

 to the initiative and in most cases the liberal, or 

 total, financial support of the C. M. S. In the 

 establishment of most of the others the S. P. G. 

 was concerned to a like extent. 



To the possible cavil that if the Church of A Possible 

 England had not entered the country in the way Cavi1 

 described it would have entered it in some other 

 way, and that, therefore, we should not be influenc 

 ed unduly by the argument from history ; it is suf 

 ficient to reply, that history is a &quot;record of events &quot; 

 as they occurred and not an invention of fancies 

 concerning the course they might have followed 

 under other conceivable contingencies. We are 

 the heirs of the past as that past, by the finger of 

 God and the actions of our forefathers, has been 

 written for all time. A knowledge of things &quot;as 

 they were&quot; is an essential element in a just com 

 prehension of things &quot;as they are.&quot; 



Things &quot;as they are,&quot; in immediate financial The c. M. s. 

 relation to our subject, go back to a series of withdrawal 

 resolutions adopted by the C. M. S. Committee 

 in the year 1903. 



These resolutions recite that : 



&quot;In view of the urgency of the calls for ex- 



