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from any other direction, if possible and available, 

 must in its nature be palliative and temporary. 

 The responsibility lies at the door of the Church 

 of England in Canada, and must be dealt with 

 through the official channel of expression of its 

 missionary life and zeal; the Missionary Society, 

 acting through its Board of Management, and its 

 Woman s Auxiliary. The members of both will 

 require great wisdom, faith, courage. 



The sky of our &quot; entrance&quot; into the responsi 

 bility was darkened, suddenly, by the fierce clouds 

 of the War. In Canada s response to the War 

 the sons of the red men are bearing a full and 

 worthy part. Nearly every mission station has 

 its representatives at the front, and most of them, 

 when the conflict is over, will have their &quot;Honour 

 Rolls&quot; inscribed with the names of the men who, 

 in the supreme struggle for Empire and right, 

 &quot;counted not their lives dear unto themselves.&quot; 



In these respects they are strengthening the 

 loudest and clearest note of our recitation of the 

 beginnings of the Church of England in Canada in 

 relation to the Indian and Eskimo races.&quot; To 

 all their claims of soil, of air, of natural resources, 

 of joint heritage in the faith &quot;once delivered to 

 the saints,&quot; the Indians of Canada have added 

 the distinction of Zebulon and Napthali, in the 

 days of Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, 

 in that they jeoparded their lives unto the death 

 in the high places of the field.&quot; 



The Missions to the Indians and Eskimo enter, conclusion 

 in a peculiar manner, into the very fibre of the 



