CHAPTER V. 



PIONEER JOURNALS THE RIGHT REV. G. J. 

 MOUNTAIN 



From the journal of the Rev. John West we 1544 



pass over into that of the Right Rev. G. J. Mountain s 



Mountain, third Bishop of Quebec, who while chine, L May La 



still holding the title of coadjutor Bishop of FoVf 



Montreal, was the first Bishop to visit the regions June 23rd 

 West of the Great Lakes. 



A few words are necessary to connect the de- 1323 

 parture of Mr. West with the arrival of Bishop 

 Mountain. The former on his return to England 

 left his successor, Mr. David Jones, alone at the 

 Red River. The next arrival was the Rev. Rev . w. 

 William Cockran. He never went back to his Cockran 1825 

 native land and completed what has been well 

 called &quot;a finished course of forty years.&quot; The 

 Indians learned to value their &quot;praying fathers&quot; i 8 38 

 and when Mr. Jones returned to England they 

 sent by his hand, an appeal, to the C. M. S. 

 which read in part: &quot;We now like the Word of 

 God, and we have left off all our sins: we have 

 cast away our rattles, our drums and our idols, 

 and all our bad heathen ways. But what are we 

 to do our friends? Mr. Jones is going to leave 

 us; Mr. Cockran talks of it; must we turn to our 

 idols and gods again, or must we turn to the 

 French praying fathers? We see three French 

 praying fathers come to the river, and not one 



