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Inasmuch 



The Fir*t 

 Service 



The Sunday 

 School 



Johnzxi:!! 



Christian Indians the speaker being a French 

 Canadian Roman Catholic it would be very 

 well if all the whites were as good as they are. 



&quot;We proceeded to the Church. There were 

 perhaps 250 Indians present, composing the whole 

 congregation. Nothing can be more reverential 

 and solemn than the demeanour and bearing of 

 these people in public worship. Their costume 

 has a hybrid kind of character, partly European 

 partly Indian, the former predominating among 

 the men. The women, for the most part, still 

 wear the blanket, or else a piece of dark cloth, 

 thrown over the head, with the hair parted 

 smoothly in front, and leggings from the knee 

 downward. They all wear moccasins; which in 

 deed are worn by the missionaries, and almost all 

 the European population of the Colony. The 

 morning service is performed in English ; but the 

 lessons are rendered into the Indian tongue by the 

 interpreter, a half-breed school-master, whostands 

 beneath the clergyman. 



&quot;The singing is conducted chiefly by the 

 children of the school. I visited the Sunday- 

 School, held in the School-house, and found a large 

 attendance. The number of children on the list 

 is 153 ; it will possibly appear fanciful, but I could 

 not help thinking of the precise correspondence 

 of the number which these fishers of men had 

 here gathered in, with that of the miraculous 

 draft of fishes, when the net was cast by the 

 command of Christ . 



