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I n a s*m u c h 



The Mission 

 Farm 



Confirma 

 tions 



Churches 



Filled 



&quot;We walked, in the course of this day, over the 

 Mission Farm, which constitutes, in fact, a branch 

 of the Society s Establishment for the Indians, 

 since it is the model for their own agricultural 

 operations; and for this reason, as again in the 

 case of Mr. Cockran at the Rapids, has been an 

 object upon which the missionary has bestowed 

 some closeness of personal attention. In all 

 respects it is truly gratifying to observe how the 

 condition and the habits of the Indian are bettered 

 by the exertions made, under the auspices of the 

 Society, in his behalf. 



&quot;At the Lower Church, there were two con 

 firmations held on the Sunday, on account of its 

 contracted dimensions. In the morning, 192 

 women and girls were confirmed; in the evening, 

 150 men and youths. This last was again the 

 precise number of persons confirmed at the Middle 

 Church, when both sexes were admitted together. 

 And it was very remarkable that this was also 

 the exact number confirmed on the day following 

 at the Upper Church. Two hundred, and some 

 thing over, were confirmed at the Indian Church 

 on my return to it. I find that the total of the 

 confirmations is noted to have been 846 persons 

 in the Red River Colony. It would have been 

 about a thousand but for the unavoidable ab 

 sence of some of the subjects for the rite, either 

 in the buffalo-hunting in the prairies or with the 

 boats sent to Hudson s Bay. 



&quot;It was truly a very interesting spectacle to 

 behold the churches filled, on all the different 



