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Bishop of Victoria, (Hong-Kong) and the first 

 Bishop of Rupert s Land. Rupert s Land 

 was not one of the new Dioceses projected when 

 the Colonial Bishoprics Fund was started, eight 

 years before. But the Church Missionary Society 

 had long desired its establishment; and when at 

 length that desire was fulfilled, they expressed 

 their unfeigned satisfaction that after many 

 years of expectation a Bishop had been ap 

 pointed. To the endowment provided by a 

 bequest of Mr. Leith, a Chief Factor of the 

 Hudson s Bay Company, the Society added a 

 yearly grant of 300.&quot; 



Bishop Anderson, accompanied by Robert Arrival at 

 Hunt, formerly one of Captain Allen Gardiner s $? Factory 

 companions in Patagonia, arrived at York 

 Factory on the 16th of August. &quot;It was a bright 

 and beautiful day,&quot; wrote the Bishop. &quot;Before 

 landing I asked the Captain to allow us to sing 

 the Doxology once more together; when he at 

 once assembled all hands on deck, and we sang, 

 under the open canopy of Heaven, Praise God 

 from Whom all Blessings Flow after which I 

 offered up a few words of prayer, and pronounced 

 the Benediction.&quot; 



The Bishop s first Sunday at Red River was 

 October 7th; when he preached from the text, 

 &quot;We are come as far as to you also in preaching 

 the Gospel of Christ,&quot; II Cor. X:14, and ad 

 ministered the Sacrament of the Lord s Supper 

 to 167 Communicants. The happiest event, 

 we are told, in the Bishop s earliest years, was the 



