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Inasmuch 



Consecrated 

 Dec. 15th, 

 1872 



Horden Died, 

 Jan. 12th, 

 1893 



The Final 

 Scene 



to be divided, Bishop Machray would recommend 

 Horden as the Overseer for the new diocese of 

 Moosonee. The consecration took place in 

 Westminster Abbey; &quot;One of the prelates who 

 laid their hands on him being that very Bishop 

 Anderson who, just twenty years before, had 

 ordained him at Moose.&quot; 



Horden continued as Bishop, the Apostolic 

 labours which had distinguished him as a simple 

 missionary. To him was given the supreme joy 

 of finding a large district inhabited by tribes al 

 most totally heathen, and of leaving a large 

 diocese inhabited almost solely by Christian 

 people; of finding pagans without God, without 

 hope, without literature, and of leaving organized 

 communities of Christian men and women, able 

 to read, with instructed teachers, possessing the 

 Word of God and the Book of Common Prayer 

 in their own tongue, guided and supported, 

 during life, by Christian teaching and Sacrament, 

 sustained in death, by the Christian s &quot;living 

 hope&quot; of immortality and &quot;an inheritance among 

 them which are sanctified.&quot; 



John Horden s last written words were &quot;I 

 need not trouble myself about this; I can trust 

 all to the hand of God; He will provide that 

 which He deems sufficient for my case.&quot; 



The final scene of all is thus described by a 

 young Indian, whom the Bishop had for some 

 years been teaching: 



Saturday, January 21st. &quot;We had the funeral. 

 The coffin was closed in the presence of four clergy. 



