130 Inasmuch 



Indians? To judge of this you must see (as I 

 have seen) the houses around Christ Church, 

 Cumberland, and the canoes conveying the wor 

 shippers to it each Sunday morning; or must 

 pass beyond, and see the little band, enjoying 

 this winter, the ministrations of a clergyman 

 at Lac La Ronge. Great already is the influence 

 of the Gospel in those quarters, and very hopeful 

 the prospect as regards the Indian mind.&quot; 

 His second In his second charge, the Bishop said: &quot;Five 



Charge, ii wag ^ ag VQU ma y rememDer&amp;gt; ^he number of 



God s ministering servants when I first came 

 among you. Ten was, if I mistake not, the num 

 ber at my last visitation; and now we are in all 

 fifteen.&quot; Of Confirmations he said &quot;Of these 

 the largest was at Moose, where 130 were Con 

 firmed, 105 of these being Indians.&quot; 



On the nature of the work the Bishop com 

 mented &quot;Its unity strikes my own mind in a 

 manner which you can scarcely realize. I can 

 thus call up before me, Indians, with whom I 

 conversed familiarly, from Rupert s House and 

 Fort George, and place by their side others, with 

 whom I have travelled for days together, from 

 the English River, and they have the same 

 essential features. I see what others around them 

 are, who are still in darkness; but when they 

 have cast away the bonds of superstition, and are 

 now clothed and in their right mind, they exhibit 

 a softness of heart, they are not insensible to 

 kindness, and manifest an affectionate attachment 

 to their benefactors. In examining them for 



