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confirmation, and questioning them one by one 

 on their immortal interests, there is the same 

 working of grace; the answers at the one place 

 might almost have been given at the other. I 

 find that the same translations of the Bible and 

 of the Prayer Book are understood in both 

 quarters. Now this gives me the lively confi 

 dence, that, if we could advance, the same effects 

 would, through God s mercy, be witnessed. The 

 accounts we receive of the Chipewyans repre 

 sent them as equally accessible to the Gospel, 

 and our own impression of them would confirm His wide 

 this character; could we carry the Gospel to the c 

 Arctic Sea, the Indians of the Mackenzie River 

 would, we think, present little obstacle, but that 

 of language to be overcome, while, in penetrating 

 as far as the Rocky Mountains on the Saskatche 

 wan, there would not even be this. And, 

 brethren, to this unity our own system gives 

 great power; to think that the same prayers 

 extend over more than two thousand miles, and 

 may yet penetrate farther, this would animate 

 us in carrying forward the work, to think that 

 these become their companions in solitude, their 

 manual for the worship of the Sabbath, and their 

 comfort when stretched on the bed of death.&quot; 



On a similar, but subsequent occasion, the j an . eth, i860 

 Bishop referred to the return of Archdeacon 

 Hunter from the first missionary journey down 

 the Mackenzie River, when he travelled as far as 

 Fort Good Hope near the Arctic Circle. &quot;In 

 the winter,&quot; said he &quot;the proposal came from one Rlver 



