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among you; a plan for a very long and distant 

 enterprise, to plant the Cross in a new territory 

 and penetrate towards the Arctic Sea. He came, 

 not sketching a plan for others, but willing to 

 start himself, wanting but an answer to his offer, 

 Here am I, send me. We have surely reason 

 to thank him to-day for the commencement of a 

 good work there, and however difficult its con 

 tinuance may be, ours will be in great measure 

 the blame, should the station be abandoned and 

 the citadel thus gained be given up.&quot; 



Bishop An- Bishop Anderson delivered his last charge to 



cfES?. * La8t the cler gy shortly before his final departure for 

 England. One or two brief extracts must suffice 

 to complete the links binding his episcopate with 

 the arrival of his great successor in office. &quot;We 

 are,&quot; he said &quot;at the present moment twenty- 

 three.&quot; &quot;The number Confirmed has been 307 

 on nine different occasions, giving an average of 

 34 in each. The largest number, as is very 

 pleasant to notice, in such a diocese as our own, 

 was at the Indian Settlement where 79 were 

 presented.&quot; 



Bishop An- His summing up of the extensions made, must 



?864 suffice f or large areas in connection with which the 

 brevity of our space forbids that we should enter 

 into detail: &quot;Of stations opened since we met, 

 we think with very peculiar pleasure of that most 

 distant point now gained and occupied, Fort 

 Youcon, on the Russian frontier, where one 

 from the Red River, who may therefore feel him 

 self entitled to the character of a missionary, is 



