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missionary devotion. With equal humility, he 

 might, at the end of his life, have adopted and 

 localized St. Paul s words and said &quot;To the 

 Indian became I as an Indian In weariness and 

 painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and 

 thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 

 Besides those things that are without, that which 

 cometh upon me daily, the care of all the 

 Churches.&quot; 



Return to Red The narrow space of this handbook will not 

 permit us to follow Bompas in all his travels, 

 work, and success on behalf of the tribes of the 

 Mackenzie River Basin. His course was, how 

 ever, followed from Red River by the watchful 

 eye and brooding brain of Robert Machray, with 

 the result that eight years later, we find him on 

 his way back to that Settlement. On arrival at 

 the Bishop s House, he was, we are told, mis 

 taken by the servant for a tramp and discovered 

 in the kitchen calmly eating a plate of soup. 

 &quot;I enjoyed,&quot; he said &quot;the kind hospitality of the 

 Bishop of Rupert s Land and Archdeacon Cowley, 

 and was much interested in seeing the progress 

 of the Mission work in the colony. I reached, by 

 God s Providence, the first houses of the Settle- 

 Dec, sist, 1873 rnent on the last evening of the Old Year, and after 

 nearly six months travel in the wilds I awoke on 

 New Year s morning to a new life of civilization 

 and society.&quot; 



consecration The next scene, placed in Lambeth Parish 

 p n aHtn&quot; beth Church, marks the further sub-division of the 

 3rd&quot; r i874 May Diocese of Rupert s Land; two bishops, Bompas 



