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for Athabasca and McLean for Saskatchewan, are 

 being consecrated; Bishop Anderson is the fitting 

 preacher, and refers to the two new dioceses: 

 &quot;To-day the noble plan will be consummated by 

 the consecreation of two more bishops. One 

 will preside over the Church in the western por 

 tion of the land, labouring among the Indians of 

 the Plains, and along the valley of that river whose 

 source is in the Rocky Mountains the River 

 Saskatchewan; whose name, in its sound and 

 meaning, would remind us of those surging rapids 

 down which it sends its waters into the inland 

 sea of Winnipeg. The other will have the 

 northern diocese as his own, along yet mightier 

 lakes, and with rivers which roll down an immense 

 volume, and discharge themselves into the Arctic 

 Ocean. Such is the four-fold sub-division of that 

 vast territory, completing and carrying out ideas 

 which as day dreams may have flitted across my 

 mind, but which have to-day reality and shape, 

 and a definite existence.&quot; 



Of the three Bishops, Horden, Bompas and 

 McLean the two first were C. M. S. Mission 

 aries, and, since their future work would be wholly 

 among Indians, that Society undertook their saskatche- 

 support; for the maintenance of the third an ment End w &quot; 

 endowment for the See was raised, towards which 

 the S. P. G. gave 2,000 and the S. P. C. K. 

 1,750. 



The Diocese of Saskatchewan, with its centre 

 at Prince Albert, stretched eastward to the 

 western boundary of the Cumberland mission, 



