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all longsuffering, for a pattern to them who 

 should hereafter believe on Him and life ever 

 lasting! For Legaic s story has been told over 

 and over again all round the world, and who 

 shall say what miracles of grace the Lord has 

 wrought by its means? For six years the once- 

 dreaded savage lived a quiet and consistent life at 

 Metlakahtla as a carpenter, and then died while 

 on a journey, very happy, he said, not afraid to 

 meet God, Always remembering the words of . 

 the Lord Jesus Christ. &quot; 



&quot;The Governor of British Columbia, Mr. Governor of 

 Trutch, went up the coast with two ships-of-war, SfihSal 1 w? 

 to inquire into an act of savagery committed by 

 drunken white miners; and while on a visit to 

 Metlakahtla he laid the first stone of the cele 

 brated church. Laying the stone, indeed, was 

 one thing; building the church was another. 

 The Governor and the naval officers saw lying 

 on the ground huge timbers to be used in its 

 erection; but how these were to be reared up was 

 not apparent. Very kindly they gave Duncan 

 a quantity of ropes, blocks, pulleys, etc., but even 

 then they sailed away in considerable scepticism 

 as to the possibility of unskilled red men raising 

 a large and lofty church. Nevertheless, after 

 two years labour, it was completed, through 

 God s goodness, without a single accident, and 

 was opened for Christian services on Christmas church 

 Day, 700 Indians being present. Could it be, Opened 1874 

 wrote Duncan, that this concourse of well- 

 dressed people in their new and beautiful church, 



