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1887, he removed the majority of the Tsimshean 

 Christians. Before departing they partially de 

 stroyed their houses, and the church, leaving the 

 village a wreck. Bishop Ridley wrote: It is 

 natural to lift up our heads at the close of our 

 seven years of persecution, when we taste at 

 last the sweetness of religious liberty. We have 

 now to try to forget our past miseries, and to 

 lose no time in restoring what is necessary for the 

 advancement of Christ s cause.&quot; 



Reorganiza- With the departure of the seceders reorganiza 

 tion, upon the basis of full Christian ordinances 

 and complete church order, proceeded apace. 

 Confirmations were held and the Sacrament of 

 the Lord s vSupper duly and properly administered. 

 The translation of hymns, the Apostles Creed, and 

 the Lord s Prayer, was followed by the publica 

 tion in Tsimshean of St. Matthew s Gospel. 

 When the latter was first read to the Indians one 

 of them said, &quot;We had some links; now we have 

 the chain&quot; ; and another added, &quot;We saw through 

 a narrow slit now the door is wide open.&quot; After 

 three years of peace, the Bishop wrote: &quot;We 

 have now a boys boarding-school, another for 

 girls, a mixed day school of girls and small boys, 

 and a day school for big boys; a Sunday School 

 for children, another for adults. We have an 

 average of more than sixty at our daily meeting 

 of prayer. This is the only community of 

 Indians I know that has a natural increase of the 

 population. Crime is almost unknown; the 

 standard of moral conduct is higher than that of 



