172 Inasmuch 



way. The other instance being, it will be remem 

 bered, among the Indians of the Thompson 

 River. 



Kitkatia, 1879 The story of Kitkatla carries us back to the 

 real founder of the work Captain, later Admiral, 

 Prevost; who, travelling in a canoe, was the first 

 to preach the Gospel to the Indians living there. 



1882 &quot;Three years later, the Bishop sent a teacher, 



and within a few months, twenty-seven converts 

 were brought in canoes to Metlakahtla to be 

 baptized. Then the heathen Indians, stirred up 

 by the disloyal Christians of Metlakahtla, 

 rose up, destroyed and burnt the little church 

 they had built, and tore up the Bibles and Prayer- 

 books. Two days later, wrote the Bishop, 

 A crew of drenched Kitkatlas sat before me in 

 my study burdened with so great a grief that they 

 could not find utterance for some time. Then 

 one of them named Luke, rising to his feet, began 

 his tale of woe. 



&quot;The devil has won; God s house is in ashes; 

 they spit at the name of Jesus; they have torn 

 up the Bibles; the devil has won the victory.&quot; 



&quot;No, never,&quot; said I, &quot;the battle has just 

 begun; Jesus Christ will win. You are not 

 burnt. The devil has laughed before. God will 

 laugh at him, and you will laugh. Be strong ! &quot; 



1890 But better things still were coming. At 



Kitkatla itself, the Bishop baptized the man who 

 set fire to the church. Of this man the Bishop 

 wrote: 



&quot;An Indian of mark was holding the loop-end 



