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the blessed Word scattered among them, and thou 

 sands can read its glorious truths. 



Perhaps a little more may be culled from the 

 same source showing how greatly impressed Lord 

 Dufferin was by this character. When he was 

 Governor-General of Canada he had an interview 

 with Mr. Young and Mr. Crosby, a missionary from 

 British Columbia. The former says : "I showed 

 him my Cree Indian Testament printed in Evans' 

 syllabic characters, and explained the invention to 

 him. At once his curiosity was excited, and jump 

 ing up he hurried off for pen and ink, and got me 

 to write out the whole alphabet for him ; and then, 

 with that glee and vivacity for which his lordship 

 was so noted, he constituted me his teacher, and 

 commenced at once to master the characters. 



" As their simplicity and yet wonderful adapta 

 tion for their designed work became evident to 

 him for in a short time he was able to read a 

 portion of the Lord's Prayer Lord Dufferin was 

 much excited, and getting up from his chair and 

 holding up the Testament in his hand, exclaimed, 

 'Why, Mr. Young, what a blessing to humanity 

 the man was who invented that alphabet ! ' Then 

 he added, ' I profess to be a kind of literary man 

 myself, and try to keep posted up in my reading 

 of what is going on, but I never heard of this before. 

 The fact is, the nation has given many a man a 

 title, and a pension, and then a resting-place and a 



