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noble work of teaching and helping the natives, both 

 Indians and Eskimos, wherever they found them^and 

 already the fruits of their labors were apparent. 



Close to their home stood a neat substantial church, 

 capable of seating three hundred people, and every nail 



REV. JOSEPH LOFTIIOUSE AND FAMILY. 

 Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay. 



in the structure which would be a credit to many a 

 village in Ontario was driven by the missionary's own 

 hand. Part of the year, during the absence of the mov- 

 ing population of the district, such a seating capacity is 

 unnecessarily great, but at other seasons, when the natives 



