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Church of England on the prairie alongside the 

 trail of the newcomers to the prairie homesteads. 

 The work is financed by the British in the Mother 

 Country who trouble to think and to care and to 

 help those who are fighting out the battle of our 

 Empire with the pick and spade on unbroken soil. 

 It is manned by a band of young British clergymen 

 who from the first fell into step and line with their 

 charge, enduring all those phases of life which are 

 not easy to endure with amazing patience and cheer- 

 fulness. There are days in the life of the home- 

 steader's first year or so when not even the inspiration 

 of Pan in his finest mood, nor the hope of the future 

 consolation of far more than one's fair share of 

 dollars, can induce one to work one's way through 

 the arduous toil of the daily round. Those sporting 

 parsons with their splendid fund of enthusiasm 

 for the thing that is higher somehow filled the 

 need. The day of their coming is really Sunday, 

 and patience and endurance are swift to acknow- 

 ledge the fact in playing the game through 

 all the other days. The Archbishop's Mission is 

 doing truly great and most valuable work in the 

 social as well as the spiritual development of the 

 far-out prairie population in forming centres of 

 social and religious interest, building churches, 

 beckoning schools, and by every possible way of 

 admirable organization binding together the Mother 

 Country and her daughter nation with the beautiful 

 bond of the National Church. 



But on the first day of my visit to Le Bret the 

 Archbishop's Western Canada Mission was still a 

 voiceless thought, and the splendid example of 

 mission work at Le Bret, which one could but admire, 

 seemed to belong to Rome. Even in the village the 



