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land as well as Bishop, preached a sermon for us in the 

 little chapel, and it was remarkable for its profundity 

 as well as its eloquence. He is the leader in a move- 

 ment among the Northwest churchmen which is in- 

 tended to give new life to the Church of England by 

 trying to arouse it from its apparent lethargy and by 

 claiming for it the undivided support of the people, 

 on the ground of its traditions, history and venerable 

 age. In his discourse he easily disposed of the dis- 

 senting churches and then in a learned argument paid 

 his respects to the Roman Catholic Church and pro- 

 ceeded to show that the Church of England was cen- 

 turies older than the Roman Church. It seemed a 

 great waste of force to preach such a sermon to the 

 handful of people he had for an audience, but as he 

 leaves this country to spend his last days in England, 

 after preaching here for twenty-six years, he no doubt 

 thought it well to give the Canadians something to 

 think about. 



The Canadian Pacific Railway being the most acces- 

 sible route between Alaska and the East, some very 

 valuable train loads of merchandise pass over its rails. 

 Probably one of the most precious loads ever hauled 

 by a locomotive, in the same number of cars, was one 

 made up of sealskins, filling ten cars, and booked 

 through to London. Each car was valued at over 

 $200,000 over $2,000,000 in all. The train had a 

 wreck coming down the slopes of the Rocky Houn- 



