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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Horden (J.) and Sanders (J.) — Cont'd. 



Some copies are dated 1881. (Gilbert & Riv- 

 ington. 

 : — St. Matthew's gospel. | Trans- 

 lated into the language | of the | Ojib- 

 beway Indians | in the | diocese of Moos- 

 onee, | by | the right rev. the bishop of 

 Moosonee | and the | rev. J. Sanders, of 

 Matawakumma. [ 



Society for promoting christian knowl- 

 edge, I Northumberland Avenue, Char- 

 ing Cross, London, j 1880. 



Title verso printers 1 1. text (entirely in the 

 Ojibbeway language and in syllabic characters) 

 pp. 3-140, colophon 1 1. verso blank, 16°. 



Copies seen: Church Missionary Society, 

 Eames, Pilling, Powell, Society for Promoting 

 €hristian Knowledge. 



Under date of Feb. 2, 1887, Mr. Sanders 

 ■wrote me: "In the winter of 1881-2, I assisted 

 Bishop Horden in translating the acts of the 

 apostles into the Ojibbeway, which h&s not been 

 returned from the press. 



John Horden was born at Exeter, Devon- 

 shire, Eng., on Jan. 20, 1828, and in 1835 was 

 elected a scholar of St. Johns hospital, Exeter, 

 where he continued until 1842, when, at the age 

 of fourteen years, he left school and entered as 

 an apprentice as an iron-worker in one of the 

 foundries of his native city, hoping this might 

 be of assistance in after life, for he had already 

 determined that, if possible, he would become 

 a missionary. "While learning his business he 

 was constantly engaged as a teacher in the 

 Sunday school of St. Thomas, Mb own parish. 

 His apprenticeship having expired, he became 

 general tutor at the South Devon collegiate 

 school, remaining in this position two years, 

 ■when he offered himself to the Church* Mis- 

 sionary Society. One morning, in 1851, while 

 at breakfast, he was startled by the contents of 

 a letter from the home society of the Church 

 Missionary Society, directing him to go at once 

 to Moose Factory, Hudson's Bay, to commence 

 a mission among the Cfee and Ojibbeway In- 

 dians of that quarter, telling him, moreover, that 

 he must decide at once, as the annual ship, the 

 only means of going, would sail in a fortnight, 

 and that, supposing he determined to go, it was 

 advisable he should get married before starting. 

 All difficulties were overcome, and in the be 

 ginning of June Mr. and Mrs. Horden started 

 for Canada, arriving at Moose Factory at the end 

 of August. He set himself resolutely to acquire 

 the Cree language, and with such success that 

 in about seven or eight months he no longer 

 needed an interpreter, except to assist him in 

 some of his translations. He taught the In- 

 dians to read according to the syllabic system 

 invented by the Rev. Mr. Evans, which is easily 

 acquired, and wrote books for them, which he 

 Tvas obliged to multiply by hand. In 1852 Mr. 

 Horden was ordained both deacon and priest. 



Horden (J.) — Continued. 



and placed in full charge of the mission. He 

 now set about translating a part of the English 

 Prayer Book; this finished, he sent it to the 

 Church Missionary Society in London, with the 

 request that it might be printed, and copies sent 

 to him by the next annual ship. Instead of 

 sending the book they sent a printing press and 

 types, with a good supply of paper, together 

 with bookbinding material, of the use of which 

 Mr. Horden knew absolutely nothing. He 

 determined to do his best, however, and by the 

 next spring had his books printed and bound. 

 A hymn book and the book of Jonah followed, 

 then a translation of Pinnock's bible and gospel 

 history, prayer book, and hymn book in Ojibbe- 

 way, and a small book in Eskimo. His next 

 work was the four gospels, which occupied him 

 a considerable time, although he now had assist- 

 ants, having taught some young natives both 

 printing and bookbinding. In 1872 Eupert's 

 Land was divided into four dioceses, which were 

 named Rupert's Land, Moosonee, Saskatchewan 

 and Athabaska. On December 15th Mr. Horden 

 was consecrated in Westminster Abbey as the 

 first bishop of Moosonee, since which he has vis- 

 ited almost every part of the diocese, spending 

 one year in north Moosonee, the principal sta- 

 tions of which are York Factory and Fort 

 Churchill. He has done a great deal in the 

 way of education, one of his pupils being arch- 

 deacon of Saskatchewan, another archdeacon 

 of Moose, while one of these is fully expected 

 to be the second bishop of Moosonee. 



Horne (Thomas Hartwell). A | manual 

 I of I biblical bibliography; | compris- 

 ing I a catalogue, methodically ar- 

 ranged, I of I the principal editions 

 and versions of | the holy scriptu'.es ; 

 I together with | notices of the princi- 

 pal philologers, critics, and interpre- 

 ters I of the bible. | By | Thomas Hart- 

 well Horne, B. D. | [&c. four lines. ] | 

 London: | T. Cadell, Strand; | W. 

 Blackwood and sons, Edinburgh ; and | 

 R. Milliken and son, Dublin. | MDCCC 

 XXXIX [18.39]. 



Title verso printer 1 1. advertisement verso 

 blank 1 1. contents pp. v-xii, text pp. 1-404, 

 bibliographic index pp. 405-431, list of the au- 

 thor's works p. [432], 8°. 



Lord's prayer in Virginian {sic for Massa- 

 chusetts] (from Eliot's bible), p. 125.— 1 John, 

 iii, 1-4, in the Delaware language (from Dencke), 

 p. 125. 

 Copies seen : Congress, Eames. 



This volume is a separate edition of the bib- 

 liographical appendix to Home's Introductioa 

 to the critical study and knowledge of the 

 holy scriptures, London, 1839, and other edi- 

 tions ; the 1839 edition of which (Congress) does 

 not contain the above linguistics. 



