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THE WORK CONTINUED. 
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Tire righteous is as bold as alion. Certainly Mr. Geddie 
was, and I suppose that we should all be so if we really believed 
that God was taking such care of us as he was evidently taking 
ofhim, Mr. Geddie, I may inform my readers, was not a formid- 
able man to look at; there was nothing lordly in his presence. 
And yet he faced the rude savages without fear, and managed 
them like children. One morning Nohoat’s son told him that 
his little brother was dying, and that so soon as he died No- 
hoat was going to strangle his mother. Mr. Geddie sought him 
out, and taxed him with his wicked intention. But all in vain. 
He then cut the matter short by telling him that he was going 
to take the child and his mother to his own house, where No- 
hoat might come and see them if he liked. He took them. 
They were pursued by the chief, but got safely inside the mis- 
sion house. ‘Two days afterwards the child died. The poor 
father, catching up the lifeless body and pressing it to his bo- 
som, rolled on the earth in unutterable grief. Then he turned 
to Mr. Geddie and asked, “ What has become of my boy ?— 
where has he gone?” He—greatly touched with the father’s 
sorrow—told him that the little one wasin the arms of the Good 
Shepherd. When Mr. Geddie asked what was to be done with 
the body, “ Let it be buried,” he said. And the mother—there 
was no more talk of strangling her. This incident reveals the 
height to which the Power of the Gospel was rising, and how 
skilfully the missionaty was using it in pulling down the strong- 
holds of Satan. 
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