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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 LOFTHOUSE 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 
