INDIAN BOY. 



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divine service ; and their children from the 

 school were present for public examination. 

 They gave general satisfaction in their answers 

 to questions from the " Chief Truths of the 

 Christian Religion, and Lewis's Catechism." — 

 Text Proverbs iii. 17. 



By the arrival of the boats from Qu'appelle, 

 on the 25th, I received the little Indian boy, I 

 noticed, when leaving the Hunters Tents, 

 during my excursion to that quarter in January 

 last. Soon after my departure, the father of 

 the boy observed, that " as I had asked for his 

 son, and stood between the Great Spirit and 

 the Indians, he would send him to me ;" and 

 just before the boats left the Post for the Red 

 River, he brought the boy, and requested that 

 he might be delivered to my care. Thus was 

 I encouraged in the idea, that native Indian 

 children might be collected from the wandering 

 tribes of the north, and educated in " the 

 knowledge of the true God, and Jesus Christ 

 whom he hath sent." 



Every additional Indian child I obtained 

 for this purpose, together with the great in- 

 convenience of having no place appropriated 

 for public worship, gave a fresh stimulus to 

 exertion in erecting the proposed building. 



