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MARRIAGE OF SETTLERS. 



laiiy on the Sabbath ; and having frequently 

 enforced the moral, and social obligation of 

 marriage upon those who were living with, and 

 had families by Indian, or half caste women, 

 I had the happiness to perform the ceremony 

 for several of the most respectable of the 

 settlers, under the conviction, that the insti- 

 tution of marriage, and the security of 

 property, were the fundamental laws of society. 

 I had also many baptisms ; and with infants, 

 some adult half-breeds were brought to be 

 baptized. I endeavoured to explain to them 

 simply and faithfully the nature and object of 

 that Divine ordinance ; but found great diffi- 

 culty in conveying to their minds any just and 

 true ideas of the Saviour, who gave the com- 

 mission, on his ascension into heaven " To go 

 and teach all nations, baptizing them in the 

 name of the Father, and of the Son, and of 

 the Holy Ghost." This difficulty produced in 

 me a strong desire to extend the blessing of 

 education to them : and from this period it 

 became a leading object with me, to erect in a 

 central situation, a substantial building, which 

 should contain apartments for the school- 

 master, afford accommodation for Indian 

 children, be a day-school for the children of 

 the settlers, enable us to establish a Sunday 



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