CATHOLIC SCRUPLES. 



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God in my safe return. They have followed 

 me through many a perilous, and trying scene 

 of life ; and I would that a sense of a continual 

 protecting Providence in the mercy of Re- 

 demption, may ever actuate me in whatsoever 

 things may tend to the promotion of the hap- 

 piness, and of the best interests of my fellow 

 men, in the journeyings of my life, through a 

 disordered and distracted world. 



No sooner had the Swiss emigrants arrived, 

 than many of the Germans, who had come to 

 the Settlement a few years ago from Canada, 

 and had houses, presented themselves 6 in 

 search of a wife/ and having fixed their at- 

 tachment with acceptance, they received those 

 families, in which was their choice, into their 

 habitations. Those who had no daughters to 

 afford this introduction, were obliged to pitch 

 > their tents along the banks of the river, and 

 outside the stockades of the Fort, till they 

 removed to Pembina in the better prospect of 

 provisions for tLe winter. Those of the Ger- 

 mans, who were Catholics, applied to the 

 Canadian Catholic Priests to solemnize their 

 marriage ; but they refused, because their in- 

 tended wives were Protestants ; and such was 

 their bigotry in this matter, in refusing to 

 marry a Catholic to a Protestant, that they 



