ST. PAUL'S CHURCH. 



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the settlement. Fortunately there was abundance of lime- 

 stone about four miles down the river, so that when the 

 people were consulted, all were found to be unanimous 

 on that point. It was commenced in the autumn of 

 1845, and finished in the autumn of 1849, when it was 

 consecrated by the Bishop of Eupert's Land, who had 

 just arrived in the country. Its dimensions are 88 feet 

 by 44, with a tower 20 feet square, and 100 feet high, 

 that is, to the vane ; the stone work is only 50 feet. 

 The tower contains three bells, and it is proposed by the 

 inhabitants to increase their number to five. 



The entire cost was about 1600Z. which, with the ex- 

 ception of 100Z. kindly given by the Hon. Hudson's Bay 

 Co., 50/. by Duncan Finlayson, Esq., of Lachine, 30/. 

 from a clergyman in England, were collected on the spot 

 in the shape of money, labour, materials, &c. It is a plain, 

 unpretending, at the same time a solid and substantial 

 building ; and one that reflects credit upon the piety and 

 liberality of the inhabitants. 



In 1852-3, the substantial parsonage before referred to 

 was built by the Church Missionary Society at a cost of 

 700/., and during the same year the people built the 

 new school-house, at a cost of 120/. 



The average attendance of divine worship is about 500, 

 and the number of communicants 207. 



St. Paul's church, parsonage, and school-house are sub- 

 stantial and serviceable buildings, with no pretensions to 

 architectural display, but well fitted for the object of their 

 construction. They are built a few hundred yards from 

 Eed Eiver, and at the edge of a boundless ocean of 

 prairie, which, when illuminated by the setting sun, 

 seems in its bright and gorgeous vastness to be emblematic 

 of eternity according to the hope and faith of a Christian, 



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