head-winds delay us, until
starvation stared us in the face, and even the Missionary himself began
to question the wisdom of taking these wild journeys where the chances
were largely against our return, when from Martin, or one of the others,
would come the apt quotation from the Sacred Word, or from their musical
voices the cheering hymn which said,--

"Give to the winds thy fears;
Hope, and be undismayed:
God hears thy sighs, and counts thy tears,
God shall lift up thy head.

"Through waves and clouds and storms
He gently clears thy way:
Wait thou His time, so shall this night
Soon end in joyous day."

Very precious and very real were many of the blessed promises, and their
fulfilment, to us in those times of peril and danger, when death seemed
to be so near, and we so helpless and dependent upon the Almighty arm.

Another son of this old saint was Samuel, the courageous guide and
modest, unassuming Christian. He was the one who guided his well-loaded
brigade up the mighty Saskatchewan river to the rescue of the whites
there, and having safely and grandly done his work, "holding on to God,"
went up the shining way so triumphantly that there lingered behind on
his once pallid face some radiance of the glory like that into which he
had entered; and some seeing it were smitten with a longing to have it
as their portion, and so, then and there, they gave themselves to God.
Of him we shall hear more farther on.

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One day when the venerable father met his class, he told his members
that his work was nearly done, and very soon indeed he expected to pass
over to the better land. Although as well as he had been for months,
yet he had a premonition that the end of his life was near. Very
lovingly and faithfully did he talk to them, and exhorted them to be
faithful to the end.

The next day he sent for me, and requested me to appoint one of his sons
as leader of his class, if I thought him worthy of the place.

I said, "We do not want to lose you. Your class members all love you.
Why resign your position?"

A strange look in his face told me that he had set his heart on joining
another company, and that it seemed as though he were only postponing
his departure until his little affairs on earth were set in order.

"I am going very soon now, and I want to have everything settled before
I go; and I shall be so glad to see my s