t he thought
he had fallen asleep, but this was only for an instant. Springing up
and going to him, he found that the immortal spirit had so quietly and
gently flitted away, that there had not been the slightest sob or cry.
The noble Indian Missionary was dead. The eloquent tongue was hushed
for ever. For his return hundreds of anxious weeping Indians in those
northern wilds would long and wait, but wait in vain. He had been
conveyed by angel bands to that innumerable company of redeemed, blood-
washed saints around the throne of God, which even then had received
many happy converted Indians, who, brought to God by his
instrumentality, had finished their course with joy, and before him had
entered in through the gates into the city, and were there to welcome
him.

Hundreds, since then, of his spiritual children have had the "abundant
entrance ministered unto" them, and they have joined him in that rapidly
increasing throng. And although many years have passed away since he
preached to them his last sermon, at many a camp-fire, and in many a
wigwam, still linger old men, and women too, whose eyes glisten, and
then become bedimmed with tears, as they think of him who so long ago
went on before. But while they weep, they also rejoice that that
salvation, which, as the result of his preaching, they accepted, is
still their solace and their joy, and, clinging to it and its great
Author, they shall by-and-by meet their Missionary and loved ones who
have finished their course and gained the eternal shores.

On the previous page are the Syllabic Characters, as invented by Mr
Evans; and on this we give the Lord's Prayer in Cree, as printed in
them.

Perhaps the following explanations will help the student who may have a
wish to master this wonderful invention.

In the Alphabet the first line of characters, the equilateral triangle
in four positions, reads as follows, a e oo ah.

The addition of the little dot, as seen in the second line, adds to any
character after which it is placed the sound of w. So this second line
reads wa, we, woo, wah.

The following lines read thus: pa pe poo pah; ta te too tah; ka ke koo
kah; cha che choo chah; ma mee moo mah; na ne noo nah; sa se soo sah; ya
ye yoo yah.

With a little patience the Lord's Prayer can be read even without a
teacher.

I have gone to a pagan band far away in the northern wilderness, and
after they have become willing to receive the truth, I have commenced