sed, and presented such a respectable and devout
appearance in the sanctuary as to win the admiration of all who visited
us. The great majority of those who made a profession of faith lived
honest, sober, and consistent lives, and thus showed the genuineness of
the change wrought in them by the glorious Gospel of the Son of God.

One of the most delightful and tangible evidences of the thoroughness
and genuineness of the change was seen in the improvement in the family
life. Such a thing as genuine home life, with mutual love and sympathy
existing among the different members of the family, was unknown in their
pagan state. The men, and even boys, considered it a sign of courage
and manliness to despise and shamefully treat their mothers, wives, or
sisters. Christianity changed all this; and we were constant witnesses
of the genuineness of the change wrought in the hearts and lives of this
people by the preaching of the Gospel, by seeing how woman was uplifted
from her degraded position to her true place in the household.

My heart was often pained at what I saw among some of the wild savage
bands around us. When, by canoe in summer, or dog-train in winter, I
have visited these wild men, I have seen the proud, lazy hunter come
stalking into the camp with his gun on his shoulder, and in loud,
imperative tones shout out to his poor wife, who was busily engaged in
cutting wood, "Get up there, you dog, my squaw, and go back on my tracks
in the woods, and bring in the deer I have shot; and hurry, for I want
my food!" To quicken her steps, although she was hurrying as rapidly as
possible, a stick was thrown at her, which fortunately she was able to
dodge.

Seizing the long carrying strap, which is a piece of leather several
feet in length, and wide at the middle, where it rests against the
forehead when in use, she rapidly glides away on the trail made by her
husband's snow-shoes, it may be for miles, to the spot where lies the
deer he has shot. Fastening one end of the strap to the haunches of the
deer, and the other around its neck, after a good deal of effort and
ingenuity, she succeeds at length in getting the animal, which may weigh
from a hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds, upon her back, supported
by the strap across her forehead. Panting with fatigue, she comes in
with her heavy burden, and as she throws it down she is met with a sharp
stern command from the lips of the despot called her husband, who has