hrough Him, might be
saved? If you do, then hear His words,--`He that believeth on me is not
condemned.' If you do believe, then you are born again, for all who are
not born again remain under condemnation. What you require, what we all
require, is more grace, more faith, more love, more trust. For all
those things we can pray, and wrestle, and strive, and God will not
allow us to pray in vain. Faith may be a strong rope or a thin rope, so
thin that we dread its giving way; but God _forms_ it, _God holds it
fast_. In His hands it will not break. Let us then trust in Him, and
ever seek the aid of the Holy Spirit to hold us up, and we shall find
the thin line increasing in size till it becomes a stout cable, capable
of, ay certain of, holding our wave-tossed bark amid the fiercest
tempest which can break around us."

David returned home rejoicing. He did not regret abandoning his former
intention and coming out to Canada; but he resolved to give himself up
to the study of the Bible, and while following his secular calling, to
assist his friend in spreading the truths of the gospel among the
surrounding population.

CHAPTER SEVEN.

DONALD'S EXPEDITION THROUGH THE FOREST.--ATTACKED BY WOLVES.--RELIEVED
FROM THEM BY A HURRICANE, AND NARROWLY ESCAPES BEING CRUSHED BY FALLING
TREES.

Donald having David now to attend to his office work, frequently made
expeditions to long distances where it was proposed to establish fresh
townships. These were performed on foot, and he had become so expert a
backwood's man, that he had no hesitation in trusting himself without a
guide. He, however, carried his gun, and in summer a fishing rod, that
he might supply himself with provisions by the way. His gun also he
required for defence against any wolves or bears he might encounter,
both of which were at that time common in the country, though long since
driven off to the wilder regions of the far west and north.

He was returning from one of these expeditions in the early spring, when
night approaching, as he was making his way through the forest, he
prepared to encamp. His axe quickly enabled him to cut some sticks for
his shanty, for which a quantity of large pieces of birch bark scattered
about served as a covering. The tops of some young spruce firs strewed
on the ground made a luxurious couch, while there was no lack of dry
broken branches to furnish a supply of firewood. He quickly formed his
hunter's camp, and c