at route, but blizzard storms might suddenly
come up, and then it would have gone hard with the boys with their young
dogs to have kept the trail.

Mr Hurlburt generally rode home in the extra cariole driven by this
Indian. This enabled Frank to take the elder of the young ladies, and
we must confess that, although Frank was very fond of the missionary, he
had not the slightest objection in changing him for the daughter.

Frequently the missionary, with some faithful Indians, used to make long
journeys with the dog-trains to distant places where no one had ever
gone before with the Bible and its sweet story of God's love to man.
During his absence his pulpit would be supplied by native ministers,
who, though not as yet ordained, were eloquent in their way, and were a
blessing to their fellow-countrymen. Even the white people who
understood the Indian language used to listen with great pleasure to
some of these gifted sons of the forest, as they preached from full
hearts of the love of God as revealed in the gift of his Son. In after
years some of these younger Indians were educated and ordained, and are
now regularly settled as ministers among their own people. There were
some of them, however, who aspired to be ministers who were not a
success. Some were too ambitious. Some, not content with talking about
what they knew themselves, must launch out into deep waters, and so
speedily they came to grief. Constantly did the missionary have them
under his eye, and many were the lessons he was giving them. Some
would, in spite of his best efforts, get beyond him. For example, one
ambitious would-be minister said in his address before quite a large
audience:

"Brothers, the missionary says the world is round. I don't believe it.
It is flat as the top of that stove."

As he said this he pointed to the top of the great flat iron stove, in
which a fire was burning, for it was in the depth of winter. Of course
the missionary was informed of this daring brother's unbelief, and a
good lesson in geography had to be administered to him by means of the
map of the two hemispheres hanging on the wall. He manfully
acknowledged to the missionary his error, and promised to make it right
with the audience the next time he stood up to address them. This he
endeavoured to do in the following manner:

"Brothers, I made a mistake when I last addressed you, when I said I did
not believe that the world was round. It is round. I