bout the recovery of every case
under our immediate care. While doing everything that we could for
their physical recovery, we had grand opportunities for imparting
religious instruction. Sweet hymns, translated into their own language,
were sung, and the exceeding great and precious promises of the blessed
Book, were often read and explained at every bedside. Their fear of
this strange new disease left them, and they became patient and hopeful.
The result was, that while among the pagan Indians at Oomeme River
there were many deaths, not one of our Christian Indians died.

When the last case was cured and the disease had disappeared, we took
stock of our supplies. We found that all of that extra dog-train of
food, together with a large quantity of flour and other things, had been
used up in feeding our poor sick people. Not one-tenth of the whole had
come to our own table; and so we had once again to fall back upon our
native food. Fish was again our diet twenty-one times a week. But, we
had the great joy and satisfaction of knowing that, in all human
probability, we had saved the lives of many of our people; and had found
such a place in their hearts, that our future efforts to evangelise or
to help along in the blessed life, would be very much more effective.

CHAPTER NINE.

A LESSON NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN.

When I was a small boy, my father was stationed on a large mission in
the back woods of Canada. The hardy emigrants from the Old World were
crowding into that new country, and every year additional thousands of
acres of grain were growing, where shortly before the dark primeval
forests, which had stood for centuries, held possession.

The native Indian tribes were retreating before this irresistible march
of the white man, or were settling on reservations selected for them by
the government. For years they retained their right to roam about, and
kill the game which still abounded, but which was rapidly becoming less
as the white settlements increased. In addition to their hunting and
fishing, the industrious Indians added to their comfort by manufacturing
native baskets, brooms, handles for axes, hoes and similar articles,
which they sold to the friendly settlers for food and clothing. Those
that left the fire-water alone, and were industrious, were thus able to
live comfortably.

To these Indians on their reservations the Gospel was proclaimed by the
self-sacrificing missionaries, as they tra