pon the
high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy
father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it."

At last, under faithful teaching, aided by the blessed Spirit, the
Christian Indians resolved to take the Book for their guide, and to keep
the Sabbath day. At once, the guns and bows and arrows were put aside,
and the fish-nets were left hanging in the breeze for that day. No
traps were visited, neither were the axes lifted up against the trees.
Their simple meals were cooked and eaten, and all who could attend, were
found in the house of God three times each Sabbath.

But now arose fierce opposition from an unexpected quarter. The great
fur-trading company that had for so long a time held despotic power in
the land, in their short-sightedness,--fearing a diminution in the
returns of the fur by the hunters if one-seventh of the time was to be,
as they put it, spent in idleness,--sneered at the actions of the
missionaries, and by bribes and threats, endeavoured to induce the
Indians to ignore their teachings on the subject.

When, the summer tripping began, and the Indians refused to travel or
work in the boats on the Sabbath, the action of the company developed
into downright persecution. Some description of this "tripping" in that
great wild northland is necessary, in order that our readers may
understand the position taken by the Sabbath-keeping Indians, and its
most satisfactory results.

So remote from the seaboard are some of the interior posts of the Hudson
Bay Company, that seven years, and sometimes more elapsed, ere the furs
obtained for the goods sent, could reach the London market. The bales
of goods were first shipped by the company's vessels to York factory, on
the Hudson Bay. Then they were taken by the Indian trippers in strong
boats that would hold from three to five tons. A number of these boats
constituted a "brigade." A captain of the whole was appointed, and a
good state of discipline maintained.

The first brigade would take the bales up the rivers, often having to
pass many dangerous places and encounter many risks. Great care and
watchfulness were necessary, and yet in spite of all, boats were
sometimes wrecked and lives lost. The hardest part of the work was in
what was called, "making the portages." Some of the rivers are full of
falls and rapids that are impassable for the boats. Here the portages
have to be made. The hardy boatmen row up to the r