our fire,-and it ran thus: "A little more than four months ago the Shingwauk Industrial Home at Garden River was burnt to the ground, and not a vestige of it left. An appeal was then made to Chur

boastfulness, but in humble gratitude to God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, that the Holy Spirit hath thus inclined the hearts of His people to give. All that has been contributed has been 'offertory money' in the truest sense o

that a work which had seemed so completely destroyed should thus, in the short space of four and a half months, without any effort being made

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sm and knew not whom to trust, and my little daughter was dead, and my wife seemed to be dying, and all things seemed to be against me,-I was enabled in that hour of deep trial to look above, to realize that God was my Father-my good Father-who would not let me want; in my helplessness I just cast myself upon Him, and rested on His strong arm. Before, I h

ram was received, and before any details had arrived. Eighteen days after the fire it was L518; a week later, L550. In four and a half months it had mounted up to L1500; just double the amount

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Toronto for publication; the ice is moving out of the bay,-the first steamboat prepari

building, and is occupied by Mr. Frost, the Catechist. The poor old church is standing still, scorched on one side. Some of the Indians are waving to us as we pass;-but we are not going to stop there,-the boat goes gliding on, and an hour later we are land

lf from the village. Here was a little open clearing, while all around was thick, tangled, almost impenetrable bush, but in front was the beautiful sparkling river, a mile and a half in width, and two pretty green islands just in front of us. Cryer, the farm-man, had followed us with a spade, and we got him to turn up the sod in several places that we might see what the soil was like. We decided there and then to make this the site of the Shingwauk Home. The soil indeed was somewhat stony, but the distance from the village was just what we wanted, and the land was cheap (only L1 an acre) and, best of all, it was close to the river, which meant plenty of boating and

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