CANADIAN INDIANS.
Rev. Silas Huntington, a missionary of the Montreal Methodist Conference, has been laboring along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. In his report recently made, Mr. Huntington gives an incident illustrative in a striking manner of the power of the gospel over the pagan heart. He says:
“The Hudson Bay Company has an important post established on the line of this road in connection with which I have found a band of Indians, numbering seventy-two souls, who were converted from paganism at Michipicoton over twenty years ago under the labors of the late Rev. Geo. McDougall. They claim to be Methodists, and through all these years, although separated from the body of their tribe, they have kept their faith and maintained their religious worship without the aid of a missionary.
“The testimony of Mr. Black, the Hudson Bay Company’s officer, on their behalf was given in the words: ‘These Indians are a godly people. I often attend their services, and find their prayers and addresses fervent and intelligent, and they have not been corrupted by the vices of the white men.’ Persistent efforts have been made by bigoted ecclesiastics to seduce them from their allegiance to Christ, but hitherto they have resisted all such overtures. I baptised five of their children and promised to do what I could to obtain a teacher for them.”