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Excerpt from An Address Delivered in the Free-Trade Hall, Manchester, at the Open Session of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference
Might envy. I have gone with him into the Indian encampments and seen how their stolid indifference has yielded to his appeal; how from the dull red eye there shot as he spoke to them a momentary sparkle of light. I have seen that. Missionary reprove an old chief a very proud, solemn, and dirty one - for neglect of worship and for working on the Lord's-day, and so great was the in?uence of the reprover that the reproved, chief though he was, and'pagan to boot, whimpere'd -like a whipped child, and spent about ten minutes in making an apology.' It is no small advantage to have a man who has so many human conditions of success, and who has so abundantly received the signal blessing of the Lord. (hear, hear.) There are many 'great language difficulties to be. Overcome in the work in. British Columbia.' There are 40, 000 Indians, it is supposed.
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