. History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West. chewan forEcclesiastical Purposes; Statistics. In Saskatchewan, as in so many other new colonies, the pioneers of civ-ilization have, to a very large extent, been the missionaries of the Christianreligion; and the story of subsequent progress is, likewise to a very largeextent, the history of the Christian church. The writer, therefore, feels thatno apology is called for in devoting considerable space to the record of theachievements of the Christian churches, whatever be their denomination. Therecords teem with examples of self-sacrifice and h
. History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West. chewan forEcclesiastical Purposes; Statistics. In Saskatchewan, as in so many other new colonies, the pioneers of civ-ilization have, to a very large extent, been the missionaries of the Christianreligion; and the story of subsequent progress is, likewise to a very largeextent, the history of the Christian church. The writer, therefore, feels thatno apology is called for in devoting considerable space to the record of theachievements of the Christian churches, whatever be their denomination. Therecords teem with examples of self-sacrifice and heroism such as must com-mand the reverence of all right-thinking people. One phase of ecclesiastical and missionary history will, however, be de-liberately avoided. Missionaries and churchmen are but human and intoo many instances the representatives of different denominations havewasted their energy and spoiled their temper in strife and mutual recrimina-tions. Nothing can be less edifying than the all too frequent professional521 =ig=> ^r,^. HISTORY OF THE PROXINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN S23 jealousies among men lioncstl}- devoted to the service of the sainc Masterand to tile common uplift of the people, of whatever race or color. The census of 1911 showed the presence in Sask-atchewan of about sixtyChristian denominations. However, over sixty-eight per centum of theentire population was included among the Presbyterians, Roman Catholics,Anglicans and Methodists, and the necessary limits of the space at ourdisposal will render it necessary to speak at length only of those four majorbodies. Next to them in numbers come the Lutherans, 56,147, the GreekChurch, 24,795; the ]\Iennonites, 14,400; and the Doukhobors, 8,470. Thepagans were numbered at 2,129, ^^ about 2,500 others disclaimed Chris-tianity, or made no statement regarding their religion. The total popula-tion of the Province was stated to be 492,432. The present chapter will be devoted to a brief re\iew of tlie history ofthe
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