The land of open doors; being letters from western CanadaWith foreword by Earl Grey . A VuUxXG HORSE ABOUT TO BUCK(Lac la Nonne Mission) A TYPICAL GERMAN SETTLER Breaking New Ground I expect so. Anyway Ill tell you what Iwant you to do. Make me a cross with pieces ofold lumber by the time I come round again thistime next month, then Ill tell you some more. This thoroughly interested him. To makesomething ! He could do that. * And look here, Rudolf, say this every nightbefore you go to bed ; and I wrote out andexplained to him the simplest of prayers, andshowed him how to kneel and put his hand
The land of open doors; being letters from western CanadaWith foreword by Earl Grey . A VuUxXG HORSE ABOUT TO BUCK(Lac la Nonne Mission) A TYPICAL GERMAN SETTLER Breaking New Ground I expect so. Anyway Ill tell you what Iwant you to do. Make me a cross with pieces ofold lumber by the time I come round again thistime next month, then Ill tell you some more. This thoroughly interested him. To makesomething ! He could do that. * And look here, Rudolf, say this every nightbefore you go to bed ; and I wrote out andexplained to him the simplest of prayers, andshowed him how to kneel and put his hands. Well, it is a beginning! And, after all, thisteaching of isolated children is perhaps the mostvaluable part of our work in these inaccessible,uncivilised parts. It is curious how little re-sponsibility the parents seem to think rests uponthem in such a case. If there is no school forweek-days, and no one to hold Sunday-school,the children simply grow up without schooling,secular or religious. In one district I go to on myrounds, there must be over twenty children ofschool age (
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