. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. a centre he laboured for eight jears inthe townships west of Lake Memphremagog,now part of the Diocese of Montreal, with almostunprecedented success in gathering the peopleinto the Church and reforming their lives. Then,satisfied that the pastoral care of those he hadwon could be entrusted to other hands, he firstmade two extensive circuits of exploration on theeast side of
. Canada: an encyclopædia of the country; the Canadian dominion considered in its historic relations, its natural resources, its material progress and its national development, by a corps of eminent writers and specialists. a centre he laboured for eight jears inthe townships west of Lake Memphremagog,now part of the Diocese of Montreal, with almostunprecedented success in gathering the peopleinto the Church and reforming their lives. Then,satisfied that the pastoral care of those he hadwon could be entrusted to other hands, he firstmade two extensive circuits of exploration on theeast side of the Lake, searching out the religiouscondition and needs of the people in what is now the County of Stanstead and the County ofCompton, and finally selected Hatley as thecentre of his labours for that region. Here he was visited in 1819 by ArchdeaconMountain. I found him, he says, in occupa-tion of a small garret in a wooden house reachedby a sort of ladder. Here he had one roomin which were his little open bed, his books andhis writing table. And here, buried in the wood,this simple and single-hearted man, very far fromstrong in bodily health, was labouring to build upthe Church of God among a population of utter. The Kii;lit Rev. Dr. Georye J. Mountain. strangers to the Church of England, with theexception of a single family. The same remark-able success crowned his labours here. His stayat Hatley was only for two years, and yet in thattime he had won the confidence and affection ofall classes, and seemed to have leavened the wholecountry from Stanstead to Compton with theChurchs doctrine and discipline. But he wasnot content to rest at this. He felt that he hadgifts for pioneer work which might be utilized ina larger field. My experience, he says, in a 342 CANADA : AN ENCYCLOP^.DIA. letter to his sister, suits me for the being single is a great advantage to me as amissionary on a large scale. I am always readyto go or stay anywhere for a long or a short time,an
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