Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 : and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858 . g the same year the people built thenew school-house, at a cost of 120/. The average attendance of divine worship is about 500,and the number of communicants 207. St. Pauls church, parsonage, and school-house are sub-stantial and serviceable buildings, with no pretensions toarchitectural display, but well fitted for the object of theirconstruction. They are built a few hundred yards fromEed Eiver, and at the edge of a boundless ocean ofprairie, which, when
Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 : and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858 . g the same year the people built thenew school-house, at a cost of 120/. The average attendance of divine worship is about 500,and the number of communicants 207. St. Pauls church, parsonage, and school-house are sub-stantial and serviceable buildings, with no pretensions toarchitectural display, but well fitted for the object of theirconstruction. They are built a few hundred yards fromEed Eiver, and at the edge of a boundless ocean ofprairie, which, when illuminated by the setting sun,seems in its bright and gorgeous vastness to be emblematicof eternity according to the hope and faith of a Christian, o 4 200 RED RIVER EXPLORING EXPEDITION. but when dull and cold and grey in the dawn, it sym-bolizes the gloomy ignorance of its heathen wanderers. St. Jamess Church, on the Assinniboine, is a pleasingobject at a distance. I had no opportunity of ascertaininghow far its internal arrangements comported with itsexternal aspects. The congregation is the smallest in theEed Eiver Birch-bark Tents, west bank of Red River, Middle Settlement, The church at the Indian settlement is also a newand spacious building of stone, with a wall of the samematerial enclosing the churchyard, in which is a woodenschool-house, where I saw about fifty Ojibway Indianyoung men, young women, and children, receiving in-structions from the Eev. A. Cowley, Mrs. Cowley, anda native schoolmaster. The young Indian women readthe Testament in soft, low voices, but with ease and in-telligence. During service (Sunday, October 4th, 1857),the church was about three-fourths full. The congrega-tion appeared to be exclusively Indian ; in their behaviour THE INDIAN SETTLEMENT. 201 they were most decorous and attentive. The singingwas very sweet, and all the forms of the service appearedto be understood, and practised quietly and in order bythe dusky worshippers
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