The conquest of the continent . h might better support their frequent appeal was for the inculcation ofself-support—that branch of teaching so often,through false modesty or sensitiveness, neg-lected by the clergy. In one church we findhim saying to a congregation where a mission-ary of the Board had labored for five yearswithout local remuneration, ^ You have noright to expect the Mission Board to sustainyou forever. I desire to make this fact plainand clear to this congregation. Even thisplainness of speech brought small response,for the gift of the following two yearsamounted to
The conquest of the continent . h might better support their frequent appeal was for the inculcation ofself-support—that branch of teaching so often,through false modesty or sensitiveness, neg-lected by the clergy. In one church we findhim saying to a congregation where a mission-ary of the Board had labored for five yearswithout local remuneration, ^ You have noright to expect the Mission Board to sustainyou forever. I desire to make this fact plainand clear to this congregation. Even thisplainness of speech brought small response,for the gift of the following two yearsamounted to $ Such was the task, but outweighing the diffi-culties there were fundamental elements of suc-cess. There was the certainty of His Encouragements ^1 ... . , ii ii Christs promise to be with thosewho gp in Hia name to win His children; therewas the bishops supreme faith in his own apos-tolic mission; and there were, scatteredthroughout the vast area over which he trav-elled, the scores of faithful souls who still loved. preachtnXt cross ox the site of nashotahs first ALTAR In the Land of the Lakes and Rivers 71 the Church of their early days, and whosetouching gratitude for his ministrations mad©his pilgrimages and his hardships a joy. Outof this seed the Church of the middle west wasborn, and by men who were worthy followersof this great leader her foundations in thatgreat region were laid. We have said almost nothing about the manhimself, partly because his was a complex na-ture somewhat difficult to analyze, His Personality *^ and partly because the man is bestdescribed by telling of his accomplishments;but the following estimate from the pen of alayman is worthy of reproduction. The writerwas the Hon. Isaac Atwater, editor of one ofthe first papers in the Territory of Minnesota,published at St. Anthony Falls, afterwardMinneapolis. He describes the bishop as heappeared when making a visitation to Minne-sota in 1852: ^Bishop Kemper appears something overfifty years of
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