Pioneer life among the loyalists in Upper Canada . PIONEER LIFE on horseback with his Bible and a change ofclothing in his saddle-bags, preaching tenor twelve times a week in churches, school-houses, taverns, and the log cabins of thesettlers, wherever a few could be collectedto receive the Gospel message. In all kindsof weather, he might be seen plodding alongthrough the heavy snow drifts, or fordingthe unbridged streams, upon his holy mis-sion to the remotest corners of the settle-ments. No complaint escaped his lips ashe threaded his way through the lonelyforest, now and then humming a fews
Pioneer life among the loyalists in Upper Canada . PIONEER LIFE on horseback with his Bible and a change ofclothing in his saddle-bags, preaching tenor twelve times a week in churches, school-houses, taverns, and the log cabins of thesettlers, wherever a few could be collectedto receive the Gospel message. In all kindsof weather, he might be seen plodding alongthrough the heavy snow drifts, or fordingthe unbridged streams, upon his holy mis-sion to the remotest corners of the settle-ments. No complaint escaped his lips ashe threaded his way through the lonelyforest, now and then humming a fewsnatches from some old familiar he halted beside a spring for hismid-day meal, and fervently thanked God,from Whom all blessings flow, as he hauledfrom his spacious pockets the sandwichesfurnished by his host of the night circuit extended sometimes for fifty,sixty, or an hundred miles, and he rarelyspent his evenings at home, if he had one,but slept where night overtook him, glad ofthe opportunity to share a bunk with his. CRACKLE TEACHERS AND PREACHERS 81 parishioners children, or make himself ascomfortable as he could upon a mattress onthe floor. His uniform may have beenfrayed and not of the orthodox cut; hissermons may not have possessed that virtueof brevity which so many congregationsnow demand; they may have fallen far shortof some of the sensational discourses ofto-day; but he was a faithful exponent ofthe Gospel, the plain and simple truth as hefound it exemplified in the life of ourSaviour. That the pioneers closely followedthe tenets of the Golden Rule is largelydue to the self-sacrificing efforts and ex-emplary life of the early missionaries. Among the Methodists no other religiousgathering could compare with the camp-meeting. It was the red-letter week of theyear, given up wholly to prayer, singingand exhortation. In selecting a location forthese annual gatherings there were severaldetails to be considered. The first essentialwas a grove, h
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