. Missions in new Ontario. ed with game. It is dotted with lovelyand picturesque lakes which teem with fish, but it istoo rough and rocky for ordinary farming operationsand should not have been settled by a farming com-munity. The Highlands of Ontario are no more dis-posed to respond with fattened steer or householdbread to the farmers call than were the savage hillsof Roderick Dhus clan. After trying for years towrest a living from the rocks, many farmers have aban-doned both the struggle and the province. The coun-try is dotted with dismantled houses and desertedclearings. I know one farm of
. Missions in new Ontario. ed with game. It is dotted with lovelyand picturesque lakes which teem with fish, but it istoo rough and rocky for ordinary farming operationsand should not have been settled by a farming com-munity. The Highlands of Ontario are no more dis-posed to respond with fattened steer or householdbread to the farmers call than were the savage hillsof Roderick Dhus clan. After trying for years towrest a living from the rocks, many farmers have aban-doned both the struggle and the province. The coun-try is dotted with dismantled houses and desertedclearings. I know one farm of one hundred andseventy-five acres with a good log house, a stable, awell, a clearing of thirty acres, and the balance mag-nificent hard-wood forest, which was sold to a huntclub for one hundred dollars. The owner of this farmwas fortunate, as in many instances a purchaser can- 28 not be found at any price. The most energetic menhave gone to the North-West. Those who remainmake a precarious living by hunting, by working in. PARRY SOUND DISTRICT. Too rough and rocky for farming. the logging camps and by acting as guides to tourists,fishermen and hunters. Tilling the ground is onlyone of many occupations. The people remaining on 29 these districts will never be self-supporting, but muchmay be done to lessen the expense to the MissionarySociety. By wise consolidation of appointments thesame community may be served equally well by fewermen, and by systematic giving, such as was practisedin Wesleys day by the poorest of the people in thepenny a week and shilling a quarter, the contribu-tions for the support of the missionary would belargely increased by the people to whom he minis-ters. It is very difficult for the stationed minister todeal directly and strongly with this question. He isusually a young man of limited experience and per-haps has no standing as a minister, but is preachingunder the direction of the chairman. While theGeneral Conference fixes a minimum salary, it iswho
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