The land of open doors; being letters from western CanadaWith foreword by Earl Grey . e church all readyfor a lantern service, and soon a number of peopleturned up, including men from the Material gangin the yards. The slides were of the PilgrimsProgress. We had the whole of Evensong onthe screen, which is an admirable idea for aMission Service of this kind. We were up early on Monday morning, andhad loaded the caboose and got everything readyto start by nine oclock. Beds had to be movedin, the heater fixed up, and all manner of boxes,containing books, lanterns, crockery, and pro-visions. The
The land of open doors; being letters from western CanadaWith foreword by Earl Grey . e church all readyfor a lantern service, and soon a number of peopleturned up, including men from the Material gangin the yards. The slides were of the PilgrimsProgress. We had the whole of Evensong onthe screen, which is an admirable idea for aMission Service of this kind. We were up early on Monday morning, andhad loaded the caboose and got everything readyto start by nine oclock. Beds had to be movedin, the heater fixed up, and all manner of boxes,containing books, lanterns, crockery, and pro-visions. The caboose is very cosy and excellentlyarranged, it is eight by fifteen feet in measure-ment—little windows on both sides, and at oneend a door—much like a gipsy wagon, except thatthe walls are made of canvas stretched over uprightposts, then a four-inch space, and for the insidelining, birlap—a kind of canvas felt. The flooris chilly—it is only one thickness of boards, and,beinof lifted higfh on wheels, the wind and coldfind it easy to penetrate. On the left is a folding 240. THE REV. O. CREIGHTON AND HIS CABOOSE
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