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On the Indian Trail Stories of Missionary Work among Cree and Salteaux Indians By: Egerton Ryerson Young (1840-1909) |
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In his Introduction to the book the author tells us that some of the
stories here recounted are new, while others have been published in
others of his works. Thus, if you have read "By Canoe and Dog Train"
you will experience a feeling of deja vue. Like so many nineteenth century clergymen, the author spends a lot of
time telling us how very holy he is. But I suppose we have a different
view of how we ought to tell others how much time we spend praying.
Things are different these days. This book is one of many to be found on the excellent Early Canadiana
Online. We used the new (2005) ABBYY screen grabbing tool to capture
the images of the pages, using the third of the five sizes available.
This size was chosen because the image of each page just fits the
text of the page on the screen. From other points of view it would have
been better if we could have used the largest size, which we could not
easily do for the following reason. The original scans were far from
being nice clean ones, so there were many misreads. We used the
Athelstane editing system to produce the final text as we have published
it. Had we used the full sized scans it is quite possible that there would
have been just the same number of misreads in the OCRed text, because
of the number of bits of hair and fluff, scratches and other blemishes
in the scans. So it is lucky that the Athelstane system can trap most
of the misreads.
ON THE INDIAN TRAIL, STORIES OF MISSIONARY WORK AMONG CREE AND SAULTEAUX
INDIANS, BY REVEREND EGERTON RYERSON YOUNG. PREFACE. This is not a continuous narrative of missionary work as are some of the
author's books. It is a collection of distinct chapters, some of which
are written expressly for this volume, others of which, having in whole
or in part seen the light in other form, are now, at the request of
friends, and thanks to the courtesy of the publishers, here gathered. Romantic missionary work among the red Indians will soon be a thing of
the past. Civilisation is reaching this people, and the iron horse
rushes and shrieks where the Indian trail was once the only pathway.
The picturesque garb is fast disappearing, and store clothes, often too
soon transformed into rags anything but picturesque, have robbed, the
Indian of the interest that once clung to him. These wanderings on the fast disappearing trail, speak of successes
rather than failures; not but that there were many of the latter, as
well as long waiting after the seed time for the harvest, but because it
is so much more pleasant and helpful to look on the bright side of life,
and talk of victory rather than defeat. So in the hope that this book will be helpful and encouraging to the
friends and supporters of missions, who have become such an innumerable
company, and that His name may be glorified thereby, we send it on its
way. E.R.Y. Toronto . CHAPTER ONE. ON THE PRAIRIE TRAIL. We struck the prairie trail at Saint Paul in 1868. We, that is my young wife and I in company with some other missionaries
and teachers, were to travel many hundreds of miles upon it, in order
that we might reach the wigwam haunts of the Indians in the northern
part of the Hudson Bay Territories, to whom we had been appointed to
carry the glorious Gospel of the Son of God. We were to follow up the work begun by men of sublime faith and heroic
courage, and to carry it still farther into more remote regions where as
yet the sweet story of a Saviour's love had never been heard. We had
confidence enough in God to belief that if fur traders could travel
along these trails, and live in those lonely remote regions for from the
blessings of civilisation, and in order to make money by trading with
the Indians put up with the hardships and privations incident to such a
life, we could make equal sacrifices for Christ's sake, to carry the
Glad Tidings of His great love to those who had never heard the wondrous
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