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years after his arrival Cape Breton was the scene of his labors. In this place he suffered many hard— ships. The late Principal Leitch of Queen’s Univer- sity, Kingston, Canada, says: “At that period the settlers from the Highlands of Scotland were with— out preachers, and had sunk into a state of great religious indifference. Without a commission from any church, Mr. McDonald devoted himself to the task of supplying their spiritual destitution. None but the honest, earnest, self-sacrificing heart would have faced the privations and sufferings which he endured. With the zeal and heroism of a Xavier, he braved the wild beasts of the forests, the almost arctic severity of the climate, and above all,the indif- ference and degradation of the people. His feet were covered with untanned moccasins. He walked on snowshoes, and blazed his way through the path- less forest with a hatchet. He was contented with the chance shelter of the rudest hut or shanty and with the coarsest fare. He carried no scrip and what little money he received he divided with the poor, it is said, they mostly receiving the larger share.”

About the year 1826 he came to Prince Edward Island and at once entered with great zeal upon the work of the gospel ministry. He travelled on foot- paths from one new settlement to another preaching the gospel publicly and from house to house. You may form some idea of the toil and hardship which he underwent when you remember that his parish extended all the way from Richmond Bay in the

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