LIFE-WORK 9

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Another digression might be made here, to show the difficulties previously overcome by the man who was to undertake “ impossibil- ities” in Micmac Mission Work.

Dec. 19th, 1864.—I am deeply impressed this morning with the grievous backsliding of the times. Surely there are no churches that at all come up to the requirements of the New Testament, nor to the description there given of the churches of those early times. Now, surely this Cannot be the way, and there must be a reform. I saw and felt this when, in 1842, I was awakened—I may say re- newed. I remember going to Halifax; I addressed the church one