Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission of the Church Missionary Society

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Eugene Stock. Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission of the Church Missionary Society

Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission of the Church Missionary Society

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CHAP. I. THE FIELD OF LABOUR. II. THE CALL, AND THE MAN. III. BEGINNING WORK. IV. FIRST-FRUITS. V. THE NEW SETTLEMENT. VI. METLAKAHTLA—SPIRITUAL RESULTS. VII. " MATERIAL PROGRESS AND MORAL INFLUENCE. VIII. " TWO CHRISTMAS-SEASONS. IX. OUTLYING MISSIONS—KINCOLITH. X. " QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S ISLANDS. XI. " FORT RUPERT. XII. LORD DUFFERIN AT METLAKAHTLA. XII. ADMIRAL PREVOST AT METLAKAHTLA. XIV. THE DIOCESE OF CALEDONIA. METLAKAHTLA

AND. THE NORTH PACIFIC MISSION. I

THE FIELD OF LABOUR

II

THE CALL, AND THE MAN

III

BEGINNING WORK

IV

FIRST FRUITS

V

THE NEW SETTLEMENT

"W. DUNCAN

VI

METLAKAHTLA—SPIRITUAL RESULTS

VII

METLAKAHTLA—MATERIAL PROGRESS AND MORAL INFLUENCE

"GEO. A. WALKEM,

VIII

METLAKAHTLA—TWO CHRISTMAS SEASONS

CHRISTMAS, 1873

CHRISTMAS, 1877

IX

OUTLYING STATIONS—I. KINCOLITH

X

OUTLYING MISSIONS—II. QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS

XI

OUTLYING MISSIONS. III.—FORT RUPERT

XII

LORD DUFFERIN AT METLAKAHTLA

"DAVID LEASK,

XIII

ADMIRAL PREVOST AT METLAKAHTLA

IN MEMORY OF. MARK SHELDON,

AGED 30 YEARS

IN MEMORY OF. LOUISA STAVELY,

AGED 32 YEARS

IN MEMORY OP. PAUL LEGAIC,

AGED 55 YEARS

XIV

THE DIOCESE OF CALEDONIA

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

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Eugene Stock

Published by Good Press, 2019

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In the spring of 1856, the late Rev. Joseph Ridgeway, Editorial Secretary of the Society, attended, as a deputation, the anniversary meeting of the Tunbridge Wells Church Missionary Association. There he met a naval officer, Capt. J. C. Prevost, R.N., who had just returned from Vancouver's Island. While in command of H.M.S. Virago, he had been much impressed by the spiritual destitution of the Indians of the Pacific coast of British North America and the adjacent islands. They were "scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd," and he, like his Divine Master, was "moved with compassion on them." No Protestant missionary had ever yet gone forth into the wilderness after these lost sheep; and in addition to their natural heathenism, with its degrading superstitions and revolting cruelties, a new danger was approaching the Indians in the shape of the "civilisation" of white traders and miners, with its fire-water and its reckless immorality. Capt. Prevost earnestly inquired of Mr. Ridgeway what prospect there was of the Church Missionary Society undertaking a Mission on the coast.

The reply was not encouraging. The Committee had just determined to signalise the conclusion of the Crimean war by planting a Mission at Constantinople, to extend their work in the Punjab by the occupation of Multan; and to accept Sir Robert Montgomery's invitation to Lucknow; and there was little hope of their having men or money to spare for the "few sheep in the wilderness" to be found scattered over British Columbia. The Editorial Secretary's sympathies, however, were touched, and he, at least, did what he could. He invited Captain Prevost to write a memorandum on the subject for the Church Missionary Intelligencer. The offer was thankfully accepted; and in the number of that periodical for July, 1856, appeared an article entitled "Vancouver's Island," in which Mr. Ridgeway briefly stated the case, and introduced Capt. Prevost's contribution. After an interval of twenty-four years, and remembering what wonderful and blessed fruit has sprung from the seed thus quietly sown, it will be interesting to reproduce here the Christian officer's own words:—

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