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THE BISHOP OF CALEDONIA

AMONG THE INDIANS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA—EFFORTS TO OVERCOME RACE HATRED.

“It seems to me there are other men in other lands, yearning and thoughtful. . . . . . . . . .   “And it seems to me, if I could know those men, I should become attached to them, as I do to men in my own lands. “O, I know we should be brethren and lovers; I know I should be happy with them.”—

Disastrous Fire at Metlakathla—Bishop loses His Home while Journeying to Alaska Goldfields—Valuable MSS. destroyed—Early Life—At Peshawur and Afghanistan—Ministering to Wounded and Prisoners in Franco-German War—Crossing Battlefield after Sedan—Called to Caledonia—Bishop's Wonderful Indians—Eight Months without a Mail—Dealing with Medicine Men—Five Nationalities at Communion Table: Never met before but to fight—Race Hatred—Loyalty of Indians to Mission Staff—Bishop's Queer Occupations—Columbia's Mineral Wealth—A Wolf Story.

“ a homeless wanderer,” the Bishop of Caledonia was heard to observe during his recent visit to this country. To the uninitiated the observation seemed a strange one, savouring more of jest than of sincerity; but the friends of the Bishop, knowing of the unhappy ordeal through which he had passed, Rh