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 THE BISHOP OF CALEDONIA 213

and half-breds on Church land, not on the Indian reserves. According to the ability of the parents, they pay fees from $1.50 per week to 25 cents; but the most destitute are received without payment of any kind, and are kept from the age of five to eighteen in a refined home, with the same advantages offered to the paying pupils. Thus we turn waifs into good citizens, and try to make them true Chris tians. If this is not a Christian work, deserving the sympathy of those I appeal to for help, there is none on earth. I am leaving for England to seek help there.&quot;

The Bishop drew an interesting comparison between the Indians in British Columbia and those he had come in contact with in earlier life. &quot;My experience in India taught me that the Hindoos, with all their sacred books, which con tain much that is pure and true, are inferior in what we should call the most manly qualities to the Indian who is what he is without books. What I mean is, that what we call the sacred writings of the East do not produce on the characters of the people effects of the same truth ful, honest and manly type. I conclude, therefore, that nature-teaching does more for man than false faiths, and that is, I think, an important thing to realise in these days when it is said that the people of the East are so good that we had better leave them alone. My Indians are extremely quick at learning. The lad who was to have

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