By canoe and dog-train among the Cree and Salteaux Indians / by Egerton Ryerson Young.

  • Egerton Ryerson Young
Date:
1892
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Credit: By canoe and dog-train among the Cree and Salteaux Indians / by Egerton Ryerson Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that we had given our hearts to God, and exhorted us to persevere m the good way. A few days after this the evH spirit tempted me to doubt the reahty of the change wi'ought in my soul by the Holy Spirit but this seemed only to urge me to seek the Lord with greater dihgence. I searched the Scriptures, prayed much, and waited tor a clearer manifestation of His work on my heart. One day I retired to a grove to pray, and whilst thus engaged, all my doubts and fears were dispersed, and I was enabled to receive the witness of the Spirit bearing witness with my spiint that I was a chUd of God, that I had passed from death unto life, and that of a truth a good work was begun in my heart. TuE Eev, John Sunday. One of the most remarkable conversions among the Indians of Canada was that of JonN Sunday, who afterwards was so well known and justly beloved in Canada and England, Eor many years after his conversion he was employed as a missionary among his own people, and hundreds were converted throu-h his instrumentality. He was very much sought after to attend Missionary Anmversaries. Immense crowds gathered wherever he was announced to speak. There was at times a marvellous pathos in his addresses, and his audiences were often moved to tears as well as charmed with his quaint humour. He lived a consistent and godly Ufe, and afforded a glorious testimony of the Gospel's power to lift up and save a poor ignorant, drunken, pagan Indian, ' The account of John Sunday's conversion, which he himself wrote after he had gone to school and acquired a partial know- ledge of the English tongue, is so intensely interesting that we give It here in his own quaint broken English, which will give a tair Idea of his way of expressing himself in his inimitable addresses. Brother Scott want me that I shall write my conviction about nine years ago. First is, we had camped at Mr. James Howard s place one morning. T go to Mr. Howard to get some ft- 2
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