in due form." The committee visited Kankakee and found that difficulties had arisen between Mr. Chiniquy and the Presbytery of Chicago. These they fully reported to the Synod in Canada, in 1863, when the following resolution was adopted by a large majority: "The Synod, finding from the report of the committee, that in the year 1861 the Synod of Chicago (O.S.), had vindicated Mr. Chiniquy from accusations then brought against him, and that nothing had emerged in subsequent proceedings that might not be accounted for by the feelings of parties in the case, and nothing on account of which they should withhold their fraternal recognition of Mr. Chiniquy, agree that, considering the interests of religion involved, they receive Mr. Chiniquy as a minister, he disclaiming that in any of his proceedings he designed any disrespect to the Presbytery of Chicago; place him and his congregation, as a Mission Station of the Church, under the spiritual care of the Presbytery of London; appoint also a committee to advise Mr. Chiniquy in all matters which may be of general interest to the cause of religion among the people associated with him in Illinois, and that this committee be instructed respectfully to inform the Presbytery of Chicago of this decision, and explain to them that the interests of religion seemed to warrant this step on the part of the Synod."

Kankakee Mission.—Mr. Chiniquy did not bring with him all the converts from Romanism in Kankakee. A portion remained as a separate congregation in connection with the Presbyterian Church of the United States. Mr. Chiniquy and the people who adhered to him, when admitted by the Canadian Synod, were placed under the charge of the London Presbytery and a special committee was appointed to care for their interests. The work in Kankakee was now known as the Kankakee Mission, and for its support yearly collections were appointed. Of the operations of the mission, interesting reports were from time to time presented to the Synod. In these reports numerous details are given respecting the work of evangelisation, and education as carried on by Messrs. Chiniquy, Lafontaine, Theirien, Demars and others, respecting the young men prepared in St. Anne's for entering on studies in Knox and Montreal Colleges with a view to the ministry, respecting the way in which many families,

converted in Kankakee, emigrated to different parts of the United States and disseminated the knowledge of the Gospel, and also respecting financial matters; and particularly respecting the embarrassments occasioned to a large extent by the burning and re-erection of church and school and harassing and longprotracted lawsuits, and respecting the liberal contributions, which, in addition to those from stated collections, were obtained as the result of special appeals by Mr. Chiniquy, from the Eastern and Western Provinces of the Dominion, from the United States and from Great Britain and Ireland.

In 1873, the mission was visited by a deputation consisting of the Rev. A. A. Drummond and the Rev. Thomas McPherson, who made inquiry into its state and prospects. From their report the following extracts will serve to show some results of their inquiries:-" St. Anne has a population of between 400 and 500, with a thickly-peopled country all around. The inhabitants are chiefly French-Canadians. When they were settled there they were Roman Catholics, but the great majority of them now are Protestants. There are in the village four Protestant churches -Episcopalian, Baptist (both very small), American Presbyterian, with 64 families and 133 members, and Mr. Chiniquy's, with 162 families and 358 members." "Some years ago the number of families were reported as being considerably larger than at present, and we have since been hearing of other families being added to the Church; we inquired into the apparent discrepancy and found that while some few families had, from various reasons, become disaffected and connected themselves elsewhere, yet a very large number had left the bounds of the congregation. We accidentally met a Frenchman from Indiana (who formerly had resided in St. Anne), who was travelling through the country on business, and he assured us that around where he now lived there were over 50 families who at one time lived in St. Anne, but who had emigrated to Indiana; he knew of some other settlements in the same State where many from St. Anne now lived, but he could not tell the exact number of families." "We spent

one whole day and part of two other days in examining the school connected with the mission. There are three teachers. The Rev. Mr. Lafontaine teaches the more advanced classes in French, Latin, Greek and Mathematics; an assistant male

teacher takes the English, and an assistant female teacher the junior division in both languages."

Transference of Mr. Chiniquy from St. Anne to Montreal-The Kankakee and French Evangelisation Missions Amalgamated.—In 1874, the Committee of the Kankakee Mission presented a report to the General Assembly in which they recommended the transference of Mr. Chiniquy from Kankakee to Montreal. "Your committee (they said), after carefully considering all matters connected with the mission, are unanimously of opinion that the time has come when the congregation of St. Anne could bear to have Mr. Chiniquy removed from them; and, while another could discharge the duties of the pastorate, Mr. Chiniquy could be more usefully employed in superintending our French Evangelisation work in the Province of Quebec. There is not, perhaps, another man on this continent who is so peculiarly adapted for this work. It gives the committee pleasure to be able to state that he has expressed his readiness to obey the call of the Church." He was accordingly transferred from St. Anne to Montreal, where, in 1875, he commenced his labours in connection with the General French Evangelisation Mission, with which the Kankakee Mission was henceforth amalgamated.

Foreign Missions.-Previous to their union, in 1861, the Free Church Synod and the United Presbyterian Synod had, in various ways, manifested their interest in Foreign Missions. In accordance with their recommendations their people had contributed to the support of the Foreign Missions of kindred Churches in Scotland and Nova Scotia. The Free Church had commenced a mission in India, but from unforeseen difficulties the missionary had been constrained to retire from the field. At the time of the Union, neither Synod had a Foreign Mission of its own. When the Union was consummated. the Synod of the Canada Presbyterian Church at once entered on, and continued to prosecute the work of Foreign Missions with vigour and success. Its fields of operation were the colonies of Vancouver's Island and British Columbia-which, in 1866, were united as the Province of British Columbia; the Province of Manitoba and the North-Western Territories, and the Empires of India and China.

British Columbia.-The first field to which a foreign missionary was sent by the Canada Presbyterian Church was British Columbia. The first missionary sent was the Rev. Robert Jamieson. He had come to Canada from the Presbyterian Church of Ireland, and had been pastor for several years in Dunnville, and afterwards in Fisherville and York Mills. On the 10th December, 1861, he was designated as a missionary to British Columbia. On the 16th of July, 1862, he arrived at Victoria, in Vancouver's Island. Here the Rev. John Hall, a missionary sent by the Irish Presbyterian Church, had commenced to labour in 1861. He was the first Presbyterian missionary in this part of British America. He extended a cordial welcome to Mr. Jamieson, and gave him valuable assistance in establishing his headquarters at New Westminster on the mainland. In New Westminster, which was then the capital of the colony of British Columbia, and in adjoining stations-and also for a short time in Nanaimo and neighbourhood in Vancouver's Island-Mr. Jamieson laboured for many years, amidst great discouragements, with great fidelity and devotedness. His congregations were small and fluctuating. Occasionally his prospects were bright; but often the times, as he describes them, were " very, very hard." He was the sole missionary of the Canada Presbyterian Church till 1864, when he was cheered by the arrival of the Rev. Daniel Duff, who, like Mr. Jamieson, laboured with great zeal and fidelity in various places in Vancouver's Island and on the mainland; but he remained only a few years. In consequence of ill health he returned to Ontario in 1867. In 1869, another missionary from the Canada Presbyterian Church, the Rev. William Aitken, arrived; but he, too, remained in the province only a few years, during which he rendered excellent service. He returned to Ontario in 1872. The money expended by the Canada Presbyterian Church on missions in British Columbia during the ten years 1861-1871 was $22,248. This was more than half the amount contributed to the Foreign Mission Fund, and as it was thought the province might, after these ten years, be regarded rather as a Home Mission, than a Foreign Mission, field, so, in 1872, its management was transferred by the General Assembly from the Foreign, to the Home Mission, Committee. A larger proportion of the Church's resources was thus made available for missions among the heathen.

Church of Scotland Mission in British Columbia.Besides the missionaries from Ireland and from the Canada Presbyterian Church, three missionaries were sent by the Established Church of Scotland to Vancouver's Island and British Columbia, after the arrival of Messrs. Hall and Jamieson and previous to the year 1872. These were the Rev. Messrs. Nimmo, Somerville and McGregor; each of whom, after a few years of valuable service, returned to Scotland. While they remained, the attention of the Church of Scotland Synod in Canada was directed to British Columbia as an important field for missionary enterprise, and, although the Synod did not send a missionary of its own to this field, it undertook to contribute £100 stg. yearly, to the support of the missionaries sent by the parent Church. For this purpose, accordingly, contributions were made and remitted to Scotland.

Red River Settlement.-Along with British Columbia, the Synod of the Canada Presbyterian Church resolved, in 1861, to make the Red River Settlement a field for Foreign Mission operations. Here the Rev. John Black had been, till this time, the only Presbyterian minister in the North-Western Territories. He had laboured patiently, faithfully and successfully since 1851. He needed a fellow-labourer, and, accordingly, the Foreign Mission Committee was empowered by the Synod to send a missionary with the view of strengthening his hands, and also with the view of studying the Indian languages, so as ultimately to act as a missionary to the Indian tribes. As specially fitted for the work, the committee selected the Rev. James Nisbet, minister of Oakville. His brother, the Rev. Henry Nisbet, was a missionary in Samoa, and he himself had done good service in organising and visiting mission stations in the Presbytery of Toronto. He arrived at the Red River in July, 1862. At this time the Presbyterian population of the settlement numbered between 500 and 600, nearly all Scotch or of Scotch descent. A few were more or less allied to Indian tribes and a few were pure Indians. Mr. Nisbet co-operated with Mr. Black in supplying four stationsKildonan, Little Britain, Fairfield and Fort Garry. He continued to labour in the Red River Settlement till 1866, when, as originally intended, he went as a missionary to the Indians on the