Admiral Prevost gives this picture of the change wrought in the British
Columbia tribes by the Metlakahtla Mission:
Peter Simpson had been chief of a cannibal tribe. Canoes
were all drawn up on the beach on the Lord’s day, and not a
sound was heard, save the hurrying of the whole population
to the house of prayer. The admiral watched the incoming of
throngs--here a notorious gambler, there a reclaimed drunkard,
a lecherous leper, a defiant thief, a widow snatched from
the jaws of infamy, a murderer who had first slain and then
burned his own wife--all converts to Christ and children of
God.--PIERSON, “The Miracles of Missions.”
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=Christianity, Successful=--See CHURCH, SUCCESS OF.