Gulf and Glacier

July 26

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te to-day, for both Adelaide and myself, to tell you of our wanderings, and of

rth of the Great Lakes, through the country where the Jesuit missionaries labored so nobl

there. A mighty barrier stretched across our path from north to south. Rising dimly, through the morning mists, their su

s. Off we tramped across a bit of flowery upland, snatching handfuls of aster, painted cup and harebell as we we

Esther, the "Star," stood before the haughty monarch pleading for her people, the stars above shone above the white falls of Kananaskis as they do to-night; the rushing waters lifted up their voice and hastened to their work in the lonely for

to bear us to the high places! At noon we were in the midst of them. They looked down upon us with kindly fa

Beneath a sheltering fir which stretched its tiny crosses above our heads, we stopped, and with a tiny, crackling fire beside us, watched the sno

igh the f

their cou

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ll!"-who "considered the lilies," and who too

ttle fir-shaded hearthstone, and this new-comer was fresh from the snowy hill-tops, "clear as crystal." As far down as we could see, the rivulet never

h good, I think, as the novelty and grandeur of the scenes in which she finds herself. As for me, I ought to preach better sermons all my life, for this trip. This afternoon while I was sitting on the rounded piazza of the

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reared a might

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tiny crosses

organ peal o

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eat white alt

heart, O Go

that when I w

amid the hu

light from the

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er from these

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who toil and

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sit

knew that littl

is not doing something for another's comfort-adjusting old ladies' shawls, reading aloud, holding a