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AWAY IN THE WILDERNESS. 109
CHAPTEE XII.
THE WEDDING, AN ARRIVAL, A FEAST, AND
A BALL.
EW Year’s Day came at last, and on the
-L ’ morning of that day Jasper Derry and
Marie Laroche were made man and wife. They
were married by the Kev. Mr. Wilson, a Wesleyan
missionary, who had come to Fort Erie a few days
before, on a visit to the tribes of Indians in that
neighbourhood.
The North American Indian has no religion
worthy of the name ; but he has a conscience, like
other men, which tells him that it is wrong to
murder and to steal. Yet, although he knows
this, he seldom hesitates to do both when he is
tempted thereto. Mr. Wilson was one of those
earnest missionaries who go to that wilderness
and face its dangers, as well as its hardships and
sufferings, for the sake of teaching the savage that
the mere knowledge of right and wrong is not
enough—that the love of God, wrought in the
heart of man by the Holy Spirit, alone can enable