The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-12-09

we finally, without any miscarriage or acct
dent, announced our arrival at nice and
comfortable tavern and were treated with
great kindness and attention. This is
pleasant village, and one of the stations of
Mr.. Breck's Mission. The next morning
we drove into Faribault in season to witness
the examination of some of the classes of
Seabury University, found our friends here,
and met with hearty welcome
We regretted that we could not have
been present at an earlier hour, as the occa-
sion was one of peculiar inter est being its
first anniversary. We found the primary
and high school building, and chapel of the
parish of the Good Shepherd, filled to over
flowing with pupils and visitors. This is
admirably the double purpose for which it
was designed. When arranged for divine
service, it presents quite church like ap-
pearance, and will continue to be used as a
place of public worship until parish church
can be built. At other times, the chancel
and the triple window of the stained glass
are partly hidden by the screen 1t is stu.
ated on the public square, in the midst of
the town, and occupies three lots, comprising
nearly or quite an acre of ground. Two of
these lots, Mr.. Brock informed US, were pur-
chased at an expense of seven hundred dol
lars, and the other was the gift of Mr.. Al
exander Faribault, the founder of the town,
and whose name it BEARS We have known
this gentleman more than twenty years, and
though of French and Indian extraction,
and educated in the Church of Rome, he
has liberal views, and commands the respect
and confidence of the community. Here, a
few years ago, band Of Sioux Indians
made their home, among whom he had a
trading establishment, and, finally, purchased
the land, and laid out the town. The citi-
zens generally contributed towards the cree
ton of this building according to their
means, being deeply impressed with the
Importance of the enterprise. From the
large increase of scholars, the addition of a
wing has become necessary, and is now in
process of erection. The whole will, ulti-
mately, be appropriated to the primary
department of the Institution. The resi-
dence of the Rev. Professor Manney is in
the immediate neighborhood, and constitutes
part of the property.
The examinations we witnessed were in
Algebra. History, and Natural Philosophy;
and they would have done credit to older
Institutions. After the announcement of
the order for the services of the next day,
the examination closed with the reading of
chapter of the Bible, by one of the candi-
dates for Holy Orders, the chanting of the
Gloria in Ercelsis, by the pupils, and the
Greed and appropriate prayers, by PROBES.
sor Manney. Decency and order were OBJ
served in all things. We found ourselves,
at the conclusion of the services, by the
side of Sioux Indian-an old acquaintance
and he seized my hand and exclaimed
" scashta," which may be translated, d" it is
good for US to be here"
The school commenced just year pre-
vious to our visit, with only fifteen pupils,
and among people almost entirely ignorant
of the Church and her ways, and it now
numbers over hundred of both sexes, and of
various ages, all under her holy influences.
Among them are ten young men preparing
themselves for the Ministry, and assisting in
teaching. The female department is under
the care of two accomplished young ladies,
who are members of Mr.. Brecks family.
Here the most friendly relations between the
Sioux and the Chippewas are established, as
Bishop Kemper expresses it. and both par
ties have agreed to bury the tomahawk, and
send their children to be educated in civili-
zation and Christianity. 1t may be proper,
also, in this connection, to mention that the
Sunday school of the parish of the Good
Shepherd has eighty-two children, as it is
our object to inform our friends abroad, of
what has been accomplished through the
means of their liberality, and the devotion
of these beloved brethren to the cause of
God and His Chul Oh. To the founders of
this Mission, as well to many other faithful
clergymen in the West, we may apply the
eloquent language OF DR.. Chalmers, in which
he describes those who are laboring in
heather lands. They "are retaining anoth-
er and another portion from the wastes of
dark and fallen humanity and are widening
the domains of Gospel light and of Gospel
principle among them, and are spreading
moral beauty around every spot on which
they pitch their lowly tabernacle and are
at length compelling even the eye and testi-
mony of gainsayers, by the success of their
noble enterprise and are forcing the ex-
clamation of delighted surprise from the
charmed and the arrested traveller, as he
looks at the softeniDg tints which they are
now spreading over the wilderness, and as
he hears the sound of the chapel bell, and as
in those haunts, where, at the distance of
half a generation, savages would have
scowled upon his path, he regales himself
with the hum of the missionary schools, and
the lovely spectacle of peaceful and christian
villages"
At present, have no time to pursue this
subject further; but will resume it on my
return from the General Convention, if God
permit, and endeavor to describe the plan
of higher state of things which this
Mission has in contemplation.
Very truly yours, E. g.. G.
Fort SMELLING, Sept. TO- 1859.
Thackaray.