In 1851, schoolmaster John Horden left Exeter with three weeks’ notice to bring the Gospel to Moose Factory—a tiny Hudson’s Bay Company post cut off by ice and forest. He and his wife endured storms that trapped their ship for weeks, then faced summers of swarming mosquitoes and winters plunging to forty-below as he mastered Cree, Ojibbeway and Eskimo in order to preach and translate Scripture in the language of the people.
Over forty-two years he rode dog-sled hundreds of miles, built churches, print-shops and schools with his own hands on that frozen frontier. Through famine, flood, epidemics and near-fatal rapids he remained “faithful unto death,” completing the first Cree Bible before his final illness.
Book originally written in 1894 by Augustus Buckland.
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Chapters 📑
(0:00) Introduction
(1:14) 1 – The Boy’s Ambition
(9:21) 2 – The Departure for Moosonee
(18:15) 3 – First Labours Amongst Eskimo and Indians
(25:34) 4 – In Journeyings Often
(35:26) 5 – England Visited
(40:31) 6 – Out-Stations
(45:54) 7 – A New Responsibility
(52:50) 8 – Pages from Bishop Horden’s Diary
(1:07:30) 9 – Years of Trial
(1:19:08) 10 – To England For The Last Time
(1:27:41) 11 – Home Again
(1:35:15) 12 – Closing Scenes