John Horden, Missionary Bishop. By the Rev. A. R. Buckland.
(Sunday School Union.)—John Horden was the son of a printer in Exeter. He set his heart on missionary work from very early years, and offered himself to the Church Missionary Society in 1850 (being then twenty-two years of age), and in the following year:' went out to Moose Factory (at the south end of Hudson's Bay). There he spent the next forty years, dividing his time between pastoral duties and the work of translation—he had just finished the translation of the Bible into Cree when he died. He had been ordained priest shortly after his arrival, Bishop Ander- son travelling one thousand five hundred miles to perform the rite, and consecrated Bishop in 1872. A man more devoted, more unsparing of self, it would not be possible to find. His was indeed a "Splendid Life."
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