Oowikapun, or, How the Gospel reached the Nelson River IndiansYoung, Egerton Ryerson
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Oowikapun, or, How the Gospel reached the Nelson River Indians
Young, Egerton Ryerson
Indians of North America -- Missions -- Fiction
Her maidenly modesty seemed first to tell her to banish his image from
her heart, and his name from her lips. To accomplish this she threw
herself with renewed diligence into the duties incident to her simple
yet laborious life, and by her very activities endeavoured to bring
herself back to the sweet simplicities of her earlier days. But
fruitless were all her efforts. The heart transfixed, was too strong
for her head, and the new love which had so unconsciously come to her
would not be stilled or banished.
A true daughter of Eve was this forest maiden, even if she did live in a
wigwam, and had never read a novel or a romance, and because she had
these feelings and was passing through these hours of disquietude and
conflicting emotions we think none the less of her. Our only regret is
that she had no judicious friend of her own sex to whom in her
perplexity she could have gone for wise and prudent counsel. Happy are
those daughters in civilised lands who have their precious mothers or
other safe counsellors to whom they can go in these critical hours of
their history, when their future weal or woe may turn upon the decisions
then made. And happy are those fair maidens who, instead of impulsively
and recklessly rejecting all counsel and warning from their truest
friends, listen to the voice of experience and parental love, and above
all, seek aid from the infinitely loving One who has said: "If any of
you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally,
and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him."
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