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severe dispensation. Brother Kavanaugh now arrived;
poor man! he could not speak to me for some time. I
met him some distance from his house ; he had heard
of the circumstance, but had not, as yet, been home.
“How unsearchable are God’s judgments; and his
ways past finding out.” Yet, withal, in such dark
hours, many a Christain sees parental Love. Ah! we
may often exclaim, in the language of good old Jacob,
“All these things are against me,” but We may also
say, God orders every thing for the good of his own.

That summer we went to Conference, which was held
in Platteville. I was then appointed to establish a Mis-
sion at Fon du Lac, at the head of Lake Superior. Bro-
ther James Simpson was appointed school teacher.

VVe traveled from the Sioux Mission up the St.
Croix River, crossed over to Burnt-wood River, and
thence to Lake Superior. Having provided food,I de-
parted with Mrs. Copway and her sister, John Jacob,
Massey, and Brother Simpson, about the fifteenth of
September. VVe were two weeks on the St. Croix
River; and part ofthis time I was so sick as to become
delirious. I wasjust able to walk over the two mile
portage to Burnt. wood River. The other men, there-
fore, had to carry the large canoe two miles; this
was hard, but it was impossible for me to help them.
We were now out of provisions. I have been told, by
good authority, the following singular fact. There is
but one spring which forms the two rivers ;——the St.
Croix which runs down to the Mississippi, and the
Burnt-wood River which runs down to Lake Superior.

In going down the Burnt-wood river, our progress
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