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"Yesterday afternoon Miss Bilbrough drove us out into the cleared backwoods to visit some of our children.
We are thankful to have among these a faithful Christian woman, who, though a seller of rags, is able to testify of the great love of the Lord Jesus." Emigration of families A visitor's impressions The great life-work Emigration of the young, begun 1870 First party of boys to Canada with Miss Macpherson and Miss Bilbrough Their reception Mr.
They wait His word Stanley and Robbie side by side and we Caught up together with them soon shall be For ever with the Lord. All former kindness was as nothing compared to that now received, as will be seen by the following from Miss Bilbrough: "BELLEVILLE, February 2, 1872.
"P.S. Give my love to all the boys, and accept the, same from me, J. M." The following incidents are told by Miss Macpherson: "Miss Bilbrough often goes off with half-a-dozen to see them placed in their new home. Whilst on one of these journeys, the little ones were attracting the notice of fellow-travellers, as some forty to fifty are generally in a compartment.
I took the Lady Superintendent, Miss Bilbrough, by surprise. Her sister was with her, having lately brought over a hundred boys. These two young but experienced Christians are evidently full of faith and energy and delight in their work and of lore to the children. About a thousand boys and girls brought out, or sent out by Miss Macpherson, had passed through the Home in three years.
All the orphan children under nine years of age are adopted by farmers who have no children, to be treated exactly as if they were their own. Miss Bilbrough, and also the Lady Superintendents at Galt and Knowlton, never place a child in a home unless the farmer brings a testimonial from his minister.
He was a Wesleyan Methodist, and with pleasure told us of the erection of their new Zion, whose glistening tinned spire we could see rising among the woods at no great distance." Miss Bilbrough wrote at this time:
"I hardly know how to begin, it still seems so terrible and real. "We had had a happy Sabbath. We were to have an early breakfast next morning, and I awoke in the night thinking it was daylight. Miss Baylis came to my door, which was shut, saying, 'Miss Bilbrough, there's smoke! "I jumped up, and oh, the feeling, when I saw the house full of dense white smoke! I knew well what it must be.
They were well occupied, well fed, and as happy as they could be. He had entered into conversation with the children as to familiar scenes in the East of London, and learned how pleased they were with their new homes. At Toronto he met Miss Bilbrough, a lady in charge of one of the Homes, and a person enthusiastically devoted to this merciful work, who thus became a true "Sister of Mercy."
More immediately around the houses, lay the immense yellow pumpkins, still attached to their dying stems." The time for Miss Macpherson's return to England now drew near, and with a heart filled with thankfulness for the mercies they had already experienced Miss Bilbrough offered to remain at Marchmont, to brave alone the first Canadian winter, and with Mr.
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