p. 412 | A WORD FROM ALASKA by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 30, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 26.

A WORD FROM ALASKA.

By Editor

BROTHER C. B. FITZGERALD, of Sam's Valley, Oregon, sends us the following items, which he has received from a sister in Alaska who lives at Fort Wrangle. She says that she is doing all that she can in distributing reading matter, but the field is a somewhat difficult one. Most of the white people there are Presbyterians or Catholics, nearly all of the Indians belonging to the former church, and the greater part of them not able to speak English. She says but few of the Indians can read, and in respect to the Sabbath cannot understand the days of the week, because they have been taught that Sunday is the seventh day. She thinks that many of the Indians there are diseased and need a physician; and one who could come there and labor in that line could do more good than many preachers. She longs that someone might come who could go to all the various islands, on some of which there are no schools, and labor for the Indians. She knows of no one in that section who holds like faith with herself, and she longs for a missionary physician to come there and labor.

In the future we will present before our readers something upon the Alaskan field.