REMARKABLE WORK AMONG THE ALASKAN INDIANS.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Union Signal, writing from Washington, D. C., tells of a meeting of the Woman's National Indian Association, at which Dr. Sheldon Jackson, of Alaska, delivered a stirring address. He graphically portrayed the work being done for God in that far northern region, and told of the wonderful results following the efforts of the faithful missionaries. Around the shores of the eastern end of Kotzebue Sound, and just north of the Arctic circle, are a number of villages of the Arctic Eskimos. Here there is a Quaker mission, and a resident missionary has written Dr. Jackson of a wonderful meeting held last July on the shores of the sound. After an hour's talk of Jesus by the shores of Galilee seeking the lost, one after another of the adult Kotzebues came forward, saying, "Me want this Jesus," until the whole tribe had surrendered themselves to God. They have ever since given genuine evidence that "old things have passed away, and all things have become new." They were extravagantly given to the drinking of whisky and the use of tobacco—even the little children being habituated to its use. Since that memorable meeting all tobacco and whisky has been absolutely done away with, and when, twice since, schooners loaded with whisky and tobacco sailed up the sound expecting, as heretofore, to reap a rich harvest, not a pint of whisky nor a pound of tobacco was landed. These people, living beyond the Arctic circle, away from everything we deem essential to civilization, said: "No more tobacco, no more whisky; we God's men."