THE KODIAK
BAPTIST ORPHANAGE.
Mrs. James McWhinnik,
Superintendent of Alaska Work
510 Trcmont Temple, Boston, Mass.
The Workers are Curtis P. Coe,
Supt., Mrs. C. 1*. Coe, Mrs. M. G.
Campbell.
The Pt RiosE of the Orphanage is
to provide a Christi..11 home and
training for destitute children.
The Records show that 40 males
and 56 females (total 76) have Been
received, 5 males and 2 females absent
on leave, 20 males and ij females
discharged (by completion of time
and by death ). 15 males and 19 fe
males now enrolled.
Ten Converts have been baptiz
ed and received into the church.
The SrriuRTis provided by The
Woman’s American i.aptist Home
Mission Society which expends here
£5000.00 a year. It is hoped that the
Contriih TIONS marked "Alaska”’
will eventually suffice. Therefore,
Every Siniiay-school ami every
young people’s society of New Eng
land is urged fo make an annual con
tribution. Help from all sources
is gratefully accepted. This is the
Only Baptist mission to Alaskan
natives.
Send all contributions to
Miss Gertriije E. Davis, Treas.,
510 Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass.
good quality resulted in a loss. On
account of the high price of salt and
the demands of other branches of
work, fish packing will not be press
ed this year.
The News Better.
Tile monthly publication has been,
continued regularly. Some who are
better situated than we tojudgeof its
value write that it is very helpful in
the work. The sustained subscription
list supportsthis belief. The inoouye .
lias been much more than sufficient
to pay for material used. Wele
speak the efforts of each member of
the Society in extending ti e circula
tion. Owin^ to the snu.11 number of
large children, little has been done
toward teaching the art of printing.
Some of the boys, however, run the
press successfully.
Thk Rklioioi s Sii>k.
Although the work in doors and
out has demanded and received more
time than usual, flic* religious train
ing has not been neglected. The
morning and evening prayer services
have Veen continued as well as the
Sunday school, prayer meeting, and
church services twice each Lord’s
Day. Two of the girls have been
received for'baptism, and several
have expressed tlieir faith in Jesus
privately. If it weie deemed ad vis
to urge the matter at this time, the
majority would consent to being bap
tized, hut we wish for something
more than mere consent. It is one
of our aims to teach that the Christ
ian religion is a life to Ve lived every
hour of the day and not a mask to
wear to church and to he laid aside
with the Sunday clothes It is ours
to sow beside all waters but God s to
give the increase.
Government School.
The public school has been in the
charge of Dr. Chas. F. Mills and be
has bad as large an enrollment as the
school room would accommodate.
There is little probability that the
Government will build a school house
soon. The night school was suspend
ed in the fall.
CHAS. F. MILLS, M. D.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
Office and Residence,
Kodiak Baptist Orphanage,
Wood Island.