THE ORPHANAGE NEWS LETTER.
■omigest boy. He has two sister
n-re, Alice and Kate,
i'eter Calugan is past eight but is
r < the s fullest hoy. He has
ea here three years and. although
i .1 i s quite well, it seems he has
i t g own in that time. He’s a plump,
: eil lad i.tjtl does his part of the 1 it
-t oys’ work. Alex and Nida a e
i s brother an<l sister. Peter does
red in his studies also.
folinie Perrin came on the same
»«u»t with us when we returned from
>'ir vacation two years ago. His
notlier had died at Valdez and his
■•tiler was prospecting, no one knew
i here, so money was raised to pay
he passage of Johnie and Dolly to
he Orphanage. He is a ruddy faced,
lit hair youngster and is usually
ippy. In school tie is quick to
l. rn.
Johnie Olsen is the rear guard and
e will he six about the time this pa
•er reaches its eastern readers. al
liough the smallest hoy, he is quite
chlink of a lad for he has always
cen a fat child. He and Philip en
ured the Mission when Johnie was a
ear old.
Oleana Sperbeck will leave for Se
t with the others where she will
i ike her home with Mr. and Mrs.
i’ight, and Annie Keihn who has
ten with them the past year will
munpany Mrs. Campbell to her
cw home.
1 lie wash house is to have a new
■ r. The oh) board floor has been
. a out, the ground is being dug out
own lo hardpan, and the floor will
wn be built up with rocksand grav
I. i'ud it will be finished with a
nurse of concrete. This is a much
- Vd improvement.
A JOYFUL DAY.
Si M>.\Y jl Mi !*», was a <1. y
of gladness in our little cliun It
at Wood Island. It was ti e
time set for tiie baptism of t) e
candidates recently received and ail
felt tlie important e of the occasion
At Sunday school u large numl er
of neighbors were present and to
them wasexplained, with Nicholai as
interpreter, the oi'o i> al teaching ou
tile subject of baptism.
The morning worship was conclud
ed with a sermon on the text, “Ye are
our epistle * * known and read of all
men”, in which the privilege, the
duty, and the responsibility of testi
fying, by life, act, word, to the pow
er of the Gospel of the Son of God
war, impressed upon the Christians.
At three o'clock the church was
filled with an an deuce which listened
intently to a short sermon from the
text. “ »o obey is better than sacri
fiie”. Afterward all went to the
lakeside to witness the ordinance.
Not only were those who had been
in the church spectators but in
groups about the lake were gathered
half as many more.
Following ure the names of those
buried with Christ: Sashka Alex
ander, Wanya Ostrigan. Thomas De
vine, Oleaua Sperbeck, Irene I-'ors
man Mary Palmer, N’ida Calugan,
Julia Forsman, and Katie I owers.
At the evening service, after a
sermon from the text “Herein is my
Father glorified, that ye bear much
fruit", the right hand of fellowship
was extended to the new raei ers
and the 1 ord’s Supper w’as ce.cura
ted. Letters of dismissal were i Iso
granted to six members.
The hundred young l’ekiii ducks
are one of the prettiest aud most in
teresting sights on the place.