I HE ORPHANAGE NEWS LETTER.
THE KODIAK
BAPTIST ORPHANAGE
Thk YVokkkks, oh salary, are
'»«o. A Learn, Superintendent,
vJ j* M G. Campbell, Matron,
viiss I. h. Krgenzinger, Matron.
1 m-. l*i'kroSK of the Orphanage is
to provide a Christian home and
training for destitute children.
1 UK Recoups show that 70 males
uid 71 females (total 141) have been
received, 48 males and 49 females
discharged 1 by completion of time
and by death ), 21 males and 24 fe
males now enrolled.
Fifty-six Convkkts nave been
immersed and received in the church.
I UK Sri'i'ORT is provided by The
Woman s American baptist Home
Mission Society which expends here
f7500.00 a year. It is hoped that the
Conte motions marked “Alaska’
will eventually suffice. Therefore.
r h\ kky St'NDA Y-SCHOOL and every
VOX NG Pkopi.E’S SociKTY in the
land is urged to make an annual con
tribution Help from ail sources
is gratefully accepted. This is the
()ni,y Baptist mission home fur
Alaskan c hildren. And the
O.vlv R \I’TIST Orimi \n.aoe on the
Faciei c Coast.
S ad ,ii! Contributions from New
cn;i.\ni> t<> Miss Gertrude L.
Gw is, Ford Building, Boston, Mass.
t. o n tributions from other
parts of the country are to be sent to
Mrs Km nut C. Marshall 2969 Vernon
Ave. Chicago, III
We are pleased with the interest
shown in our work recently by the
“Busy Bee" of First Baptist Church
of Factoryville Fa.; “The Bee Hive
Society" of the First Baptist Church
of Hudson N. Y.; “The Mission
Band" of the Biptist Church of Tyr
ingham Mass. ;and the “Bethel Club”
of the First Bapt. Church of Walla
Walla Wash.; from all of which we
have received substantial evidence of
their desire to help us.
THE ISLAND BEAUTIFUL
After a delightful ocean voyage
lasting fourteen (lavs, we reached our
destination Wood Island, Alaska.
It is possible it seemed more beauti
ful to us because it had taken us
tweutyfour hours to come from Sel
dovia, a distance usually covered in
fourteen hours, owing to a storm
which caused the Steamer Ilertha to
roll and pitch in a most undignified
manner Therefore, when we saw
the green hills of Wood Island, it
seemed to us that they were solid and
firm, neither rolling nor pitching nor
causing sea sickness; the latter fact
giving us at that particular moment
a feeling of great satisfaction.
“We consisted of the writer, who
was to he one of thx teai hers in the
public school of Longwood district,
and his family. W’e had come from
the fertile Salt River Valley of Ariz.
across many miles of hot, sandy des
ert, through the wonderful orange
groves of California; thence north
ward over the “Shasta Route”, where
it taxed to the utmost the strength of
two large mountain engines to pull
us up the steep iuclines; only toagain
tax their strength in holding us back
from destruction as we descended.
From Seattle the steamer took
what is known as the “inside pas
sage”, and we were seldom out of
sight of land during the long voyage
of twenty two hundred miles. New
wonders greeted us daily, and we
never tiled of gazing at the lofty,
snow capped mountains, rising iu
some instances fifteen and eighteen
thousand feel above sea level; their
reflection in the placid waters seem
ing to go down into the very depths
ot the ocean.
But Wood Island; with i's grassy
hills and green woods; its lakes; its