ORPHANAGE NEWS LETTER.
Published Monthly at the Kodiak Baptist Orphanage, Wood Island, Kodiak. Alaska,
Under auspices of The Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society.
CURTIS P. COE. Editor and Publisher.
Ten Cents a Year. JANUARY, 1907. Vol. VIII, No. 1.
"THE SIGN OF THE STAR’
AT K. B. O.
By Hannah E. Breech.
.^ iOR DAYS before the blessed
Christinas tide, the chief topic
!►'- of conversation among the boys
and girls was the Star of hethle
liem.
While walking past groups of tiny
tots one caught glimpses of their lit
tle heart thoughts from fragments of
sentences — something like this —
“Cradle in a manger", "1 he baby Je
sus”, etc.
Btrains or music every now and
then told that tlie older ones, too,
were living again that wonderful
night when the star shone out glo
ri iusly in the East.
Indeed, the spirit of the old, old,
ever new, story of the Christ child,
found its way into all our hearts and
though the days were filled with la
bor. and the midnight oil often burr
ed, the joy that comes from the
Christmas star stole away drudgery
and, many times over, we lived
through the happy scenes for which
wc labored.
The “Story of The Star”, given
Christmas Eve,, began our celebra
tion. The one central thought
throughout the entire program «as
the “sign of the star.” These child
ren gain much tty concentering
thought upon one subject, as they
are not easily deflected from one line
of thought to another!
This beautiful play gave ample
scope for variety, and opportunity to
have more than eighty childreh each
take a special part besides helping
in the choruses.
i lie stage whs urn t large euougn
to sent tile entire school: aud thereon
was almost every young person on
Wood Island, neatly dressed in holi
day attne, with here and there one in
national costume to represent Tur
key, japan, India, China, Poland,
Austria, Norway, and Sweden: Amer
ica, also, was prettily portrayed by
six girls, in led, white, and blue:
while, for other parts, many fore
heads gleamed with stars.
At the fiout were seated two rows
of little ones each child carrying a
tiny Christmas tree, to aid in repre
senting a German Christmas, by
marching around a tree while sing
ing Martin Luther’s Cradle Hymn.
A beautiful Christmaa tree stood on
each side of the stage: these were
connected by arches of pretty color
ed Chris:tnas ^stockings and of daz
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