The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-25

rian missions in Alaska, spoke at the
First Presbyterian church yesterday
morning His subject was Home Mis-
sions.' He said in part: THE review
OF our work Of the past year shows 1t
to be like Christian work anywhere
else. We have had our set backs, but
we have also made much progress. The
mission at Port Barrow is the most
northerly mission in the world and is
the most desolate missionary field eX-
listing. Spiritually it is very fertile.
The mission is liable to close I'D this
summer unless we can get a good man
and woman to suDerintend it, as Mr..
Stevens, the volunteer missionary, is
about TO leave. There are many suit
able persons who would gladly take
this up, but they do not know to whom
they should apply.
The most savage tribe of EsQuimauX
is situated on an island in the Behring
sea. The place is almost deserted
by whites as whalers are afraid of the
SavageS and the mail steamer only
comes once q year. Some time ago the
Congregational missionary society sent
a man and woman out among these
savages, and at last accounts they are
doing very well. In 1886, the Morayian
missionaries set up mission on the
SD l<dSI Aug ut li4Cy lcu d
gathering of their ministers; eighteen
native ministers responded, and now
those few are going all through Alaska
singly to try TO win converts.
In the southeast part of Alaska
among the Chilcot tribe, is the seat of
the Presbyterian mission in Alaska.
These Chilcats are very superStitious
In 1881 man and his wife went there
to do missionary work. With them
they had their two children. While
these missionaries were there, the
daughter of the chief took sick with
pneumonia and despite the efforts of
the physicians, died. This, of course,
was promptly attributed to the mis-
sionaries and, as a princess is worth
two ordinary children, the Missionaries
children were doomed to die. AS luck
had it, a United States ship happened
to come to the harbor and the children
escaped From there the missionaries
went TO Juneau.
After a little time, two more people
came, bringing with them an educa ted
native girl. From that time, the mis-
sion prospered
There are certain principles connect
ed with mission work. that are the
same the world over There are two
ways of spreading Christianity, but
they are one and the same. Teach
and preach" IF you preach right you
are also teaching. And if you teach
the gospel you are also preaching.
The speaker said that when he first
came to Utah he tried missionary work
among the Mormon people in a small
village in the south, but could do moth
ing with the older people and then he
fully realized the Importance of teach
ing the young while their minds were
plastic and impreSSa bic.
The state university. he thought, was
one of the institutions which initiates
against the Presbyterian missionary
work, because it was only natural that
in a community three-fourths Mormon,
there should be a good deal of Mormon
influence in the public schools. The
university also gives the Mormons the
last chance with the rising generation
and shat is a strong reason why the
Protestant schools should have a full
college course.
In the evening temperance services
were held. The following subjects were
discussed by w. R. Hutchinson, George
T. Goodwin and Rev. r. G. McNiece
respectively:
The Christian Obligation to Help
on the Temperance Cause
THE Importance of Church Activity
Against the Liquor Traffic
What Can Church Members Do to
Make the Church's Influence Felt
Against the Cause Of the Liquor Traf-
fic?"