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Identifier: spiritofmissions74epis (find matches)
Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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e two Sisters wrote back thatit was impossible to leave the girls, asmany of them were orphans with no oneelse to care for them. They were al-lowed to remain on condition that theywere to receive no financial aid from thesociety. Erom that time, they were as individuals responsible for the financialconduct of the school. As soon as Bish-op Bestarick was consecrated, theywrote to him, requesting him to take theschool, as they were unable to carry it onlonger. The bishop has signed the contract forthe new buildings, to cost $49,950. This,with the architects fees, will make atotal cost of $53,000. Toward this hehas on hand or pledged $31,000, so thatthe amount required is $22,000. Thebuilding is to be oompleted in 300 work-ing days. The Sisters, now retired, live in a cot-tage on the priory grounds. The workthey have done for Hawaiian women isincalculable. Tbey have been most help-ful to the bishop by their influence, theircounsel, and by the affection of the peo-ple for their work. (23)
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(24) BY BOAT AND SLED TO THE KOYUKUK COUNTRY BY THE REVEREND HUDSON STUCK, D.D. THE maiden voyage of the Peli-can had lasted rather morethan a month when, on Sep-temher 19 th, we left theYukon, and began ,the ascent of theKoyukuk. In that month we had jour-neyed from White Horse at the head-waters of the Yukon, about 1,500 mileseast, stopping at all the missions on ourway down the mighty river. AtTanana we had turned aside for the200-mile trip up the swift-flowingTanana River to Fairbanks, where afew days had been spent with oldfriends and fellow-workers and in mak-ing necessary repairs. Our passagefrom the Yukon to the Koyukuk meant,that we were on the last and most diffi-cult stage of our long trip to St. Johns-in-the-Wiilderness. Within eight days I hoped to be atthe mission, 450 miles away. It waslater in the season—^two weeks later—^than I had intended, but I thought westill had plenty of time. But we hadnt.In any ordinary season we would havehad, but this proved to be an ext

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