Edith H. Allen
Capitolo 30
the Christian way. You taught what she had learned his/her father, and
prayed for him. He produced to his/her faith and it threw away his/her fetishes
after a hard struggle with the whole past environment and it foresees that
limit him/it. Then immediately his/her instinct you have to make a best house for
his/her family. He has to get away from the village of pagan with his,
bleakness and the impurity and the idolatry. It is true that environment
you don't regenerate the soul, but the renewed soul transforms the
environment. Best conditions are evidence of the new life. On the
contrary, when in their autumn they fall back to paganism, in untidy
dresses, houses sick-estates and neglected fields." [The footnote: the Turn. C. L.
Room, D.D., Missionary American Association.]
Alaska is a place that over some other in the American church
the courage of applications and the persistence, physicist and ethic.
"The nativeses of Anvik invited the missionary to visit them
village, 450 water miles from St. Michael.
"These nativeses were Ingiliks, partly Indian and partially Eskimo. Them
lived in the houses of subsoil and it was superstitious, dirty, ignorant,
and failsoft. Ill-mannered buildings were erect for a house of mission and the
scholastic building. In 1894 the first church was erect, the money for him
being a part of the first Offer United of the Women is Auxiliary.
Few to few the people went out of their holes in the earth and
houses been built. Community has physically been and morally
transformed. A saw-mill, the gift of an Oriental and generous layman has
is a more practical he/she wants to say of evangelising, while not only furnishing
encumbrances for houses but healthy occupations for the men. This
transformation has been beaten, not from legislation or the civilization
as so, but from the constant teaching and example of a lover
Christian man and his/her splendid assistants. 'Through these long years,
in the loneliness of this far-away the station, the missionary has
remained some kind, wise shepherd, spiritual of these native souls
in the wild region. The mission has undertaken tall ideals, and it has