Edith H. Allen

Capitolo 31

spiritually administered and helpfully to an enormous region.'

"A gold strike was made to Name, and with the first rush of anxious
seekers went to a missionary in that it helped with his/her his/her own hands
the building of the church. Although the men of cafe were offering for
the only available lumber, the bishop found him/it to build first a
center for the men, the only competitor of fourteen cafes.

"Then he returns through his/her great district, on and down
his/her rivers of duration in short summer--previously from boat or canoe,
but now in a throwing, the 'the Pelican.' In winter he goes away
through the wild region without paths, thousand miles or more, behind
his/her dogs, happily facing the works and doing light of dangers,
bringing his/her life in his/her hand as him goes on his/her daily job.

"Particularly it is him it interested in the maintenance and improvement
of the native runs, the Eskimos and the Indians, it put in danger from
their contact with the white man and their his/her own lack of knowledge.
Everywhere its hand has lifted and its voice is heard in them
account.

"Alaska is the earth of a great river without which it was able
you/he/she has just been explored--very less busy and inhabited. The
Yukon is the great public road. On his/her waters in brief summer,
and on his/her surface frozen in winter, goes boat travellers
and it transports on sleigh, and among them the representatives of the church.
Family to the inhabitants along his/her banks the small one is 'the Pelican'
bearing the missionaries, with an engineer half-breed and the
faithful dogs. Everywhere along the river of duration in summer
the provisional fields of the Indians is found, to whom the short one
fishing season intends food through the long winter for them
and their dogs. A stop to a native field is made here for baptizing a
child--there a ceremony of marriage is finished;  a service of communion
it is kept or a call did to a field of fishing to go to pick up some boys and
bring them to a school far-street it is to pension. The job is as varied as