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Show ADVANCE HOT GENERAL ONE Religious Publication Points Out Strong and Deplorable Contrasts Existing in Alaska. The native Alaskan of today Is becoming be-coming In some sections, an Intelligent Intelli-gent and progressive factor In the life of the territory. Recently a daughter daugh-ter of the Ilytlah tribe made application applica-tion for United States citizenship, and after examination was pronounced qualified to exercise Intelligently the duties of an elector the first native woman of Alaska to receive citizenship. citizen-ship. Her father Is u staunch elder of the Hydaburg Presbyterian church. All through southeastern Alaska, natives na-tives are taking up homesteads, organizing organ-izing villages upon sound civic principles, princi-ples, reading the dally papers, putting telephones and electric lights Into their homes In n word, are proving the value of Christian citizenship. But there is another side to the picture pic-ture and the contrast between the unchurched and the Christian Alaskans Alas-kans Is distressing. Scores of villages In the Bristol bay region live where no Protestant missionary has ever been, and the one Greek priest who had ministered to the needs of l.TnO people is now dead. The revolution in Russia has cut off the support of Russian Rus-sian missions In Alaska, leaving the spiritual destitution and physical wretchedness of larce numbers of the.se people wholly unrelieved. The Home Mission Monthly. |