. Christian herald. sadors, directing themto aid Mr. Anderson in every way that seems feasi-ble. Special audiences with the Kaiser and theking of England are being arranged for. Seventy-nine international organizations have signified theirsupport. The probable cost of the World Citywill be $100,000,000. Possible sites have beenstudied on the New Jersey coast, the Dutch coast,near The Hague; the Riviera, near Cannes; Ter-vueren, near Brussels, near Bern, near Paris; theMarmora coast near Constantinople, and the Medi-terranean coast near Rome. This project is theexpression of the tendency to wor
. Christian herald. sadors, directing themto aid Mr. Anderson in every way that seems feasi-ble. Special audiences with the Kaiser and theking of England are being arranged for. Seventy-nine international organizations have signified theirsupport. The probable cost of the World Citywill be $100,000,000. Possible sites have beenstudied on the New Jersey coast, the Dutch coast,near The Hague; the Riviera, near Cannes; Ter-vueren, near Brussels, near Bern, near Paris; theMarmora coast near Constantinople, and the Medi-terranean coast near Rome. This project is theexpression of the tendency to world unity. An in-ternational city of peace and virtue and plentywould be one step toward the universal city intowhich John looked: Ami I will write upon him the name of my God, and thename of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, whichCometh down out of heaven from my God. (Rev. 3: 12.) Jews Retranslating Their Bible ISAAC LEESER, who died in 1868, came to thiscountry as a clerk and also as a lay-teacher in the. TRANSLATORS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE Prosperous Alaska THE reports of theUnited States Govern-ment on the education, the fishery, and fur industries of Alaska, recentlyprinted, are very encouraging. The schools for thenatives reach all the way from the southern ex-tremity of the territory below Sitka to Point Bar-row, on the Arctic Ocean. There are schools even inUnalaska and Atka in the Aleutian chain. Whenthe barriers of snow, ice, and primitive roads aretaken into account it is surprising that the schoolattendance is 1,805 out of a possible 4,018, Thereare 109 teachers, of whom 14 are natives. There arein that territory 38,476 reindeer, 24,068 of them inthe hands of native owners, and they are valued at$601,700. The fifty-four herds in line would stretch5,000 miles. The salmon canned last year wasworth over $16,000,000, which is an amount morethan twice as much as Mr. Seward paid Russia forall of Alaska. The Yukon Valley and other dis-tricts continue their yield of g
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