Alaska and the Klondike gold fields : containing a full account of the discovery of gold; enormous deposits of the precious metal; routes traversed by miners; ... . ojects. The Rev. Dr. Saunders, of the Board *of Domestic Missionsof the Presbyterian Church, offered a resolution soon after thepurchase of the Territory that a band of missionaries be sent bythe church to Alaska. A similar proposition was made to theCommittee on Home Missions of the same church. From 1869to 1877 the Rev. George H. Atkinson repeatedly agitated thequestion of sending missionaries to the Territory. These efforts in t
Alaska and the Klondike gold fields : containing a full account of the discovery of gold; enormous deposits of the precious metal; routes traversed by miners; ... . ojects. The Rev. Dr. Saunders, of the Board *of Domestic Missionsof the Presbyterian Church, offered a resolution soon after thepurchase of the Territory that a band of missionaries be sent bythe church to Alaska. A similar proposition was made to theCommittee on Home Missions of the same church. From 1869to 1877 the Rev. George H. Atkinson repeatedly agitated thequestion of sending missionaries to the Territory. These efforts in the Presbyterian Church were backed up byMajor-General O. O. Howard, of the United States Army, andthe Hon. Vincent Colyer, Secretary of the Board of Indian 508 SPREAD OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. Commissioners. This last friend of the Indians even succeededin getting Congress to appropriate ;^50,000 for educational pur-poses in the Territory, but no one was found willing to go to thewilds of the North and administer the fund, and so it was not 1875 and 1876, however, the Rev. Sheldon Jackson, accom-panied by Mrs. A. R. McFarland, went to the Territory and. MISSIONARY AMONG THE ALASKA INDIANS. renewed the work for the Presbyterian denomination. Themissionaries met at various houses, in vacant stores, and even inthe huts of the natives, and held religious services, and especiallylent their aid in support of the little band of Indians mentionedabove, and in 1879 there was such interest in Christian work inthe districts they visited that services of a revival nature werefrequently held and were largely attended by the Indians. It is curious to notice how quickly and sincerely the savages SPREAD OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. 009 took to the new life and its literature. Dr. Jackson gives a listof some inscriptions he copied from an Indian cemetery, whereonce were found, as indications of religious belief, nothing butthe totem poles of the savages. Among these inscriptions werethe follow
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