The Spirit of missions . ARTHUR WRIGHT, ARCHDEACON STUCKSKOYUKUK INTERPRETER 796 Winter and Spring at AUakaket. OLD MESUK of the Arctic City natives come up theten miles on Sunday; some of the SouthFork natives come down the thirty milesfor Sunday. Every Sunday of the year(unless it be those Sundays immediatelyahead of us, or two or three in the fall)there is a much larger assemblage ofpeople at church than the immediate vi-cinity could afford. Well, we cannotkeep these people sitting in church allday. The services are long anyway, ow-ing to the inevitable delay of the two in-terpretations. Ev
The Spirit of missions . ARTHUR WRIGHT, ARCHDEACON STUCKSKOYUKUK INTERPRETER 796 Winter and Spring at AUakaket. OLD MESUK of the Arctic City natives come up theten miles on Sunday; some of the SouthFork natives come down the thirty milesfor Sunday. Every Sunday of the year(unless it be those Sundays immediatelyahead of us, or two or three in the fall)there is a much larger assemblage ofpeople at church than the immediate vi-cinity could afford. Well, we cannotkeep these people sitting in church allday. The services are long anyway, ow-ing to the inevitable delay of the two in-terpretations. Everybody in church hasto listen to three sermons every time!When morning service is done lunch is eaten—in the church by a good many—and then everyone, old and young, flocksdown to the river and the fun is fast andfurious for an hour. Then the bell ringsand all troop back again for Sunday-school. Then comes foot-ball again forperhaps a couple of hours, and then even-ing service. And after that foot-ballagain till far into the night—only in thespring there is very little night. We godown to the ice wit
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