. Christian herald and signs of our times. AN ALASKAN INDIAN CANOE CONVEYING MISSIONARIES. and covered by the territories of Montana,Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizonaand Utah. He remained in this work untilJanuary, 1882, when he spent a short timein the East. Dr. Jacksons field of workbeing among the exceptional populations ofthe country, he became the originator andone of the chief promoters of the WomansExecutive Committee of Home organized the first Presbyterian mis-sions or churches in the Territories of Wy-oming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona andAlaska, and he founded the
. Christian herald and signs of our times. AN ALASKAN INDIAN CANOE CONVEYING MISSIONARIES. and covered by the territories of Montana,Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizonaand Utah. He remained in this work untilJanuary, 1882, when he spent a short timein the East. Dr. Jacksons field of workbeing among the exceptional populations ofthe country, he became the originator andone of the chief promoters of the WomansExecutive Committee of Home organized the first Presbyterian mis-sions or churches in the Territories of Wy-oming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona andAlaska, and he founded the Alaska Mis-sion. He assisted in the organization ofthe Svnods of St. Paul in i860, and Colo-. THE FIRST REINDEER LANDED ON THE COAST OF UNALASKA (From a Photograph ForiL<ardid by Rcl. Sheldon Jackson. fourth of the United States. In 1870 he re-ceived a commission from the Board of Do-mestic Missions, as Superintendent of Mis-sions for the Rocky Mountain Territories,and removed to Denver,Colo.,taking chargeof the vast and then almost unknown rado in 1871, of the Presbyteries of Chip-pewa in 1859, Southern Minnesota in 1865,Colorado 1870, Wyoming 1871, Montana1872, and Utah 1874; having previojslyorganized the majority of the churchescomposing several Presbyteries. Over one When Dr. Jackson first went to Alaska,it was an unorganized section, without lawor government. Recognizing the need ofgoverment protection for the infant mis-sions, he pressed the matter upon the atten-tion of Congress until, in the spring of1884, a bill was passed giving both agovernment and a common school systemto Alaska. In the spring of 1885. he wasappointed bv the Secretary of the Interior,United Sta
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