The Spirit of missions . ad to turn away, un-able to gain an entrance. * Mr. Strangman is a candidate for orderswho has recently come to the help of BishopHowe and the Fairbanks staff.—EIditob. The service about which I wish towrite especially, however, is the chil-drens festival on Easter afternoon. Theoffering had been gathered in the creamcans as usual, for the Canned LentenOffering has become a recognized partof our Church life. This offering, mostof it, had been brought to the church onSaturday afternoon, when the classeswere allowed to shake their cans to seewhich could make the most noi
The Spirit of missions . ad to turn away, un-able to gain an entrance. * Mr. Strangman is a candidate for orderswho has recently come to the help of BishopHowe and the Fairbanks staff.—EIditob. The service about which I wish towrite especially, however, is the chil-drens festival on Easter afternoon. Theoffering had been gathered in the creamcans as usual, for the Canned LentenOffering has become a recognized partof our Church life. This offering, mostof it, had been brought to the church onSaturday afternoon, when the classeswere allowed to shake their cans to seewhich could make the most noise. Main-taining their unbroken record, theprimary department was awarded the de-cision by three competent, unbiasedjudges, and so pleased were they and wethat when the entire school shook theircans at one time as a parting salute tothis years offering, many of the adultsand friends not shaking put their fingersin their ears and some of the schoolsought partial relief with one hand,shaking vigorously with the other. On. GATHERING GREENS FOR EASTERDECORATIONS AT FAIRBANKS (491) 492 An Alaska Easter Easter afternoon, therefore, when theschool had again gathered, we learnedwith extreme satisfaction that the offer-ing amounted to the splendid sum of$, which has been augmented by afew tardy mite-chests to $ Ourlargest offering heretofore was $234which was made up by four missions: , Fairbanks; St. Barnabass,Chena Native Village; the people ofChena, and St. Marks, Nenana. A dis-tinct gain has certainly been made, whenSt. Matthews nearly equals the largesttotal of past efforts, and we feel encour-aged by this fact and by the knowledgethat the Lenten services were better at-tended than ever before, to say thatEaster of 1909 was the happiest and bestwe have known. A word of explanation is needed re-garding adjacent points. The trail is insuch condition that it would be impos-sible to go to Nenana, much as we wishto make the trip. Wednesday morningin Easter week
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