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literature placed within their reach. After these
years of begging and planning I have now fifty-eight
free lending libraries, and the number is increasing,
circulating among the settlements and more per- I
manent camps, besides a dozen libraries for children
in backwoods schools. The “‘regular”’ libraries con-
tain over 6,000 volumes, cloth bound and in good
condition. Also I have over 7,000 books in “‘dis-
card”’ lots scattered about in camps where it is im-
possible to keep track of books. These discards are |
first-class reading, but the book itself is not in good
enough shape as regards binding, etc., to put into my
regular libraries. Everything is absolutely free,
no charges, deposits, or penalties, no “distinction of
persons.”
Every child that I know of in my district, where
there may be no little Sunday School, if it can read,
is getting a good Sunday School paper sent through
the mail regularly and consecutively. There must
be more than 400 of these. Then I have about 500
children on my unorthodox Cradle Roll, black,
white, brown and yellow, and mixed. They rep- j
resent, 1 suppose, every main religion on the face
of the earth, occidental and oriental. They get the
regular birthday cards and then when five years old
a Bible story book is sent, with a box of crayons for
the boys and a yard or two of pretty ribbon for the
girlies. All this kind of work is done by faithful
friends in Vananda and Vancouver. Outstanding
among these consecrated helpers are Miss Adelaide |
Sutherland, Miss Jessie Robertson, Miss Mary