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46, Snapshots from the North Pacife.

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Indian Girls’ Home, Metiakatla.

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adults. We have an average of more than sixty at our daily
meeting for prayer. Sewing classes, Dorcas parties, mis-

sionaries’ prayer union—a constant stream of visitors, v ho
come chiefly for instruction ; tea parties, brass-band prac-
tisines, choir practices, and many other agencies for
increasing knowledge, sacred and secular, and for advancing
the arts of civilization. This is the only community of
Indians I know that has a natural increase of the population.
Crime is almost unknown; the standard of moral conduct
is higher than that of any other place I ever lived at. Purity
of life leads to health, and that to happy homes full of
chubby children. Such is the actual condition of Metla-
katla, and it has a hopeful future.

“What is better than the growth of only one place is the
spread of the Gospel in every direction. Ten years ago I
found in the diocese but two clergy, now ten and ai candidate
for holy orders; then two churches, now there are ten, and
three projected. Then not one of the languages had been