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February instead of in July as liad been customary. Al- 

 ready the conviction had been deeply fixed in the minds of 

 the Directors of the Society for Propagating the Gospel 

 that additional help should be sent to both stations, and a 

 call had gone forth for volunteers. Now, it appeared as 

 though the brave woman who had so long toiled to the ut- 

 most of her strength without female help at Bethel, might 

 be compelled to return home, for a time at least. The 

 news sent a thrill through the American Moravian Church. 

 At least nineteen volunteers came forward for service in 

 Alaska. Two were selected. John Herman Schoechert, 

 of Watertown, Wisconsin, who was subsequently ordained, 

 was appointed to go to Carmel ; and Miss Carrie Detterer, of 

 Riverside, New Jersey, a daughter of a former pastor of the 

 Moravian congregation there, was choseii for Bethel. In 

 addition, the wife of Bishop Henry T. Bachman, one of 

 the Provincial Elders of the American Moravian Church, 

 offered to go to Bethel for one year, with her youngest son, 

 so as to give Mrs. Kilbuck the rest she so much needed. 



Accordingly this new company of missionaries sailed 

 from San Francisco on May 15, 1889, parting at Ounalaska, 

 to arrive safely at their respective destinations about a week 

 apart in June. Cheered by these reinforcements, the mis- 

 sionaries at either station could look forward to the new 

 year of work with hopeful courage. At Bethel, health had 

 been restored to Mrs. Kilbuck, so that her absence from 

 her post was not required. About twenty children were at- 

 tending the school, when the last letters were sent home. 

 The little congregation numbered twenty-two, not counting 

 the missionaries. At Carmel, the absence of the Greek 

 priest, who had left for San Francisco, rendered labor more 

 agreeable, though there was felt to be great lack of suitable 

 accommodations for the scholars and for the new missionary. 

 During the Summer the ministrations of Brother Wolff to 

 the men of the canneries seemed to be not wholly resultless. 

 Two of the girls of the school were moreover candidates for 

 membership in the Church. The total number of scholars 

 last October was thirty-one. 



Such is the past of the Moravian Mission in Alaska. A 

 great deal of the work has not yet developed into figures 



