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found on the rivers that head on the mountains that 

 divide the Togiak valley from the Kuskokwim. 

 b. The other difficulty is one that Nushagak has to con- 

 tend with, the opposition of the Greek Church. It is, 

 however, too far moved from that station for this op- 

 position to prevent a rapid progress of evangelistic 

 work. 

 These two are the only disadvantages that I know of. I 

 have endeavored to give you a fair idea of this new plan for 

 the extension of the Church's activity." 



In case this suggestion can not be carried out. Brother 

 Kilbuck desires to have the working force at Bethel so in- 

 creased that without disadvantage to this central station 

 outposts may be occupied at a greater or less distance as 

 filials, and more or less extensive evangelistic tours be un- 

 dertaken up and down the Kuskokwim River. For the 

 latter purpose a steam launch such as the Society at its last 

 annual meeting took into consideration to send, would 

 doubtless prove extremely useful. 



Such has been the commencement, and such is the pres- 

 ent situation, of the Moravian Mission in Alaska. What 

 Its future is destined to be, the Lord, Whose coming to 

 reign over His rightful dominion His faithful servants are 

 seeking to hasten, alone knows, concealed as it is in the 

 sovereign mystery of His providential designs. This, how- 

 ever, remains -certain : whatever that future. He will not put 

 to shame the faith and fidelity of those who are in the field 

 and of those who maintain them whilst "abiding by the 

 staff" at home. To him be all the glory of success ! 



The control of the Moravian Mission in Alaska, belongs 

 ultimately to the Department of Missions at Berthelsdorf, in 

 Saxony, in accordance with the fundamental principle of 

 the Moravian Church, that " the Brethren's Unity and the 

 Brethren's Mission are inseparably connected, and that 

 there will never be a Unity of the Brethren without a Mis- 

 sion to the Heathen or a Mission of the Brethren which is 

 not an affair of the whole Church." Yet the practical 



