Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Home Missionary, Vol. 71: July 1898-April 1899 Sword - The increased demand that comes upon the Home Mission ary Society to meet the exigencies of our national growth. Two new phases of the demand occasioned by our national expansion just now confront us. The rush to the Klondike gold region has suddenly rolled upon Christian America the duty of providing the ministries of the Gospel for multitudes in Alaska. The beginnings made by the Rev. Loyal L. Wirt are likely to prove to be the inception of a work which will soon assume far greater magnitude. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.