The work of the Lutheran Church among the Indians began, as we have seen, in the Swedish settlement along the Delaware River. In Georgia the work of the Salzburgers was closed by the removal of the Indians, an almost inevitable consummation in the days when the Indians were constantly shifting in flight or by compulsion from place to place. The Rev. J. C. Hartwig, one of the pioneer ministers of the American Lutheran Church who died in 1796 left his property, amounting to about seventeen thousand dollars for the establishing of a training school (Hartwick Seminary) for ministers and missionaries. He had in mind especially missionaries who should work among the American Indians. The school was established and when application was made to the government to begin work among the Indians of Otsego County, New York, President Washington answered that a special act of Congress would be required before permission could be given. Among the unconverted Indians the Lutheran Church is at work in various places to-day. The _Norwegian Synod_ has had a mission among the Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin since 1885. For its support they contributed in 1915, $6,000. Here also _Elling’s Synod_ of the Norwegian Church has a mission. In Arizona the _Missouri Synod_ has a mission. In Arizona the _Wisconsin Synod_ has four mission stations--at Globe, a town of about eight thousand inhabitants, at Peridot on the San Carlos Indian Reservation, at East Fork, and at Cibecue. The community at East Fork has been recently visited with serious epidemics, but the twenty-five children in the Lutheran school all survived and were able to return. The village of Cibecue lies far from the railroad and the Indians there have not been affected by the vices of civilization. Here it was not possible during the last year to receive all the children who came. The _Danish Synod_ has been at work in Oklahoma since 1892. It contributed in 1915, $2,500 to this mission. ALASKA. Alaska is the name given to the northwestern corner of North America which was bought by the United States from Russia in 1867. Its area is about five hundred and ninety thousand square miles and is equal to that of all the northern States east of the Mississippi with the addition of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. The population in 1890 was sixty-three thousand, of whom twenty-five thousand were Indians and Esquimaux. The natives are superstitious and devoted to the worship of departed spirits. Though the North of Alaska is uninhabitable, the South has a temperate Summer. Here the _Norwegian Synod_ began missionary work in 1894 at Port Clarence. The mission was begun in buildings furnished by the United States government, which had suggested the undertaking. The first missionary, the _Rev. T. L. Brevig_, not only served the colony of Norwegians and Lapps, but went promptly to work among the native Esquimaux.