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with other nations.
The church (54)
at Upernik is now housed in a
new building and is fully equipped
with alter, high pulpit, reading stand,
baptismal font, melodion and bell,
and can accommodate an au-
dience of eighty. School is held
in a room occupying the ground
floor of a house near the church
and has accommodations for
about thirty pupils. The pastor and
his wife are the teachers.
Manual
training in the working of bone, ivory
and wood and in sewing forms an
important part of the simple cur-
riculum, which otherwise com-
prises reading, writing, simple
arithmetic, geography and singing.
The pastor and his wife are the teachers
and the school year lasts the usual
nine months. [Photos] The