Southern Mountaineers, The . ^(^tct to its active, zealous, and en- Cnristian . „, . , -r , , Workers ergetic Christian workers. Indeed parts of the Appalachians are al-ready doing so. For example, Maryville, the synodi-cal college of Tennessee, has thus far sent three hun-dred of its graduates into the ministry, besides someundergraduates; and during the past thirty-six yearshas sent out forty-eight foreign missionaries. Morethan thirty-five candidates for the ministry are nowenrolled among its students. Tusculum has contributedone hundred and fifty-four of its alumni to the min-istry ; and W
Southern Mountaineers, The . ^(^tct to its active, zealous, and en- Cnristian . „, . , -r , , Workers ergetic Christian workers. Indeed parts of the Appalachians are al-ready doing so. For example, Maryville, the synodi-cal college of Tennessee, has thus far sent three hun-dred of its graduates into the ministry, besides someundergraduates; and during the past thirty-six yearshas sent out forty-eight foreign missionaries. Morethan thirty-five candidates for the ministry are nowenrolled among its students. Tusculum has contributedone hundred and fifty-four of its alumni to the min-istry ; and Washington also has sent forth large num-bers. And from these and the other schools of themountains there are proceeding large and steadystreams of Christian ministers, teachers, and otherworkers, who are serving the Church at home andabroad. And the signs of promise for an increase ofsuch contributions are most encouraging. The more we study the problem of the seclusion ofthe people of the southern uplands, the more con-. ffi pq APPALACHIAN PROMISE 193 vinced we must be that the hand of God is in it, and that this manly race has been held in reserve by the Lord of Sabaoth to be thrown into Contributing the continental fight for sound ns lan Americanism and pure Christianity xleserves . . at the psychological moment, in his fullness of time, to help decide the battle forrighteousness that is being waged for the entire na-tion. In the days of the American Revolution, the sonsof the Appalachians, sons of Anak in size and valor, swept down from their mountainf I. ® JNiCK eyries and conquered Ferguson and his men at Kings Mountain. Incoming days, the mountaineer, like Tennysonseagle, will sweep down to the modern field of oppor-tunity in the valley below. Close to the sun in lonely lands Ringed with the azure world he watches from his mountain wallsAnd like a thunderbolt he falls. And history will repeat itself. On Americas greatmoral battlefield at a critical period th
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