. The men of the mountains; the story of the southern mountaineer and his kin of the Piedmont; with an account of some of the agencies of progress among them. Inthat circumstance he differed from the other boys ofthe region. Is it too much to say that but for that rayof Ught, his great soul would have been strangled in thebirth? To such institutions as Berea College the mountainsowe a debt. And the mountains are paying it in trainedand resolute men and women who are giving their allto the uplift of their fellows who may yet make thebackbone of Americas liberty. To such institutionsas Berea Ame
. The men of the mountains; the story of the southern mountaineer and his kin of the Piedmont; with an account of some of the agencies of progress among them. Inthat circumstance he differed from the other boys ofthe region. Is it too much to say that but for that rayof Ught, his great soul would have been strangled in thebirth? To such institutions as Berea College the mountainsowe a debt. And the mountains are paying it in trainedand resolute men and women who are giving their allto the uplift of their fellows who may yet make thebackbone of Americas liberty. To such institutionsas Berea America ov/es a debt; for they are making toAmerica a bequest more precious than the treasm-es of themines, the wealth of the plains, and the commerce of thecity marts. And America has but in small part dischargedits debt. Some coins have day by day been droppedinto the treasury by the rich men, some httle equipment,some wider facihties have been added now and againto the tremendous investment due to Appalachia; butstill the army of the mountain helpers may say of theirwork as Berea says: Berea never can be rich as longas anybody in the mountains is poor!. VIIITHE PRKMIE:r of home MISSIONS IT IS a fact little known that up to 1830 the greateststrength of the antislavery forces in America lay inthe Southern States. The Northeast had shuffled offits soiled garments of slavery, the Northwest had neverput them on, and thus they had largely escaped the dis-comfort of mind and the tortures of soul that wentwith the slavery question. But the South was struggling with a rice and cane and cotton fields were teeming withslaves whose labor a wrong-headed philosophy declaredprofitable. Yet the great majority of Southern whitemen were not slave-owners. Where there was one whoowned slaves, there were perhaps ten who owned none;and from among these ten there were many who spokeout against slavery, who demanded its abolition. Ofthe one hundred twenty antislavery societies in theUni
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