Home Missionary, The (May 1890-April 1891) . eventy-five to onehundred miles north of the Gulf. The climate certainly has not its equalin any portion of the Union. The entire country of Eastern Texas and Western Louisiana is yet tobecome the seat of great and wealthy States. Now is a critical time in itshistory. If an earnest Christian college had been planted when its in-habitants were but three or four thousand people, as Harvard was plant-ed among the early inhabitants of Massachusetts and grew up with thepeople, then the case would be different; but already there are at leastthree quarters
Home Missionary, The (May 1890-April 1891) . eventy-five to onehundred miles north of the Gulf. The climate certainly has not its equalin any portion of the Union. The entire country of Eastern Texas and Western Louisiana is yet tobecome the seat of great and wealthy States. Now is a critical time in itshistory. If an earnest Christian college had been planted when its in-habitants were but three or four thousand people, as Harvard was plant-ed among the early inhabitants of Massachusetts and grew up with thepeople, then the case would be different; but already there are at leastthree quarters of a million of people there—a population larger thanthe State of Connecticut which has two colleges and a great University tomeet its needs. A quarter of these are negroes, some Germans, some Ital-ians, some Creoles, some the descendants of the Acadiansof whom Longfel-low wrote, and many thousands are from western and northern homes—allmingling with the still greater thousands of the southern white people, 1890 THE HOME MISSIONAEY 273. LAKE CHAKLES,
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