Southern Mountaineers, The . d on women andhorses. Gallaher sings the praises of the Mothersof the Forest Land, and nevertheless adds the quali-fying words: Yet who or lauds or honors themEven in their own green home? The district school may lighten their gloom with theillumination of the three Rs, but it is the boarding-school that kindles the light of the outer valley worldand the inner Christian life. As the girls come incontact with devoted and cultured Christian women,they are transformed by the education of the heartand mind alike. Their longings are satisfied, theirideals are elevated,
Southern Mountaineers, The . d on women andhorses. Gallaher sings the praises of the Mothersof the Forest Land, and nevertheless adds the quali-fying words: Yet who or lauds or honors themEven in their own green home? The district school may lighten their gloom with theillumination of the three Rs, but it is the boarding-school that kindles the light of the outer valley worldand the inner Christian life. As the girls come incontact with devoted and cultured Christian women,they are transformed by the education of the heartand mind alike. Their longings are satisfied, theirideals are elevated, and their ambitions are many of them the opening up of the new oppor-tunities is like the cleaving of the rock in a thirstyland. And so it is to all the mountain youth that aresuffering from a long-time and often insatiable thirstfor knowledge—the kind that the boy Lincoln had,while, outstretched on the puncheon floor of his fa-thers cabin, he pored over his well-thumbed book,with the aid of a pine-torch K BOARDING-SCHOOLS, LARGER CENTERS 129 Although the purpose of this book makes it un-necessary to describe in detail the work done by thecolleges of the Appalachian sy- ^]^® ^°i^®^® nods, it would be impossible to of the Synods , 1 , • , overlook them m any such sum-mary as we are now making. All the colleges re-ferred to have found it necessary, as indeed, have allother colleges of the section, in order to serve theirconstituency to the best advantage, to conduct pre-paratory departments in connection with their collegedepartments. So the Presbyterian Church has hadin successful operation, in several cases for a centurypast, college annex boarding-schools which havetrained and sent out many thousands of the youngpeople of the Appalachians. The usefulness of theseinstitutions cannot be measured by their lists ofalumni, worthy as those lists are. The influence oftheir undergraduates has been far greater than thateven of their graduates. Davis and Elki
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