North Carolina Christian advocate [serial] . -not be separated without being detrimental to both? It occurs to my mind thatthe proper thing for the church of Christ,whose mission is to take the world forthe Master, to join in with the forcesnow at work to the extent of her abilityand help to consummate the great workshe undertook upwards of a half centuryago and carried on so successfully for atime under so many disadvantages inthis mission. The door seems now to be wide openfor the church to step in and go to its ap-propriate work of Christianizing thispeople. A great many of the youngpeople
North Carolina Christian advocate [serial] . -not be separated without being detrimental to both? It occurs to my mind thatthe proper thing for the church of Christ,whose mission is to take the world forthe Master, to join in with the forcesnow at work to the extent of her abilityand help to consummate the great workshe undertook upwards of a half centuryago and carried on so successfully for atime under so many disadvantages inthis mission. The door seems now to be wide openfor the church to step in and go to its ap-propriate work of Christianizing thispeople. A great many of the youngpeople have already learned to speak theEnglish language and quite a numberare in school, so that in a short time thewhole band can be reached with the gos-pel effectually without the incumbranceof an interpreter as in the days of band is settled on a plat of landcontaining about one hundred thousandacres, mostly mountainous, but very prodnctive in the extreme western portion CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. ]t Cough Syrup. Tastes Good, Vie |. of North Carolina and in the counties ofJackson, Swain and Graham. About midway between Asheville andMurphy and six miles north of Whittieris the location of the Government training school. The Government has erected here several got d substantial buildings for school purposes on the bank ofa beautiful mountain stream called Oconolufty. The population of the band issixteen hundred according to the latecensus of the United States. This showsan increase in population for the last tenyears, numbering from one hundred andfifty to two hundred. H. W. Spray is the efficient Government Superintendent with a competentcorps of teaehers and is doing an excellent work, as I am informed, and wouldno doubt give aid and encouragement toany Christian church undertaking to givethis people the gospel of the Saviour ofmen. And it does seem to me the Wes-tern North Carolina Conference shouldlook after the religious interest of thisband as they are in its bound
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