Southern Mountaineers, The . ance of their position, and some of them made 5^^-^T??^!^^ herculean efforts to meet their op-Their Utmost ^ ^ t-u j r xu portumty. The records of the pres-byteries and synods that had to do with the regionbore frequent testimony to the solicitude those bodiesfelt, and to the efforts they made to reach the desti-tute fields in the mountains. Long-distance criticismof the fathers work would be silenced if the criticswere to do as the writer has had the pleasure of do-ing—read the entire official records of one hundredand fifteen years proceedings of one of those App
Southern Mountaineers, The . ance of their position, and some of them made 5^^-^T??^!^^ herculean efforts to meet their op-Their Utmost ^ ^ t-u j r xu portumty. The records of the pres-byteries and synods that had to do with the regionbore frequent testimony to the solicitude those bodiesfelt, and to the efforts they made to reach the desti-tute fields in the mountains. Long-distance criticismof the fathers work would be silenced if the criticswere to do as the writer has had the pleasure of do-ing—read the entire official records of one hundredand fifteen years proceedings of one of those Appa-lachian presbyteries. The wants of the field werekeenly realized, and noble efforts to meet those needswere made by a pitifully inadequate force. Their crywas an echo of the Masters: Pray ye therefore theLord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborersinto his harvest. Rev. Isaac Anderson, , who had been educatedat Liberty Hall Academy in old Rockbridge County,Virginia, found himself in early manhood an ordained. X3 Oh LATER PRESBYTERIANISM 91 minister settled in the center of East Tennessee. Ashe viewed the rehgious destitution of the valley andthe mountains, his heart bled forSouthern and _ ^h^ hurt of the daughter of hisWestern Theologi- 1 tt j -i • cal Seminary P^^P^^ He made a weary pilgrim- age to seven-year-old PrincetonTheological Seminary in the hope that he could in-duce some of the young men about to graduate fromthat school of the prophets to reinforce the inadequateband of toilers in the Tennessee mountains. In vainwas his pleading, however, for were not many fieldsnearer home in dire need? And why not begin atJerusalem ? Sorely disappointed, but dauntless in his devotionand courage, this Presbyterian prince turned hishorses head homeward. During the two weeksjourney through the Shenandoah Valley and onwardto his home, the shadow of the Appalachians wasupon his spirit and conscience. In that shadow amighty resolve was made—that since he could notbr
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