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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1907.
IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD
What the Church Folk Are Thinking About arid Doing—Religious News From Everywhere
MOUNTAINEERS
AND GOSPEL
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
Our American highlanders occupy an
area 600 miles long by 200 wide In the
mountain region ot eastern Kentucky,
West Virginia, Tennessee and adjacent
states. This belated population Is from
thirty to forty years behind the time
In many sections. Having no navigable
streams and only a few railroads, they
arc shut off from the world by the
geographical location of their mountain
homes. They are not foreigners, but
blood brothers of us all. Always have
they stood by the Union. In their veins
mingle heroic qualities of Scotch Pres
byterian and French Huguenot ances
try. In all our wars they have shed
their blood for the right.
The men who planted civilization
west of the Alleghenies were mostly
Virginians, belonging either to the gen
try or to the sturdy Scotch-Irlsh or
English yeomanry who worked their
own plantations. Of this latter class
wits the body of immigrants. Including
about thirty men, whom James Robert
son led over the mountain In 1770 to
form the first civilized settlement. They
settled on the Watauga and built com
fortable log houses. They had a few
books, among them the Bible, Wutts'
hymns, the spelling book and Pilgrim's
Progress. They were so generally edu
cated that In 1776 only two In about
200 were unable to write their names.
They were shut oft from the civilized
world by the high mountains, and were
surrounded on every other side by
thousands of Indluns. The Indians who
made this region their hunting ground
AN OUTCAST—A PRINCE;
THE CHILDHOOD OF MOSES
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
After reading that depressing book, "The
House of Mirth," with its keen studies of
conditions in so-called "society," ono
struck by the fact that there is no place
for a child In that society. Thero la no
prattle of baby voices In the book, no love-
llght In mothers* eyes, none of the pride of
parenthood on the part of the men. Only
In the last chapter, as the story draws to
Its miserable close, docs a babe appear, and
then os The child of the wife of a poor
worklngmnn: and the reader sees that, after
nuiniiijjiuiiui .mu iul ivnuci o«n
all the brilliance and pomp and luxury of
the life depicted In the book, it is the hum*
Life is not normal except
In the midst." That is why so many little
children smile from the pages of the old
Hook which Is tbo best mirror of life. That,
too. Is ono of tho reasons for the perennial
charm of this volume to young and old
alike. A certain little toddler of 3 was wont
' tarn*
„ What
shall we read today?" "Read about Moses. 1
And It Is the child Moses that 25,000,000
members of the Sunday schools of the
world will read and study this week.
A Mother's Subterfuge.
Kings cannot successfully legislate against
human nature; the Pharaoh who, fearful of
the Increase of the Israelites, ordered that
all new horn male Infants be destroyed, was
undertaking a project beyond the power of
royalty and Its forces to execute. All the
Ingenuity of a shrewd people would be
brought Into play to block his design.
Mother lore Is not s light thing, to be over*
come hy any potentate’s will. The lengths
to which It will go to protect Its own pass
the belief of mortal. Several times during
the present Chinese famine mothers
siit ns a
i well content
ired 1
—_ l*e well with their offspring.
When to a son and daughter of tho tribe
were the Shawnees, Creeks, Cherokeea, I
Choctaw* and Chickasaw a. The set- - w - n> 50,11 * -***-7 . the “other
tiers held their ground for five or six
years, till they numbered 200 riflemen,
so guarding the mountain passes that
not a tomahawk reached the homes of
Eastern Carolina. Their own cabins
were burned, they suffered many losses,
but were the immovable rear-guard of
the Revolution. By 1778, a tide be
gan to set In from North Carolina, of
an element evidently including some
descendants of the Indentured servants
who had been imported to work the
plantations, and some of the descend
ants of the criminal class that had es
caped from Justice. When the cotton
gin was Invented In 1792, and cotton
lands became more valuable, many
small planters sold out and betook
themselves to the mountains. It has
been said that “the present condition
of these people Is directly traceable to
slavery; for In making the slave the
planter's blacksmith, carpenter, wheel
wright and man of all work, slavery
shut every avenue of honest employ
ment against the working white man
and drove him to the mountains or bar
ren sand hills/
When the Civir'war closed physical
starvation was near at hand. Today
mental starvation Is upon them. The
ancestors of these kindly people were
careless of education, moving to remote
places, neglecting to build, and unable
to build, their llarvards, Yales, Mount
Holyokes and otl|r schools such os
were building elsewhere In the South
and throughout the North. As the
generations passed the Importance of
education grew more and more re
mote until It was lost from their
thought and vision.
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nil rt u a iiuiu u t/uuv inij, ...
that ho was a goodly child—as If any
baby Is ever aught else In the ey»* of Its
mother. Ono Ann conviction every mother
since Bve has cherished In her heart,
namely, that her child Is not Uko other
children. And what dream castles these
mothers build! Alas, that children should
so seldom put the foundations of actuality
under them! Hid the mother of Moses
dream of a deliverer for her oppressed
people? Every little life. It has been said.
Is n scaled casket, which may contain pre
cious Jewels; possibly the jewel of great
price for which the world Is waiting. The
inlnd delights to dwell upon this fasci
nating theme of the possibilities of child
hood; we know of a certainty that tomor
row’s great man Is somewhere a boy to
day; ho may be the boy nearest you, so
treat him wisely.
Along with every other mother tbrot*;h
out the centuries, the mother of Moses be
lleved that her lx>y wns worth saving.
There Is never a boy or a man allowed to
go down In the maelstrom of life concern-
explanation—volunteering to secure a nurse
for tbo babe, and calling, of course, tho
mother, who, In a sort of grim Joke on
Pharaoh, drew wages from his household
for nurturing her own babe, whom be had
sought to stay. Thus tho cruel ruler was
circumvented, and the shaping of tbo child’s
early Ideals lay with her who would rear
him as a child of Jehovah, and os a patriot
Hebrew. Although sho knew nothing of the
FEW SENTENCE
SERMONS
of childhood directs tho coarm of life.
Mow. would later grow up am] bo called
the son of tho Egyptian princess; but In
heart he would remain a Hebrew ami loyal
to tho teachlugu of .his Lertto mother.
A Patriot’, Blow.
A tragic cplsodo In Moecs' life, ns he
drew on to maturity, demonstrated that ho
was truo to tho patriotic tcachlngi of bla
mother. A life spent amid tbo splendor,
of sn Egyptian palace could not inure him
to Injustice; ns ho looked upon tho burdens
°f Ms brethren his soul rose In rebellion
within him; that man Is no patriot, what-
ever his nation, who can look unmoved
npon the suffering* of his frllow-cltlacns.
l.vcry citizen must be willing to make com.
mon cause with all cltiscns In securing tho
welfare of the whole body of citizenship.
In the hot blood of youth, when Moses
saw sn Kgyptlaa smiting t Hebrew, all his
and he killed tho oppresaor. Bo the
Justifiable or unjustifiable, It proved that
Moses was no mere lachrymose, milk-and-
water, drawing-room sentimentalist, but a
red-blooded rigorous man. an eh aa are tho
hope of mankind In remedying tho wrongs
of,tho world. The msn who Is afraid to
•trike a blow for right and justice, lest he
Injure his own self-interest. Is of small use
msiy oioses was mane to drlok the hit-
up of Ingratitude which every reformer
■ taste. On tho day after the slaying
h« Kgyptlsn he tried to arbitrate a
. ret between two Hebrews, for he then
was feeling keenly the need for the solld-
The best reward for having wrought
well already Is to have more to do.—
Charles Kingsley.
To make habitually a now estimate—
that is elevation.—Emerson.
Lot us hopo that to our pralso
Good God not only reckons
The moments when wo tread hts ways,
But when tho Spirit beckons—
That some slight good Is also wrought
Beyond self-satisfaction.
When wo oro simply good In thought
Howe'er wo fail in action.
—Lowell.
Seek not to have things happen as
you chooso them, but rather cliooso
them to happen as they do. and so shall
you live prosperously.—Epictetus.
Who keeps one end In view makes
oil things sure.—Browning.
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.
The eternal years of God are hers.
—Bryant.
Tho weariness and sadness of life
come from persistently closing our eyes
to Its greatness.—Lucy Larcom.
nrlty of his people. But these disputants.
In most modern fashion, eared more for
tho petty nffalra of their own little world
than for tbo n>moon welfare, so they turn
ed upon Moses-with Ingratitude and re-
praaehea, charging him with ths murder of
tho Egyptian. I'anlr-stricken by the knowl
edge that his crime was known, e.en to
GENERALS OF LOST CAUSE
GROW FEWER EACH YEAR
> every trne woman's henrt
lyvc-
And
shrewd plan for savins her child. She pre
pared a little boat r' —•
carefully water-nroot_ ..
Into this she tenderly laid her well-wrapped
bshe,* christening the frail craft with her
tears, and. breathing prayers to the Pro
tector of Israel, she launched the ark
among the bulrushes along the bank of the
Nile.
The Princess and the Waif.
The mother of Moses was not a brilliant
court lady; she did not know the ways of
rtie world; but, what was far more impor
tant. she understood human nature. That
Is why so many old-fnnhloned mothers and
wives are wiser In the deep things of life
than their worldly-wise sons and husbands.
Moses was oot plant! In tho water at ~a
haphazard time or place; hls mother waa co
operating with Providence to tho fall ex
tent of her power. 8be knew when and
where the Egyptian princess bathed; she
knew the young woman's character; and
she knew that to * " ‘
the appeal of
slat! hie.
Thus the dear old romance dJd not simply
happen;" when the princess came down
to the river to bathe, surrounded by her
msldens, she could not fall to see the *
wrought craft and Its tiny burden.
when the babe wept, making the mot.
quont of arguments straight to her heart, she
"had compassion" upon him. Of course,
site was a woman, and every woman looks
twice at every babe she meets. Iset that
babe lie lost or In difficulty on the city
street and see how quickly a crowd of
solicitous women gather.
Fortunately, this tender-hearted Egyptian
..jaldon had the power to make effective
her compassion, she ordered tho little one
taken up and cared for upon her responsi
bility—such Is the Messed privilege or abil
ity. The greatness of the service rendered
to God ami humanity the princess never
dreamed; but it Is always great to minister
in any wise to little chlldrcu.
A Scheme That Succeeded,
Apparently every contingency had been
provided for by tho love-sharpened brain
of the babe's mother. On guard over the
unique cradle gently rocking on the softly
lapping waters, was placed Miriam, tho
older slater of Moses—tho first appearance
In literature of the faithful older slater
caring for the younger brother, aa has been
the custom of older sisters since bistoij bo
om. Must we not count Miriam a suarer
In the greatness that later came to Moses?
Is no* — ‘ “
life
Bwcca?
The plan of the anxious find iJ.irlng moth
er worked perfectly. With tho greatest
good-will In the world toward her newly as-
The officers of the Confederacy are pass
ing away with the years, and when another
decado has gone many of those now surviv
ing will follow the great Gordon, whoso
monument on the cspltol grounds Is unveil
ed Saturday. The list of general' officers
sent by # Georgia In the great struggle shows
but few who can still answer the roll call.
The others have joined "the bivouac of the
dead."
‘Through the courtesy of Telamon Cuyler,
formerly of Atlanta but now of New York,
The Georgian Is able to present In this Is
sue a complete list of the general officers
fnrnlshed to the Confederacy by Georgia.
It Is remarkable that oat of fifty-two
general officers from Georgia, only seven
snnrlve, and all of them bear tbo rank
of brigadier general. They are William
IL Boggs, Winston-Salem, N. C.; Alfred
Camming. Augusta, Ga.; Clement A. Evans,
Atlanta, Ga.; George P. Harrison, Opelika,
Ala.; Alfred Iverson, Kissimmee, Pis.; Wil
burn II. King, Sulphur Springs, Tex.; B. P.
Alexander, "Tho Dunes," South . Island,
S. C.
Georgia came next to Virginia in the
number of general officers furnished the
Confederacy. Virginia had seventy-nine,
Georgia fifty-two, Tennessee forty-four,
Texas forty, etc. In all there were 431
general officer* (luring tho period of war.
All of the "full" generals are dead; only
three of the nineteen lieutenant genera la
survive; only eight of the oighty-one major
generals are still living, and only fifty-two
°fthe 3C5 brigadier generals survive.
The complete roster of Georgia's gen
eral officers, as complied by Mr. Cuyler.
Is as follows: Tho date following the
name Indicates time commissioned with
rank named:
Lieutenant Generals.
William J. Ilardco, October 10> 102; died
it Wythovllle, Va., November 6, 1871 (ma
jor general October T, 1861; brigadier gen
eral June 17, 1361).
Major Generals.
Howell Cobb, September % 1863; died
October 9, 1SCS (brigadier general Febru
ary 13, 1862). '
John B. Gordon, May 14, 1864; died Jan
uary 9, 1904 (brigadier general May 7,
David It. Jones, October 11, 1862; died
January 19, 1SG3 (brigadier general Juno 17,
5 'jjfayetto lfcLaws, May 23, 1862; died
July 22. 1897 (brigadier general Septem
ber 25, 1861),
Davfd B. Twiggs. Mar 23, 1SS1; died
Jill, 15, U83 (brigadier renernlln 1861).
William If. T. Walker. Mar 53, 1863;
killed near Atlanta July 22, 1861 (brigadier
general May 25. 1SC1). .
Joseph Wheeler, January 29, 1863; died
January 25 1906 (brigadier general Octo-
Wright. NotcmVr J8, 1SC4: died
Pc,‘ember a, 1673 (brigadier general June
^P. H.' IL Young, December 30, 1861; died
Jolr 6. 1696 (brigadier federal September
Brigadier Generals.
H. P. Alexander, February 88, 1864.
George tp Anderson, Korember J, 1563;
died April { 1961.
Robert IL Anderson, July 16, 1861; died
February L 1886,
Francis H. Bartow, July —, 1S61: killed
at Bull Run July -, lS8i;
Henry L. Denning, January 17, 1863; died
JYIjllnm n. Boggs, November 4. 1862.
William M. Brown, December 1664;
died —; 1884.
Goode Bryan. August B, 1863; died
Thomas ft. It JIjobb. September I, 1663;
died March 26, 1894.
^Philip Cook, August 5, 1864; died May S3,
Alfred Cummins,* October 39, 1*63.
George Itolea. November 1. 1863; killed
at Be them, church. May JO, 1861.
Dudley M DnBoee, November 16, 1664;
died —, 1881
‘ leraent A. Evans. May 19. 1864.
William M. Gardner, November 14, 1861;
died at Memphis, Tenn., June 10, 1901. *
. . ■— (njpmt 33, 1864; died at
Itlaota. Ga.. April 7. 1891.
Victor J. B. Glrardey, July 39, 1*61; kill-
d1 at rotersbnrg, Va.. August 1864.
George P. Harrison, Jr., February —, 1865.
Alfred Iverson, Jr. November 1, 1SC3; died
March 4, 1613.
Henry IL Jsekson, Juno 4. 1861; died
February 37, 1866.
Alexander a Lewton, April 13, 1861; died
July 1 1896.
John K. Jackson, February 14, 1863; died
February 37, 1866.
Alexander It. Lawton, April 13, 1861; died
July 1, 1896.
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James P. Simms, November 8, 1861.
William D. Smith, March 7, 1862.
O. Moxley Sorrel, October 27, 1864; died
August 10. 1901.
Isaac M. St. John, February 16, 1665; died
April 7, 1680. , t
Marcel I ua A. Stovall, January 20, ISO.
Edward L. Thomas, Novoml»er 1, ivy.
Robert Toombs, July 19, 1881; died D»
comber 15, 18S5.
D. Tracey, August 1C, 102; killed at
Port Gibson. Mias., May 1, 1353.
Henry C. Wayne, December 14, is$l; died
March 15, 1883.
Claudius C. Wilson. November 1C, 1853;
died November 21, 18G3.
W, T, Wofford, January 17, 1863.
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