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AMERICA INLAND MISSION.
Eleventh Annual Report.
God has added another year of blessing
to the Soul Winners' work among the
long-neglected mountain people. To all
these whom God has honored with a share
in this mission, we gladly make this report.
In spite of financial depression
He has graciously raised up friends in
maijv inuus, ciiui buppuuu ail uur iift'u.
To Him be all the glory.
During the year ending March 31, 1909,
our treasurer, Major Robert S. Bullock,
received $11,836.86 and paid out $10,880.37.
Not a single collection was taken
in any church, and every salary was paid
at the end of every month. During the
year a new college was built'in the Cumberlands
and dedicated by the Governor
of Kentucky. Besides this, ten churches,
schools and mission houses were built,
and over eighty faithful evangelists were
employed in the mountains of Kentucky,
Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia.
Besides these, some of our missions received
valuable help from Rev. Dr. E. W.
IvicCorkle, Rev. Dr. D. Clay Lilly, Rev.
.las. W. Tvler. Rev. Jas. A. Brvan. Rev.
Isaac D. Borders, Rev. Robert Kinnaird,
Mr. Richard Redd and others.
From the monthly reports of our evangelists
the following summary is compiled:
They held 6,084 gospel services at
157 points, and taught 95 Bible schools
with 254 teachers and 5,825 pupils; there
were 1,780 public confessions of Christ.
They taught 32 day schools, with 1,268
pupils, distributed 1.J18 Bibles, 17,500
tracts, 125 boxes of clothing, visited
11,154 homes of the poor. Remember
this work was done in the "regions beyond"
churches and preachers, among
our own destitute countrymen. We have
opened several new missions at different
points, and God has provided the means
to build another large dormitory at the
Highland College, by the hand of a noble
woman of Georgia. Another devoted
woman, of Kentucky, devised the interest
of her whole estate (bf some twenty-Are
thousand doliars), to the support of the
Soul Winners missions. Our new Oipnan
Asylum, the gift of another good woman,
Is in successful operation under a most
capable woman, who gives her services
freely. But time would fail to even
enumerate the results of last year's work.
Eleven years ago, we began this work
with only one missionary and |360. Behold
what God hath wrought. To Him
be all the glory.
In all our efforts we have had the
generous assistance of the press, which
we gratefully acknowledge. We have
no agents, and no place in church collections.
God sent us every dollar by the
hands of His children in many lands.
m nu uitu ouuipa&sioii on mpse multitudes
In the mountains, without a Shepherd.
We thank them; God will reward them.
During the year a number of our missions
have enjoyed revivals in which
over seventeen hundred persons professed
conversion.
. Though these hlghlanders are poor and
unlearned, there , are no more deserving
people anywhere, and none more ready to
receive tue Gospel. They are worthy
descendants of their Anglo-Saxon and
Scotch-Irish ancestors. Their condition
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E PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOUT
should appeal to all who love God and
their fellow men. There are yet thousands
of them perishing beyond our farthest
missions in the great Allegheny
and Cumberland mountains. We are
your servants to carry the Gospel to
them. No agency can do this work more
economically. A distinguished minister
said, "The Society of Soul Winners is
doing the most and best work, with the
imsi money 01 any missionary society
on earth, so far as I know."
One dollar will put the Soul Winner
Journal into five homes for a year. $10
will support a good teacher. $25 will
support a man and his wife. $250 will
build a church or mission house. $4,000
will build a dormitory for the orphan
boys, so greatly needed. Can you put
God's money to better use? All your
possessions are "His goods" for which
you must give an account. And these are
your neighbors, wnom you are commanded
to love.
O voice from out of the darkness,
O cry of a soul in pain;
May it ring as the blast of a clarion,
Nor call God's hosts'in vain!
By the pierced hand that saved us,
Get ours do their duty today,
'Till from those who tremble in darkness
The shadows are swept away."
Mav God heln vnil tr? hpnr that r>fv
and hear Him say, "Come ye blessed
of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared
for you; for I wa6 ahungered and
ye gave me meat."
With gratitude to all our friends, and
begging your prayers and help we are,
Your humble servants, ?
Edward 0. Guerrant, President, Wilmore,
Ky.
Robt. S. Bullock, Treasurer (Cashier
Fayette Nat l Bank), Lexington, Ky.
James Robert Alexander, Secretary, Wilmore,
Ky.
Send all help to the President or Secretary,
Wilmore, Ky.
WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY.
The Commencement exercises of 1909
closed the most successful year in the
history of Washington and Lee University.
The past year brought not only a larger
enrollment (about 575) of students, but
a larger increase in enrollment over the
pr?Tiuub year, man oetore in tne past of
the institution. * The total number of
graduates was 86, nearly half of whom
were from the State of Virginia. A large
number of the alumni were back at Com:
mencement, especially of the students
who were here from 1885 to 1890. To
those among them who have not returned
since their graduation, the changes which
twenty years have made were very
striking. This was strongly brought out
by Hon. Wade Hampton Ellis, who took
for the theme of his address before the
Alumni Association, "Twenty Years
After."
The baccalaureate sermon by Dr.
James I. Vance of Newark had for its
subject, "Your Career as a Man in Relation
to your God," and was based on 1
John 3: 2. At night Dr. Vance spoke
to the Y. M. C. A. on, "The motive of
he man who is to save the world, this
motive being love to Christ." The work
of the Association has been developed
very much during the past year, a general
secretary being employed for the
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first time. New quarters have been provided
for the Association in the new
Carnegie Library, and the Association
work put on a good footing.
The address before the literary societies
on comnienrempnt Ho?r ?roo k.. tj?
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George F. Parker, of New York, whose
theme was, "Some American Literary
Needs." The valedictory was by C. S.
Osbourn, of Shenandoah Junction, W. Va.
This occasion received added interest
from the presentation by his grandson
of a portrait of Dr. George Junkin, president
of the institution from 1848 to 1861.
Dr. Junkin was founder and first president
of Lafayette College, and also for
a time president of Miami College. Dr.
Strickler, on behalf of the trustees received
the portrait and gave some interesting
reminiscences of Dr. Junkin.
ihe honorary degree of LL. -. was conferred
on Hon. Wade Ellis and Mr.
George F. Parker, and the degree of D. D.
on Rev. A. Sydenstri(jker, of China, Revv
Everard Meade of Fairfax County, and
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jr. uurnore oi union Theological
Seminary, Richmond. The degree
of Litt. D. was given to Dr. John Caldwell
Calhoun of Florida State College.
The trustees provided for a memorial
tablet to be placed on the walls of the
chapel to the Liberty Hall Volunteers,
who went as a college company from the
class room to the front, and fought from
Manassas , to Appomatox. They also accepted
a scholarship from former Governor
McCorkle of West Virginia, valued
at $300 and a medal to be awarded to the
best all-round student.
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Ever read the above letter? A new
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