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Errickson. On one occasion Dr. Boggs visited
Princeton Seminary, was kindly received by the
professors, invited to address the students in
the chapel, and received liberal gifts. The venerable
Dr. Paxton came forward, shook hands,
emptied his pocketbook of $200, and bid the
evangelist God-speed.
It would be interesting to follow the evanjje
list during the more than twenty years of hard
and exacting labor given to this field, but the
limits of your paper forbid.
VISIBLE PERMANENT RESULTS.
What are the visible, permanent results of
this workf I lay the emphasis on "permanent,"
for permanence is the final test of Home Mission
work. Much of this work in all the churches
has gone to waste, because mission stations were
badly located and then neglected. The permanent
results of the Pike county field are:
Two churches, organized and in good working
order, one with a membership of 125, and a
ounaay school of bil scholars; the other with 180
members and a Sunday school of 90. With these
churches as the religious centers, are grouped
the following mission stations and Sunday
schools, each under the care of a consecrated
worker; Argo, with a church building and mission
house; Misses Moore and Dormard; Jamboree
on Peter Creek, Miss Ilibler; Freeburn,
with a $1,000 building for church and school,
^Liss Dubose; Devon, church mission and Sun
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Bob, the Missionary Mule.
day school, Mr. Burlinger, a deacon from the
Kenova church; Delorne, Miss Dubose; Majestic
Mines, the nucleus of a Presbyterian church, Mr.
and Mrs. Morgan?six in all. All these stations
are accessible to Phelps, the greatest distance being
eight miles, and under the pastoral care of
the Rev. A. Errickson, who rides across the
mountains on "Bob," the Missionary mule, Dr.
Boggs having the oversight and direction of the
whole Pike county field.
Five years ago Dr. Boggs resigned the pastorate
of the Catlettsburg church in order to
accept a larger work as superintendent of the
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tojfuuti a uvaugvnsuc worK, ana wuicn ne conducted
for four years with great energy, selfdenial
and success. On the 1st of January, 1912,
he retired from the Synod's work, and on the
invitation of the Home Mission Committee of
Ebenezer Presbytery, assumed again the direct
responsibility of this great Home Mission field,
which he had established nearly twenty years
before, the Presbytery at its previous meeting,
on a motion offered by the late venerable Dr.
Scudder, by a unanimous and standing vote,
thanked him for his long, faithful, self-denying
and successful work.
ItlSVEKEUD AL.KREI) ERRICKSON.
It was a fortunate stroke when Dr. Boggs
brought the Reverend A. Errickson as a coworker
in the Pike county field. He is a native
of New Jersey, ap honored graduate of Rutgers
College and of Princeton Theological Seminary,
L a bright sch6lar and skilful teacher, a fine GosL
>el preacher, and consecrated worker. He has
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been in thia field seven years and has done a
noble work, lie resists all efforts and appeals to
go to what others consider more tempting fields.
He feels that he is called to this mountain work
and stays by it. The Phelps Academy was organized
and commenced work eight years ago.
Its equipment consisted of four acres of good,
Mountain land, a large school building with
chaDel and recitation rooms on tfin first finnr v
and dormitories above; a manse for the principal
and teachers, housekeeping arrangements
and lodging rooms for the girls on the second
story. The teaching force consists of the principal
and three capable and consecrated young
women.
MRS. MATTHEW T. SCOTT.
A few years ago the Academy and the whole
Pike county work received a great uplift by a
handsome donation from Mrs. Matthew T. Scott,
of Blooinington, 111. Mrs. Scott was the daughter
of Dr. Lewis W. Green, a native of Boyle
county, and first graduate of Center College,
lie was one of the most eminent scholars and
teacners or his day, a preacher of wonderful
power and eloquence. He was president of
Hampden-Sidney College at a period of great
propserity, and at the time of his death was the
honored president of his Alma Mater.
Mrs. Scott's gifts, aggregating $6,000, were
made to the Synod of Kentucky, U. S., for the
promotion of our educational work in the mountains
of Eastern Kentucky, as a memorial of her
deceased husband, Matthew T. Scott, Jr., a native
of Lexington, Kentucky, and one of the
most prominent men of the Northwest. "With
Mrs. Scott's consent and approval, it was
thought best to identify her gift with the Phelps
Academy. By the direction of the Synod, the
charter of the Academy was changed and the
school is now the Matthew T. Scott, Jr.,
Academy and Industrial School, and has entered
upon a career of enlarged usefulness.
The industrial feature of the school was from
the start, recocnized as a n?p.Assitv fnr thp nrnnor
training of the young people of the mountains,
and the boys were employed to cultivate the
little farm, from which an ample supply of
vegetables was raised, and the results of Errickson's
improved method's proved a surprise and
an object lesson for the natives; the girls, also,
were trained to housekeeping, cooking and
needle work.
By means of Mrs. Scott's donation, two tracts
of forty acres of fine timber and tillable mountain
land has been added to the plant. Ten
acres were cleared more than a year ago, put in
condition, and 1,000 choice fruit trees (a donation
from Stark Bros., Mo.), mostly apples, were
planted, and the trees are all living and doing
well. Additions to the orchard will be made
from time to time. The whole Section is well
adapted to fruit growing, the crop rarely failing,
and it is expected that this orchard after
five years, will prove to be a splendid endowment
for the school, as everything in the way of vegetables
and fruits find a ready home market at
good prices. Employment will thus be given to
the young men of the community. This will be
a great gain, as it will be far better for the intellectual
and moral uplift of the young people to
be kept at home on their little farms, rather than
to enter the mines.
For the still better industrial training of the
girls, a part of Mrs. Scott's gift will be put in
a new liomestic science building, for which a
skillful architect is preparing plans and specifications.
The floor below will provide a work
shop for manual training.
THE JOHN M. OREENWAY MOUNTAIN EVANGELISTIC?
FUND.
I must not close this paper, now too long,
without saying a word about the splendid gift to
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the Synod by the will of the late John M. Greenway,.
a native of Abingdon, Virginia, a Confederate
soldier, an honored citizen and a ruling
elder of the First Presbyterian church of Lexington,
Kentucky.
During Dr. Bogg's administration as superintendent
of the Synod's Home Mission work,
Mr. Green way acted as the treasurer, and in this
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came deeply interested in the work and tinally,
at Dr. Boggs' request, he promised to provide in
his will a sum to aid in carrying forward the
work. Mr. Greenway died August 9, 1911, and
left the Synod one-half of his estate: His words
were worthy of record:
"1 cheerfully give this to the H^uod, and request
that it be called the JolinM. Greenway
Mountain Evangelistic Fund, MR the interest
therefrom to be used each yesnr in employing
evangelists for the purpose of bringing precious
souls into God's kingdom, helping struggling
churches, and for any other purpose the Synod
sees fit to use it in the mountain districts of
Kentucky."
The amount the Synod will receive will be
about $23,000, and the annual interest probably
$1,200, will be divided between Ebenezer, West
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..^.uotuu <iuu ? raus^ivauia rresDyienes, eacii
of which has a great mountain evangelistic field.
The body of our brother rests in a little lot
not far from the monument which loving
countrymen erected to commemorate the achievements
of the great Commoner.
Part of a Mountain Family.
The writer stood recently under its shadow,
and saw that scales were pealing off the massive
blocks, and the time may come when the whole
granite pile will crumble into dust and possibly
the name of Clay be forgotten, but this Greenway
Mountain Evangelistic Fund is a monument
that can never perish; the Saviour, whose love inspired
the gift, has immortalized it. Wheresoever
this Gospel shall be preached in the mountains
of Kentucky there shall also this, that this
man hath done be told as a memorial of him.
"THE BELOVED PHYSICIAN."
BY MARGARET H. BARNETT.
Have you ever wondered how he treated his
patients in those days when medical science, as
we know it to-day, was a thing unknown; when
physicians were ignorant of even the foundation
truths of medicine? Have you ever wondered
what kind of a medical treatise he would have
written? It is certain that such a treatise, if
preserved for us, would have, "to-day, no scientific
value, that it would be interesting only as a
relic of the past, and as a literary curiosity.
Yet the "Former treatise," which he wrote,
"Of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,"
and that later treatise which records his ascension,
and the publishing of his Gospel as fa? as
the great Roman capital, are of as vital interest
to-day as they were when first written, almost
two thousand years ago. The "Beloved Physician,"
if he were to return to earth to-day,
could not minister to the sick bodies of men,
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