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HELPING Eii3
HIGHLANDERS
Bisecting the Old South east of the
Mississippi in a northeast to south
west system of ranges, COO miles long
and 150 miles across, reaching in
scores of peaks 0,000 feet In elevation,
clad in stately hardwood forests
scarcely equaled in any other moun
tain ranges in the « 1 Id, with an
area of 76,000 square miles, the South
ern mountains are part of the territory
of seven Southern states, Virginia,
North Carolina, Sou! It Carolina, Geor
gia, Alabama, Kentucky and Tennes
see.
Though In seven states- the mountain
people are essentially a distinct group,
with similar characteristics, whether
in Kastern Kentucky or North Geor
gia. They number about 3,500,000.
There are almost no N ;<roes —only
nine per cent., and tin <■ are In the
valleys and towns, not In the moun
tains proper. Contrary to general be
lief, the white pop s hion is denser
In the Highlands C un In the Other
portions of the seven states which
have a mountain dl trict There are
In the mountain area, by the 1010 cen
sus, thirty-nine white- to the square
mile, while In the rxtrn montane dis
tricts of the .same "tat'-s the average
white population per square mile Is
twenty-seven.
The religious membership or the.
mountain country by the 1006 relig
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One of the 3,-U0 house:c---s Uapte.t hur Ties in the South. This group
worships at an o d -,-iw mill in New Mexico.
FOR RURAL
CHURCH EFFIGIENGY
Tliore lui - in recent years be- n no
more gratifying or prom.-'Uig trend In
religious elides than the increased
emphasis which has come to be placed
upon the welfare of the country
churches. Nor i then- any prospect
that the agitation will stop short of
definite result: for rural church wel
fare? Within a few veils past a lurge
country church lltcrautie lias been
created, and tin* religious press is giv
ing mud) attention to the subject.
The South is still rural in charac
ter, notwithstanding tin remarkable
growth of cities. Omitting Maryland
and Missouri and Including Oklahoma
ami New Mexico, tin figure from the
11110 census gives the South SO per
cont. rural population and 30 por cent,
in towns of 2,500 or morn. Georgia,
notwithstanding ii • several cities, is
shown In the census as being onl>
30.6 per cent, urban, while practically
Ml per cent, of hot pi ->ple live out
in the upon or In small lo.\t
It is characteristic of the country
that it makes and civ-' ■ to the towns,
and of the towns that tin > tab - and
give very little back Towns arc built
to manufacture and distribute. Their
function is economic. Tin y serve the
country communities a: trade outlets
and inlets. On the other hand, the
country serves the city by affording
the raw material for trade, and a iso by
giving many of its best young men atul
women to pern>. m my t.
The country church 1 no exception
to the general relation of giving by
country to town Many m the lo t
anti strongest leaders in city pu pits
and pews wen- nurtured and trained
in country churches. Some city
cliurehcs would grmlua ly oto pit- i
but for the continual itotux of people
from rural places to renew the
strength of the city o ai i.itionc
These rural churcln s, in th>- South
not less titan S 5 per cent, of th whole
number of churcht;. nr. In tin aggre
gate the hope and fiuunl.tt: v> i o: South
ern religious prosperity Mu* by a
pathetic anti-climax. the lndtvi tal ru
ral clntroh is in the eye <u liie l»ig
ness-hunting world too tn<- as; icuous
to be noticed. The tl* ntion of the
world goes to tho lat*- r churches
when it goes to any.
The Home Ml ion Hoard of the
Southern ltapt- t t’ u\ r.tum h s in
atttutod a department to p miote tho
welfare of country »-!-,m It is
called the Pepartm it i n dmcnt
and Cooperation. I' ’ :.e Home
Hoard, the Souther! I'nomi
nation. numberin'.- . t -tuber
ahip. has set itself to tl worthy task
of helping the country • which
have helped ntkt - • in
stitution in the South for win h
until now there lias l . little aid,
beyond an occasional pit -mt oi the
«al«,-.y of u missionary -i
toils cor. 'is was 973,000, and is now
robably at least 1.000,000. Os these
forty-eight per cent, were baptists,
thirty-one per cent. Methodists, slight
ly less than six per cent. Presbyteri
rts, live per cent. Disciples. All other
denominations have ten per cent.
I here are fewer Homan Catholics in
I hi-, region than in any other section
- f Atm rica; 143 out of the 178 moun
min countiei have not a single Roman
i t in them, and outside of the Ala
bama mint's and Chattanooga, the total
Roman Catholic population in the 3,-
500,000 is only about 3,000. These are
mostly ut mills, and the average j
i i.untalneer has never seen a Homan
Catholic.
Southern Haptists, through the
Home Mission Hoard at Atlanta, are
ponding $50,000 a year to help the
lountaineers to help themselves in
lirty-four schools with 6,000 students,
l ive of these schools are in North
Georgia; Hiawassee Academy, North
Georgia Baptist Institute at Morgan
,on, Blairsvllle Institute at Hlairsville,
Draketown Institute at Draketown, and
I flee kley Institute at Clayton. In
these five schools are more than 800
students.
There i no better mission invest
ment in the world than to help these
luted Americans to get abreast of
the times, and to bless the times by
ringing into their making the needed
<dement of manly powers and ideal
j; in and independence which the moun
ts ineer either has or is capable of
: velofdng in remarkable degree. Tills
a work that rightly appeals to Chris
tina givers, and should receive most
liberal support.
Smulu-rn Baptists have discovered
that of their 35,000 churches 30,000
,i,i- rural and more titan 16,000 of
these are open for preaching service
omy once a month, and are supplied
; y ah- nice pastors. This condition
.mis in Georgia. Hardly one in fifty
; these churches lias a pastor's home.
No agency exists with potentialities
- inspiring the life of a country
muninity equal to the church. But
ns cannot be, unless the church is
wake and progressive. Once-a-month
; M-aching was too little for the ago of
am . pun and localism, it will be
. tivi y ruinous to the leadership of
tl,.* church in this day of intercommun
ication and machinery —of good roads,
i « illumes, mail delivery, automobiles
• d farm machinery. A once-a-mouth
- imreh. supplied by an absentee pas
cannot guide the lives of Georgia
> who arc raising 300 bushels of
corn to tlie acre.
The trouble with many a country
.-(immunity is that it has lost its soul
- mile town. What is required is
in lit ;|> rural communities to find again
.a souls and keep them alive out
in it- open places.of field and forest
—• wli<-re tile locomotive whistle is a
i. nt echo and the grinding of fac
ti y machinery does not come. There
no letter wry to find the lost com
ui.ity life than to get the churches j
onerg competent action. The
try church should bo concerned!
in any and everything which makes for
community welfare. Forever Its
d tnu-mal business is to win men
t. > Christ, but it has a community j
inaction as well as an obligation to in
dividual souls.
’The Home Mission board is sending j
spi fiul Field Workers, who work
in .-!•■ ip -of a: sociatlons. Their prime I
is to ret churches to have |
; at Ic i-t twice a month, to j
- i ii.em to pay the pastor a living,
. . iy a-al yet him to locate where j
wi 1 rive ti e people his life and
i ...> , .i al sermons, to get ad
■-. (' nr. lie:- to unite in supporting
pa ; t -r, to et better church build
in .1 Sunday school equipment. In
a weid. tie .- trained specialists are
t wei k to help the country comiuun
w :■ . k its soul, through help
i: in,- chur.-h which serves tho com
.-. > .to a fuller life and a fuller
\ ~ to every man and woman and
i within the reach of its intfu
deve'opnient of the rural
c‘ met .. w i:l bring, and is also con
■ii d by better fanning. It will
w.- 11 ■ , tc school keep secure the
1,-ns of public righteousness
. ii of , ;.itlo institutions. It will
ar.h i ■ contr butions to city life
i i-. i -arches strong enough to
i meat tight against sin and
i u which confronts every city
It will make mightily for the
j i at uof our American republic
d i:s traditions. People every
v. Here will rally to the Home Mission
.. d et C .- Baptists and to other
•arcl bmirds in tin’ effort to develop
t'. ry sources of our American life
! > \ ~-pt g the churches that feed
that iife at its sources.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY, APRIL 2. 1914
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A Note to You:
Jan. I, 1914.
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vehicles in front of our place.
Why go further? We are head
quarters for the up-to-the-minute
people and for everything up-to
the-minute in the Drug line.
We have had no kicks register
ed up to the present moment,
and do not believe you will have
occasion to register the first one.
Mt. Vernon Drug
Cmpany.
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J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL COMPANY
P. O. Box 5005
CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS.
LOST PUMP-A utomo bile!
pump lost on road from Ailey to
Alston or Ailey to Mt. Vernon, j
Finder please notify J. B. Brew- j
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Lost Ox.
One large black ox, long
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slightly enlarged at hock joint.
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the whereabouts of this animal
will please leave information at
The Monitor office. ad.
L . W. BUSH,
Dental Surgeon,
Offices 2d Floor Bank of Soperton Building.
Sopertnn, Ga.
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Blacksmith & Repair
Works,
ALSTON, GEORGIA.
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Atty at Law,
Mt Vernon, Georgia
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