The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
KENTUCKY MouNTA1NEERs
Success That Has Attended Emorts of Presbyterian Home Mission
 Board in Their Behalf.

Louisville (Ky.), Post.
 The following paper has been prepared by the Rev. D. Mcdonald, D. D. Synoo- teal superintendent of Presbyterian Home Missions for Kentucky' ,
 Three hundred thousand htghlandefs' sturdy and strong, loyal and lawless, in- hadn't the mountains of Kentucky. 1he hitter. bloody feuds, in which so many lives have been sacrificed the ignorance and lawlessness, have been largely the result of isolation and neglect, and It IS Il grave question who is most to blame, those who have neglected or they who have been neglected.
 .'There is not on this continent a peo- pIe more accessible or more responsive to the Gospel. more appreciative of Chris tian education, or more capable or intel- lectuaI and spiritual development. Bet ter and larger results have accrued to the efforts of the Board of Home Missions or the Presbyterian Church of the United States in the mouatain regions of Ken lucky than elsewhere in this country. The success of the chapel schoolhouse work within few years is without parallel in the history of the synod.
 Eleven schools. with an enrolment of about 1. 300 students. represent the present educational work of the Synod of Ken lucky.
 ''The Mcfarland Memorial, Pikeville, Pike County. Ky, begotten in poverty, piety and prayer, representing the work of Mir Blythe, and the counsel and care of pr. Hendrlck, Dr. Condt, and others, after a long struggle against prejudice and poverty, has made a large place for itself in the confidence of the community and the Synod, now, under the care of Mir. Record and his assistants. is enter ing upon a new and enlarged stage of usefulness. Any one who will contrast the Pikeville of today with that of fifteen years ago will mark the transformation. The Brown Memorial Church of Balu- more. Md. is supporting MT. Augur, as- sistant to MT. Record, in this field.
 "Hyden, Leslie County, Ky, was en- tered eight years ago. There was not a single Sabbath School in the county and only one church member in the town. Drunkenness and lawlessness were ram pant Now the country is dotted over with Sabbath Schools, and a church with a membership of 100 Is in the town of Hyden. It has the largest Sabbath School in the Presbytery, the largest Christian Endeavor Society in the Presbytery and the academy has enrolled as high as E5C students. The little city has doubled in population, and instead of being the storm center of lawlessness, it is now pointed to with pride as the best-behaved town in the mountains. The Synod could have neither entered nor occupied this most remote and neglected place, which is sixty miles from the railway, but for the help of the Central Church of New York city. which has adopted 1t as its mission, maintaining seven workers in the field. Mir. Miles Is now at the head oi this important station.
 ''The Edward Hubbard Memorial, Man chester. Clay County, Ky, was dedicated over two years ago by Dr. William Hub bard of Auburn. N. Y, whose church furnished a good part of the money tC build the Academy and dormitory now in course of erection The Baker-HowaIG feud fixed the gaze of the country upor Manchester. Church services had beer abandoned. and every Christian worxel had left the field, save the representative of the Presbyterian Church. Three year: ago the Synod entered this field with nc building and no fund. Today there is . two-story brick church. The school anC church are now in a fiourishing condi ton, and the community is vastly i'm proved. There are also two other smal churches organized out in the country which are doing much good-Hebron anc Westminster. Crhe people out of thsil mnnAAEAz IzaVA S20OO: the balance was Eiy