Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-25

leI8 were an 0tQ1 t0D6CCO u8Lu, anu tuelt
supplies ran 90 low at one time that they
had nothing for a whole week but corn
bread and salt. The Bible is systematically
taught. as we'll as q thorough course In
pie are most grateful, as their little noun
tain schools usually last only couple of
months year and are most poorly taught.
years remarked that he would have liked
TO have taught writing in his schools. but
:. TO tell the truth he was not much up on
One man said: IF you 'uns only knowed
what you are dom 'mongst us! Them
girls you send out to teach-how they 90
make difference in the settlements.
you do here. and have Christian Endeavor
jest imitatip' you uns egzactly! You'd be
most mighty proud and,encouraged."
feet tall came to Dorland and he was
utterly overcome with bashfulness as he
laid 500 in the teachers hands. No pupil
e. .What is this fors SsI he was asked.
go to school, he replied.
There are only five months more Of
school this year; It VIII not take .. az OF
No answer.
shall We keep it for your
Where did you earn SO much money!
Lumber camp"
.Wsst yi hrd yoa from'
all your life and how much do you known
zone month: know nothin.
do you know you will be obliged to
begin with the little ones?"
Yes, sir"
He knew absolutely nothing. not even his
letters, but in two months could read
fiuently in the Second Reader. could write
the multiplication table. In all that time
he scarcely raised his eyes to his teachers
face. but everybody felt his. earnestness
another student and could never recover
from the shame of having lost his temper.
He did not stay much longer In the school,
but some time afterward his brother came
and told of the good he had done at home.
He had died of consumption, but before
his death he had so impressed those around
him with the beauty of the Christ life that
and the brother came after Bibles for 1t.
Before he had died he said II did not
want to die SO soon; wanted to live and
make something Of myself and help mother.
love and study my Bible, and Gou knows
best Once while at the school this
great boy sat up all night studying his
that the earth did not 90 around the sun.
For reckon can see myself the sun
come up In the east and go over In the
And this is the transformation that mis-
sion schools among the mountainesrs are
bringing about.
A practical illustration of what you and I.
though we may have but little. can do for
missions is found in the founding OF the
Asheville Farm School for Boys A board
ing school for girls had been started and
the sisters pleaded so earnestly that some
thing might be done for their brothers and
prayed for it that this desire reached the
ears of people in the north. boy In New
all he had-$2 or sand that boys contri-
button was the beginning of the Ashevflle
Farm School for Boys, which in its second
year opened with eighty-eight boys. At the
strong Christian young men were sent out
into life to help others. There are now l4o
students from twelve to twenty-eight years
of age.
things that are being done for these noun
tain people.
How to Help the Leader.
Go to your UNCONVENTIONAL headquarters
or to your pastor and find out what work
your church is doing among the mountain
GERS, and then give brief account OF 1t.
PARALLEL PASsAGES.-Isaiah xxv:6;
Psalms xxii:27; Psalms lxxii;6; Isaiah *:
1-21-22; Isaiah lxi:10: Ezekiel xxxvi:25-26;
Psalms lxxii:3-16; Isaiah lii:9; Corinthi-
HINTS TO THE LEADER. = The En-
deavor Hymnal|, 14O. 145 l5s, 100. Inc
I'M the setting of the mountains give
a good idea of the character OF the
nlountaineer James Lane Aliens The
Reign of Law in its first few chapters Is
notable for this. "A Little Shepherd OF
Kingdom Come" by John Fox. jr.. also.
The incidents and stories of individual cases
are so numerous that one cannot lack ma
terial for this meeting. Your own denom-
national boards will furnish much. Have
the principal schools and missions located
by some of the missionary committee and
some incident of the work in each given.
Have much prayer.
drove His burrows deep! .
The budding plains upstarted, the hills were all
a-leap. ,,,, a..
Goods peace is everlasting" are the dream words
Of their rest.
He hath made them the haunt Of His beauty, the
home-elect Of His grace;
He snreadeth His MORNINGS on them, His sunsets
light their face.
They are nurseries for young rivers. nests for His
Homesteads for newborn races, masterful free
And 10, | have caught their secret, the beauty
This faith. that life's hard moments. when the
Earring sorrows fall
Are but God ploughng His mountains, anu those
mountains yet shall be
The source of His grace and freshness, ana his
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