The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-11-11
SOCIETY OF
SOUL WINNERS.
Work Accomplished In len
Years.

On Sunday evening rev. II. W.
Guerrant lectured at the Pressby-
terian Church on the work accom-
plished by the Society of Soul
Winners, of which he is president.
The pastors of all the other
churches had dismissed their con-
gregations and union service
was held. A large audience heard
with pleasure and we trust with
new resolves this man well known
and beloved who is doing so much
for the people whom his society
reaches A leaflet covers many
facts he presented, so we quote it.:
BEHOLD WHAT GOD HATH
| WROUGHT"
Ten years ago, little company
of Christians determined by Gods
help to send the Gospel to the
thousands of our own countrymen
living in the regions beyond
churches and preachers among the
Businesses of the Allegheny and
Cumberland mountains. For more
than a hundred years, they have
been passed by and left to perish
without the Gospel or the means
of getting it. Tens of thousands
of them have never seen a church
or heard sermon they could un-
derstand.
las no single church was able
nor willing to undertake the great
work of evangelizing some four
millions of Highlanders, inhabit-
ing region as large as the Ger
man Empire, an appeal was made
to all who loved God ard their
fellow men.
AT first only one evangelist
was sent forth and $3.50 provided
for his salary. During the year
nine men labored among the Ken
lucky Gu nberlands. Drs. Bed
niger, Saunders, Guerrant, and
Messrs. Allen, Crockett, Farnes-
worth, johnson, Mason an d
Moore. Only S692.24 were raised
for the work. 200 persons made
public profession of faith. 800
children gathered in Sabbath
schools and one church built.
That was an humble beginning,
but God was behind it, and He is
Aim ghtg.
with only His promise to rely
on, and no Agency or Constitu
ency to appeal to, this work of
faith has grown from year to year.
until, in its tenth year, the follow
ING results were obtained:
80 missionaries, who made TO-
so visits to the homes of the poor.
held 1921 public services, received
,374 professions of Christ. taught
10 Bible schools, with $3.50 pu-
pills, distributed go Bibles and
testaments. and over 20, 900 tracts.
built ten houses for churches and
schools and manseS received S14,-
293.41 and not single collection
was taken in any church, and not
IA missionary sent to any town or
place where the Gospel was regu-
larly preached. They went to the
lost sheep in the desolate noun
tains of Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee and Kentucky, among
the hardy sons of the Scotch-Irish
and Anglo-Saxon and Huguenot
| DlOllCCIS vi OilC COuubIy Iit IIiOSt
American of all Americans.
The ten years work of this In
land Mission closed this year, and
the results show how God uses the
weak things of this world to ac-
complish His great purposes.
in these ten years, 362 mis-
sionaries have labored exclusively
in these wild mountains. They
made 81 900 visits, held over %,
O46 public services at lO,O69
places, had 6,304 conf ,ssions,
taught SO Bible schools, with
80, 456 pupils, distributed over $50
boxes and barrels of clothing
among the poor and distributed
over 10000 Bibles and testaments
and 5000 tracts, b u | t 5G
churches, school an d mission
houses, including three colleges.