Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1911-12-15
NO. SO

SGduce Ill search OF IulnS IudG Is
not in reservation for many. This
is one reason why there are so
many poor men in California. In
proportion to the population there
is not as much non-paying labor
done in any state in the Union as
there is here. 1t is really surpris-
ing to see with what good heart
the miners delve into the ground.
Mountains are tunneled, whole
hills are literally washed down. and
rivers thrown from their channel,
for gold. Such work is exciting,
and miners work like horses, melted
by this thirst for gold. And
great many seem to prcf"r me
chances for wealth by mining. al-
though so uncertain, to what taey
deem slower way by farming, or
other kinds. 1t is on this account,
| think, at least in part, that farm
labor continues high. And it is al
so probably one reason, too, why
some mining countries in reality
! most of them are generally poor.
2Sth. On yesterday we had
preaching at our school house by
Mr.. Fletcher, Presbyterian MINIS
ter who lives only about II miles
from here. We never heard Of him
until about a week ago, at Y .ch
time he sent us his appointment.
He is the first minister Of th'S de-
nomination | have ever seen. or
heard preach, since leaving New
Orleans. He preached an excellent
sermon. 1t was indeed original to
me in many respects. He left an
appointment here again fer next
Sabbath, and | think we can secure
his services regularly. He is an
elderly man, and very digniied in
his appearance and manner. He
is a native of Massachusetts, lived
in Staunton, Va. about 4 years.
about the year 1928, came to Cal
ifornia in 1851. He has buried one
wife and all his children three
sons. His first one was deceased
in Mississippi, one was killed two
or three years ago on the Cost
Range mountain by Indians, and
last year the last and only child,
the second son, died Of sunstroke.
He has a second wife but no chill
dren. l think the people here will
support him, and | believe we will
be we'll supplied in having his min
istrations.
We had a sermon few days ago
by Mr.. Brown, Methodist min
ister. | think him an excellent
man. I think l have written to
father that we have the monthly
services of Mr.. Nelson, of the
! Methodist church, since last fall. l
love him as a man and preacher
very much. He preached we'll, la
bors necessarily in the holy calling
he has taken upon himself, and
man Of more amiable christian de-
pertinent | have not often met.
From all | have said about preach
ing, you can infer that the people
can have preaching here if they
| wish it. But many of them are
wickedly careless about such
I thing. Mr.. Nelson's appointment
has been on week day and the
people have attended poorly. How
ever, a Sunday appointment will
t be attended better. [ think the
3 people in this eighborhood will
2 build a church before long; at least
they are beginning to speak OF 1t
2 now. We organized Sabbath
] school here a month or more ago.
Mr.. D. and myself were the only
grown male persons there the first
day. Our beginning was small,
had only ) or 6 scholars, but the
: number has increased to about a
, dozen. We have put the S. S. Ii
briary as brought with US into use,
e and the children seem to be fond
i of reading them. We use the S. S.
L. Union question Locks. We will
= attend to the school, if it does not
3 increase further, for we cannot tell
, what good can come cf small things.
: We had rather poor singing. |
have to do the most it myself, al,
though a good many are sometimes
. willing to try and help. | have