The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1920-05-20
EDUCATE THE MOUNTAIN BOYS
AND GIRLS

Inc tOlloWlnE appeared IN the
editorial columns of The Country
Gentleman recently. We publish it
because Bcrca College is committed
to The task of educating the noun
Tain boys and girls.
There is a little farm hidden away
. in q quiet valley among the noun
lans of Tennessee whose hoy and
Girl output is a splendid illustra-
lion of the old saying that farmers
best crop is his children. Nine
children in all have gone forth into
The world from the cabin home OF
+ This farm, seven grown To- manhood
and womanhood, while two others,
a son and a daughter. are still secur-
ing an education.
Those boys and girls sprang from
tho Same Southern Ui-hlani stock
from which Abraham Lincoln also
came and wherever their lot has F.
been east they have made good. .
They have been conspicuous f.
rar their interest in The common .
welfare. and without exception they .
have been men and women Of fine /
Christian spirit
James was the eldest, and the lure
of business drew him out of the
mountains TO Chicago. At the time
of his death. while still a young
man, he was recognized as the
second best salesman for a great
Western grain company. In the
midst Of his busy life. however. he
had not only gladly found time to
attend church but to act as one Of
It's official board.
William who came next, was not
satisfied until he found himself in
New York City. a student at Column
bia University. He had only a few
dollars in his pocket when he left
home. Character and grit carried
William forward until he filled one
Of the largest pulpits in a great
ciiy-until his influence extends
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Fred took a different line. He be-
came Interested in those who were
mentally defective, and at length
was appointed the superintendent
of a hospital for the insane in one
of the New England states.
Henry felt the fascination of the
business, but much as
he enjoys selling cars this is only
the way he makes a living. The
thing in which he is supremacy in
terested is a little mission church
which he and his wife founded and
very largely support.
Thomas, like his brother William,
felt the call to the Christian
ministry, and is the pastor of an i'm
pcrtant church in one of the Allan
tic States.
Mary, having felt the enlargement
Of mind and heart which comes
through a liberal education. re-
solved that other girls in the noun
tains should have the same OppOr-
tunities which had come TO her.
She became a teacher in a school
for the children of the mountaineers
Of North Carolina.
Andrew studied the healing art.
For twenty-five months he served
as a surgeon in the British Army,
never more than 5000 yards behind
the firing line except for brief fur
lOughs. After the war he resumed
his practice in one Of our seaboard
cities.
If an explanation is asked for this
splendid crop Of boys and girls it
il to be found in part in a Christian
school and college and church which I
has been established in the noun |
ialns a few miles from the place of
their birth. On the farm they
learned 10 toll, to save and TO
be self-reliant. Then these mind
and MISUNDERSTANDING institutions
lifted the horizon circle of their
above the rim of their
native valley and, while they still
loved the mountains with an indy
ing love, sent them forth as build
ers Of the higher life of America.