Number of Churches 136
Number of Missionaries 113
Number of Church Members 8,438
Added during the year 989
Added by profession of faith 734
Scholars in Sunday-school 14,735


_THE MOUNTAIN WORK._

Notwithstanding all the interest that has been manifested in our
mountain work, we feel sure that the churches do not realize the
magnitude of this field, the pressing needs of this people in the
heart of our country, the wonderful opportunities before us, and the
heart-stirring results already secured.

Large portions of seven States--three or four hundred counties--with a
population of between two and three millions, claim our attention and
call for our work. Here is a country of untold natural resources. Here
is a people of good blood. Men of power have come from among them,
and shown of what they are capable. Side by side with the Northern
soldiers these mountaineers fought for the Union, or suffered in
prisons rather than fight against it. Where our schools and churches
have been established, men and women of worth and ability have stepped
out and become strong helpers in building up new institutions. But
away from these institutions and out of touch with the life of the
towns, we find a class of people whose condition in itself is a
Macedonian cry. Their windowless, stoveless, comfortless log cabins;
their so-called schools, in which on the roughest benches conceivable,