The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 01, January, 1889 by Various
page 37 of 98 (37%)
page 37 of 98 (37%)
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Magazine, and is also published in leaflet form for free distribution to
those desiring it. We give below extracts from the addresses of the missionaries. * * * * * MOUNTAIN WHITE WORK. BY MRS. A.A. MYERS. In my younger days I never remember looking at the forests that skirt the horizon without an indefinable questioning as to what lay beyond. It was easy to picture stretches of landscape and quiet homes like our own, but the query was ever the same, what is _still beyond_? The first Sabbath I attended church in the mountains of Kentucky, having listened to the quaint singing before entering the rough-board building, seating myself on one of the slab benches near a box stove, which had but one length of pipe, out of which the smoke was pouring towards an opening in the roof, glancing around on the women in their sun bonnets, the babies in their little calico caps and the men in homespun, then out of the open door into a ravine where the tops of the tall trees were beneath us, I said to myself, I've reached "_that beyond_." The undefined has taken shape and I have reached the place of which I could never formulate a picture. Seven years' acquaintance in this mountain country has not changed my opinion. We are in another world, and if I could describe that world so you could see it as it is, could feel its needs as we feel them day by day, it is all I could ask. |
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