filled with his glory. Amen and amen."

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REPORT ON MOUNTAIN WORK.

BY REV. G.S. BURROUGHS, CHAIRMAN.

Your committee, to whom those portions of the General Survey relating
to the work of the Association among the mountain whites has been
referred, are strongly convinced that this work is one of great and
growing importance. We rejoice in the evidence that such is also the
conviction of the management of the Association.

The territory occupied by these mountain people, consisting of
between three and four hundred counties, covers an area twice the
size of New England. Its population is equal to that of New England,
excepting Massachusetts. Its resources, in mineral deposits and in
valuable timber, are varied and rich. It is being rapidly opened up
to trade, and thus indirectly to civilization. Its inhabitants are
ready to welcome outside influences, and they are in large degree
susceptible of those that are good. These facts, we believe, cannot
receive too careful attention.

We are deeply impressed with the great destitution of these people as
regards intellectual, moral and spiritual things. Poor in the extreme
as far as their physical wants are concerned, they are still poorer
in reference to the wants of their minds and souls. So great is their
poverty in these particulars, that, in large measure, they do not,
until approached in Christian kindness, realize it. They are without