Southern work of the Association should be carefully recognized. Here
is a vantage point which can be carried, and which must be carried
for the success of our great campaign in the South. To neglect this
present duty is to be culpable regarding the future of the
Association's activity. Problems of caste and questions bound up with
them, can, at least in part, be settled in this field. Those needed
concrete illustrations, which will tend most powerfully toward their
general settlement, can here be furnished. We do not believe that the
conquest of the West is of more importance to our Home Mission work
than is the conquest of these Southern highlands to that of the
A.M.A. It is our opinion, therefore, that there should be in this
department steady and rapid advance, and that it should no longer be
tided along.

We fear that the facts regarding the peculiar character of this
mountain work are not sufficiently known, and that its bearing upon
the general work of the Association is not adequately realized.

We feel that a special examination of this field may wisely be
commended to those who would devise liberal things with a view to
special gifts for institutions of learning. The church and the
school, the missionary and the teacher must go together into this
territory. Who will place a Christian college among the mountain
whites?

We give thanks for the spared life of a trusty and consecrated worker
in this field. With the earnest prayer for means to send and employ
them, let there be joined the petition for many workers possessed of
a like spirit of earnestness and fidelity.