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The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 07, July, 1889 by Various
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should not go with its missionary work into the South at all, than that
it should go with a mission which strengthens the infidelity that denies
that God made of one blood all the nations of the earth for to dwell
together.

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THE SOUTH.


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MOUNTAIN WORK IN TENNESSEE.

BY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.W. HIATT.

I have found the man of iron. In one short day, he travelled one hundred
miles by rail, walked twelve miles over a steep and rocky mountain, rode
fourteen miles horseback through a pouring and drenching rain, and at
nightfall preached an earnest, telling sermon to an audience of railroad
employees, besides performing the duties of organist and janitor. The
next morning he was up at four o'clock and away for other tasks of
similar sort. One who watches Brother Pope, must do it on the run. One
of the fairest spots on the Cumberland Plateau is Grand View. Here the
American Missionary Association holds a strategic position. The wild,
magnificent scenery and the cool, bracing air, tingling with ozone, make
it an ideal spot for a great religious and educational centre. Already
eyes are turning upward from the surrounding valleys to this mountain
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