T/ie South — Scenic and Educational 



STATISTICS carry but little impression. Some 

 twenty years ago, visiting the Pacific slope, 

 I was deeply conscious that the descriptions 

 and appeals of the Board of Home Missions, even 

 the letters constantly received by The Interior from 

 the field, gave but a feeble idea of the conditions 

 and the possibilities — at least they had not im- 

 pressed me adequately, I said that if all our 

 membership could see what I saw, and feel what 

 was forced upon me, the treasury of the Board 

 would be filled to overflowing. It was even more 

 affecting to visit the Southern Highlanders two or 

 three years ago. It makes one's heart ache to 

 see immortal treasures going to waste, when the 

 rescue would come swiftly and strongly if our people 

 could see for themselves. But it is impossible to 

 carry the facts to the mind by pen or speech — 

 wholly impossible. One must see those boys and 

 girls through the eyes of his heart before he can 

 know. In the first place, they are very handsome — 

 with pleasant, bright faces, sleeping intelligence 

 gleaming in their eyes like a misty star, shapely 

 brown bare legs and feet, agile limbs and minds — 

 they are altogether lovely. And what a moral and 



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