Show BY WAY OF CONTRAST under tinder the heading mission work for mountain whites the christian Chr Olian jawn of recent date publishes an article which taking the first paragraph reproduced below for its text upon it in the paragraphs that hat follow along the appalachian mountains from virginia to alabama are two million ke of people two thirds of whom have never received a letter or written one and a nd could not read one if it were printed and sent to them a people who take no newspapers read no books who live in log anta hutst and know nothing of the great world around them civilization has haa spread around them on sit all sides but never reached them their houses bouses today are made of lop logs plastered ith mud there is but one room inside the bare earth is the floor and no windows admit light in this dark and dismal room a family of ton ten or twelve persona will be found living with not so auch as a partition ot of any kind to separate the men from the women and j child children 1 r in recent years the diem discovery very of iro iron n and coal and the opening up of timber tends has ban brought these people to light and they ley now look out from their mountain homes hoines with astonished eyes as an they thet see ee the steam sawmill saw mill maul invading their the r hunting grounds and the locomotive pushing its way up the valleys their hildren with sad little laces faces born of 40 want ana and privation crowd to the mission schools as the greatest boon of their lives girls with but a single ragged garment carmen t on will walk twenty or thirty valles miles through the fj oresto to reach a 01 and beg to be taken in for they have bave heard board of a life there which has kindled a spark park of hope in their sad and and darkened existence existe nee the life of a mountain tain giell how shan we describe born to vice and sorrow from the first breath she draws she is in taught lucky if married off at twelve or fourteen years of ago age and then comes a life of drudgery she tolls toils tro fro morning to night indoors with her h r babies outdoors with the men if she uve to see her children grown they will treat her as a slave her own sons will order her out into the fields to work and leave her to starve in the winter for the supply f food indian meal to is always low at sued times snow drifts into their log huts the winds whistle through the open places PISMO between the logs loge the family huddle wound around an open wood fire while the little children cover naked aked limbs with warm ashes to keep from freezing daring every such winter the feeble nd sick ones die and are buried without ceremony in the underbrush nearest by those that V are 6 stronger manage to live until the winter passes and hur trammer bIer brings temporary relief then lire life 90 goes on just as before no better no woree wane we shall hall not undertake to may bay that the dreadful picture here heft drawn is if not exaggerated we do not know whether it to is true in all its ite details or not but we give the source from which we quote and that paper would doubtless resent with earnest wrath any question as aa to its if veracity and the truthful new of its if contributors contri buton accepting then the statements sta as substantially correct we most moat sincerely coll coincide icide with the views of the correspondent who calls the matter to our attention in view of such fact faite as ag theme what malicious malio ioui hypocrisy ot or inexcusable ignorance has haa led fed public writers or speakers to try to make capital out of their asserted ignorance and degradation of the people of utah it to la true that the majority of the earlier settlers of utah were poor they came to anew country far from civilization they were unable to build modern school houses they had to wrestle with the soil and aad the elements to force from them the necessaries of a material existence to do this in most moat instances both old and young male and female had alike to share the burden of toll but as ae a rule before doing aught but provide the rudest F shelter for their wives ana little ones they united their efforts in erecting the best beat building which their means and facilities allowed to be used by and for the community as a house of worship and rudimentary education from the earliest settlement of utah the church and the school went hand in hand as they still do ony only wickedness wicked nea or ignorance ever charged the mormons cormons with being indifferent to education no suh such condition of things either intellectual or physical in the remotest settlements of utah as are here described as existing to in the appalachian mountains there has been plenty of poverty and privation cheerfully endured there has been a great lack of the oona forta fad nd often unavoidably of what are justly regarded in refined society as the decencies of civilized life but of such much degradation such ignorance such worse than bestiality none it is in true the people of the united states are becoming better acqua anted with the people of utah and are beginning to give them credit for their sterling virtues their I 1 industry faithfulness to duty and that devotion to mental culture which has placed them not so very far behind the record of the oldest and most cultured states stake in the union utah boys have already distinguished themselves to in nearly all the artistic and learned professions profession one carried off the prize for sculpture in competition with the combined skill of the fast east another is one of the leading musical teachers of chicago in painting and drawing there are many well advanced on the road to fame at home they are fast qualifying themselves to take the lead not only in the learned professions but there is no DO department of human industry skill invention art or literature in which they will not excel and shins many yuan years the reason of this to la evident it could hotbo not be otherwise bat T n sture nature la is the foundation of all au excellence cel once lence whatever develops this will stimulate alm hll his intellect the real mini mind of man is goda god a mind and in proportion as the god within is ia unfolded so go will all the powers of the individual be exin expanded ded and strengthened now it la JW universally known that mormon ism un as it is termed appeals appeal tint first to the religious element in man to the god bod within him and when that la Is quick ened into life it illuminate allu mi katoa the ethe intellect and quickens the love element which prompts prompts to lives of noblest self sacrifice so 0 we find and that mormons cormons are just fust VA a ready and willing as any of goda children to leave their homes their families and the comforts oom forto of life to go among the poor the ignorant the degraded and the outcast to teach them the ways waya of temporal and spiritual api ritual ili life and to live ilya with themI them abor labor with them and share their privations with them until they can be lifted to a little highe high or er plane of being the community of the latter day stints far from being the illiterate stunted atun ted half civilized people their enemies have sought to paint them i have not only shown their deligo diligence nce in seeking and acquiring knowl knowledge edgo refinement and that true education which walks hand band io in hand with divine faith they have also loo givenans give nand are constantly example f the rarest unselfishness and most real christian charity that this century has ever behold beheld |