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Show A CHRISTIAN WOMAN.' AN OBJECT LESSON. It is but a short distance from the blue-grass country to the eastern mountains, but in traversing it you detach yourself from all that you have ever experienced, and take up the history of English-speaking men and women at the point it had reached a hundred and fifty or two hundred years ago. As a rule they are abjectly poor, are ignorant and primitive to an astonishing degree, have a low standard of morals and a slight estimate of the value of human life, and are strongly opposed to education, especially for women and ministers. They are bitterly sectarian, have a superstitious regard for the Bible, often sleeping with it under their pillows, and they cling with great tenacity to their own ideas and customs. One of the first questions that a stranger going among them is likely to be asked is, if he believes the world is round,-a theory which is to them a sure sign of infidelity since it is not taught in the Bible. Of their homes it may always be said that however comfortless and desolate they may appear on the outside, they are sure to be more comfortless and desolate within. But it is the condition of the women and girls among these |
