the point upon which they had planted their "church house,"
absolutely without intelligent Christian instruction of any kind.
There were hundreds of square
miles without a church building of any denomination. This little
company had been stirred up
by God's Spirit, and were almost starving for spiritual food. There
was a pathos even in their
peculiar mountain vernacular, as one of them said to
me, "I don't understand scarcely a word you uns say. I'm too old to
larn now.
I'se done
