of race prejudice would now be made." _Well, let us see._

For several years past we have had our attention turned to the
terrible destitution of the people in the mountain region of Kentucky
and places adjacent. Two years ago we sent a special missionary to
labor among these people. He made his headquarters at Williamsburg,
the county seat of Whitley County, Kentucky. The town was sixty-seven
years old, yet it never had a church edifice; nor had the county,
with a population of fourteen thousand, ever had a church edifice
finished and dedicated to the worship of Almighty God. There were
very few schools, and what few there were could not be considered
schools by intelligent people. Our missionary went to work. The
people heard him gladly. A new life came into their famished souls.
They rallied round him. They built a beautiful church edifice. An
academy, too, was erected; able and skilled teachers were put in
charge. The missionary did not confine himself to the town merely.
For miles up and down the valley he traveled, preaching as he went.
Wherever he came the people were roused and steps taken to have
churches and schools planted.

But the church and the academy above referred to must be dedicated.
At the dedication this Association was represented by Assistant
Corresponding Secretary Powell, by Field Superintendent Roy and by
Rev. Dr. Wm. H. Ward, of the Executive Committee. And dedicated they
were to the glory of God for the maintenance and spread of a _free_
gospel and Christian learning. Special emphasis was placed upon the
fact that over the entrance to these temples was written, _Whosoever
will may come_. Does some one ask why that was specially emphasized?
Because we were in a country where popular sentiment said, Into white
churches and white schools there was a certain class who, on account
of the color of their skin, would not be admitted. When you are in a
community that publicly indorses a wrong, silence regarding that
wrong is complicity. Under such circumstances, to say nothing about
it is the same thing as to sign your name to a document affirming the
thing to be right. To dedicate a Christian church in New York City
and say nothing about the evils of Mormonism would be nothing
strange, but to dedicate a Christian church in Salt Lake City and be
silent as to what the teaching and the practice of that church was to
be in regard to polygamy would be _treason_ to the Gospel. We
therefore made specially