was Mrs.
Knickerbocker, her husband being one of the most respected citizens of
that place--his own stock being that indicated by his name. She is now,
as she has been for many years, the lady principal of the college in
that town connected with the Evangelical Association Church. Her mother
was a Sevier and her father, Rev. John Cunningham, a Presbyterian
minister from Jonesboro, East Tennessee, who came early to Illinois to
get away from slavery, and who served acceptably that Congregational
Church of Naperville. She was a granddaughter of John Sevier. The other
descendant was Miss Sevier, a great-great-granddaughter, a cultivated
young lady, who was a teacher in a college in Ohio.

It was at least a noticeable coincidence that out here upon these
western prairies two of those worthy representatives should confront the
preacher, who found his response to be, "Well, I didn't say anything bad
about John Sevier, did I?" What a grand coalescing of blood was that
which in the gathering of our nation brought Knickerbocker and Huguenot,
Scotch, Irish and English and Germans, with congenial Danes and Swedes,
into our people's life. It was also a bond of union, North and South,
too strong to be separated by civil strife. It is an element in the
make-up of the South that will ever be a conservative force in behalf of
theology, of law and order, of Puritan institutions.

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PROMISING OPENINGS FOR SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

FROM A MOUNTAIN MISSIONARY.

I write to acquaint you with the facts concerning Columbus, N.C., both
as regards church and school work. You are already aware of the good
work accomplished there by our Brother Olinger. Something like thirty
young people were converted through his efforts, and now the call comes
for the organization of a church. The only church organization there has
monthly meetings only and a minister uneducated.

The County Commissioners have signified their willingness to turn over
the upper room in the Court House for church purposes, until some other
arrangement could be made.

The most active person in the new enterprise is a member of another
denomination, but is in favor of a Congregational church, as it would
most likely meet the wants of new-comers of different churches.

As regards the school matter, I understand that a friend proffers to
give to any church or individual who will establish and maintain a
college an excellent site of ten acres,