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Presbyterian Work in the Kentucky Mountains: A 19th Century Sampler

Presbyterians were pioneers in the settling of Kentucky. They came early, put down deep roots and prospered. Soon they were one of the most influential groups in the state. For a number of reasons—including perhaps the relative lack of emotionalism in their services, their insistence on an educated clergy and their frequent schisms—their numbers remained small and during the 19th century became a decreasing percentage of Kentucky's population. Other factors also contributed to the low numbers of Kentucky Presbyterians: the greater success of Baptists and Methodists (and later, the Christians or Campbellites) at winning converts and the increasing migrations to Kentucky during the mid-19th century from Catholic countries of Europe. Following the Civil War, however, Presbyterians made giant efforts to "Presbyterianize" Kentucky. The task, indeed, was gargantuan. In 1877 Dr. Edward O. Guerrant, a prominent Kentucky minister, reported to the synod meeting in Covington that of 100 counties in the state (at that time), 60 were without a single Presbyterian church. He further revealed that of the more than one million people in Kentucky, scarcely 10,000 were Presbyterians. Guerrant pictured the sad state of the entire church in Kentucky in these graphic words: "In one day's ride from Mt. Sterling, the capital of eastern Kentucky, there are four county seats which have no houses of worship, and some of these towns contain hundreds of souls. They have jails and gambling halls, but no house for God's worship.. . . In spite of the fact of great increase of population, wealth, general intelligence, morality and facilities for travel and commerce, the Church has stood still, or gone at