Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-11-12
FIRST ANNUAL REPORT.

The LADIES CHRISTIAN UNION has
been in active operation eight months.
| The signal cry of distress among the
tpoor was sounded from our pulpits the
| last day of February, 1869, with an in
vitatiOn to those ladies who would in
/ terest themselves in their behalf to
meet on the following day to devise
I the best means for their relief. A large
attendance at that meeting evineed the
true character of our ladies as equal to
| any emergency of this kind. A gem
/ eral feeling seemed to prevail that
something more than temporary re-
lief was needed. This impression was
at once acted upon, resulting in the or
ganization of a permanent Union, Of
| ficered, armed and equipped for action
| from that day. We have been led by a
most faithful and efficient President,
and managed by a Board whose heads
and hearts are governed by sound
judgment and tender sympathies. Our
Visiting Committees have sought out
the sick, destitute and unfortunate
ones, learned their wants and woes,
and we have been enabled to alleviate
in some degree the cases of twenty-six
families, many of them every month,
and some still more frequently. The
faithfulness and careful, steady labor
of the Visiting Committees in the dis
charge of their onerOus duties cannot
be too highly appreciated. Our meet
interesting and harmonious in re-
markable degree. There has been re-
ceived for Initiation fees, dues and
contributions the sum of S172; paid
out, S153. The Union has beside made
many new garments, and made over
and distributed a large quantity of
second hand clothing.
Our Anniversary Meeting and Fes-
tival, recently held, was decided sue
cess. Good weather, good food, good
patronage, and, last but not least, good
nature made our labors delightful la
bOrs of love. The response of our cit
izens to our call for supplies for the
occasion was generous, even bountiful /;
and If that be taken as an exponent of
their sympathy with our work, and
their confidence in us to perform that
/ work, surely we need never fear, MAY
| has been to us, "He that tUdtereth shall
himself also be 1Udtered." Those most
actively engaged in labors of charity
more fully realize the reflex influence
of such labor, in a higher appreciation
/ of Gods bounty and blessings to them
| solves, and in understanding the broad
er and deeper sympathies with suffer-
1 ing humanity, through which we have
the inspiration which is not of earth ;
that which reaches down to us, and
prompts us to reach down again. Let
us hope that this sympathetic chain
from Heaven to earth may be, through
us, the means by which some precious
immortal jelVeLs, now obscured by sin
and misery, may be led forth to grasp
the Hand that steadies ours. Earth
may not disclose the results of our
humble endeavors to rekindlethe light
of hope in desolate hearts and. homes,
| but should eternity reveal one soul re-
claimed-redeemed, through our re-
teeted Light-surely our 1abors shall not
| have been in vain.
The officers elect for next ensuing
year are as follows: Mrs. J. Murray,
/ President; Mrs. j. G. Evans, Vice
President Mrs. Geo. G. Eaton, Secre-
tary Mrs. Prof. Whitlock, Treasurer.
Mrs. GEO. G. EATON, Sec'y.
1 DELAWARE, o., Nov. ?, 80.