The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-03-14

AT q recent noon prayer-meeting ID
the Free Assembly Hall, Edinburgh,
Rev. Mr.. McMurtrie said
~ would rather do the hardest bit OF
work / ever did in my life, than come
up here to-day to tell this meeting OF
the happy death Of young convert
who was dreadfully injured in the rail-
way accident at Manuel. Her name
is in the newspapers-Miss Maggy Linz
say OF Aberdeen. When she came
down to bid me good-by before going
away to Aberdeen. said to her, May
l tell your experience ? and she said
Yes, certainly And now I feel az If
were sent here with message to this
great meeting. | was her minister
rom her infancy till left the country
to become q minister in Edinburgh.
1t was in this hall she got her great
blessing less that month ago. be-
lieve it was on the last night OF the
year. She told me that was the beet
Of all the meetings. She said % that was
. happy night ! Twas not here that
night; but some days afterwards was
at one of the noon-meetings, and when
I saw her face knew in q moment that
she was very happy. Isaid to her
Perhaps you have been getting some-
thing that will be blessing to you TOR
many days and she just looked at me
with her heart in her eyes, aud SAID
All my life
"She always came to the same part
OF the hall, and Mr.. Moody got 10
know her face well. and she often had
a talk with him. When she babe me
goodbye, we parted with PRAYER, and l
said to her What SHALL we ask for l
like two TO agree together touching
that they snail ask. She
said Ask that may have more faith.
We prayed for more faith, and that she
might be sfeadiast, and | remember
we prayed that whether her life was TO
be long or short, she might serve the
lord to the end OF her journey, here,
and then serve Him above.
81 may mention that the music SEEM
ed to have been particularly blessed to
her, Every timeI cav her la!terly she
had Mr.. Sankey's hymn-book in her
hand. twas in her hand when | mad
nv last conversation with her, on the
afternoon before the accident. She was
reading it in the train when the crash
came. Isaw that book last night at
Manuel, stained with her blood. When
her friends waited her to sleep, and re-
tired to the end Of the bed out OF sight,
that che might think she was alone,
she lifted up her voice and Gang two
ypns, one Of them her favorite hymn,
at which there is a mark OF turn.
down leaf in her book-'Fhe Gates
Ajar.
Odepths OF mercy can I, be
That ga es was lett a. Al Tor me "
The minister VINO was in the room
At the time, Mr.. NicoisOn OF LinIith-
gov, told me he can never forget how
she sang For me, for me.
zone thing more, and l sit dowr.
When we were parting in Edlnbnrgh b,
I said You remember what Mr.. Moody
ssid about working for Christ, ard
how it wasn't good for the heart just to
fsed upon itself % yes,' said she, Il
must work think l could distribute
tracts when l 60 back to Aberdeen.
| said Perhaps you could teach a
Yes she said, I have been
thinking, if there is class vacant in
the Sabbath school at home, | should
like to get it, | added, DO you re-
member what Mr.. Moody said one day,
when you and l were in the meeting,
about the way to gain all your relatives
and com panioss-not to be discomfort"
ed when they don't sympathize with
you, but always to be loving and gen.
lie and kind ? Dyes. she said, i am
praying for that And go she went
away, with her heart full of the desire
10 work for Christ. She was only sew
,nteen. 1t WAS not Gods will that che
should work here any more. Per.
naps He means that her death should
bring q great blessing to many. Her
Christian experience was but for one
short month but l never knew hap
pier or more decided Christian.