The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-04-06
Burgettatown, and the Woman,s
Foreign Missionary Society Of
The Presbyterian Church.

Burgettstown, and the Womnn,s
Foreign Missionary Society Of
the PFesbyteriAn Church.
Editors InislIssneri
The Impression that q tlong face was
essential during the trip to Burgettstown,
10 the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society, was certainly bAnished from our
minds, even from the moment Of our de-
parture from Wheeling. A List Of the
excnrsionists vas publishedin this NOR
ningis IsrEILioENoER. Allow M TO cor.
rect one name, Miss Ellie Russell, not
Mrs. Miss Efie termed herself athe
black sheep Of the fock,"-not belonging
to our denomination-but betraying q
strong desire 70 profit by the days pro-.
ceeding. Please insert also, the name Of
Miss Lottie Walters, one OF the lambs Of
the flock. The ride up the new road was
certainly delightful. Nature favored us
with one Of those soft, bamly spring
mornings that drives all care from the
heart, and make one feel that surely our
Bountiful Father has bestowed countless
blessings on US.
The younger members Of the company
had the privilege Of riding on the plat
form and enjoying the soft rushing air
as we swept through zelda and meadows.
We must here mention the kindness OF
the officers Of the road in explaining all
signals, the use Of each rope, etc. We
arrived In Burgettstown at9:S0A NJ, and
were met at the station by Dr.. Cunning
ham (wholeft Wheeling the previous day.
Rev. Fredricks and several ladies Of the
congregation. We were taken at once to
the Presbyterian Church, rs the hour for
the morning meeting was drawing near.
After spending half an hour in social in
tercourse the meeting was opened. As
accounts have already been given Of IT.,
we will pass to other objects. Agreat
deal Of interest was eyinced by all pres.
ent. The meeting was composed entirely
Of ladies. Some very interesting reports
were read from the different auxilliaries;
some OF these showed that the home, as
we'll az the foreign missions, had been
remembered. The meeting adjourned at
1890 o'clock 10! meet again at 1850.
II Is very sweet when of in arrange
places, having stranger faces around you,
TO listen 10 the praises oil our beloved
minister's wife Mrs. DR.. Cunningham,
President Of the Society," poured forth
from earnest lips. She presides over the
meeting with such sympathetic simple.
ity that We love 10 say .she belongs to
us.n A comparison was pointed out to
us yesterday. It seemed such u strange
one that We cannot help mentioning Il,
viz: Something so quiet and queenly
about her; she reminds me Of what /
have always imagined Queen Victoria
to bep
The. afternoon meeting was even more
interesting than the morning. Miss
Jennie McCleary's paper on Mission
Work was listened TO with the greatest
interest. Perhaps one Of the most touch
ing events Of the day was the closing
prayer by Miss Gordon, an elderly lady
Of New Cumberland. In quiyering tones
she commenced, but soon her voice be-
came as clear and distinct IS q child's.
That profound stiffness which so often
prevails when an intense intereat il felt,
prevailed to a saddening degree. We
could but feel, as we listened 70 the ten
der appeals for mercy coming from those
aged lips
.