West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-12-02
OUR SECRETARY'S NOTES.
JOtted Down Along the Lines of
Good Work.
BY MISS EMMA A. FOWLER.

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ments of Conventions, perhaps it
may not be out of place for me to
return to my little corner Of the
FREEMAN.
can come back to it with de-
gree of comfort, because L know no
one is Obliged to read anything [
say.
If I were talking to you face to
face, 1 would know just when you
were weary, and maybe | would
stop.
I have wanted to tell you for
some time of the grand sermon DR..
D. A. Cunningham of the First
Presbyterian Church, Of Wheeling,
preached on the Sabbath evening
of Centennial week.
1t was the best
TEMPERANCE SERMON
l ever heard. Brave and fearless,
he hurled the truth right and left,
with no thought for the pleasure
or displeasure it might give to his
audience, but as one who was call
ed of God to "cry aloud to the peo-
pie" I had hoped to be able to
give it in full to the readers of the
FREEMAN, but for very good and
sufficient reasons cannot do so.
Next Saturday and Sunday we
expect TO have
MRS. C. B. BUELL., OF NEW YORK,
(my ideal of noble womanhood), in
our city, and hope she will have
the audiences she deserves, and be
able to accomplish great good.
OUR TEMPERANCE PAPERS.
Now, 1 am going to do as some
of the "other folks" do, and refer to
"my DESK" and the good things
found thereon.
The National Bulletin, edited by
Esther Housh, comes full of short,
pithy paragraphs, just ready to
tempt the scissors of the Superin-
tendent of the Press Department to
clip for the columns of the home
papers.
The Anchor comes from North
Carolina and always has with it an
account of q good work doing and
done. We grow more and more in
terested in the work there as we
read now and then of our bright
friends in that State, whose &C.
quaintance we treasure as souve-
mir of the Mt. Lake Park Conven-
ton last summer.
The Mountain Echo, of our own
State, is always fresh as such an
"echo" should be.
The FREEMAN and Signal every
w. q. T. U. woman gets, or ought
to-as they are supposed to be al
most part Of her, and therefore
need no special mention.
One Of the things enjoy most is
The Woman's Magazine, published
by Esther Housh. I'll not say
much about it this time, but l will
at some other.
CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
AS the time for thinking about
the lovely things we want to give
our friends on Christmas, and can
not, is fast approaching, want to
tell you of a book that is just the
very thing your boys would enjoy
and your girls too. 1t is John
Bremm," by A. A. Hopkins. 1
wish it was in every Sunday School
library in this land.
Now, remember this, and if it
isn't in your book store, order it,
prove that 1 am right, when I say
it is bright, fresh, pure and healthy.
If you don't like that word healthy,
| am sorry, but please get used to
it, for l always speak of books as
healthy or unhealthy, because of the
effect they have on me.
l shall say no more of Miss Rose
Cleveland's book, than that it is on
my desk and, I enjoyed it. Should
l attempt to criticise what has been
done so freely by the Literati, l
might provoke a smile.
A perfect little gem of Poem
came to me some weeks ago, emit
tied "Geraldine," rich in sweet.