Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-21
THE UNION
Last Evening, at the First Presbyterian
Church.

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Last Evening, at the First Presbyterian
Church.
The Union meeting OF the Wheeling and
Ohio County Bible Society, auxiliary to the
American Bible Society, held last evening
at the First Presbyterian church was q
grand success. All the English Protestant
churches in the city took part, and the
meeting was a very large one, the church
being taxed to its fullest capacity. Rev.
". Il. Cooke, D. D., pastor of the Second
Presbyterian Church, and President OF the
%~-";stY, presided. In q brief and we'll d.
rscted speeS-is. he stated th,t the object OF
t. mseripg was: first, = DISCUSSION of the
Work of the American Bible Society; sec.
ondly, The State Work; thirdly, Work OF
the Wheeling and Ohio Comfy Bible So
ciety, and tourthly, the services OF Rev.
Walter r. Long, agent of the Society IN
this State.
A voluntary by the choir, "WstchmsI,
Tell Us of the Night" was followed by
reading of the Scriptures BY Rev. DR.. Cuu.
niBghsm. Singing Of HymnNo. lS9 was sue
ceeded by prayer, after which Judge 6. L
Cranmer read q statement OF the work, IN
which he spoke OF the vast amount OF work
done by Rev. Long, Of his uniting energy,
his devotion TO the cause, and a history of
his services since 1876, when he was sp.
pointed to the position which he has so
nobly and ably filled since that time. The
interesting statement was made that Rev.
Long had trsversed on foot in the State OF
West Virginia a distance equal to q third
of the circumference of the earth. The
address was very entertaining.
Rev. Long folio we'd in a fifteen minute
address in which he expressed hig sorrow
in being compelled to leave the good work,
and he hoped hat it would ever be con.
hnued and increased. The gentleman who
is to retire from the field after bis halt score
years of ~uncessing labor is now seventy
Eve years and six months old, and although
his health is good he is becoming too feeble
for the task
Rev. s. F. Randolph, of the Fourth
Street NJ. E. Church: Rev. R Rush Swope,
ofSt. Matthews P. Z. Church; Judge Okey
Johnson, and Rev. ]. T. McClurs, D. D.,
pastor of the United Presbyterian Church,
ollowed in brief and appropriate addresses.
After an ofertory the meeting closed with
ong meter doxology and benedictiou.
The following preamble and resolutions
we're read and adopted by q unanimous
Using vote Of the congregation:
WHEREAs, Rev. Walter R Long, Dis
net Superintendent of the American Bible
for West Virginia, has closed his
abors as such in this State after nearly ten
'esrs Of almost constant work, and the ties
which have united him to us in his official
are about TO be severed, we deem
t suitable to give this expression Of our
pprecistion Of his services, and to bear
ur testimony to his devotion to the cause
n which he has been enlisted. Therefore
q it ,
Resolved, That we extend 10 him our 1
sympathies for his future prosper. :
y and success and pray that the blessing !
{ God may rest upon him. =
Resolved, That be has been a faithful '
tswsrd Of the trust committed to him BY
be American Bible Society, and has we'll {
armed the plsudit from it-"Well done, /
God and faithful servant" d
Resolved, That our thanks are rendered e
the parent Society for the wise selection q
made in the choice OF q representative of
9 interests in our midst. Z