West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-03-24
Eyangelistic Work.
Meetings By MISS Jennie Smih dmd
Miss Sherman.
McKEEspoRr, PA, March Is

MY DEAR SISTER JOHNSON:
have made several attempts to
write you. Time with US never
was more fully occupied than dur
ing the past two months: Since
l wrote you after leaving Morgan.
town, meetings have been held at
Fairmont, W. Va, Myersdale,
lockwood, Confluence, Allegheny,
Mansfield, Pittsburgh, Glenwood,
Hazelwood and McKeesport, Pa.
At a few places only earnest
mass meetings or all-day meetings
were held, where many signed the
pledge, and the good work is going
on at each place. We held our
meetings part of the time while at
Glenwood and Hazelwood in a
large shop of the B. & O. R. R., a
nice new building lighted with
electricity and heated by steam.
The noon meetings were held in
the machine shop, where hundreds
of men could he reached. We Or
ganized Union here and at Hazel
wood. Sister Sherman is with me.
We were sorry we could not re-
spond to more of the calls in West
Virginia, but our engagements IN
this direction were of long standing.
Our hands have been 80 full we had
to separate. Miss Sherman re-
manned at Fairmont two weeks.
When she left 112 had been con-
verted, and 25 adults at the altar
seeking Christ. The last word we
had from there was, the work was
still going on. There were large
accessions to the w. G. T. U. at
that place; they had II paying
members before. The last news
from Morgantown and Cameron
was very encouraging, Cottage
and young peoples meetings
were fourishing. At Sandy Hook
the interest is still kept up; when
Miss Sherman left there in Febru-
ary, 1O3 had been converted, and
they have continued the cottage
meetings in and around Sandy
Hook and Harpers Ferry almost
every night since, and many souls
have been converted through them.
Mrs. Maggie Martin, State r. K.
Supt., of Baltimore, came while we
were there, and organized Union.
The beginning was not SO favora-
BILE; the sweet cider part OF the
pledge was in the way, but they
soon realized that those who had
formed the appetite for rum felt it
necessity to
LET CIDER ALONE.
At one place one of our reformed
men stood for YER and one day,
when, passing through the kitchen
where his wife had pitcher of
sweet cader; sitting on the table to
use In her m,imce meat, he looked
| at it, but instantly something said,
"DoN'r TOUCH TT The good spirit
will guide, if we let Him; but he
said then, this won't hurt me; ]
am too strong for that, and picked
up the glass and drank it. Start.
ing out to work, at once he said
the sid demon appetite tor drink
which he had not felt for year, re-
turned, and he was raging until he
went in to get JUST ONE glass o.
beer. The result was, that HUSBAND
was carried home to his wife deae
drunk. So we have felt the neces
sity of leaving that clause in.
Mrs. Martin has looked after thu
Sandy Hook work, which is callee
THE MARTIN UNION,
which now numbers nearly on
hundred.
"The Blue Ribbon Unions" stal
ted by Mrs. M. through this section
of the country are a success
; amongst the men.
: McKEEsPoRT MEETINGS.
! We begun ten days meetin
r here last Sabbath. The hall ha
r been crowded and hundreds g
= away that cannot get in; no plac
? sufficiently large in which to hol
f the meetings can be secured. W
= beg of all to pray for the meeting
g in this county. which include
:, Pittsburgh. This seems almo'