Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-10-07

| At the Annual Meeting Of the Woman
Missionary Society of the Baltimore Confer
ence. Methodist Episcopal Church South, II
the Methodist Church of this.city on last Sun
| day night. Mrs. Catherine B. Broun OF Middle
| burg, Loudouu county. who was born in what
is now known as the Hardy building, corner
| of Main and Market streets. delivered an I'D
dress as follows
| am here to represent the Woman's Mission.
airy Society. I feel special interest In doing SO
In this place, because here in this city. at the
| foot of Gospel Hill. my infancy was passed.
In my happy chiidhood,I played up and down
your streets. I received my early instruction
from the Misses Sheffey at old Kalorama
school. Beneath this building. which my ia
Their assisted in erecting. lies the buried dust
Of my ancestors. Yes; under this very pulpit.
awaiting the resurrection OF the just, lies my
mother and my ndparents. What more
appropriate monument could be placed over
the dead than q temple dedicated to the wor-
ship Of Almighty God?
But there Is a monument that may be built
more enduring than this, more noble In Its con-
cepttou. more grand in its contamination,
memorial OF our crucified but now risen. Lord.
The foundation Ia laid upon the Rock OF Ages.
The material is human hearts cemented by
the spirit of God. Who will join US in collect
ing the essentials for this wonderful edifics?
Where shall the mate ial be found? Where are
the willing. hearted to gather them In? May
we not expect you to respond to this call?
VIII you add your influence to this great work
for God? Will you enter into this high voca.
ton? Or will you decline to accept the honor.
fearing to assume the responsibility of so great
a work? Our leader is not like the ancient
Pharoh who demanded of the Jews bricks
without straw The cry comes from our over
taxed missionaries, come over and help us.
Our foreign cor. Geo., Mrs. McGavock. says.
"the urgent appeal from mission fields is al.
most appalling" We have 100000 in our
treasury, waiting for the consecrated women
10 say. "Here am send me. send me-" I In.
quired OF one OF our church officials how they
succeeded in securing SO many male mission
aries. He replied, we go to our institutions
OF learning. and there get those who are just
entering upon the battle Of life. to devote their
energies to the spread of the Gospel. To you
como with the same appeal. You. who are so
highly favored in this "Athens of Virginia Pas
this place was called in my young life. We
have often regretted that We have only one
missionary from our own Conference; but we
do not know but that there may be euen ,oithin
these ,0alls some gentle,hearted girls who love
the Lord and would rejoice in doing His work,
and feel that thsy.can say: "Thy servants are
ready to do Whatsoever my Lord. the king.
doth appoint"
1t ia pleasure to know that the first organ
ization of woman's work was in the Methodist
church. and in the Baltimore Conference on
the solid foundation of conservation and prayer.
Several of us knew the sainted woman, who,
before the General Conference organized our
womsn's work regularly for ten years in a lit.
tie prayer meeting, prayed particularly for
China. There was not a convert in that time.
Yet the work was going on little by little. step
by step. Now we have five mission fields and
% missionaries, and, as told you, money in
our treasury to send more. "Our Kings work
requires haste"-our time is so rapidly passing
away. We are all Fastening onward to the
great beyond. What we do we must do quick
ly. I am particularly impressed with this fact
III you will excuse End personal allusion) be-
cause am one of large family reared In this
city, yet suppose there is not one person here
that knows anything of us as a family. All
gone -0one-most of them in another state of
existence. How clearly does this demonstrate
the fact that we are passing away. 1.-THE places |
that now know us. will soon know us no more |
forever" Time is fleeing. Amid the echoes of
The Macedonian cry, "come over and help u.s.
comes the command. "go We into all the world
and preach my Gospel to every creature"
The command is 'go ye.' NOW listen to the |
promise. In the last chapter of the book OF
the great God our Father, says
blessed are they that do his commandments |
that they may haze a ri0htto the tree Of life and
may enter in through the gates into the CITY,"