The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-22
MISS MARY N l,onlaI.rsoN.
Kaowa. Pious Lady, Conc to hor
Etcrnal Reward.

AWoll known, Pious Indy, Conc to hor
Eternal Reward.
Miss Mary L. Robertson, who for
thirty years was tho superintendent OF
tho Jowcl department OF tho English
Lutheran Sunday school. dIcd yesterday
morning at hor home on Nineteenth
street.
sho was born In lIagcrstown, Nd, In
1887, on tho 22d OF September. She
came 10 this city with hcr parents when
twolvo yonrs OF age. In carly lifo she
unitod with tho First Presbyterian
church, OF which sho continued an hon.
orcd membor until her death, and In
whose Sabbath school shc also taught q
class for thirty.ilvo yours.
Hor groat work, however, in rolig
ious way, was In connection with tho
jewel department Of tho English Luth.
Gran Sunday school. Sho virtually gavO
hOr timo 10 her "Jowols." Sho looked
up neglected children, saw that thoy
wcro dressed and brought into tho Sun
day school, visited thcm in thoir homos,
helped caro- for them when sick, and
prepare thom for burial when doad.
Ono year, In tho month Of July, whom
thero was moro sicknosa than usual
among tho children, she laid out and
prepared Tor burial nino OF tho members
OF her department. Shc did tho work
oil a protestant dcaconcss for long years
among the poor children of tho city
without my pay other than such rs
awaits hOr in glory. Sho probably
taught moro Sunday school scholars
than any othor perion in Wheeling.
llor jewel department had continual
enrolment OF from $50 to 800. This,
running through thirty years, mado her
the teacher OF thousands OF little ones,
besides those who woro members OF her
class In tho Frat Presbyterian Sunday
school.
Her iaithiulncss 10 her "Jowels" was
simply marvellous. For nine long years
she never lost q Sunday; and but very
few Sundays in all tho years. She wa,
never absent from but one Christmas
entertainment, aud that ono WINS last
Christmas, when she was laid up with
sickness. She was at the Sunday school
Tor the last timo on tho 10th OF last Sep
TENDER. Such faithfulncss is all the
more remarkable owing to tho fact that
tho work was done in church to which
she did not belong. and also especially
owing TO tho fact that for tho last three
or four years she has been totally blind.
She was not great scholar or bril-
liant lecturer, but she knew her Bible
and had wonderful faculty OF i'm.
pressing its truths by simple stories
which tho children could undorstand.
Above all she had n tender, sympathetic,
self.sacriticing heart. She loved the
children and tho children loved her.
When she became sick and not ablo to
20 to the Sunday school she would cry
over it and declare it would break her
heart 10 have to stay away.
The children one or two SUNDAYS
went to her homo and ste taught Thorn
from her bod. She was ono OF Gods
noble women. n. really precious jewel
for Christs crown. She has scholars all
over this land who. when they hear OF
her death. will rise up and call her
blessed. "She hath done that she
could"
This woman" as Dorcas OF old. twas
iull OF good works and aims deeds
which she did,"
She suffered patiently for five months
or more. "The hardest thing for me 10
give up." she would say, ''is my Sunday
school, my jewel department" But she
finally commended them to the Lord
and became reconciled. She seemed
especially happy to SEQ, last week again,
the TWO former pastors OF the church,
Rev. Messrs. Barnitz and Dornblaser,
with whom she had labored for so many
years. s"
She slept her life away peaceably and
quietly, as child falls to sleep in the
arms OF its mother. at l2:l5 yesterday
morning. Her spirit, her real self. is
now in the church triumphant. 1t is
one OF the jewels in the Savior's crown.
Her body will be laid away in tho tomb
to await the resurrection OF the just to-
morrow at 500.