Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-02-22
A CHRISTIAN WOMAN,
DEATH, YESTERDAY MORNING, OF MISS NARY
3. 0BsRTSON.
For Thiry-fvs Years She Was Sunday School
Teacher in This City, and as Teacher Of the
%Jswsls" at the Eng. Lutheran Church,
Has Had Thousands Of Schol-
ars-Hsr Life Work.


thirty years was the superintendent
of the Jewel Department of the Eng
lish Luthern Sunday school, died yes
terday morning at her home on Nine
teenth street.
She was born in Hagerstown, Md.
in 1897 on the 22d of September. She
came to this city with her parents
when she was but twelve years of age.
In early life she united with the
First Presbyterian Church, of which
she continued to be an honored men,
Der until her death, and in whose
Sunday school she taught classfor
thirty-fve years.
Her great work, however, as a Chris
tian, was done in connection with the
English Luthern Church. She virtu
ally gave her time to her Jewels"
She hunted up neglected children,
saw that they were dressed and
brought into the Sunday school, Wis
tied them in their homes, helped care
for them when sick, and prepared
them for burial when dead. One year,
in the month of July, when there was
an unusual amount of sickness among
the children. she laid out and prepared
for burial nine of the members of her
class. She did the work of PrOtes-
toni Deaconess for long years among
the poor children of the city without
any pay other than that which awaits
her in glory. She probably taught
more scholars in Sunday school than
any other person in Wheeling. Her
Jewel department in the Sunday
school had a constant enrolment of
from $50 to 800. This running through
a period of thirty years made her the
teacher of thousands of scholars be-
sides those belonging to her class in
the First Presbyterian Sunday school.
Her faithfulness to her Jewels was
simply marvellous; for nine long years
she never missed a Sunday. In the en-
tire thirty years of her connection
with the Jewel department she never
missed a Christmas entertainment with
the exception of the last one. Last
Christmas she was absent, but this was
owing to the fact that she had been
stricken down after the Sunday on the
18th of September, and never after
was able to be out of the house. This
faithfulness is all the more remarkable
owing to the fact that during the last
three years of her life she was totally
blind and had to be lead to the church,
and owing also to the fact the work
was done in a church not her own.
She was not a great scholar or lee
turer but she had good knowledge OF
the Bible and a wonderful power to i'm
press its truths by simple stories which
the children could comprehend. Above
all she had a tender, sympathetic and
self-sacrificing heart She loved the
children with all her heart and they IN
return all loved her. When she was
laid up by sickness and not able to get
to the school she would cry over 1t,
and declare it would break her heart
to stay away. The children one or two
SUNDAYS went to her house and she
talked to them from her bed. She was
one of Gods noble women, a real pre-
cious Jewel for Christ's 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
what she could. This woman was
full of good works and alms-deeds
which she did
She suffered patiently for five
months or more. The hardest thing
for me to give up" she would say, is
my Sunday School, my Jewel depart
ment." But she became reconciled to
that. commencing them to the Lord,
the great Shepherd. She seemed espe-
cially to enjoy the visit last week OF
the two former pastors of the English
Lutheran Church, with whom she Ia
bored for years, Revs. Barnitz and
Dornblaser.
She slept her life away peacefully
and quietly, as a child goes to sleep III
its mothers arms, yesterday morning
at 12I5. Her spirit is now in the
Church and Sunday School Triumph
ant. 1t is one of the jewels in the Sa-
vior's crown. Her body will be laid
away in the tomb to await the resur-
rection of the just, to-day at 2:oO
o'clock.