The Tupelo journal., 1910-10-21
Third Anniversary Of Wesley
Class.

evening" ulS cAckdut HUME WdS q u
setting for the ensemblage of cultured
cultivated men and women who met to
gether to review their work for TIL
Master during the past three years
Brilliant lights streaming from ever,
window proclaimed a welcome to the
guests, who began to arrive long be
fore the appointed hour. The COM
mittee on decorations had transformed
this elegant home into a perfect bower
of beauty. In the reception hall the
color motif was green and white. and
these colors we're blended in the grace
full farlands that festooned the stair
way and ceiling, while the cut flowers
used were the choicest of white roses
In the library the color motif was
green and pink, the cut flowers used
being pink roses. In the parlor the
class colors, red and white. we're seer
in the draperies that fell from the
ceiling and in the flowers that banked
the mantle and every conceivable nool
and corner. Receiving with Mr.. and
Mrs. Yates were Mr.. and Mrs. S. A
Ford, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Marmon anc
Mr.. and Mrs. S. B. Kinds. The Prsi
dent, Mr.. H. c. McNutt, being absent
Mr.. r. 0. Perkins was the presiding
officer for the evening. After an invo
cation by Df. w. c. Black the officers
and chairman of committees reported
their work, following which was
rendered a most interesting annivcr-
sary program. From the reports and
speakers for the evening were cleaned
the following facts in regard to the
class and its work: That it was
organized at the residence of the teach
er, Mrs. J. W. Hoyle, on Oct. 9th, 1907,
by the following twelve persons, Mes
srs. w. T. Reeves, R. L. Pounds, D. W.
Robins, Mr.. and Mrs. J.. B. Marmon,
Mr.. and Mrs. W. W. Trioe, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. H. caves, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. W..
Hoyle and Mrs. Carey Woods; that dur
ing the three years since organization
over 400 members have been enrolled,
24t being enrolled during the present
year; that during the year 1909 ten
adults joined the church from the Wes-
ley Class; that there is no more I'M
portant a work, nor one more enjoyed
by the class, than the paying of 500
yearly for the support of two children
in the Orphan Home at Jackson; that
a most beautiful work is accomplished
through the ministry of flowers to the
sick, the aged, the lonely, the b~ereaved,
the neglected,
''For the gates of brass yield at touch
of a lily,
Hardest hearts melt at sight of a rose,
Naught withstands the sweet breath Of
the violet
Through flowers the Wesleyans conquer
all foes"
That a great work has been the
discovering of workers for the church
Sunday School officers and teachers,
and church stewards having been given
to the church from this class; that the
names of more than 40 travelling men
have been enrolled as associate men,
beers, while the FIRST president and the
president in charge now, and a great
number Of its most active and helpful
members belong to that fraternity; in
fact, that a large majority Of the rep
resentative people in our community
are to be found in this lass-lawyers,
: doctors. the mayor of the town, mem
bers of the board of aldermen. news
paper men, insurance men, court house
officials, hotel men, railroad men, men
oil the dental profession. men from
nearly all the drug stores, dry good
houses and grocery stores in the town.
Certainly it mean a great deal to any
t,wn to hay, a majority Of the men
WHO control the town and manaee to a
great extent its business enterprises to
be actively engaged in the work of a
Sunday School class. whose general
motto is my Brother and l." Two
most enjoyable features of the PROGRAM
were the song. Face to Face" which
was so sweetly rendered by Mesdames
]. S. Yates and A. W. Allen, and the
Greetings from the Baraca Class" by
Mr.. R. A. Weaver, the teacher of that
class. The Baraca class was some
months old when the Wesley Class was
organized, and the teacher OF the
Wesley class claims to have gotten the
inspiration and enthusiasm for the
organization of her class from the &C.