Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-18
NObAR TODAN CUPID
Distance and Difficulty Blend
With Romance.
MISS MUSSER SOON TO WE'D
Will Become Bride of Neill G. Ste
vens in London and Join Mis-
sionary Party.

| After travelling 1900 miles, Miss Annie
| Laurie Musser of 25O6 * street north
| west who is now on the high seas, will
| be principal in the elimination of a ro-
| nance which began but few short
| weeks ago and which will send her as a
bride into the missionary fields of the
Belgian Kongo. in southern Africa. Miss
Musser is within two days of the port of
London. where she is to we'd Neill Ora
ham Stevens. The couple will continue
to Africa as members of Il party which
Will include five married couples and
three unmarried men.-all missionaries
Of the Southern Presbyterian Church-tO
take station in the Belgian kongo re-
gion.
During the past summer Miss Musser.
who has been prominent in Presbyterian
circles of the city and who has attended
the New York Avenue Church of that
denomination. went abroad with a party
Of friends. On the same steamer was
Mr.. Stevens and the other missionaries,
on their way to the dark continent by
way of London. Miss Musser Joined the
party with her friends and within Il few
marry.
Agrees to Become Missionary.
With the determination to plight their
troth Miss Musser and Mr.. Stevens
agreed that she should also become a
missionary and take up work in the Bel
gian Kongo section with him. Then arose
a difficulty. Miss Musser would have to
be commissioned by one of the foreign
missionary bodies of this country
Not deferred, however. she Immediate
ly decided on return trip to the United
States to perfect the arrangements, while
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party in London. Arriving in New York,
Miss Musser came at once to Washing
ton and consulted Rev. DIR. William II.
Bates. who has pastoral charge of the
New York Avenue Presbyterian congre-
CATION while Rev. DIR. Wallace Radcliffe.
the pastor, is on his vacation. Under
the circumstances DR.. Bates advised the
young woman to join the work of the
Southern Presbyterians, with whom her
husband is affiliated, and she called on
Rev. James II. Taylor, pastor of the
Central Presbyterian Church of the
Southern Presbyterian Assembly.
Then it developed that all missionaries
who are sent out to foreign fields by the
leaders of that denomination have to APP
pear before the foreign missionary board
at Nashville, Tenn, for Examination. This
would entail loss of time. and Miss Mus
ser would miss steamer upon which she
had planned to return to London, and
would still further delay the missionary
party.
Plans Perfected by Telegraph.
Rev. Mr.. Taylor was told the details.
He was eager to aid Dan Cupid, and the
telegraph wires We're put into use be-
tween Washington and the Tennessee
capital city, with the result that Miss
Musser was commissioned by the board
and notified to proceed at once on her
way to the KongO field, after physician
had made report as to her physical con-
dition and ability to stand the African
climate.
These instructions We're complied with.
and the young woman within the next
two days will become bride, after hav
ing overcome obstacles which might have
been insurmountable to many women of
the present day.