The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-02-07
UNION
TURN OUT LARGE
ON EAST SIDE
Place Reserved in Church
for Members Filled to
the Limit.

Last evening was Missionary even
ing at the Diamond Street church and
the members OF the Woman's Mis-
sionary societies of the three churches
on the East Side attended the Union
Evangelistic services in a body. The
] delegation, which was part OF the
| City Missionary Union. was much
larger than had been expected and
the reserved section was taxed to Its
utmost to seat the ladies.
After the opening song, Someone
is Looking to You" was sung the
delegation Of women sang e.'I'll Go
twhere You want Me to Co. The
World Wide Guild Girls Of the Pala-
tine Baptist church sang a World
Wide Guilu song that was much en-
joyed by the large audience. A spe-
cial number was solo by Miss Kath-
; crime Shaffer entitled "fbide Thou
With Me- atter. which t,ey. G. g.
Lawson read the teflpt1re lesson
sSrQp the fQpEtta pter s6f Romans
Ednd led tho onerfn prayer, In which
!, he asked special blessing on the wo:
men and theiF work, especially the
City Missionary Union. Divine guid-
; ance was asked for the fathers and
! mothers in the city that their lives
might be living examples for the ris-
ing generation and an inspiration fol
right living. "a special plea for the
persona workers was also presented
that they might be able to do and say
the right thing to make their work
effective.
Mr.. Shepherd then favored the au.
dience with a solo, "a Wonderful
Dream" Announcements by Rev
Wells were to the effect that tonight
is Railroad Mems night and also the
Woman's Auxiliary to the B. of R. T
A large delegation of the raiload men
and women is expected. Mrs. Mayors
president of the City Missionary I'm
ion, made a short address, briefly ex-
| planning who and what the City Mis-
sioHary Union is. 1t is a union OF the
| missionary societies Of eleven
churches in the city, OF which three
lwere represented last night The reai
| son for the union is for strength ars
efficiency. This was aptly illustrated
! by the story OF the man who hat
seven sins which he represented by
1 bundle OF sticks, and SO long as thu
bundle was intact the strength wa.
$50 great that the bundle could no
\ be broken. But when the sticks were
separated they we're easily broker
one by one. II was thus that in band
| ing all the missionary workers to
| gether 1t was hoped to do greater
amount Of work and with more eiii
iciency. She closed her remarks 3!
saving that mission work was thu
great work Of the world a follow, "
" ,rls of the great war, and that sh'
hoped every woman in each OF th'
churches represented would be en-
rolled as q missionary worker befori
! the close of the year 1913.
Mrs. Anthony Bowen was presen
and made neat little speech in th'
| interest of civil service work in th'
city. the need OF the work being car
/ ried on and the need OF funds for TN
work. She asked the interest. TN
prayers and hearty cooperation OF tn
people Of the East Side in the work
AS the evening offering was to b
given to the Union and to the Civil
| service work. she also asked that tn
contribution be a liberal one. AT th'
request Of re White Ribboners. wh'
were also Represented In the larg'
body Of women In attendance, Mrs
Macmillan sang "How You Will Low
/ Him." the entire audience Joining u
on the chorus. This was sung Will
so much inspiration and feeling tina
it left the large gathering in a recep
tive mood for the discourse which fol
lowed. the theme carrying out thu
same thought expressed in the song
Rev. CT. Eddy was The speaker q
| the evening. and before beginning hi
discourse complimefited the womel
on having such large number pres
/ ent by saying that when he lookes
| into the faces OF such large number
of women consecrated to the work o
the Lord he felt that sermon wa
! almost unnecessary: that sermon
had already been preached by them
Woman, he said. had played . grea
part In the history of the world. ant
that she should be highly hpnored fol
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