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For the names of the communicants and for the marriages, bap- tisms, and deaths of individuals, the official records should be consulted.
CONDUCTORS OF CHURCH MUSIC.
So far as can be ascertained there have been seven choir leaders and six organists, aided by male and female voices, at different times and under a variety of conditions. It is to be regretted that no full account has been preserved of the names of these assistants or of the members of the Music Committee of the church, under whose direction the church music has been from time to time directed. The names of the choir leaders are as follows : Messrs. Leonidas Coyle, A. S. Barnes, E. A. Smith, Horace J. Frost, L. H. Hayden, E. D. Tracy and Gabriel F. Johnston.
The names of the organists are Messrs. Harry C. Sherman (now a doctor of music,) Leonidas E. Coyle, Andrew C. Bradley, L. H. Hayden, Mrs. O. D. La Dow, Thomas J. Johnston, Charles G. Woodward, Frank E. Ward, James W. Cheney.
Among the singers who have at times greatly aided in this part of the public worship Miss Carrie Kidwell, Miss Zaidee Jones, Mrs. Bodfish and Miss Martha Dodge are gratefully remembered.
The music of our public worship was rendered, for a time, by a male quartet consisting of Dr. G. F. Johnston as leader and Messrs. McFarland, Simons and Moore, with Mr. C. G. Wood- ward as organist.
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SUNDAY-SCHOOL AND MISSIONARY OPERATIONS OF THE CHURCH.
The story of this work is affecting beyond expression. To relate fully its pathetic and thrilling narrative would require a volume rather that a single discourse. The school was founded in April, 1819, and was supported by an Association of the church from that time onward.
During the first twelve years the work under the auspices of this Association was extended to the establishment of six other schools in different sections of the city and their report in 1831 showed a list of eighty-seven teachers-many of whom were from other churches-and 669 scholars. In 1831, however, the other churches seem to have withdrawn and taken up their own work, but our church still labored in its own school and its city mission work -the most prosperous period seeming to be from the years 1842 to 1875. At the former date the Juvenile City Missionary Society was formed which gave support to the colporteurs of the American Tract Society till 1857, when it was proposed to employ a city mis- sionary and devote the school offerings to mission work at home. The first missionary employed was Mr. A. P. Johnson, a student of Union Seminary, under whom our mission Sabbath-school was formed and has continued to the time of the summer vacation of the present year. The successors of Mr. Johnson were Messrs. Noble, Cone, French, Page, Patch, Chase, Glover and Early-men who afterwards became ministers of the Gospel and widely useful in their several fields-one or two of them as faithful missionaries in far distant foreign fields. Of these Mr., now Dr. Patch became a member of our church, was the Superintendent of our Sabbath- school for several years, was chosen an elder in 1868 and ordained to the Gospel ministry in 1875, was for six years pastor of the East- ern Presbyterian Church, and is now the pastor of the Gunton Temple Memorial Church in the northwestern part of the city, where Mrs. Temple has erected for him a noble church edifice in memory of her lamented father and husband.
Morning school superintendents are not named in the records of 1819-1831. It is evident that the secretary, John Coyle, jr., was the leader and life of the school in that period of its history. No record of 1832-1849 has been preserved. Mr. William H. Camp- bell filled the office during a considerable part of the time. In 1849 and since as follows: (1) Joseph E. Nourse, (2) Daniel
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Campbell, (3) Dr. A. Speer, (4) O. C. Wight, (5) C. Storrs, (6) G. B Patch, (7) John B. Wight, (8) A. Lockhart, (9) E. Q. Knight, Wm. Jardine and A. E. L. Leckie.
For a few years past the mission school has languished from many causes not necessary here to recite, and the time has now arrived when our City Missionary Society must take a new depart- ure for effective work. The names of the officers of our Sabbath- school operations of the teachers and pupils, amount in all to thousands and the reminiscences are more touching than many a tale of fiction over which a generation may have laughed or wept.
Superintendents of mission school: (I) A. P. Johnson, (2) F Noble, (3) J. Cone, (4) S. F. French, (5) H. P. Page, (6) G. B. Patch, (7) T. N. Chase, (8) S. Early, (9) C. P. Glover ; city missionaries : (10) H. J. Frost, (II) T. F. Sargent.
All these pass in succession before us, telling of the vast work which has been done by the noble men and women who have gone before us. In this work no less than three whole generations have come and gone, and the impressions made upon hundreds and hundreds of youthful minds have been borne away and moulded the life and character, more or less thus mingled, in far-distant communities, where those children of our church have wrought out their life mission and gone home to their reward, and where many of them who yet survive are still serving the cause of the Master of whom they first learned under the tutelage of this church.
In connection with the mission work of this church weekly cot- tage prayer-meetings have been maintained in South Washington, and a Mother's meeting during the winter months. The names of the last six superintendents of our Sabbath School and of our mis- sion school, with the names of other officers are given above, so far as shown by the records. There have been eleven superintend- ents of the mission school, while of the Juvenile Missionary Society -subsequently styled the Sabbath School City Missionary Society. The officers whose names are preserved are as follows :
1856 ; president, A. W. Russell ; vice-president, L. C. Campbell ; secretary, John A. Peebles ; treasurer, F. L. Moore. 1857 : presi- dent, Charles B. Dahlgren ; vice-president, Leonidas Coyle ; secre- tary, Charles Bradley ; treasurer, Albert Ebeling. 1858 ; presi- dent, John D. Edmond ; vice-president, William McLain ; secre- tary, Leonidas E. Coyle ; treasurer, Charles Bradley. 1859 ; same
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as 1858. 1860 ; president, William McLain ; vice-president, L. E. Coyle ; secretary, John D. Edmond ; treasurer, Andrew Brad- ley. 1861 : president, William M. Galt ; vice-president, J. D. Edmond ; secretary, Francis H. Smith ; treasurer, Charles S. Brad- ley. 1862 ; president, Lewis McLain ; vice-president, Erskine Sunderland ; secretary, Francis H. Smith ; treasurer, J. D. Ed- mond. 1863 ; president, Francis H. Smith ; vice-president, Ira Van Arsdale ; secretary, John N. Jennings ; treasurer, Horace J. Frost. 1864 : president, Charles C. Jewell ; vice-president, Wil- liam D. Todd ; secretary, William Hayes ; treasurers, Horace J. Frost. 1865 ; president, W. A. Thompson ; vice-president, Jerome Chase ; secretary, Charles C. Jewell ; treasurer, H. J. Frost. 1866 : president, Charles C. Jewell ; vice-president, George Milburn . secretary, Edward Schenck; treasurer, H. J. Frost. 1867 ; presi- dent, William D. Todd ; vice-president, A. C. Klancke ; secretary, Edward Schenck ; treasurer, H. J. Frost. 1868 : same officers as in 1867. 1869 ; president, William D. Todd ; vice-president, F. B. Dalrymple ; secretary, Gabriel F. Johnson ; treasurer, H. J. Frost, 1870 : same officers served as in 1869. 1871 : president, William D. Todd ; vice-president, Theo. F. Swayze ; secretary, Gabriel F. Johnston ; treasurer, H. J. Frost. 1872; no meetings. 1873 : president, John B. Wight; vice-president, George R. Milburn ; secretary, G. F. Johnston ; treasurer, H.J. Frost. 1874 ; same officers as in 1873. 1875 ; president, John B. Wight ; vice-president, Whitwell Wilson ; secretary, G. F. Johnston ; treasurer, H. J. Frost. 1876 ; president, R. W. D. Bryan ; vice-president, Lloyd B. Wight ; secretary, Edson A. Lowe ; treasurer, H. J. Frost. 1877; same officers as in 1876. 1875 ; president, Irving Williamson ; vice-president, Edson A. Lowe; secretary, Lloyd B. Wight; treasurer, Hor- ace J. Frost. 1879 ; same as 1878. 1886 ; president, Edson A. Lowe; vice-president, Thomas Johnston ; secretary, Lloyd B. Wight ; treasurer, Horace J. Frost. 1881 ; president, Edson A. Lowe; vice-president, Theodore F. Sargent ; secretary, L. B. Wight ; treasurer, H. J. Frost. 1882; same as 1881. 1883 ; presi- dent, Theore F. Sargent ; vice-president, Fred Litchfield ; secre- tary, Lloyd B. Wight; treasurer, H. J. Frost. 1884; same as 1883. 1885 ; president, Theodore F. Sargent ; vice-president, Her- vey S. Knight ; secretary, Lloyd B. Wight ; corresponding secre- tary, Ramsay Nevitt ; auditor, J. R. McConnell. 1886 : president, Theodore F. Sargent ; vice-president, Hervey S. Knight ; secre- tary, L. B. Wight ; corresponding secretary, Ramsay Nevitt ; aud-
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itor, E. S. Tracy. 1887 ; same as 1886. 1888 ; president, Theodore F. Sargent ; vice-president, H. S. Knight ; secretary, L. B. Wight ; corresponding secretary, Ramsay Nevitt ; auditor, J. R. McConnell. 1889 ; president, Theodore F. Sargent ; vice-president, Hervey S. Knight ; secretary, Lloyd B. Wight; treasurer, Irving William- son. 1890 ; same as 1889. 1891 ; same as 1889. 1892 ; president, Theodore F. Sargent ; vice-president, Edw. Q. Knight ; secretary, Harry Wilbur : treasurer, Irving Williamson. 1893 ; president, Theodore F. Sargent ; vice-president, Edward Q. Knight ; secre- tary, A. N. Dalrymple ; treasurer, William Jardine. 1894 ; same as in 1893.
OTHER ASSOCIATIONS.
In addition to these enterprises the ladies of our church have an association entitled the Ladies' Beneficent Association, with the purpose of rendering aid to our own church, and in other direc- tions for worthy and commendable objects. A principal feature of the Society is the social gathering at private houses, and the ten- dency of this to promote acquaintance with new-comers is very manifest. Their financial assistance has been extended in many ways, and the society is regarded as one of the most profitable agencies at work in the church. The number and names of the various officers of this Society are given below. The ladies have also two organizations for Home and Foreign Missions, and they are likewise represented in similar societies of the Presbytery and Synod. A number of our ladies are also interested in other direc- tions of Christian charity and beneficence, as in the McCall Mis- sion, the Italian Mission, the Protestant Orphan Asylum, the Young Women's Christian Home, the Newsboys' Home, the Washington Hospital and some others.
President, through the seventeen years of the Society's existence, Mrs. O. C. Wight ; vice-presidents, Mrs. Ogden Wyckoff, Mrs. L. G. Hine ; secretaries, Miss Lizzie Johnston, Miss Virginia S. Gem- mill, Miss Mary C. Hine ; treasurers, Miss Julia Gilman, Mrs. W. B. Bryan, Mrs. H. L. Mann.
PROMINENT ATTENDANTS.
From the beginning to this day this church has been the resort of many prominent persons in all ranks of life who were either casual visitors or connected with us as members and communi- cants, or through members of their families. It is impossible now
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to recall them all. I give only the names as they readily occur. The Clarks, the Coyles, the Bradleys, the Blagdens, the Caldwells, the Rapins, the Underwoods, the Whitwells, the Burches, the Browns, the Halls, the Crittendens, the Dangerfields, the Gun- tons, the Hyatts, the Smiths, the Moores, the Campbells, the Lindslys, the Pages, the Parkers, the Lenoxes, the Walkers, the Mahons, the Houstons, the Andersons, the Whittleseys, the Millers, the Waides, the Beals, the Johnstons, the Wrights, the Kelleys, the Gilmans, the Dahlgrens, and many others who came to the church during the present pastorate, and some of whom still remain. The church has also been attended or some times visited by such men as Henry Clay and many Senators, Repre- sentatives, and Judges; Gideon, Seaton, John Quincy Adams, McLean, Ingle, Nourse, Gibbs, Wilson, Benton, Daniel Webster, Jackson, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, Colfax, Edmunds, Morrill, Foote, Ramsay, McMillan, Grant, Cleveland, Morgan, Farewell, Chand- ler, Dodge, Strong, Drake, Jenks, Shifley, Benedict, and many others.
OFFICERS OF THE CHURCH, CONGREGATION, AND SOCIETIES FOR THE YEAR 1894.
It should be explained that the publication of this volume has been delayed until this time-February, 1896. In the last four years some changes have occurred. The Rev. Mr. Holmes having received a call to the Westminister Church of Buffalo, N. Y., sev- ered his connection with this church to accept it in September, 1893, and the Rev. Adolos Allen was installed as co-pastor of this church April 17, 1894, and resigned February 3, 1896. Rev. Dr. T. De Witt Talmage was installed as co-pastor October 23, 1895.
The following tables show the officers and societies of the church for May, 1895-6.
OFFICERS OF THE CHURCH IN 1895-6.
PASTOR.
Rev. Byron Sunderland, D. D., . 328 C street N. W.
Co-PASTOR.
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., ยท . "The Arlington."
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THE SESSION.
Otis C. Wight,
Octavius Knight,
Fred. B. Dalrymple, Alfred Lockhart, 307 D street N. W.
Theo. F. Sargent,
306 Indiana avenue N. W.
1327 Princeton street N. W. 1704 Oregon avenue N. W.
. 322 E street N. E.
CLERK OF SESSION. Fred. B. Dalrymple.
TREASURER OF SESSION. Alfred Lockhart.
BOARD OF DEACONS.
Wm. B. Donaldson, Treasurer,
Edwin D. Tracy,
M. S. Gibson,
438 K street N. W. 1508 9th street N. W.
Forest Glen.
SUPERINTENDENTS OF SABBATH SCHOOL.
Wm. L. Jardine, 155 California street N. E.
A. E. Leckie, 206 Indiana avenue N. W.
LEADER OF BIBLE CLASS. Elder O. C. Wight. SUPERINTENDENT OF INFANT CLASS. Mrs. C. M. Bodfish.
PRESIDENTS OF THE CONGREGATION HAVE BEEN-
William H. Campbell, Dr. Lindsly, O. C. Wight, E. M. Gallau- det, J. R. McMillan, Clinton Lloyd and Dr. Wmn. M. Newell.
CLERKS.
F. H. Smith, C. Storrs, F. B. Dalrymple, S. W. Curriden, F. A. Fenning.
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OFFICERS OF THE CONGREGATION FOR 1896.
PRESIDENT.
626 C street N. E. Dr. W. M. Newell,
CLERK.
Frekerick A. Fenning,
513 4th street N. W.
TREASURER.
Charles L. Du Bois,
1555 Park street N. W.
TRUSTEES.
Capt. R. W. Tyler, Chairman,
J. B. Cralle, Secretary,
1753 N street N. W. 301 C street N. W.
Wm. H. Fletcher, 421 6th street S. W.
Dr. H. L. Mann,
C. L. DuBois,
F. H. Tolman,
Dr. W. M. Newell,
DIRECTOR OF THE CHOIR.
Dr. G. F. Johnston, 1762 N street N. W.
SEXTON.
Joseph Jones, 218 B street N. W.
Persons desiring to secure pews or sittings in the Church will apply to Capt. R. W. Tyler or Wm. H. Fletcher.
SOCIETIES.
LADIES' BENEFICENT SOCIETY.
President, Mrs. L. G. Hine, Prospect Hill.
Vice-President, Mrs. N. G. Ordway, II Ist street N. W.
Secretary, Mrs. Mary C. H. Nevitt, 328 Ind. ave. N. W.
Treasurer, Mrs. H. L. Mann, 334 Ind. ave. With Sixty Members.
Mothers' Meeting, conducted by Mrs. Peter Acker, with Mrs. Gilpin, Miss Mullican and others.
Wm. Jardine, 155 California street N. E. 334 Indiana avenue. 1555 Park street N. W. F. G. Coldren, 136 C street S. E. 422 3d street N. W. 626 C street N. E.
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WOMAN'S HOME AND FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
President, Mrs. G. F. Johnston, 1762 N street N. W. Ist Vice-President, Miss Jennie Ramsay, 328 Ind. ave. N. W. 2d Vice-President, Miss Faith W. Tyler, 1313 T street N. W. Corresponding Sec., Mrs. J. Ramsay Nevitt, 328 Ind. ave. N.W. Recording Sec., Miss Irene Temple Bailey, 510 I street N.W. Mrs. M. A. McBride, 1330 18th street N. W.
YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. SENIOR DEPARTMENT.
President, Frederick A. Fenning.
Vice-President, Florence Mullican.
Secretary, Alexander M. Bunn.
Treasurer, Ella Luckett.
Corresponding Secretary, Irene T. Bailey.
Member of the Finance Committee of '96, Miss Etta Craigen.
Active members, 53 ; Associate members, 10 ; Affiliate members, 17; Total, 80.
JUNIOR DEPARTMENT.
Superintendent, Miss Jennie Campbell, 136 C street S. E. Assistant Superintendent, Miss Ella Haney, 478 Pa. ave. N. W. President, Rastus Ransom Norris.
Member of the Junior Finance Committee of '96, Rastus Ranson Norris. Active members, 25.
SABBATH SCHOOL CITY MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
President, Theodore F. Sargent, 322 E street N. E.
Vice-President, Edward Q. Knight, . 1327 Princeton street N. W.
Secretary, Alfred N. Dalrymple, 1702 O street N. W.
Treasurer, William Jardine, 155 California street N. E.
RELIGIOUS MEETINGS.
Sabbath Morning Service, II.00 A. M. .
Sabbath Evening Service, 7.30 P. M.
Sabbath-School, 9.30 A. M.
Y. P. S. C. E., Sabbath Evening, 6.30 P. M.
Church Prayer Meeting, Thursday, 7.30 P. M.
Communion, First Sabbaths of February, April, June, August, October and December, 12.00 M. Preparatory Service, Thursday preceding Communion, 7.30 P. M.
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Meeting of Session for receiving members at close of Preparatory Service.
Baptism of Children at the beginning of Communion Service.
OTHER STATED MEETINGS.
The Church Session, the last Monday of each month, 7.30 P. M. *The S. S. City Missionary Society on the second Sab- bath of each month, 3-45 P. M. The S. S. Teachers' Meeting, Thurday, 6.30 P. M.
The Deacons' Meeting, Thursday evenings of Prepara- tory Service, 6.00 P. M.
The Board of Trustees, first Monday of each month, 7.30 P. M. *Ladies' Beneficent Society, second Wednesday of each month, II.00 A. M.
*Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society sec- ond Monday of each month, 11.00 A. M.
*Mother's Meeting, conducted by ladies of S. S. City Missionary Society, Friday of winter months, 2.00 P. M.
Summer hour for evening service, 8.00 P. M.
*Meetings omitted through the summer.
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CORRESPONDENCE OF FORMER MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH AND CONGREGATION.
LINCOLN, NEB., November 15, 1895.
REV. ADOLOS ALLEN.
OCTAVIUS KNIGHT, ESQ.
THEO. F. SARGENT, ESQ.
DEAR FRIENDS :- Your kind invitation to attend a Centennial Celebration of the Organization of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington City, D. C., is received. I thank you for remembering me as one identified with the early history of the church, and still interested in its welfare.
To say that I long to accept your invitation, would but feebly express my great desire to meet with you. The very suggestion of such a celebration recalls many sad and pleasant memories. A.s my first personal recollection of the dear old church does not date earlier than 1843, when the congregation worshipped in the building which it now occupies before it was remodelled, and, as I left Wash- ington while the changes were being made, my memory recalls only the old building with its yellow washed walls, mahogany pews and high pulpit, but dearer and more sacred to me than any magnificent cathedral of more modern style. The old choir too, where, for forty years my revered father accompanied the singing with his violincello, is as vividly before me as though I had listened to it but yesterday.
If any portion of the old edifice was dearer to me than any other, it was the little brick " session room," as it was called-an annex in the rear of the church. It was there that we held our Sabbath school, weekly and missionary prayer nieetings, the Juve- nile Missionary Society meetings, and the smaller gatherings of the congregation. Every brick in that little building was dear to my heart, and I can never cease to feel it was an honor and a privilege to have led the last meeting held there.
I cannot begin to name all the dear familiar faces and voices which memory recalls in connection with the old church. How few of them remain. Though nearly all have been called to wor-
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ship in the Upper Sanctuary, I have been impressed, when reading the proceedings of the church the past few years, with the fact that so many of the old familiar names are still found among its mem- bers-children and grand children of the old and faithful members; proving that our God is a covenant-keeping God.
My own connection with the church extended mainly over the period covered by the pastorates of Drs. Ballentine and Sunderland. I feel that my life has been moulded and guided by the truths then imbibed. Especially is this so of the time I enjoyed the ministra- tions of our present beloved pastor, Dr. Sunderland. To him and to my most faithful Sabbath school teacher, John C. Whitwell, I feel more indebted than to any other instructors of my youth.
May God grant that we may be as faithful in our day and genera- tion as those who have gone before us, and that we may leave a memory as redolent of all that is pure and lovely and of good report. Sincerely and fraternally,
JNO. I. UNDERWOOD.
GRAND HAVEN, MICH., November 18, 1895.
MR. THEODORE F. SARGENT, of Committee,
Washington, D. C.
DEAR SIR :- Engagements otherwheres will account for this delay in acknowledging the kind invitation of your committee to be present at the Centennial Anniversary of the First Presbyterian Church, and birth of Presbyterianism in the City of Washington. Regretting inability to attend and personally exchange greetings with your venerable pastor, Dr. Sunderland, whom I knew only to revere and admire, as well as to renew acquaintance with yourself and other members of the church in which, for many years, I wor- shipped and shared vicissitudes, I cannot forbear extending hearty congratulations on the advent of a centennial memorial which sig- nalizes the remarkable growth and prosperity of Presbyterianism in the National Capital.
Thrice welcome, and God bless and perpetuate the constant growth of a religious body whose stability of faith and catholicity of spirit make it the world-wide bulwark of enlightened Christi- anity.
Sincerely yours,
T, W. FERRY.
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PERRYSBURG, OHIO, November 11, 1895.
MR. THEODORE F. SARGENT, of Anniversary Committee.
DEAR SIR :- I know of nothing that would give me so much pleasure as to accept your invitation to be present at your Centen- nial Anniversary. It brings to my mind some of the most pleas- ing recollections of my life. As I look back over a work of more than thirty years in the ministry, it seems to me that nothing I ever did was more highly appreciated than the work for the Juvenile Missionary Society of your church, during the years 1858-9.
About the beginning of my vacation from theological studies, in the spring of 1858, I received, through Dr. Sunderland, an invitation to spend a few weeks in doing missionary work for the Society above named. He wrote that his young people had raised some money for home work and wanted some one to aid them in doing the work-just how, they did not know. I went to Washington and began the work of sytematic visitation among the poor and neglected. It was soon found that a large number were needy and many children who did not attend any Sunday School. It was proposed to start a mission school in the chapel of your church, and a goodly number of children were soon gathered each Sunday afternoon for instruction. And a noble band of young ladies and gentlemen volunteered to teach them. The school grew rapidly and prospered ; its work was much enlarged in the way of benevo- lence, and it was found that the few weeks of my vacation was too short a time, so I was induced to remain and continue the work for a whole year-when I returned to the Theological Seminary and completed my course of study.
During the year 1858-9, I find on reference to a printed report of the Society's work-there was raised the sum of $841.36 ; and a good deal of interest was awakened, in fact, the young people were enthusiastic. Contributions not only through the Society, but individuals not connected with it sent me money and orders for shoes and other clothing and fuel to relieve the needy. I remember one good lady on D street sent for me and put in my hand $20.00 for this purpose. This was only a sample of the liberality manifested. A goodly number were brought to Christ through the faithful teachers of the Mission School. And after I had left Washington, Dr. Sunderland and others wrote me of the good work that was still carried on. Once, a poor child in Mrs. Johnston's class died, they wrote me, who was a devoted Christian and happy in her death,
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pleading with father and friends to meet her in Heaven. Whether that Society is still in existence I do not know, but I am sure it has a record on high for the work done for the Master to his little ones. A record that will stand forever. If it has any better record than it made while I was with it, then it must have much treasure laid up in Heaven.
If you have the printed reports of the anniversary exercises of 1858-9, you will find items of great interest to your people, and if those who participated in the work then are not with you now, may they not in spirit rejoice in your continued prosperity, and, may not their successors be encouraged and stimulated to go on with the good work.
Among the names of those who were either teachers or helpers in the mission work, I find Mrs. E. M. Sunderland and her daughter Laura ; Mrs. T. J. Johnston, widow of an elder ; Mrs. J. O. Mahon and her daughter Annie ; Misses May Coyle, Emma Coyle, Laura Coyle and Hattie Coyle ; Miss Laura Stetinius, Miss M. Miller, Miss A. D. Webb, Miss B. Naylor, Miss L. Hyatt ; Messrs. H. J. Frost, M. W. Galt, B. Milburn, Leo Coyle, L. Edmund Coyle, W. M. McLain, Jno. I. Underwood, O. C. Wight, and many others. I see that I was made a life member of the Society. If it is still in existence, then I am now a member of it.
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