Covenanter Witness Vol. 54 - Rparchives.org

W. M. S. Department
Mrs. Ross Latimer, Editor,
Prayer Hour, 1:00 P.M. Monday
Church News
W. M. S. COLUMN
A THOUGHT FOR YOU
Do you remember always that other
beautitude: "BLESSED ARE THE
PLEASANT TO LIVE WITH" If we
remember, live, and enjoy, this princi
ple, what great things can be wrought!
Anon.
In 1920 a woman who had known
bitter days but whose heart was turned
to prayer penned the poem "The Touch
of the Master's Hand." In long-hand she
sent it to a small religious publication in
Elgin, Illinois. For fifteen years these
lines cheered hearts around the world.
This poem was among those "Best
Loved Poems of the American People"
with notation (author unknown).
Once this author's son heard this poem
given at a Y.M.C.A. convention in Ha
waii. He was thrilled with the familiar
lines but surprised by the words "author
UNKNOWN
unknown."
to the world
but not to him. In his mind's eye he
could see his mother, he could hear her
voice. Yes, he knew HER.
Someone took the task of tracing the
author
Mrs. Myra Brooks Welch. She
has published several books of poems in
the past forty years of semi-invalidism.
By her service to suffering humanity,
she has lightened the loads of those who
have beaten a path to her door.
"Dear friend: Rise up from the ashes
of your suffering.
Certainly God has
given you talents which He expects you
to use. When you reach your limits GOD
WILL NOT FAIL YOU then." Unknown
MBS. ROBERT MARTIN
The Clarinda congregation has again
been called upon to give up
one of its
older members in the person of Mrs.
Robert Martin who was called to her
heavenly home on March 10. For several
years she has been in failing health but
was able to be about the home until a
day or two before her death.
Mrs. Martin leaves to mourn her death
her husband, to whom she had been
married fifty-seven years; her son, Har
old and his wife Jean; and one brother
John Young of Denison, Kansas.
A life long member of the Covenanter
church, Mrs. Martin loved the House of
God and was active in church work un
til failing health prevented. "Blessed are
the dead who die in the Lord."
April 6, 1955
IN APPRECIATION
As we take up the work in Kansas
Cily we cannot fail to pay tribute to the
more than thirty years of service ren
dered by Dr. and Mrs. Paul Coleman.
Nor can we forget the work of Dr. J.
M. Wylie, Dr. E. G. Russell, and others
who preceded them. We find ourselves
taking over a work that has been built
upon strong foundations.
The Kansas City
congregation has
been hospitable and cooperative in every
way. In the reception they extended a
truly royal welcome; and the program
and evening of fellowship
were the re
sult of much planning and hard work.
This seems the time and the place
to tell about the wonderful new manse,
which was purchased after a great deal
of house-hunting on
the part of the
Board of Deacons and the Manse Com
mittee. It is a six-room ranch-type
house, practically brand new. It has full
basement, automatic heat, two fire
places, wall-to-wall carpeting, attached
double garage, drapes and curtains
throughout, large ceiling fan, and
screened porch. The kitchen has a gar
bage disposal sink; and the congregation
provided a fine new electric range and
refrigerator.
After we moved in, the people have
continued to show many kindnesses. In
the work of the congregation, they have
shown very clearly that they have a
mind to work.
Therefore we want to take this oppor
tunity to express our heart-felt thanks
to the Kansas City congregation.
POSTHUMOUS
G. M. and Ruth R. Robb.
DEGREE AWARDED
TO KANSAN
MANHATTAN The late Ralph Boyd
Cathcart of the animal husbandry de
partment staff at Kansas State College
was awarded a posthumous Ph.D. degree
in animal husbandry at the University of
Minnesota's March 17 commencement
exercises, it was learned here.
Mr. Cathcart had completed all work
for the Ph.D. degree, except an oral ex
amination over his thesis, before his
death here January 30. He had a bache
lor's degree in animal husbandry from
K-State in 1933 and a master's from
Nebraska University in 1934.
SOUTHFIELD CONGREGATION
Bible Mastery Month was observed by
a study in Ephesians each Sabbath
morning.
Work on the new church basement is
going forward. We are now back wor
shiping in the church. However con
struction work is still going
on and
the basement will not be ready for some
weeks yet. It promises to add much
to the usefulness of our church.
We are glad to report that many of
our sick people are making improve
ment. George Henning and Mrs. Buford
Abbott have both been out at services
again after several weeks illness. We
hope soon to be able to say that others
like Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Malcolm Mc
Donald are out again.
Several have made trips this winter.
Mrs. Claire Jameson to Iowa for Mary
Dixon Patterson's funeral, Miss Edna
Elsey to Glenwood to visit her brother,
Mrs. Tom Halliday to Denver for the
funeral of her father, and Mrs.
Ted
Clark to Winchester to visit her parents.
The Douglas Frasiers are in California.
Those going to Florida have been Halsey
Lucas, Joe McGaw and the Emer
son Beardslees.
Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald celebrated
her 100th birthday on February 14. Her
family held an open-house in her honor
on Saturday and Monday. Many friends
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