6 COLUMBIA UNION VISITOR
Chesapeake
R. M. Spencer, President N. C. Van Horn, Sec’ty-Treas
Trustings Ave. and Eges Lane, Catonsville, Md.
THE CAMP MEETING ,
The Chesapeake camp meeting bids fair to be the
best we have ever had. We plan to have camp all ready
this year three or four days before the date of opening.
We hope that all our people will also be there on time.
Try to arrive at least one full day before the opening
night. This will enable vou to get your beds and put
your tents in order .and thus be prepared to attend the
early morning meeting.
~ We have about seven acres or more of land—a
beautiful grove with an abundance of shade and room to
park vour automobiles within the grounds.
Sanitarium doctors and nurses will be there to ex-
amine and counsel with any who may need attention.
We are planning to give special attention to the
young people, so dear young people, come and bring your
parents, and dear parents, come and bring your children.
Invite your neighbors and friends with their children to
come.
If hindrances arise which seem to prevent your com- |
.ing, carefully consider the source and remember that the
Lord will put no hindrances in your way. Hindrances are
not to be vielded to but are to be overcome.
“I'he members of our churches should attend our
camp meeting.” Vol. 6, page 38. :
| FF. DeWitt (Gauterau.
4 CHECK WITH 4 STRANGE STORY
A twenty-five-cent check! The smallest check the
writer has ever seen, and a check with the strangest
story.
The check came from a man in middle life, with a
letter giving the reason why the check was drawn.
“When I was a boy,” said the man in his letter,
“T stole .a five-cent toy from a store. My mother knew
nothing of what I had done, but the next week I stole
something else, and she found out what I had done. Well
that was the end of my stealing. :
“But,” went on the man, “since I became a man,
that five-cent toy which 1 stole has been on my con-
science. The man who kept the store is dead; and I did
not know until recently that he had any children.
“Now I have learned,” he wrote to the person who
received the letter, “that vou are the child of the man
from whom I stole the toy, and I am sending you a check
in payment for the toy I stole as a boy, with interest.”
‘This man had learned the great lesson that it is not
enough to be sorry when we have done wrong, but that
when it is possible we must make good the wrong which
we have done.—Selected.
Be sure to see with your own eyes and hear with
your own ears.— William Penn.
OBITUARIES
DAVIS—Anna Ruth Davis was born March 18, 1925;
and died April 22, 1926, at Porter, Ohio, at the age of thir-
teen months and four days. She is survived by a father,
mother and six sisters. Services were conducted by the
writer. : Lewis E. Lenheim.
BAKER—Wm. H. Baker was born April 20, 1839;
and died April 18, 1926, at the age of eighty-seven years.
He was a life long resident of Hagerstown, Maryland.
He leaves a widow, six children, twenty-one grand chil-
dren and twenty great grandchildren.
: G. Medairy.
ROSS—James Ross was born in Monroe Co., Ohio, May
31, 1810; and died April 8, 1926, at Hanna, West Virginia.
He is survived by his wife, nine children, forty grandchil-
dren, two brothers, and two sisters. Brother J. T. Eaton,
of the Parkersburg church, conducted the funeral services,
speaking words of comfort to the many relatives and
friends present. C. M. Paden.
JONES—Merton Everett Jones, of Indiana, Penn-
sylvania, died at the Washington Sanitarium April 22,
1926. Brother Jones has been suffering from cancer for
several years, which caused his death. He embraced the
truth and joined the Indiana church four years ago. He
was a faithful, loyal member until death. A widow, two
sons and two daughters, with many other friends, are left
to mourn. : W. M. Robbins.
NEUMAN-—Mrs. Julia Neuman was born in 1840 at
Zelo, Poland; and died at the home of her daughter in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 25, 1926. Mrs. Neuman
came to this country with her children about thirty years
ago. She was a hard-working woman all her life, but
faithful in her devotions to God. Her last words were
spoken in the hope that God who had lead her all her life
will lead her on. Words of comfort were spoken by the
writer, assisted by Elder C. D. Hein, of the German
church. She leaves to mourn, five children, two sons and
three daughters; eighteen grandchildren and six great
grandchildren, A. D. Haynal.
WOODS—Mrs. Anna A. Woods, nee Gochenour, was
born near New Market, Virginia, July 18, 1835; died near
her old home, April 18, 1926. Mrs. Woods was unifed in
marriage to Mr. Silag R. Woods in the fall of 1858. Two
children survive, Eugene Woods, of Great Falls, Montana,
and Mrs. Lillie D. Marshall, who has been caring for her |
mother for the past ten years. Mrs. Woods united with
the Seventh-day Adventist church in 1880, being baptized
by Elder M. G. Huffman. She has been a faithful member
since. Funeral services were conducted by the writer as-
- sisted by Elder J. N. Smith. The pallbearers were se-
lected from the student body of the Shenandoah Valley
Academy, and the music was in charge of Professor Mac-
Means of the Music Department of the Academy. Thus
another old member who accepted the message when it
first came to Virginia, has passed away. :
R. D. Hotel.
KIRKENDALL—Mrs. Emma Ray Kirkendall nee
Morris, was born February 14, 1868 in Holmes County,
Ohio; and died April 17, 1926, at Mount Vernon, Ohio.
On September 8, 1889, she was united in marriage to M.
C. Kirkendall. To this happy union were born five chil-
dren, two sons, one of whom died in infancy, and three
daughters. In 1894 they accepted the third angel’s mes--
sage and labored together for the advancement of the .
kingdom of God. After laboring in the ministry for a
time, Elder Kirkendall taught Bible in the Mount Vernon
College for six years, followed by three years pastoral
work in Chicago. After serving as president of the On-
tario Conference and the Chesapeake Conference, he laid
down his life’s work May 15, 1916. Sister Kirkendall
then moved with her family to Mount Vernon for the
purpose of educating her children for the Master’s work.
"Besides her four children, she leaves to mourn their loss,
two grandchildren, an aged mother, four sisters, five
brothers and many other relatives and friends. Services
were conducted by the writer, assisted by Elder L. A.
Spring. J. W. Hirlinger.