Tuesday, 25th November 1913: Men And Religion Bulletin No. 85, The Atlanta Journal
The Atlanta Journal,
Tuesday, 25th November 1913,
PAGE 11, COLUMN 5.
FOLLOW ME
I am the good shepherd;
the good shepherd layeth
down his life for the sheep.
He that is a hireling fleeth.John 10-11:12
Miss Edith Appleyard died Monday.
She was once matron at Agnes Scott
College.
Christ touched her heart.
She wished to serve.
She said:--
Send me to any placeonly put me where
I can reach and help the nethermost.
Chief Beavers closed Atlantas houses
of shame.
Help was offered the fallen; Bell
Sommers was saved; she gave mon-
ey to found
a home for them.
Miss Appleyard came to give her life.
She left Agnes Scott College.
She became matron of Marthas Home.
She went into the hells of earth to
save her sisters.
She lived with them.
God alone knew the strain.
For few helped. Many hindered.
Christian people, not understanding,
tried to close this refuge for the hopeless. The Police Board classified it as
a nuisance. A great paper termed it a disorderly house.
Miss Appleyard never complained.
Without rest, without ceasing, day in,
day out, she served.
She found only happiness in the work.
She was saving the lost.
She was bringing order out of chaos.
The way was becoming clear.
But self had been forgotten: sickness
came.
Years ago a man had sinned.
A woman was infected.
No one knows how many lives have
suffered for their shameinnocent lives have been sacrificed for their sin.
A girl came to Marthas Home.
She brought their curse.
A man had put it upon her.
It found the lips of Miss Appleyard,
who by love was trying to bring the girl back to life.
Miss Appleyard is dead.
Science fought for her life.
Men and women prayed that she might
stay.
But God called. He had work elsewhere
for her.
With Paul she realized that it is
better far to be away and with Jesus.
For weeksmonths, unable to use her
tongue, she has written her thoughts. Each note has radiated joy and hope,
although she knew that death was daily drawing nearer.
Asked if she had a message to send the
students of Agnes Scott, she wrote:-
I do thank my Savior that He has
permitted me just a glimpse of this his great work and I hope that it may be
their work too.
To the girls of the Martha Berry
School, she sent this word:--
I have no message but this, that they
may realize their wonderful opportunity before they are gone.
Their worktheir wonderful opportunity.
Our workour wonderful opportunity.
Your workyour wonderful
opportunitybefore you are gone.
Her last conscience expression was a
note to this Committee. She said
All the Executive CommitteeMy love.
Tell them how grateful I am to have been counted worthy to share in the great
work. May God overrule all mistakes.
Jesus said:
Feed my lambstend my sheepFollow
Me.
I am the good shepherd: the good
shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep. He that is a hireling fleeth.
If any man will come after Me, let him
deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.
Whosoever doth not bear his own
crosscannot be my disciple.
Miss Appleyard has shown again the only
way, a new and living way, the cross of Christ.
God grant that you and we may take it
up today and follow Him.
No word of sorrow should be heard.
This Thanksgiving Day, let us go up to
Gods place of prayer.
And there, in the house of our Father
we will give thanks for her life.
But most of all, for her triumphant
death.
God lead us in the way that she has
shown.
Executive
Committee of the Men
And
Religion Forward Movement
PAGE 12, COLUMN 7
MISS
EDITH APPLEYARD
DIES AFTER LONG
ILLNESS
Matron of
Martha Home and
Successful Worker Among
Women Buried Tuesday.
Miss Edith P. Appleyard, matron of
Marthas home, died Monday afternoon at her home, 191 Capitol avenue, after an
illness of several months.
Miss Appleyard had been actively
identified with the Men and Religion Forward Movement since the founding of
Marthas home, and her work there has been closely observed by social workers
the country over. She came to Atlanta as trained nurse some years ago, after
several months spent studying the operation of a home for wayward girls
situated just outside Philadelphia. After a year or two in Atlanta hospitals,
Miss Appleyard was made matron of Agnes Scott college, which position she held
until September of 1912, when she became identified with the movement to care
for the unfortunates of the city and was placed in charge of Marthas home.
Marion Jackson, Rev. G. R. Buford and
Chief of Police Beavers unite in their praise of Miss Appleyards work and of
her altruistic character.
Miss Appleyard is survived by two
sisters, Miss Nellie and Miss Mary Appleyard. Funeral services were conducted
at the Fair Street Lutheran church Tuesday morning at 11 oclock, and interment
was at West View.
PAGE 21, COLUMN 6
COUNSEL
FOR RAILROADS
DISCUSS MILEAGE
RULING
Conference
in Washington to
Decide What Action Lines
Will Take
Attorneys representing the principal
railroads of Georgia are in conference in Washington, D. C., Tuesday to
determine what action the roads will take on the decision of the state supreme
court in upholding the order of the state railroad commission requiring
interchangeable mileage and scrip mileage to be pulled on trains.
A decision will be reached by the
attorneys either Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday.
The supreme courts remitter is
expected to reach the clerk of the Fulton county superior court within the next
few days, at which time Judge J. K. Hines, special attorney of the railroad
commission, will call for its immediate consideration by Judge W. D. Ellis.
Judge Ellis
enjoined the commission from enforcing its order against the railroads. The
supreme court reversed Judge Ellis and he must now dissolve the injunction and
sustain the order. Whether the railroads will continue the litigation by
appealing again to the state supreme court and from the decision of that
tribunal to the United States supreme court, or whether they will withdraw the
mileage books, or whether they will simply submit to the commissions order and
withdraw their opposition are matters to be determined at the Washington
conference now in progress.