Tuesday, 25th November 1913: Men And Religion Bulletin No. 85, The Atlanta Journal

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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.