A history of the Harriet Hollond Memorial Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Pa. . he school grew from fiftyto above four hundred. His strong personality,love for children, devotion to the work, anddeep spiritual earnestness, admirably fitted himfor the responsible position which he con-tinued to fill with ever-increasing usefulnessfor eleven years. In 1858, he removed to West Philadelphiaand became the superintendent of the Green-way Mission, which has since been organizedinto the Green way Presbyterian Church. Tothis work he gave seven years of faithful andsuccessful service. Mr. Wurts was
A history of the Harriet Hollond Memorial Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Pa. . he school grew from fiftyto above four hundred. His strong personality,love for children, devotion to the work, anddeep spiritual earnestness, admirably fitted himfor the responsible position which he con-tinued to fill with ever-increasing usefulnessfor eleven years. In 1858, he removed to West Philadelphiaand became the superintendent of the Green-way Mission, which has since been organizedinto the Green way Presbyterian Church. Tothis work he gave seven years of faithful andsuccessful service. Mr. Wurts was twice superintendent of theSunday-school of the Tenth Church. He wasone of the first elders of the Woodland Presby-terian Church. His enthusiasm and unselfish devotion toSunday-school mission work led to his appoint-ment as secretary of Missions of the AmericanSunday-School Union, and recording secretaryof its Board, February 19, 1861, a position hecontinued to fill with great acceptance untilhis death in 1881, a period of twenty booklet entitled An Unselfish lyife, set-. Maurice A. Wurts BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 197 ting forth the value of his work to the Sunday-School Union and other religious enterprises,was published shortly after his death. Strong leaders have been connected withour work from the beginning and Mr. Wurtswas among the foremost of them. He waslargely instrumental in laying the firm founda-tion upon which much of the subsequent suc-cess of the HoUond school has been built. Alady who was a teacher during his superin-tendency thus writes of his work and its results: I was not with Mr. Wurts in the earlyyears of his work in Moyamensing. but I haveoften heard him speak of the difficulties en-countered, the rough surroundings, and theunsatisfactory arrangements in the old hose-house, with boards placed on boxes or barrelsfor seats, and the rough, undisciplined elementhe had to contend with. It was his aim to make this a model school;but with the raw material
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