Introduction

Biography

Virginia was the daugh­ter of An­drew J. and Lou­isa J. Will­iams, and wife of min­is­ter Will­iam G. Moy­er of the Me­tho­dist Epis­co­pal New Jer­sey Con­fer­ence (mar­ried Jan­ua­ry 30, 1890)

In 1889, she gra­du­at­ed from the State Nor­mal School in Tren­ton, New Jer­sey.

Sister Moy­er pos­sessed rare so­cial, in­tel­lec­tu­al, and spir­it­ual qua­li­ties. She was clear-head­ed, pure-heart­ed, de­vot­ed as wife and mo­ther, a true friend, and an ear­nest Chris­tian.

Tireless in her de­vo­tion to the Church and all mor­al and re­li­gious in­ter­ests, she took an ac­tive part in the va­ri­ous Church or­ga­ni­za­tions and in Wo­man’s Chris­tian Tem­per­ance Un­ion work.

She was a great work­er among the children. The de­vo­tion­al meet­ings found her fore­most in en­dea­vor, and ma­ny in­dif­fer­ent ones have been stirred by her ap­peals to be­gin the new life.

Her tes­ti­mo­ny was clear and po­si­tive, and in de­fense of the right her ad­vo­ca­cy was strong and ag­gress­ive.

She be­lieved in, ex­pe­ri­enced, and taught ge­nu­ine scrip­tu­ral ho­li­ness, and was a good ex­am­ple of sweet con­sis­ten­cy be­tween pro­fes­sion and prac­tice.

Mrs. Moyer was pos­sessed of a po­et­ic na­ture, which was de­vel­oped to the en­rich­ing of the hym­no­dy of the Church. In the com­po­si­tion of warm and po­si­tive songs and hymns she de­vot­ed her spare hours, writ­ing up­ward of for­ty, ma­ny of which are still un­pub­lished.

The Chris­tian Ad­vo­cate
June 25, 1903