Mary L. Moreland (December 23, 1859 – March 17, 1918) was an American Congregational minister as well as a teacher and a writer.

Moreland received her education in academies of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, followed later by a Chautauqua normal course.

Prior to her ordination, Moreland had been a teacher, lecturer for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.

She was among the first of Massachusetts young women to take the white ribbon in the W.C.T.U., and, although a girl of sixteen, she was upon the platform a successful lecturer.

She attended the Chautauqua Assembly to Lake View, Framingham, Massachusetts for six consecutive years which laid a foundation for the study of the ministry, to which she added the normal courses in the Bible and also took the four years in the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, class of 1884.

During the four years in which she was taking the Chautauqua course, editing the above books and contributing many short articles to different papers, she was constantly invited to address public meetings.

[4] She was the author of several booklets, including "Domestic Problem", "Women in the Bible", "The Flag of the Free", "Mother's Opportunity", and "His Guidance".

[4] Her first call to settle as pastor was in the summer of 1888, in the Keithsburg circuit, Illinois conference, by Elder Smith, of the United Brethren Church.

Louis Curtis, elder of that district, requested her to spend the time which she could spare from revival work in Eldena, Illinois.

She began her labors, and they gave her a unanimous call, but being a Methodist Church, according to the discipline, she could only be a stated supply.

[2] Thereafter, she held pastorates in several other cities in Illinois: McLean, Normal, Chicago, Chebanse, and Mazon, the last being in Belvidere, from May 1917.