Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23
MISSION TALKS
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Calvary Church Crowded With Chris
tian Endeavorers.
ADDRESSES BY NATIONAL OFFICERS
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Urging the Two-Cent,a-Week Plan
of Contribution.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING

The throng of young people who crowd
ed the remode!ed and beautiful Calvary
Baptist Church on the occasion OF the mass
meeting of the Christian Endeayorers last
night seemed inspired with a missionary
spirit. Occupying conspicuous place In
the organ loft was the Chinese umbrella OF
state which was awarded the District
union at the convention in Boston last
July for making the best proportionate
showing in the matter of contributions to
foreign missions during the yetcr On the y
cent-a-week plan of giving.
Anticipating a great crowd at the meet
irg, admission to the church.was by, card
the members of Christian Endeavor socie-
ties Were seated. Afterward SO much OF
the seating capacity of the church as re-
NAMED was placed at the disposal of the
general public.
a fifteen-minute song service preceded
the exercises CT the evening, led by Percy
S. Foster, with Prof. Chas ]. Toof presid-
ers' song. There is Sunshine in My Soul, y
was followed by Scatter Sunshine" and
Onward, Christian Soldiers and others
eql ally inspiring. 90
Miles NJ Shand, who presided over the
meeting. were Rev. Dr. S. H. Greene, pas
tor of Calvary Church. Miss Ella d. Nc
Laurin of the American Baptist Missionary
Urion of Boston; Mr.. Sherwood Eddy, one
of the secretaries of the student volunteer
movement for foreign missions, and two OF
the officers of the United Society of Chris
tan Endeavor Secretary John Willis Baer
and Treasurer William Shaw, who are in
Washington comforting with the committee
of 90 about the convention which Wash
ington will hold next July.
When President Shand opened the meet
Nol- ,;,l, II ntr,e,
there was not a vacant seat in the great
auditorium or galleries, and many persons
were standing in the doors and along the
walls and in tine aiSles. RESPONSIVE read
ings. singing and prayer were followed by
announcements and an effective soprano
solo by Mrs. Carrie kfdwell Stewart, Pass
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DIR. s. H. Greene welcomed the Endeav-
orers to the church with-ar greeting all the
mere hearty, he said, because he was
young himself and in sympathy with young
people. He said he rejoiced in the Won
derful organization OFT Christian -Endeavor
and had watched its marvellous growth in
Washir gton with great interest, and it had
given him pleasure to receive the aid the
young people had offered to him. Now 1t
has raised the mission, song and had taken
up the missionary work. No longer a sim
Gle church or one denomina ton, but n
ur TIED band, it had taken up in earnest the
work OF redeeming the world.
Mr.. Shaw's Talk.
Mr. VIM Shaw was introduced as one of
the bestowed officers of the united society,
and he made a brief but pointed talk. He
said it was an unexpected pleasure to be in
such a company as that assembled last
night. The meeting as way beyond their
expectations. Next summer" said Mr..
Shaw, you are to have a convention IN
Washington. We had one in Boston last
year, and the Boston people We're wonder
rIox- tod n
gathering, but the tens of thousands that
came turned the city upside down--yes, 1t
Is turning it right side up He related IN
cidents within his own personal knowledge
that had happened in Bos ton, wherein the
convention had been the means of accom-
plshing a great deal of good. He told OF
4 drummer, who, arriving In the -Qepol a
day or two before the convention, saw the
decorations, and in surprise asked what II
all meant He was told it was the Chris
tian Endeavor convention. Walking through
the depot, he noticed large banner bear
ing the inscription, The whole world for
Christ" Instantly the conviction flashed
upon him that though the whole world was
for Christ, he was not, but he resolved that
from that moment he would be. And, said
Mr.. Shaw, by means of a painted banner, a
man who had turned deaf ear-to reigfous
appeals was converted 1t was Boston 5
experience he said, that the seed sown in
holding an international Christian Endeav-
o. convention had reproduced hundred
fold, and he was sure the same, would be
true of Washington.
To Go as II Missionary.
Mr.. Shaw was followed by Mr.. Sherwood
Eddy of Princeton Theological Seminary
and last year one of the travelling seer e.
taries of the student volunteer movement
for foreign missions. Mr. Eddy expects to
go as a missionary to India after the CON-
pletion of his course in the seminary next
and is of intensely interest Ell
in foreign missions. He is young man o.
pleasing address, and was listened to with
great deal of interest. In an effective
manner he presented a panorama of mis-
sionary scenes, beginning with the labors
of Christ in Galilee and passing rapidly
through the persecution of the early church
under the Roman empire. the supersttions
Of the dark ages, to the beginning of the
modern missionary split 70 tered n Europe
by Carey and the inception of the student
volunteer movement few years ago in
Mortified, Mass, during the progress of
the meetings annually held there by Mr..
D. l.. Moody He explained the ob;ects.of
the movement as two-fold in character, the
first to arouse among the students of the
colleges and schools of the country an in
tereSt in foreign missions and obtain VOL
unteers for such work, and then have the
young people at home send them out and
support them in distant lands.
Another intending foreign missionary, Miss
Ella D. NacLaurin spoke of "Our interests
Our Responsibilities and Our Joys in Foreign
Missions" Her talk was delivered in almost
a conversational manner, but it's very SIM
plcity and earnestness We're deeply impress
sive. She told many affecting incidents to
illustrate her remarks, and there were many
wet eyes in the house and an intense hush
over all as she spoke.
Mr.. Baer's Address.
Mr. John Willis Baer, the general secre-
tary of the United Society, was the last
speaker of the evening. He is known by
reputation at least to every Christian En-
deavorer in Washington, and some-remenf-
Der with pleasure the meeting here a few
years ago, at which he was one of the prn-
cipal speakers. AS he took his place, beside
the reading desk in response to the intro
duction of President Shand, the vast audi
ence arose>and greeted him with the Chau-
tauqua salute-the waving of handkerchiefs.
Mr.. Baer made only passing reference to
the international convention Washington
expects to entertain in July, being content to
say that the work, so far as Washington is
concerned, is in most excellent hands, and
he believed the arrangements wo uld Re com
plete. He was glad the Endeavorers of
Washington could lose sight of the conven-
ton for the time and devote themselves to
the consideration of such an important sub
ject as the evangeliZation of the world. He
urged larger contributions and stricter adj
herence to the two-cent-a-week plan of. Civ