The evening times., 1895-10-15
ENLISTED IN THE CAUSE
Mission Workers Begin Their
Sessions in Foundry Church.
WELCOMED BY THE PASTOR
Many Local Clergymen Were Pres
ent and Spoke of the Work Eeing
Prosecuted-BibIe Society, Saliva
tion Army, Christian EndeavOr and
EpwOrth League Represented.

The first annual convention of the. Ma
tional Gospel Mission Union. this morning
at O'Clock began three days session In
Foundry NJ. E. Church. About 200 delegates
were present and Others are expected to
arrive during the day and evening.
POtted palms Were placed upon the plat
form and mammoth American rag
was draped across the organ. Geurge W.
Wheeler conducted devotional and praise
service, at which music was furnished Dy
the Silver Lake Quartet and choir from
the Central Union Mission. Mrs. A. l..
Prindle, known to Christian workers as
Mai. George A. Hilton, president OF the
organization, made brief address. stat
ing the objects or the association 10 De tne
prosecution uf evangelical work among the
masses and those VINO could not be reached
through the usual avenues OF reiis"us
teaching.
Dr. Brown. pastor of Foundry Church.
welcomed the delegates and said II was
fitting that all Christians should 20 fortn
into the highways and hedges following
the example of Christ during the period
of his personal ministry. He consiuered
it fitting that the first meeting OF the
National Union should be held In the church
where the preliminary steps were taken
to establish the Central Union MissloI-
BIBLE SOCIETY'S WORK.
DIR. A. W. Pitzer, president of the Wash
ington City Bible Society. told of the great
work accomplished by John Shackiord.
when, sixty years ago. he donated $4,000
to q Id in placing COPY OF the BlDie III eNerN
home on tine habitable globe.
The society was organized In ISIS ann
is now 81 years old. DurinR that time the
city OF Washington has been canvassed
thirteen tunes and 10000 iainilies nnve
been visited. For twenty years, DE- Pit
ger has been president or Tie society ana A
that time $1,000 families have been Nis-
tied. Besides paying all their own expenses
and keeping out OF debt. $4,000 has been
forwarded to the parent organization In
New York.
At the same time Dr. Pitzer said the con-
tributions to the society from the chilrcn
members OF Washington had averaged less
than two ceuts per head. The funds mad
been raised by donations. ranging ali the
way from 800 to $1,000.
Within the past four yenrs the society
has thoroughly canvassed this city and
placed . 900 Bibles i'll the hands OF chill
dren between eight and sixteen years old
AT the conclusion OF Dr. Pltzer ADDRESS
Percy s. Foster, by request. sang SOLO
Surely ! Come Quickly, accompanying
himself ON the organ.
CITY ORPHAN ASYLUM.
Rev. John B. Sleman, president of the
Washington City Orphan Asylum, located
at the corner of Fourteenth and streets.
made a l5-minute address. He said TINS
charity had for eighty years been maintained
been thought that Congressional aid nt.ht
well be extended TO It,
The number of inmates in the asylum
has averaged l65 per year. Those having
one. parent living are not admitted unless
peculiar circumstances undcr such a course
advisable.
The children are given mental and
physical education, calculated to qualify
them for life. The manner i'll which they
are provided with homes was described ,aBd
DR.. SlenIan told of the WAY IN which re-
EN.,r
than three decades the doctor has gone TO
heSasylum each Sabbath Afternoon and
taught the word OF God TO the rriendless
orphans.
Capt. Mnsland, OF the Salvation ARMY.
was unable TO be present. but AdIt. Hunter
made an excellent substitute. and said
that whether the soldiers beat bass drums
or wore distinctive Uniforms the OBJECT
III every instance was To beat the devil
Every instrcnlentaiity was tried from
taDiboNrine TO square meal. He said II
was not only the degraded they sought TO
save, but those OF all classes and conditions
who do not aekno wledse Christ. IL mat
ters not whether a man comes from a col
iege or a bar-ruonI God can inspire ana
equip him to he n successful WOrk.- III
he army.
DONE BY SALvATIONISTS.
During the past four months. Adit.
Hunter said, more thaDt 100 men and
women III Washington had been con
verted through the instrumental lity OF
the Salvation Army. many falitIi women
had been reclaimed and untold good had
been accomplished.
Capt. Dunlop, wearing haliclulah bon
net and dressed in the plain garD OF a
Salvation lass, sang in clear. sweet VOICE
"a typical railying song, 'Halielu;ah-'
She repeated the words OF the chorus and
requested the audience to Ioin III singing
them, which they did with Will
Rev. ID. W. Skellenger spoke in behalf
of the Christian EudeayOr Societies. He
said these organizations depended alto
Ut.fnpr a which slllll to
all requirements. 1t had been saia that
the obligation OF the endeayorer was cast
The Il must of the Christian Endcavor
Society was the beginning OF religious
life. Its members are not only opposed
to gam bling iu the downtown resorts. but
in the uptown parlors. They have no
grand nrizes. no BOBBY prizes. and no
favors. They are arrayed not only against
the great evil OF intenDera nee but its
companion vice. the tobacco habit. They
advocate not only a pure home life but
pure politics.
EPwORTH AND ENDEAVOR.
The Endeavur Societies, DIR. Skellinger
said, Joined ha nds with all Christian
workers on the face of the globe in an
endeayor to promote Christian work.
William Burdette Matthews spoke for
the 1900 senior and l,OG6 junior Mem
bers of the Epworth League i'll Washington.
The strength, energy ana brains of this
young eIe.ih'nt, lie lcit. constituted the
very flower of the Methodist church. He
told of the great work which Is being
by the society
Rev. K. X. West. representing the BAD
list Young Peoples Union. said that
organization is a federation of all the
various societies engaged in work within
the church. He detailed the work in
whichthey areengaged, and the vast amount
of good being accomplished.
As DR.. West finished speak king the au-
dience joined in singing the long meter
Doxology.
Z. H Bristow of the District Sunday
school Union, told of the interdeHOnina-
tionai work that Is beng done tor Jne
aviation OF souls. Sectarianism is
abolished, and all laborers in the vineyard
are brought into closer conlpanionshiD.
He told of the visits made to the poyer erty-
sick and dying, where physical
and spiritual ministrations alike are Bec-
essary. He described how invitations
are left at all of the hotels on Saturday
night for strangers to attend worship OIL
the Sabbath.
DR.. Hartsock offered prayer for the work
that had been presented.
Prof. Miller. of Chicago. who is now en-
gagged in conducting revival services at
Jianline Church. sang Gospel song.
The benedictiOn was pronounced by Lewis
N. Bean. of Philadelphia.
AT the afternoon session. which began
conducted the devotional exercises c. B.
Ball represented the University Park Mis-
sion: Rev. Howard Wilbur Ennis, the
of Andrew and Phillip, Mrs.
s. ID. La Fetra the Hope and Help Mission:
Rev. s. I. Wideman and Miss Ida L. Miner
the Deaconess' Home: w. L. Bruen the Cos
pei wagon and o. B. Brown the Central