Evening star., 1896-09-19
Local Work for Past YaR Reviewed
Last Night.
REPOR rs OF TEE COMMITTEES
Presidents Address and the Secre-
tary's Interesting Summary.
THE PRESS COMMITTEE

Christian Endeavor work for the year be-
ginning in September last was reviewed
ls st night at the annual meeting of the
District Christian Endeavor Union, held in
the Vermont Avenue Christian Church. Re-
ports of retiring officers and committee
chairmen were presented, last years Off
GERS were succeeded by those elected in June
end the presidents annual address was
read.
Miles M. Shand, who succeeds himself as
president of the union, presided over the
meeting. Devotional exercises were con-
Quoted by Rev. F.. D. Power, pastor: of the
Vermont Avenue Church. The singing was
under the direction of Charles S. Clark.
chairman of the union and '98 music COM
nittees and the audience was led by the
'96 convention solo choir.
Before proceeding to the reading Of re-.
ports OF the work accomplished by the or
ganization last year, and, after some an
nouncements by the secretary, Harry G.
Kimball, the resignation of E. A. Clark 81
the Metropolitan A. NJ. E. Church as seccnd
vice president of the union was read and
ne cessitated by his leaving the city shortly
after his election early in the summer. In
his stead E. Fl. Hunter Of the same church
and society was nominated and elected.
The press committees report was first
presented, read by the retiring chairman of
the committee. John b. Slenan, jr. In call
ing for this report, President Shand ad-
verted to the fact that tie chairman OF this
committee had for four years been in har
ness rendering valuable and faithful ser
vice to the union. With the rendering OF
the report, he said, Mr.. Sleman retired from
official connection with the union. Sympa-
thetic attention was given the reading of
the report, and upon its conclusion a hearty
demonstration of applause was given for
the press committee and it's chairman and
the work they together had done.
Missionary Work.
Miss Florence Shuttle read the report OF
the union missionary committee, of which
she has been chairman for the past year.
rEe report stated that through The COM
mittee's correspondent various denomina-
tions in the foreign field have been heard
from; that the enlargement of the mission
airy library one of the objects for
which the committee worked, a number Of
books being adocd to the excellent al
though comparatively small collection; that
the Chinese umbrella of s:ate--the trophy
Of the District union-had been taken to
many societies upon their written appli-
cation. and missionary meetings held un-
der the direction Of the members of the
committee, and finally, that interest in
giving and evangelistic work had been in
creased
Lookout Committee.
For the lookout committee Miss Lizzie
NJ. Warman. chairman, reported that an
attempt was made to watch and care over
all the societies in the union, and in the
prosecution of this work one hundred and
eleven visits to the various societies dur
ing the year had been made by the men,
bers Of this committee In addition to
these visits, upon invitation. of the socie-
ties. meetings were conducted by the COM
mittee in Eearly all of the societies. The
intervisitation plan was carried out as
fully as possible. Nearly every society, II
was stated, was represented in this in
devastation. The report dealt at some
length with the efforts made to interest
churches without societies infthe. .Endeavor
movement, with the result that applica-
tions were received through the committee
from fifteen new societies for admission
to the union.
The treasurer's report showed receipts
for the year to the amount of $;i0.34, to-
tai expenditures $324.G' leaving cash bal
ance to turn over to the new treasurer OF
$l63l.
Secretnry's Report.
| One Of the most interesting statements
| read during the evening was the report OF
| the secretary. Hermon c. Metcalf The
year was begun, he said, under the mos
| auspiCious circumstances, and has been tn,
| most eventful in all the unions history
| The July convention the one grea
| object especially before the union in it.
years work. which, he declared, furnished
| an inspiration and had the effect Of bind
ing societies end members closer together
| as well as enlisting greater numbers II
| active effort.
Thanks were expressed to the trustee:
| of the Calvary Baptist Church for the us,
| OF their vestry monthly fer meetings of tn,
| executive committee of the union, an.
| to the Calvary society for extending tn,
| invitation to hold the meetings there.
| Is the universal concensus OF opinion. re
| ported the secretary, that the meetings
1 ~ hn Witt h.,t. L.
| far the most helpful and interesting eve
| held by the union, marked, as they hav
been, by great cordiality, enthusiasm, dig
| nifty and spirituality.
| The report then proceeded to sketch 1,
| outline the main features of the executiv
| committee meetings, and the mass NEE:
| ings held from time to time, the Octobe
| committee conferences and the annua
convention in Central Hall in January
when active work for the internationa
| gathering in July was first begun amcni
| the rank and file Of the union.
A brief statistical resume concluded tn
| secretary's report, as follows:
There has been marked increase i
| the membership of our Union during tn
| past year. We began with 60 societies, ap
portioned as follows: Baptist, IA; Chris
tian, 3; Congregational, q: Lutheran, 5
| Methodist Episcopal, 1O Methodist Pro
| testant. 5; Presbyterian, q; United Breth
rem, /: Union, .. The total membership
was 5,253
| During the year there nave been adde
nineteen societies, and three have bea]
droppd from the roll, making net in
crease of sixteen, which brings the tota
UP to eighty-flve societies in nine differen
denominations.
The Presbyterians are still in the leaG
with twenty-six societies and total mem
bership of 1,750. The Baptists follow close
", with eighteen societies and 1855 mem
bers. Next come the Methodist Epis
copal societies, of which there are fifteen
with a membership Of 9S9 The Congrega
tionalists number 524 in six societies; tn
Lutherans 800 in eight societies. TIL
Methodist Protestant societies number f1v,
with a membership of 267, g and the tw
Christian societies have 26 member
There are 12G members in the three unio
societies-organized among the students a
Howard University and the soldiers sta
toned at Fort Myer and Washington ba1
racks-and the single societies among tn
United Brethren and the Friends have
membership Of 72 and 16, respectively. Th
grand total is $3.50 memberse an increas
of 636 stree the beginning OF the year. G
this number. 4.4O3 are active, 9G7 are as
societe and 519 are honorary member.
These figures indicate progress and are tn
result Of earnest and consecrated labor"
Annual Address>
Concluding the exercises was the deliver
of the annual address of the presiden
While the other exercises of ithe progral