Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-16
THE UNION MISSION
Its Thirteenth Anniversary to Be
Celebrated Tomorrow.
REVIEW OF THE WORK ACCOMPLISHED
Election of Officers and Submission
Of Reports Monday.
THE MISSION BRANCHES

The thirteenth anniversary of the Central
Union Mission will be celebrated tomorrow
and will be an unusually interesting event
In the history of that organization. The
annual meeting for the election of officers,
the hearing of reports and the transaction
of other routine business will be held in
the board room Monday at 73O pm, at
which time all persons actively identified
with the mission are exIecte1 to be present.
Those in charge are especially anxious
that the afternoon service in the audi
forum tomorrow shall call together the
fullest representation of the mission which
1t has ever had and that the service shall
be made memorable
The Program of Exercises.
AS finally arranged the program will be:
Morning, IL o'clock, Gunton Temple Me-
mortal Presbyterian Church, anniversary
sermon; topic, City Mission Work." by
Rev. E. d. Bailey: the music will be by
mission singers, in charge of Mr.. G. W.
HavelL Afternoon at the mission rooms,
2 pm, prayer service in the chapel; 3 DIN
special song and praise service and reunion
of converts, workers, patrons and friends
or the mission in the auditorium; pm,
lunch for workers, converts and friends in
the band room; pm, song service on
Market space; t.3D pn NJ, procession to First
Congregational Church. where the exercises
will be conducted by President E. D..
Bailey. with Mr.. G. W. Havell as musical
director.
After a song service consisting Of cho-
ruSes, quartetS, duets and solos, there will
be Scripture reading and prayer. testi-
monies by mission converts, review of the
work of the year The meeting will close
with brief addresses by pastors and others.
Unless difficulties arise not now foreseen,
il Is proposed to have every branch of the
mission. including the mems band. the wo-
mems band, the womens shelter. the in
dustrial department, the gospel wagon and
each subdivision of the work. represented
in the afternoon service. in the procession
and in the evening service, by q pennant
or small banner carried by a representa-
tive of each. As far as practicable the
converts and workers of each branch will
group themselves around their respective
remnants
Board of Directors.
The mission is managed by a board Of
ten directors and very few changes occur in
the membership from year to year. The
members of the board are: E. D. Bailey,
chairman: A L. Swartwout. secretary: j.
c. Pratt. treasurer: George w. Wheeler.
Tyler. Allen Wood, NJ. c. Pope Prof r.
b. Warder. Six Of these have been mem
bers almost from the first, while two others
have been actively identified with the work
many years.
Since its organization the mission has
received and disbursed more than $4,000
in the work of evangelization. and has
paid 10000 for the purchase and improve
ment of its building. The property Is es-
tiniated to be worth 10000. on which there
IS still a debt of about $4,000. When 1t
IL remembered that most of the money
put into the building has been paid during
the financial depression of the past few
years the result Is all the more remark
able.
Its Chief Work.
II Is the idea of those who control the
is to reach tho classes of people who do
not come under the influence OF ordinary
chit rch services. The gospel wagon Is run
with this object In view.
1t Is e remarkable fact that while the
gospel wagon idea originated with the Cen
trial Union Mission and the model wagon
was built here ten years ago. this agency
Is employed in almost every city of any
considerable size, and one organization
alone II England Is said to have built and
equipped seventeen gospel wagons.
Inc gospel wagon work In this city has