Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-24
ANNUAL CONVENTION
Twenty-Si1th 0onvocation Of Young
Mems Christian Association.
DR.. WHITMAN A PRINCIPAL SPEAKER
Meetings to Be Held in Baltimore,
Beginning Friday Night.
NOTES FROM THE CHURCHES

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! President B. L. Whitman of the Column
| htan University will, it is expected, be Il
principal speaker at the twenty-sixth an
nual convention Of the Young Mems Chris
| tan Associations Of the District Of Column
| bia, Maryland, West Virginia and Della
ware, which will be held In Baltimore FRI
day Saturday and Sunday next. Some Of the
| meetings will be held in the main building
| OF the association. Charles and Saratoga
streets, and others in the West Branch
buildings. at Baltimore and Carey streets.
In addition to the delegates there will be
present International Secretaries H. o.
Williams, c. B. Hodge, Gilbert A. Beaver.
w. B. Millar and State Secretary L. A.
Coulter Of Virginia. The program for the
| convention has been arranged as follows:
Friday afternoon-Session at West
Branch. opening at 2 pm. with devotional
| exercises. followed by organization and
| reading of reports of the state secretary,
committees, treasurer and various associa-
| tons; address. THE Physical Department.
Needs and Opportunities" w. A. Jackson,
NJ. p; Bible study. Rev. DR.. c. 1. Scofield
of Smithfield, Mass; welcome reception
and tea. by ladies of the West End
| churches.
Friday evening-At West Branch, 1880,
song service: News From the Advance
| Posts.s w. B. Millar of New York: ad-
| dress upon 1.-The Educational Work of the
| Associations (llustrated), Geo. b. Hodge.
| educational secretary of the International
committee, New York; address. why the
Church Needs Young Men," Rev. A. H.
| Studebaker. d. D., pastor of First Lutheran
Church, Baltimore
Nineteenth Century Boy.
Saturday morning-At West Branch, .
| o'clock, devotional exercises; 1.-The Nine
| teenth Century Boy; the Associations Obli-
cations to Him. E. l.. Mathews; Work
for Young Men in Small Towns Import
ance. Methods and Possibilities" E. L.
| Leonard; the state work, Recommends
lions for the year 1898: How May the Rec
concentrations Be Made Effective?" Ills,
| Bible study, Rev. c. l. Scofield, D. D.
| Saturday afternoon-Separate sessions
| will be held at lowering Hall, Johns Hop
| kins University; 2:15, opening exercises;
go, The Fall Campaign;" go, Bible
study; 800, religious meetings: Method OF
| Work in Professional Schools Baltimore
| Medical College; 4:10, How to Arouse and
| Maintain Interest in Missions Johns Hop
| kins Medical School. Each topic opened by
| a representative of institution named.
| Other delegates will meet in the audi
| torium at G:15. Business Management OF
| the Association in Times of Storm and
| Baltimore. THE Spiritual Department
| How Can 1t Be Practically Related to the
| Entire Work." L. A. Coulter Richmond
Va; THE Educational Experimentation
| 10 Interest and Hold Men in the Educa-
| tional Department. ]. r. Cary; Reaching
Men Through the Evening Classes B. A.
| Barlow, jr.; separate sessions closed, when
all delegates meet for Bible study Rev, c.
| l. Scofeld d. D., leader.
Tea will be served to delegates at Cen
| trai building, Charles and Saratoga streets
| hy the ladies' auxiliary.
| Saturday evening-At West Branch, 7.3O
| song service. college Work - ad6
| by President B. l.. Whitman of Columbian
| University, Washington, D. c.; Railroad
| Work an address by H. O. Williams. rail-
! road secretary of International committee;
testimonials from railroad delegates
Sunday Services.
! At 8 am, conservation services, West
Branch, delegates and members, Rev. c. l.
| Scofield, u. D.
| At pm, boys meeting, women's meet
| ing and mems meetings at the following
| association buildings: Central, Charles and
| Saratoga streets; East branch 1881 East
| Baltimore street. West branch. Carey and
| Baltimore streets; Pennsylvania Railroad
| branch, 11S West North avenue; B. and o.
r. r. branch, Riverside: Johns Hopkins
| University, lowering Hall. go
National Convention.
The motto for the convention of Chris
| tian Endeavorers, which meets this year
| in Nashville, Tenn, as chosen by the COM
mttee, is as follows:
| Il only one, but l one; cannot
do everything, but 1 can do something;
what l do ought to do, and by the
| grace of God | will do
Among those who have accepted place
| on the program of the convention and who
are well known in Washington. Rev
| DR.. James 1. Vance, Nashville, Tenn: Rev.
DR.: A. G: Dixon, Brooklyn: Rev. DR.. J.
| Wilbur Chapman, Philadelphia: Rev. Dr.
| George G. ltOrrimer Boston and Booker
| t. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala.
| Through the reorganization of the United
Society of Christian Endeavor each evan
ge]ical denomination will be represented on
| the board by one trustee, or more, for
every one thousand societies in that de-
nomination. The annual meeting of the
| corporation will be held in the month of
June or July OF each year, and can be held
at the same time and place as the annual
| convention.
Baltimore Conference.
The committee on anniversaries of the
Baltimore conference, which assemblies here
March 2, has determined to change the
program formerly adopted by 1t, and
which was published some weeks ago in
The Star. AT a meeting of the committee
a few days ago, at which there We're pres
ent Drs. Huntley, Nay!or, Wilson, Eldridge
and Hartsock 1t was resolved that no meet
ing be held in the lecture room of Waugh
Church, where the conference sessions will
take place, but that all the anniversaries
shall be held in the main auditorium accord
ing to the following order: Wednesday
night Missionary Society, Bishop Merrill
presiding; Thursday afternoon, Women's
Foreign Missionary Society; Thursday
night, Freedmen's Aid Society, Rev. ]. D.
Stitt, presiding; Friday afternoon, Womens
Home Missionary Society; Friday night,
Church Extension Society, Rev. C. Herbert
Richardson presiding; Saturday night edu-
cation and temperance, Rev. H. r. Naylor
| presiding; ordination of elders Sunday 3
p m. at Wesley Chapel; Monday night, an
niversary Of Epworth League.
| Church Notes.
The Sunday school of the Fifth Congre-
gatioral Church will have a free stereopti-
con entertainment Tuesday, February l.
The pictures shown will be of Jerusalem
| ard its surroundings The Woman's Union