Evening star., 1898-09-06
Annual Meeting of the District Chris
tian Endeavor Union.
THE new OFFICERS And COMMITTEES
Reports Made by Secretary and
Treasurer, Respectively.
THE MONEY EXPENDE D

rev officers and committees for the year
be ginning September l, 1898. The meeting
was held in the vestry of Calvary Baptist
Church. President Grant Leet called the
meeting to order, and, after singing and
devotional exercises, the reports of COM
mittees were announced to be in order.
Chairman Wn. W, Tuckey of the lockout
committee reported. The members of this
committee made ffty-seven visits to carry
the greetiI SIS of the union and to ofer IFS
services to the local societies. Twenty-Five
n ceilings were held. Thirtyseven societies
participated in the intervisitation planned
by the committee, showing falling off of
interest in this feature of the union work.
Chairman H. G.. Wilbur submitted the re-
pc TT of the missionary committee, the work
OF which for The past year has been cf
such a character that much of its results
cannot be told, for they cannot be ascer-
tanned. 1t is impossible to tell from the
many seeds that have been prayerfully
sown just how many have borne fruit, and
how much and where. AT the commence
ment of the ear the committee had before
1t the following lines of work: In general
to arouse a more thorough missionary in
terest in both the home and foreign field.
10 encourage the two-cents-a-week plan of
giving. TO try and have q more general use
of the missionary library which is the
property of the District Union; to hold
missionary meetings at the different En-
deavor societies, and to prepare missionary
pre- grams whenever necessary, and TO hold
missionary conferences. During the year
meetings have been held by the committee
in sixteen different societies
Good Citixenship.
The report of F. Nj. Bradley chairman of
the good citizenship committee, was read
by Assistant Secretary w. C. Trey. The
committee has rendered acceptable service.
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places of questionable amusements and
these have been closed by the police de-
Partment. The committee has carefully
and quietly looked after proposed legisla-
ton IN Congress touching the liquor ques-
tiCn and other matters connected with good
Reports were submitted by Miss Zue H.
Crockett, chairman of the good literature
committee; Mr., Page L. Zimmerman, chair
man of the music committee; Miss Anna
committee. Mr.. A. L. Dietrich chairman
of the press committee, stated THAI it is
the purpose of the committee to continue
the weekly news letter in the Saturday edi-
tion of The Evening Star and 10 make it
more useful to the Endeavorers.
The report of the treasurer. George r.
Lfnkins. shows receipts of s591. 81, of which
a balance CT s2-S1 remains. All bills out
standing against the union are paid. The
sum of IS was turned over to the general
chairman Of the Nashville transportation
committee.
Report of Secretary.
The report of the recording secretary,
Paul E Sleman, gave a summary of all
the work of the union during the year. In
part it is as follows:
I'm some respects the year just colnplet-
ed by our union has been different one
from any preceding. Principally has this
difference been noticed by the casual OBJ
server in the absence of frequent mass
meetings AT the opening of the year TIE
board of officers were of the belief, in view
of the large demands upon Endeavorers in
their own church work. and the generally
decreasing attendance at mass meetings,
that q large number of such meetings
would be multiplication of meetings which
would rather hinder than help the work of
the societies themselves. 1t was also beiiev-
ed that the monthly meetings of the execu-
tive committee could be made to serve in
the place of mass meetings.
The largest number of societies repre-
sented at any meeting of the executive
committee during the year sixty-five,
at the October meeting. The average num-
Der OF societies represented for the year
was ffty-three, a gain of four over the
previous year.
-Four mass meetings were held during
the year The opening meeting was held
in Calvary Baptist Sunday school house.
Scp'eHiDeT Il, WneH the annual reports OF
officers and committees were presented and
reception rendered the new board of OFF,
GERS by the retiring board. Others held
were the 22d of February, a patriotic mass
meeting, in the new Ninth Street Christian
Church; May 20. a mass meeting in The
interests of Nashville, '9S in Mount Yer
non NJ. E. Church South and july ~. in
ST. PauIs English Lutheran Church Nash
vile. '3S, echo meeting
The two advance movements of Chris
a Omit
Tenth Legion first prominently present
ed at the San Francisco convention have
very largely occupied the thought and at
tentfon of both the union and the indi
Vldual societies themselves
During the year the board of ofioars
OF the union have held twenty-onc rnnot-
lhSs ana several joint meetings with chair
men OF union committees
Work for Soldiers
nen Camp Aiger was established the
Young Mems Christian Association. through
It's general secretary called upon our union
TO Cooperate in the collection of literature
and comfort bags for the soldiers. A gen.
eral call was sent to the societies, and all
such supplies were asked to be sent to the
I oung Mems Christian Association build
ing. The great mass of reading matter
received was carefully sorted by the nnion
good literature committee and small tracts
pasted In each piece to be forwarded to the
camp. A number of comfort bags were re-
ceived and forwarded to the camp.
During the year three new societies have
peen received into the union. viz, Ebenezer
A NJ F., Intermediate Society of First
congregational Church and intermediate
Society of Vermont Avenue Christian
church. There are now eighty-two socie-
tles IN the union divided as follows: Bap-
ust, fourteen societies, with 52S members.
CHRISTIAN, four societies. with $50 members.
congregational, eight societies, with 536
members; Friends, one society. with %
members; Lutheran, seven societies. with
Si2 members; Methodist Episcopal. sixteen
societies, with 1,1G9 members: Methodist
Protestant, five societies, with 253 mem
bers; Presbyterian, twenty five societies.
with 1.664 members: United Brethren one
society, with 81 members; Howard Univer
sity, one society, with Ill members, max
ing total of eighty-two societies and O61
members. These are divided into 4 GA
active, ts4 associate and 633 honorary,
The Contributions
There has been contributed by the So
cieties during the year to missions, through
denominational boards. 81 $50. SO, and to
other benevolences 81, ,s427 10, making a
grand total of S3,693.62. or an average of
about 81 cents for each Endeavorer In the
District of Columbia for the year. The fig
ures for missionary and benevolent offer
ingS, IL is but fair to say reDresaot only