Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-12
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR WORK
Annual Business Meeting of District Union
Held Last Evening.
Reports of Officers and Committees
Statistical Showing Plans
for the Future.

The annual business meeting of the Dis
| trict of Columbia Christian Endeavor
| Union was held last evening in the lecture
! room of the Calvary Baptist Church. The
! attendance large, nearly all of the So
| cieties in the District being well represent
| ed.
After the opening devotional exercises.
conducted by Mr.. A. H. Howell, president
| of the First Congregational Christian En-
| deavor Society, annual reports were sub
mitted by Mr. Waddy of the auditing COM
mittee; Mr. Kellar chairman of the good
| citizenship committee; Mr.. Pckens, chair
man of the press committee; Mr. Crane,
| chairman of the lookout committee Miss
Anna j. Bell, chairman of the correspond
| ence committee; Mr.. Wilbur, chairman OF
| the missionary committee; DIR. +. A
SwartWout treasurer, and Mr.. w. Z. Trey,
recording secretary.
| The secretary's report contained a sum
mary of the work accomplished by the
union for the year ending August 81, 1899.
| 1t appears from this report that the
| Quiet Hour" and evangelisuc services
| conducted in February and March by ReV.
7 Wilbur Chapman, DID, under the aus
| pces of the Christian Endeavor Union, re-
suited in 2S3 professed conversions IN sio-
dition to ST. reported from the SUNDAY
schools as a subsequent outgroWth OF the
meetings. The gifts of the societies 10
| missions for the year amount 10 $2449
and for other benevolent objects, not m
| Guiding current expenses TO s-,1o1' win
seventeen societies yet TO be hedFu from
| This is a gain of s1.241 over the previous
year.
What Societies Have Done.
A list of "a few of the things that the
societies have been doing during the year.
| included the following: Reorganized a
mission and assumed charge of same, pub
manual helDed SUPPORT an
| orphan girl in India gave thanksgiving
dinner 70 forty.children assisted largely IN
raising $3.50 for church building iund. pro
vided shoes for poor sunday schooi sc.oi
ars and sent out Christmas DINNERS ne.peu
TO educate a Corean TO send as 4 'h,ssioii-
,rv 10 his own country. built church,
visited hospitals and helped the destitute
moor assisted member to enter college
POOR and sick built addition to church
building to accommodate a part of the sun
day school, helped close saloon. twenty
three societies report themselves as en-
gagged in work at missions, hospitals,
homes almshouses and the Jail.
Since September l. 1898, an Army and
Navy Christian Endeavor Society has been
formed in the District IN connection win
the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Home,
at 80 7 street northwest, and two inter-
mediate societies have been organized at
the Eastern and Metropolitan Presbyte-
rian churches.
Statistical showing.
The following statistics indicate the con-
dltion of the Christian Endeavor movement
in the District
There are eighty-tnree societies. as fol-
lows: Baptist, IA societies and ,266 men,
bers: Christian, societies and 364 mem
bers; Congregational, societies and SOB
members: Friends, l society and 10 MEM
bers; Lutheran, societies and $40 mem
hers: Methodist Episcopal, IL societies and
OF Nafl dict Epic
3 societies and 237 members; Methodist
| Protestant 5 societies and 22S members;
Presbyterian, 81 societies and 1,555 MEM
bers; United Brethren. / society and 90
members; union societies, 2 with no MEM
hers. total So societies and 1874 members.
These members are divided az follows: