Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-16
UNION MISSION. WORK
Statistics Of Fifteen Years of Active
Service.
THE ORGANIZATIONS ANNIVERSARY
Addresses by Ministers of the
Gospel and Others.
R EPORT OF DIRECTORS

The fifteenth anniv erSary of the Cen
trail Union Mission was observed yester
day. The principal meetings were those
in the auditorium of the mission building
on Louisiana avenue, at o'clock in the
afternoon and at 7:45 pm in the First
Congregational Church, corner of 10th and
G streets northwest, Rev. DR.. S. M. New
man, pastor.
The exercises at the first named place
were opened with a song service, conduct
ed by Mr.. w. D. Yingling, following which
a Scripture lesson, the thirty-fifth chapter
of Isaiah, was read by Rev. DR.. A. S.
Fiske, pastor of Gunton Temple Memorial
Church. The invocation was offered by
Rev. DR.. ]. G. Butler, pastor OF Luther
Memorial Church DIR. Butler referred to
the work that has been accomplished by
those connected with the mission, and ask
ed that even more good may be done in
the future. A solo, when I Survey the
Wondrous Cross, was sung by Prof. X T.
Mr.. Hudson sang THE Sweetest Story
Ever Told and,' at his request, the large
audience united with him in singing that
part of the selection.
Mr.. O. B. Brown, chairman of the board
of directors of the mission, who was also
the chairman of the meeting, made brief
address. in which he said that, while the
mission people had had some dark days,
pressed his belief, and that of the other
members of the mission, that even the
smallest efforts to do good in Christ S name
W ill meet with good results.
Mr.. Brown read letters of regret at ina
bility to be present from Rev. Drs. George
n. Luccock of the Metropolitan Presby-
terrain Church, Teunis S. Hamlin of the
Church of the Covenant, NJ. Ross Fishburn
of the Mt Pleasant Congregational Church
and F. D. Power of the Vermont Avenue
Christian Church. At the request of Mr..
Brown Prof. Hudson sang solo entitled
IF We Knew
Rev. DR.. Joseph T. Kelly of the Fourth
Presbyterian Church said it gave him great
pleasure to be present at the anniversary.
1t was good thing, he said, for workers
in the cause of Christ to come together
once in a while, look into each others faces
and take counsel together. RecolIecting
the time. he said, when the mission
started, 1t seemed almost impossible to be-
lieve that fifteen years had elapsed. When
he reflected on what had been accomplished
by the mission workers in these years he
could not but stop and say, What hath
God wrought
Testimony Service.
After singing "An Hail the Power of
Jesus Name" a testimony service, lasting
fifteen minutes, was held. Mr. Malice told
of his conversion nine years ago He said
he was at that time christened by Mr..
George w. Wheeler as the blind evangelist
The speaker did not think that the appella-
ton meant much at that time. Recently,
however. he had held ninety-five meetings
in Pennsylvania, which have resulted in
5000 conversions.
Mr.. Ironsides of New jersey, who is also
in the missionary field, told how he went to
Market space about ten years ago to at
tend one of the mission meetings. He
then, he said, low down in the ways of sin,
but was converted. Up to that period
Washington was, he said. the first city in
the country he had ever entered that he
did not, as soon as possible, get acquainted
with all the saloons and tough places it
contained.
Mr.. Redding Of Newport News Va, spoke
of his leaving his former home in Whining
ton, Del, several years ago, because he was
slave to drink He came to this city. He
had become, he said, such a victim to the Ii
quor habit that he neglected his wife and
children. One night about seven or eight
years ago while passing up 18th street. he
heard the music of the Gospel wagon at
tended the service being conducted, and was
converted. Since then he had organized two
missions in Virginia, one of which is at
Newport News, his present home.
A number of persons made brief remarks
along lines similar to the above.
Mr.. Hughes of Metropolitan NJ. E. Church
read an original poem written by him for
the occasion.
At the conclusion of the reading of the
poem Chairman Brown said it was desired
to raise $500 for the purposes of the
mission at this meeting, and the one to be
amount contributed during the present
service; the rest would, he believed, be Sc
cured at the later meeting.
While subscriptions We're being taken
Prof Hudson, by request, sang solo called
GO Tell It,
Rev. DIR. H r. Naylor of McKendree
NJ. E, Church said it gave him more than
ordinary pleasure to be present at this an
niversary. He remembered the birth of the
institution. Like most persons at such a
period of their existence. the Central Union
Mission was then very small and some said
very insignificant. But it had accomplished
a great work. The times are asking both
pastor and people with startling emphasis:
Is there nothing that you can do for
Chrtsts cause that you are not doing? He
urged that 1t was the duty of the members
of the churches to lift up the fallen more
than they do. He hoped, he said, that his
remarks would not be misconstrued. for he
did not wish to censure any member of
any church, but he did not hesitate to de-
clare that the Central Union Mission was
doing work that the churches can never
do, and he was also prepared to assert
that there is to be found in the mission
higher type of Christianity than is met
with in any Individual church.
Other Addresses.
Rev. DR. Butler said in part:
I'VE need to go out In the spirit that ami
mates the people of this mission into the
highways and hedges after those who do
not attend any church and beg them to
come in The churches of this city should,
he said, support this mission, and they will
do 1t. He congratulated the mission work.
ers on what had been accomplished by
them thus far, and babe them God-speed
for the future.
Rev. DR.. A. 8. Fiske of Gunton Temple
Memorial Church said he scarcely knew
what to say. One soul won out of the
slums is worth all the treasures of earth
He asked the Central Union Mission to re-
member that 1T Is nothing of itself: that
the churches of the city are working
through it among the people the churches
cannot reach in any other way. The doors
of Gunton Temple Church stand wide open,
he said. for any one to enter, no matter
what his her condition may be, but the
trouble with those he referred to was that
they would not come in. He assured the
mission workers that they would have the
support Of the evangelical churches SO long
as they could show to the churches that the
mission was doing a good work.
The meeting was closed with prayer by
Mr.. Malice.
The Evening Service.
Large as was the audience at the after
noon meeting at the Central Union Mission
headquarters, the attendance at the even
ing service in the First Congregational
Church was much greater, and when the