Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-13
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORERS.
Fall Meeting of Union Held mt Falls
Church..

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
FALLS CHURCH, Va, November IL, 1899.
The fall meeting of the local union Of the
Christian Endeavor societies of northern
Virginia was held in the Baptist Church
here Saturday. The meeting was called to
order at 10 am. by the president, Mr.. II.
o Cornwell, after which praise service
was held, in charge of Mr.. Ray Blanchard,
president of the Herndon society. This
service was followed by devotional exer-
cises led by Rev. d. L. Rathbun of this
town.
At the roll call the following societies re-
sponded: Herndon, Vienna, Arlington, Balls
ton. Salem, Vale. Mortified. Mt. Olivet,
Browns Chapel, Andrew Chapel and Falls
Church.
These societies for the most part gave en-
couraging reports of the work done by
them in their respective communities. A
new society recently organized at Airing
ton was admitted to the union. The invita-
ton from the society at Vienna to hold the
next session in that town was accepted.
The afternoon session was opened at 80
o'clock with a praise service conducted by
Rev. Mr.. Compiler of Bel Air. Nd, who in
addition gave very earnest talk to the
Christian Endeavorers. urging them to be
faithful in the work which they had I'M
dertaken. Devotional exercises followed,
led by Rev. A. W. Graves of Falls Church
after which a thirty minut" parliament
was conducted by the president On the
subject Forward Movement in Our Local
Union" under which head came up the
topics of MormOniSm and the work in re
gard to the juniors, interesting remarks
were made by Rev. Mr.. Young of BallstOn,
Mrs. S. E. Bailey, Mrs. William Young and
others.
The union expressed it's disapproval of
the proposed admission of Representative
elect Roberts of Utah to a seat In Congress
Miss Ida Green Of Washington gave an
earnest address on Missions" She showed
how the life of Cecil RhOdeS-the work he
had done for England because he believed
in his country-shoud be an example to
Christians. They who believe in a God
should be Jealous in working for Christian
ity. She strongly indOrsed the tenth legion
movement of the society.
Mrs. j. f. Matheny and Miss George
Mathes of Falls Church entertained the
convention with duet entitled Bye and
Bye" This was followed by an address
by Rev. E. B. Bagby of Washington. He
took for his subject Worship and Work, -
showing how the one should maintain an
equal balance with the other lie said he
thought the tendency of the times was to
active work while less time was given for
the Quiet Hour and close communion
with Christ. He showed how equally di-
vided the Christian EndeavOr pledge was in
regard to work and worship.
Rev. Arsene Schmavonian of Falls Church
gave an address, taking as his text I'VE
shall be my witnesses both In Jerusalem,
Judea and Samaria and the uttermost parts
of the earth. A solo was rendered by Miss
NJ. NJ. Wilson.
"A Word for the Juniors the sub
ject of the next address. given by Rev. Ed
ward Warren, president of the District of
Columbia Junior Christian Endeavor Union
In his remarks he urged the Importance
and necessity of the culture of child nature
After rendering a vote of thanks to the
local society for the bountiful dinner
served union closed
Grafton service led by Rev. ]. w. Norris
of Ballston.