Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-06
FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY
Central Union Mission to Hold Special
Services the 10th Instant.
PROGRAM of the Exercises - Abs tract
From the Annual RepOrt-The
Work Accomplished.

The fifteenth anniversary of the Central
Union Mission will be celebrated Sunday,
the 18th instant, as heretofore stated in
The Star. The exercises will consist OF
special sermon Sunday morning in the e
Street Baptist Church by the pastor Rev.
Dr. ]. ]. Muir; an afternoon meeting in
mission auditorium and an evening meeting
in the Congregational Church. Both at the
afternoon and evening meetings, in addi-
ton to the reports to be made, there will be
a number of addresses by the pastors of
the city and testimonies from the converts
The annual report will state, in part. that
THE headquarters of this well-known re-
ligious organization is located at CD Loui-
siana avenue, in d six-story building, for
merly occupied as the city post office
When the mission became possessed of its
building, No. t22 Lou -siana avenue, some
seven years ago, it transformed 1t from Gel
lar to garnet, in order to meet the require
ments and its specific work.
THE organization is purely local one,
having for its purpose the presentation Of
the claims of the gospel to those who sell
dom, if ever, attend upon regular church
services. The active workers are members
of the various churches of the city, includ-
ing all Protestant denominations, and hence
the mission platform embraces only such
fundamental blanks as are common to all.
Controverted points of doctrine have no
place and the special enthusiast of pecu-
liar views soon learns that mission SOIL is
not well adapted to the propagation or
specialtieS
The Meetings Held.
Meetings are held in the chapel every
night succeeded by a short street meeting
during the summer months. There is also
held a MONDAY prayer meeting every day
from l. to 1 o'clock
ION Sunday gospe! wagon meetings are
held at 4:45 o'clock in the afternoon at
q
selected, and at $50 o'clock at Market
space just east of the intersection OF ith
street and the avenue. A greater interest
has been taken in these meetings by the
city patrons this season than for any pre-
vious year, thus emphasizing the fact that
the mission embraces all the churches, at
work upon common ground and for spe-
cific purpose.
ANY doubt as to the good work being
done will be removed by visit to one of
the evening meetings, where. without clap
trap or any sensationalism, men are in
duced to break away from evil habits and
lives of sin and become what the world
calls reformed but which the mission des-
tgnates as converted men. Whatever 1t
may be, the fact remains that a large and
constantly increasing number of men are
made better citizens as result of the in
fuence growing out of their attendance
upon these meetings.
Industrial Branch.
1.-The wood yard and dining room which
are conducted in connection with the mis-
sion are both not in any sense primarily
business enterprises, but simply auxiliary
aids in reaching and helping to lift up those
in whose hearts there may be a latent de-
sire to lead a better life. Some of the
brightest and best workers in the mission
who found themselves without money
homes or friends were given the privilege
of saving wood for meals and lodging
yielded themselves to the better impulses
of their nature, became filled with a new
spirit. inspired from others confidence in
their changed lives, and are now occupying
important and honorable positions in So
ciety In our own and other Cities