Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-11
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOR WORK
ANNUAL REPORTS SUBMITTED TO
TINE DISTRICT UNION.
Showing Made by Secretary aad
Treasures, Observation-Disclosures
cal ExhiAit-OAcers Chosen.

was held last evening In the lecture room
OF Calvary Baptist Church. The attend
ance was large and much enthusiasm was
manifested. A board of officers to serve
during the ensuing year was chosen as
| follows:
| President A. L. Dietrich Of Mount Yer
non Place NJ E. Church: first vice presi-
| dent Paul E.. Sleman OF Mount Pleasant
| Congregational Church: second vice presf-
dent, c. r. NJ. Browne of Fifteenth Street
| Presbyterian Church; third vice president.
Miss H. L. Johnson of Church Of the
| Reformation; recording secretary. w. c.
| Trey Of the Calvary Baptist Church: as
| sistant recording secretary. w. ]. Pirtle OF
| the Ninth Street Christian Church; CORE
| of the Union NJ E. Church; treasurer. r.
| T. Ballard Of the Congress Street M T.
Church: president of the junior union. Miss
| Gertrude w. Allison of the Gurley Memo
| rial Presbyterian Church: chairman of the
missionary committee, Mr.. c. r. Ball of
| the First Congregational Church: superin-
tendent OF the evangelistic department.
| Mr.. E. A. Stevens of the Ninth Street
Christian Church; superintendent OF the
| good citizenship department.. Mr.. o. p.
| Kellar of the Calvary Baptist Church.: SUI
| perfntendent of the good literature depart
ment, Miss L. D. Leeds of St Pauls En-
glish Lutheran Church; superintendent Of
| the press department.. Mr.. J. F. Bethune Of
the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church; SUI
perintendent of the music department. Mr..
| c. E. Beatty Of the Luther Place Memo
rial Church.
The report of the retiring recording Sec
| rotary. Mr.. Fred F. Reisner, was the fea-
| ture Of the meeting. Mention was made In
the report that since the election a year
ago the personnel Of the board Of officers
| had suffered several changes. Miss Bur-
roughs resigned because of ill-health, while
Mr. Pickens' withdrawal was made neces-
| sary because of his removal from the city.
Reference was also made to the fact that
| eighteen meetings Of the board Of o -lcers
were held during the year. AS result Of
| this there was rally day which took
place at Mount Vernon Place NJ. E. Cnurch
| South in the afternoon of January % last
and In the evening at the First Congrega-
| tional Church. at both of which Rev. d. ].
| Wilkes Chapman of New York was the
| principal speaker.
Rev. DR.. J. G. Butler. who, as stated in
| The Star at the time. suggested at one Of
| the meetings Of the board Of officers that a
Christian Endeavor convention. composed
| of delegates from the various c. E. socie-
ties in the District of Columbia, Maryland
and Delaware. be held during the summer
at Mountain Lake Park, Md, was warmly
| congratulated upon the results which had
| grown out Of the convention.
Statistical Showing.
| The board of officers undertook to visit
| every society in the union the report
states, and every society that desired the
| presence OF an officer al one Of Its, meetings
was visited by one or more of the board
| There are In the societies of the union
| 4,2I6 active members. 712 associate MEM
| bers and GAG honorary members, making a
| total Of 1894 members, an increase Of 10
| over last year, 100 Of the increase being in
active members.
Arranged in the order of active member
| ship. the denominations stand as follows
| Presbyterian. 1.517: Baptist. 1.475; Method
ist Episcopal, $50; Congregational. 49s:
| T,,tha
| Protestant. 2s3; DETERMINATIONS 1874;
United Brethren, 60, and Friends, 10.
1t was asserted that the reports concern
| Ing Comrades of the Quiet Hour and mem
| bers of the Tenth Legion have been incom-
| piete. Thirty-five societies reported 221
Comrades Of the Quiet Hour and 9S mem
| bers Of the Tenth Legion.
Forty-five societies reported that 9S as
| sociate members have joined the church
and that 197 other persons have been led
| into the fold through Christian Endeavor
| efforts. giving a total of 30 accessons to
| the church
Fifty-three societies having 275S active
members have contributed, through their own
! missionary boards. $2.14239: 81 societies
with 3lHS3 active members report 81 517 Is
| given to other benevoences: the total for
| both causes is $4,65967, or 81 GOT per active
member. Besides this % societies report
having used 1.2O3.O1 for current expenses
bringing the grand total up to s., 862 6S, or
$2d3 per active member. If this proper
ton was maintained in the societies which
failed to report the Christian Endeayorers
of the District of Columbia, it was declared
raised this year for missions 1921 60, for
other benevolences $354S.9O, and for current
| expenses 81, 1924 40, making in all s.. 6629O.
On Other Lines.
But this statistical review. the report de-
clared. is In no way an indication Of all the
work done by the Christian Endeavorers in
the District. An unusual amount of evan
gelistic work Is being DONE Meetings are
conducted by Christian Endeavorers at
Fort Myer. Soldiers. Sailors and Marines
Home, Bruen Home, Chevy Chase Lake,
Baptist Home. Northwest Mission North
| east Mission. Home for Incurables. aims
house. workhouse. JAIL hospitals Luther
an Home for the Aged, branches of the Cen
trail Union Mission and many places In the
open air in parks and alleys. One society
started a Sunday school in Rosslyn
Through Christian Endeavor efforts books
and periodicals are being distributed in en-
CINE houses. hospitals and various Places.
thanksgiving dinners have been distributed
| In large numbers, the ''shut-ins' are given
breath of fresh air by means of carriage
and car rides that would otherwise be un-
available. Some of the societies are SUD-
porting. either wholly or partly mission
airy In Indiana, teacher in Mexico. q ma
tive preacher in China, a missionary in
Africa and one in Corea, besides the sup
schools In the foreign mission fields and
among the mountain whites. India has
been by no means forgotten, a number of
societies reporting special contributions for
the famine stricken.
The report was adopted.
Report of Treasurer.
The report Of the treasurer stated that
the balance on hand September /, 1880, was
$500. The receipts for the year ending
August 81. 1900, were: From societies,
$221.5O: from collections. $67.7s, and from
| miscellaneous sources. 1921; making a
total of $377.84 The expenditures were:
Printing, Sat; postage. &C., $11121, and
miscellaneous. $1O6.55: total Of 1854 IT,
Balance on hand. $12.SS
Other reports submitted, and like the
foregoing were adopted, were these: Mis-
sionary committee. report prepared by Miss
Alice M. Fletcher. retiring chairman, and
| read by Mr.. c. r. Ball, incoming chairman:
good citizenship department. by Mr. owen
p. Kellar, superintendent: press depart
| ment, by Mr.. Geo. F. Williams, superin-
tendent: music department. by Mr.. p. L.
zimmerman, superintendent; correspon-
dence committee, by Miss Bessie E. Taylor,
chairman.
Mr. H. c. Metcalf was appointed auditor
to examine the accounts of the treasurer
for past year.