Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-15
CITY MISSION WORK
TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF
LOCAL ORGANIZATION.
Services Afternoon and Evening at
Mission Building and Foundry M.
E. Church, Respectively.

| Union Mission of Washington will be OBJ
! served tomorrow. Rev. Wallace RadcliHe,
| D. D., pastor of the New York Avenue
| Presbyterian Church, will deliver sermon
| in the auditorium of that church at IL am.
| on city evangeliZation, as represented py
| the work of the mission. At pm. services
| will be held in the mission auditorium, g.
Louisiana avenue, in charge of Rev. J. U.
| Butler, chairman of the ministerial council,
| and at 1880 pm. special service Will be
| held at Foundry M. E. Church, 10th and
| Church streets northwest o. B. Brown,
| chairman of the board Of directors of the
| Central Union Mission, will preside at the
| evening session.
| At the afternoon session Mr.. w. D. Ying-
| ling will act as musical director. The pro-
! gram follows
Song service mission singers and orches-
| ira; scripture reading isaiah, 80, Judge
! Stanton j. Peellc; prayer, Rev. w. M FER
guson, DID,; duet, Mrs. Clayton r. Emlg
and Mr.. John A Erwin: song, mission sing
ers and orchestra: testimony service, mis-
| sion converts; solo, Miss E. Grace Upde-
graft: address. Rev w. c. Alexander, D. D. ;
solo, Miss Margaret Mauve; brief addresses
| by Rev. S. Reese Murray, Rev. f. j. Pretty
man. DID. Rev. Weston Bruner and Rev.
A. Norman Ward.
Evening Session.
Mr.. Percy S. Foster will direct the music
at the Foundry NJ. f. Church. The even
| ing program is as follows:
Song service. mission singers and orches-
| tra Scripture reading duke, 14:16-2p,
Mr.. Philip Mauro; prayer, Mr.. Ralph Wells;
| solo, Miss f. Grace Updegraff: words OF
| welcome, Rev. Robert NJ. Moore; chorus,
! mission singers, orchestra and congreSa-
| ton; statement by the chairman of the
| board; solo, Mr. John A. Erwin; testimony
l ,,.t.. s-nin
Mauro address. DR. Louis Klopsch of New
| York editor of The Christian Herald;
| solo. Mr.. Percy S. Foster; brief addresses
| by Rev. Charles F. Winbigler, DID Rev
E. Laurence Hunt, Rev E. l.. Hubbard
| DID.
| The mission was organized in 1884 in a
! small second-story room on PENNSYLVANIA
| avenue between 9th and 10th streets, capa-
BILE of holding not more than seventy
| five persons.
| From this small beginning the work has
| grown from year to year, until the large
| building on Louisiana avenue, formerly the
city post office, is taxed to its utmost to ac-
commodate the religious and charitable
work carried on by the organization.
In addition to the work at the main build
| ing there are ten branch missions in va
rious parts of the city, several of which are
much larger than the original organization.
Children arc gathered into Sabbath schools,
| house-to=house visitations are made. sick
are cared for, and food and clothing fur
| nished. SO far as the means available will
allow.
Purpose of the Mission.
1.-THE purpose of the mission said one of
| the officers today, is to bring light and joy
| into darkened lives and homes, in material
things, as well as the light and joy of Gods
eternal truth into hearts darkened by sin
and habits of evil. Each years experience
emphasizes with tremendous force the
providential calling into being of an or
n a iI,nr rl,ac Of
denominational differences and uniting upon
| the essential teachings of the Word, that
| man is sinner needing salvation, and tina t
Jesus Christ is the only and all-sufficient
| Savior.
| "The great throngs that have attended
| the gospel wagon services during the
| season just closing attest the wisdom of
! this manner of street preaching, while
| the scores of men redeemed from lives
of dissipation and sin at these services
are witnesses that the gospel in the
opening of the twentieth century has lost
none of its transforming power.
Industrial Department.
"The industrial department connected
with the mission enables a man in strait
ened circumstances, either through his
own evil habits or misfortune. to provide
himself with food and lodging by his own
exertion and renders street begging I'M
necessary.
Commissioner Macfarland's estimate of
the benefits accruing to the general public
as voiced in address upon the occa-
sion of the sixteenth anniversary when
he said, 1t is not inconsistent with my
official position to express the apprecia-
ton which every right-minded citizen of
Washington city must feel for the Cen
trail Union Mission as one of the forces
which make for civic righteousness as
well as cause of the salvation of the
individual, has received repeated con-
firmation from the officers of the law as
they have become cognfZant of the re-
straining and elevating influence exerted
through the work of the Central Union
Mission"