Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1914-01-21
Secretary a Church Periodical Club
Waits Annapolis.


On Monday, January 81, at I
o'clock q group Of int rested people
heard an informal talk from Miss
Bond, Of Baltimore, the local secre-
tary Of the Church Periodical Club.
on the work of this organization and
its needs.
Everyone who loves books and who
can realize what life would be with
nothing to read. not even q daily pa
per, should take an interest in this
work Miss Bonds clever and en-
thusisstic manner cannot be convey
ed, but brief resume of her talk
will explain what the club is, what it
does and what il needs.
The G. p. G. was founded twenty
six years ago by Mrs. Largo, and has
always received transportation tavors
from the American Express Com
pany through her interest in the
work. 1t began through the passing
along of church papers by few la
dies, grew into a wide circle of regu-
lar magazine senders to all parts of
the world, to all isolated and cultured
people working in the Episcopal
Church, me dical missionaries, teach
ers, missionary bishop, deaconessess,
and chaplains all testify they could
not get on without the c. p. c.
Ii collects travelling libraries of 60
volumes. packed in shipping case
which is also a bookcase and thes e
are kept circulating between life
saving stations, mountain missions,
western mining camps. Alaskan read
ing rooms, hospitals and jsils, and
other isolated groups of people long
IL for coed books. They also send
good postal cards and Christmas and
Easter cards bearing a Christian
message 1t is not just the clearing
out If old reading matter, but every
thing is gone over and only those
sent that will exercise a good in
fuence and foster clean living and
wholesome ideals.
Many people like to send a maga-
zine regularly to some address provid-
ed by the secretary aud keep in touch
with the recipient, a shut-in, AZ iso-
lated clergyman, or some one who
otherwise would be cut eff from the
world. Miss Bond told of three men
who had been brought into the minis
try through books distributed by the
c. p c., and many children in hospi-
tails and mission schools who had been
cheered and helped. 1t is not exclus-
lively for church papers and books but
the name binds Us to send always
with the careful thought that we
are Christian people sending in the
church's name.
The local committee, working un-
der the Womans Auxiliary of st.
Anne's Parish, is collecting a good
library for one or more life-saving
stations, for the men and their
families, and will be glad Of any
good bound books, standard novels,
stories of adventures on the sea.
They may be sent to the Guild
Room of st. Anne's Church. The
librarian, Mrs. Meade Holladay, can
give further information or supply
appropriate addresses for magazines,
or her committee, Mrs. Stone, Mrs.
Hepburn, Mrs. f. A. Munroe, Mrs.
Gearing, can give details.
The Mems Guild is helping in the
work, Commander Hoff being in
charge for them. Chaplain Cassard
and DR.. McComRs are supervising the
efforts. 1t is surprising TO know
how every good book or magazine
can be sent to the right place. Post
cards may be pasted back to back for
distribution in hospitals or those OF
one country mounted on large cards
for instruction in mission schools.
We wish also to give particular at
tention to the lighthouses, mountain
schools, jails and hospitals right here
in Mar -yland.