Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-21
NASMUCH MISSION. "
REOPENS DECEMBER 81
Superintendent Long Prepares to
Meet Heavy Demands of Re-
construction Days,

At the request of jefferson Medical Col
lege the management of lnasmuch MISSION
today released the college of its contract TO
use the mission building as a barracks for
their students. The college had n lease on
the building from November to July l next
At a meeting of the management 1t was
decided to reopen the mission on New Years
Eve, when Bishop Rhinelander and other
prominent speakers will deliver addresses az
s o'clock. George Long, superintendent or
the mission, will conduct a watch-night
service, when the friends and converts Will
hold an old-fashioned reunion.
Anticipating the great demand that wiz
be made upon the mission during the coming
period of reconstruction, 10 effort Will be
spared to equip the building to meet this
demand. The house will be completely reno
waited, new equipment added, and there Will
be a reconstruction of the present room
plan to make the mission an attractive, eco
nomlcal place for workmen ana men leaving
the service to live in.
A competent stan of workers will be en-
gagged to make the mission even more at
tractive as a social center than 1t has been
in tho past. The free department, which
was closed during the period of the war,
will again be opened. SO that the workman
who finds himself temporarily embarrassed
can secure free shelter and the benefits of
home gratis until he is able to re-establish
himself.
Tomorrow night at 8 o'clock Superintend-
emit Long will deliver all address In Bethel
Chapel, York street below Twenty-ntth
taking for his topic THE Underworld what
It's Like"
Charles G. Trumbull. editor of the Sunday
School Times, will address the Presbyterian
ministers in Westminster Hall Monday morn
ing at II o'clock on THE Victorious Life"
Francis r. Taylor will speak on Govern
ment by Individual or Class in the Social
Problems series of lectures tomorrow morn
- 81. 11.An D,,Iao1y hafnra fha First DaV
school conference class in the Friends Meet
ing House, Fifteenth and Race streets.
Bishop Berry, of the New Jersey Metho-
dist Episcopal Conference, has licensed Cor
don Gray, a young attorney Of Philadelphia,
with offices in the Bourse Building, as a
minister of the Methodist Church and as
signed him to the church at Weetnont, CAM
den County, N. j. He succeeds the Rev.
Walter Ellis, who died during the recent epf-
denhc. Gray learned of the shortage of min
listers in South Jersey, due to the war and
a number dying. He consulted with the
Bishop and, after an examination, was
licensed. He will take charge of the church
tomorrow, when he will preach his first SER
mon.
Forty young people nave enrolled under the
leadership of Miss Reba Fixter, of the Phila-
delphia Sunday School Association, for train
ing as professional leaders OF Sunday school
work. More than 800 men and women are
giving their full time to association Sunday
school work at the present time. and the
demand for workers is increasing.
Miss FiXter, who is. the young peoples
division superintendent OF the Philadelphia
Association, is conducting young peoples
conferences In the twenty-three Sunday
school districts of the city, also adult lead
ers' Institutes and retreats,
THE training of Sunday school leaders
will be an important part of our reconstruc-
ton work." said Samuel b. Fares. general
secretary Of the Philadelphia association.
There must be a religious element in the
equipment of the future citizen of democracy.
The training will include courses In the COM
munity training school and instruction at dis
trict councils, retreats and at the training
camp conducted by the International Sunday
young men and seven young women attended
the training camp at Lake Geneva last sum-
mer.
The Brotherhoods and Mems Bible Glasses
Of the North Philadelphia churches will CO.
operate with the North Branch Y. NJ. c. A.
in conducting a big community reception
New Years Day.
An interesting Christmas service will be
held at North Branch Y. M. c. A. Sunday
afternoon, when, DR.. Samuel w. Purvls will
give an address on Gods Great Christmas
Gift There will be Christmas music by the
choir of the Lehigh Avenue Baptist Church,
under leadership OF Clyde Shuster, assisted
by Harry Shuster, pianist John ID. Oehler,
violInist. and William Mcknight, cornetist.
George w. Weckerly. OF the Goodman
Methodist Episcopal Church, addressed the
North Branch Trailhitters' Club last evening,
giving a Christmas message.
An illustrated talk on the Life of Christ"
will be given 10 members of the North
Branch Boys Division tomorrow afternoon,
Friday evening Of next week the boys of
the North Branch will be entertained with
a presentation of 'Marley's Ghost, taken
from Dickens's Christmas story.