Evening star., 1928-10-27
MISSION FOUNDING
TO Be CELEBRATED
Visiting Rescue Workers
and Churches to Honor
44th Anniversary.

WASHINGTON churches of is denomi-
nations and visiting rescue mission
SuperintendentS from 10 cities will unite
tonight and tomorrow in celebrating
the fourty-fourth anniversary of the
founding of the Central Union Mission,
commonly called "the mission of the
churches" of Washington, of which
John S. Bennett is superintend mt.
At a banquet in the Lee House to-
night at $50 o'clock, at which E. H
De Groot, jr., president of the Central
Union Missions board of directors, will
preside, pastors from the local churches
the mission representatives will speak
for the different denominations. William
Knowles Cooper, executive secretary of
the Y. M G. A., will make an address,
and Is mission officials, including Fred
Becker Of Milwaukee, president Of the
International Union of Missions, and
w. E. Paul of Minneapolis, former
president, will be guests Of honor.
Following the banquet, the mission will
hold its annual meeting to receive re-
ports of the years work and to I'LL
any vacancies in the list of officers rep
resenting the different churches Of the
city.
Program in Churches.
Fourteen churches tomorrow morning
will have in their pulpitS rescue mission
SuperintendentS here to attend the
Central Union Missions forty-fourth
anniversary. The churches, the speak
ers and the missions of which they are
the heads are: National Baptist
tel TN1a NalI Oh nf To-
ley Rescue Hall, New York; First Con-
gregational Church, Rev. w. E. Paul
of Union City Mission, Minneapolis;
North Carolina Avenue M. P. Church,
John r. Mcintyre of Whosoever Gospel
Mission, Germantown, Pa: Rhode
Island Avenue M. P. Church, Peter
Quartet of the City Rescue Mission,
Dayton, Ohio: Metropolitan Presbyte-
rian Church, P. E. Call of the Union
Rescue Mission, Boston; Eastern Pres
byterian Church, Harry G. White of
the West Side Mission, New York;
Vermont Avenue Christian Church,
Fred G. Becker of the Milwaukee, Wis,
Rescue Mission: Mount Vernon M. e.
Church South, Rev. Henry H. Kratzig of
the Union Missionh, Norfolk, Va. Ep-
worth M E. Church South, A. L. Jones
of the McAuley Water Street Mission,
New York; st. Marks Lutheran Church,
Rev. Charles Cedarholm of Seamen's
Goodwill Mission, Brooklyn; West
Washington Baptist Church, Herbert E.
Eberhardt of Wheeler, City Mission,
Indianapolis: Free Methodist Church,
H. F. Dougherty of Water Street Rescue
Mission, Lancaster, Pa; Cottage City
Presbyterian Church, speaker unassign-
ed: United Brethren Church, evening
service, Peter MacFarlane Of Union
Gospel Mission, st. Paul. MINI.
Plan Mass Meeting.
In the First Congregational Church
tomorrow at $3.50 o'clock will be a
mass meeting celebrating the missions
forty fourth anniversary, with Rev. John
Callahan chaplain of the Tombs Prison,
New York, and superintendent of Had
ley Rescue Hall in that city, as the
principal speaker. Brief addresses will
also be made by several other of the
visiting rescue mission superintendentS.
E. H De Greot. jr, will preside.
The concluding event of the ami
versary will be a rally at the mission
chapel. 613 G street. tomorrow evening
at s, when the visiting mission officials
will attend and many Of them will
take part.