Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
MISSION FOUNDING
TO Be CELEBRATED
Banquet Meeting Precedes
City.Wide Mass Meeting
Tomorrow:

The Central Union Mission, 6l3 G
street, will celebrate tonight and to-
morrow the forty-fifth anniversary OF
Its founding and the third annual
Central Union Mission Sunday insti-
tuted among the washington churches
It represents.
Beginning tonight at $50 o'clock
with a banquet and annual meeting at
the Raleigh Hotel. the celebration Wlii
eliminate tomorrow at 3 o'clock with
a city-wide mass meeting IN calvary
Baptist Church. Rescue mission super
intendents from many cities Will at
tend both occasions. and tomorrow
morning will occupy pulpltS In local
churches.
z. II. De Groot. president of the mis-
eion's board of directors, will preside
at tonight's banquet and annual meet
ing. Spokesman for the pastors OF the
Washington churches will be Rev
James H. Taylor, Central PRESBYTERIAN
Church; Rev. John G. Copenhaver, Ep-
worth Methodist Episcopal Church
South; Rev. H. bennington Hayes, st.
Marks Lutheran Church: Rev. Cove
c.. johnson, National Baptist Memo
rial, and Rev. Jason Noble Pierce OF
the First Congregational Church. The
business will include annual selection
Of the missions ministerial council OF
~ local pastors from the larger num-
Der Of churches owning the mission.
Mass Meeting Planned.
AT the mass meeting in Calvary Bap-
list Church tomorrow DR.. j. r. Sizoo,
pastor of the New York Avenue Pres
byterian Church, will be the principal
speaker, Assisting DR.. Sizoo will be
Or. william s.. Abernethy, Calvary's
pastor Converts OF rescue missions
win give flve-ninute testimonies OF
miracles OF salvation" E. H. De Groot
will preside.
The, third annual Central Union
Mission Sunday will be observed tomor-
row morning by many washington
churches.
Rescue mission officials here for the
celebration and the local churches
whose pulpits they will occupy tomor-
row are: Rev. Harry H. Hadley, super
intendent, Calvary Mission, New York
City, at Petworth M. E. Church; Rev.
H. H Kratzig, superintendent. Union
Mission, Norfolk, at National Baptist
Memorial, and (evening) at Church Of
the Pilgrims; j. Arthur Schlicter Of
Philadelphia, field secretary, 1nterna-
~&ional Union of Mission, at Fifth Bap-
list Church; Lloyd j. Relyea, super
tintendent, Market Street Mission, Nor
ristown, N. j., at Temple Baptist
Church and (evening) at Grace Luth-
@fan Church.
A Minneapolis Visitor.
Rev w. E. Paul. superintendent,
Union City Mission, Minneapolis, Mimi,
at Calvary Baptist Church and (eve-
ning) at Central Presbyterian Church
South; Henry Reinhardt, superintend-
ent, Bethesda Mission, Harrisburg, Pa,
'Anacostia Baptist Church and (evening)
at Brentwood Park Methodist Episco-
pal Church; Bob Martin, superinten-
dent, Eighth Street Wayside Mission,
Philadelphia, at Western Presbyterian
Church; John r. Mcintyre, superin-
tendent, whatsoever Gospel Mission,
Philadelphia, at Chevy Chase Presby-
terrain Church; Harry HaineS, Goodwill
Home and Rescue Mission, Newark, at
Eastern Presbyterian Church; Richard
d. Murphy, superintendent, Rescue
Mission, Syracuse, at Epworth Meth
odist Episcopal Church; A. L. Jones,
superintendent, McAuley Water Street
Mission, New York City, at Francis
Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church
South.
Additional Speakers.
Homer Rodeheaver at Mount Vernon
Place Methodist Episcopal Church
south; ]. M. Cottrell, superintendent,
City Rescue Mission, Youngstown,
Ohio, at Langdon Methodist Episcopal
Church and (evening) at st. Paul's
Methodist Episcopal Church; w. C. Bit
ting, Central Union Mission, at Cor
such Methodist Episcopal Church; DR..
II. M. Dudley, religious director, Gen.
trail Union Mission, at North Carolina
Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church;
Lawrence sutherland, superintendent,
Goodwill Home and Rescue Mission,
Newark, N. j., at Rhode Island Avenue
Methodist Episcopal Church; A. M.
Cooper, director of the Central Union
Mission, at st. Marks Lutheran Church.
Rev. Wilbur La Roe, jr., a director
of the Central Union Mission, at
Georgetown Lutheran Church; James
Trimble, a director of the Central
Union Mission, at First Brethren
Church; William H. Ramsay, senior di-
rector OF the Central Union Mission
at Takoma Park Christian Church; e
II. De Groot, president of board of di-
rectors, Central Union Mission, at West.
minister Presbyterian Church, and Rob.
ert j. Milligran of the Eighth Street
Gospel Mission, Philadelphia, at Metro
politan Presbyterian Church.
John S. Bennett, since 1914 the mis-.
sion's superintendent, is in charge o
the arrangements.