Evening star., 1936-11-25
MISSION TO END
SESSION TONIGHT
Calls On Capital to Give Re-
Iigion a More Funda-
mental Meaning.

Calling on the National Capital TO
give religion a more fundamental
meaning and to re-emphasize the
practical aspects Of Christianity as
solution to the worlds needs, the lead
ers of the National Preaching Mis-
sion prepared today to bring the four
day series of revival services and mass
meetings TO close.
Joining with the ministers and lay
leaders Of the various Protestant de-
nominations in Washington. the emf
nent speakers gathered here were to
conduct the final seminar classes and
meetings Of the youth. ministers and
women groups in Calvary Baptist
Church.
Double Meeting Tonight.
The mission will be eliminated to-
night in a great double mass meeting
in Constitution and Memorial Halls.
An overflow crowd is expected at each
hall and the mission leaders today
were considering holding a third meet
ing to take care of those who will be
unable to find seats in either Consti-
tuition or Continental Halls.
These gatherings, the main event
of the mission. will be addressed by
both DR.. z. Stanley Jones. world-re-
nowned missionary, and Miss Muriel
Lester. noted social worker of London,
England. The meetings will begin at
s:15 o'clock. Miss Lester will speak
first at Constitution Hall and DR..
Jones at Continental Hall.
Mission leaders said that if third
gathering is held another speaker
will be called upon to address the
group. Neither Dr. Jones nor Miss
Lester would be able to appear before
the third gathering, If it is held, it
was said.
After closing here the mission moves
on to Raleigh, N. c., then to Phila-
delphia, Boston and New York for the
final four-day sessions. DR.. Jesse NJ.
Bader, director Of the mission, said
every seat already has been engaged
for the mass meeting to be held in
Madison Square Garden in New York
as the closing feature Of the mission
there.
1900 at Meeting.
The sessions held here yesterday
again drew large attendances, leaders
reported. More than l,500 persons
were attracted to the meeting for
women in Calvary Church. Five hun
dred ministers met in one room of
the church to hear DR.. Jones and DR..
George Buttrick, minister of the Mad
ison Avenue Presbyterian Church
of New York, and more than 500
women attended luncheon meeting
given at the Mayfower Hotel by
Washington club women. The Sec
tional meetings in the various
churches also were well attended.
In his talk before the ministers, DR..
Jones discussed THE Preacher and
His Own Soul" He spoke first OF
economic conditions, saying that un-
der cooperative sharing the Golden
Rule will work
The cooperative rule of life must
be background for the minister" he
said, "else the people may not listen
very much to what he is saying"
Taking Conversion" as his topic,
DR.. Buttrick said that the beginning
of conversion "is stricken discon-
tentment in ones way of living. 1t is
always slow in coming and sudden
when it strikes. Conversion is a grad
ual gathering of disillusionment."
Religion on Trial.
Religion is on trial in America, as 1t
has been in other countries, and un-
less it takes on a deeper and more
fundamental meaning 1t will be in
adequate to meet the needs OF q
changing world, DR.. Jones told q
gathering of more than 100 Govern
ment executives and business mer
yesterday at q luncheon at the May
flower Hotel. Secretary OF Commerce
Roper presided over the meeting.
In India, he said, 60,000.000 out
casts are leaving their ancestral faith
and looking for a new spiritual home
In Russia religion was at the 1udg-
ment bar in regard to the production