Evening star., 1936-11-17
PREACHING GROUPS
PLAN LUNCHE0NS
DR.. {. Stanley Jones to Ad.
dress Mission Confer
ence Session.

MayfloWer Hotel next Tuesday, one
for Government executives and the
city's business and professional men
and the other for members OF various
women's organizations, were planned
today as among the major activities
of the National Preaching Mission,
Protestant conference to be held
November 1925.
The purposes of the mission, which
has been or will be held in total
of 20 American and Canadian cities,
have received the Endorsement of
religious and lay leaders in this coun-
try and abroad National sponsor is
the Federal Council of Churches.
local sponsor, the Washington Fed
Grafton of Churches.
DR.. E. Stanley Jones, world
renowned missionary. will address the
Government officials business mems
luncheon, which will begin at 1890
pm. At the same hour, the women's
meeting will hear an address by Mis-
Muriel Lester of London, England,
director of Kingsley House, Chris
tian social settlement, on World
Social Problems as Seen From Kings
ley House" This meeting also will
be addressed by Mrs. Harper Sibley,
wife of the president of the Chamber
Of Commerce of the United States
and member of the Women's Auxil-
larry of the National Council of Epis-
copal Women.
Seating Space Needed.
organizers, according to Wilbur
La Roe, jr., of the Committee on
Arrangements. is to secure an audi
torium large enough to accommodate
the thousands who will want to hear
the major addresses. LaRoe said one
session of the mission in st. Louis
drew an audience of $4,000 and that
'easily 10000 will want to hear DR..
Jones here"
Apparently the only solution. he
said. will be to hold dual meetings
Wednesday night of next week in
Constitution and Memorial Continen-
tai Halls. DR.. Jones and Miss Lester
will address one audience, then repeat
their addresses before another. In
this way, La Roe said, about 1000
people will be able to hear the mes
sages of these Protestant leaders.
A program of four 15-minute radio
talks by some of the leading figures
of the mission was announced today.
DR.. George W. Truett. minister of
the First Baptist Church, Dallas,
Tex, will broadcast over Station
WJSV from 2:45 to pm. next Sum-
day. From to 3:l5 pm. the follow
ing day, DR.. Jones will broadcast
over the same station. On November
"a, also via WJSV, Miss Lester will
speak from 4:30 to 4:45 pm. DR.. Jesse
M. Bader of New York City, director
of the National Prea ching Mission,
will broadcast over Station WRC from
AIS to 4:30 pm. November %.
Other radio addresses may be ar
ranged.
During the four days of the mis-
sion all street cars will display posters
advertising the event.
Public Support Urged.
La Roe made public yesterday a
statement from George w. Offutt,
chairman of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board, urging public support
of the mission.
MY new contact with conditions in
this city" Offutt wrote, has DEM
onstrated most clearly the tendency
toward disrespect for law. the in
evitable consequent disrespect for con-
vention and, sad to say, even for re-
Igion
Attempted remedies by legislation
have been found ineffective In that
this condition, If allowed to grow.
strikes at the very heart and corner
stone of our national life, it behooves
all thinking men to band together in
an effort which will bring home to
all of us the obligations and the
duties OF life. This can only be
brought about by real educational
campaign, one starting with a great
impulse which will at one and the
same time fire the imagination and
lead us to appraise ourselves and our
lives and strive to set ourselves right.
MY enthusiasm for the prospective
revival knows no bounds. It Is Just,
to my mind, the appropriate time, and
l know OF no time, certainly during
my life, when the need was so ap-
parent. A real old-time revival fol-
lowed by an intensive campaign by
all our churches should and will pro-
duce real and happy result, bring
us face to face with the better things
OF life and set the pendulum swing
ing on the right side"
Sponsors Committee.
The committee Of sponsors for the
mems luncheon meeting next Tues.
day Is composed of the following:
Secretary of Commerce Roper, chair.
man; Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace. Assistant Secretary of State
Francis B. Sayre, Commissioner Mel
vim c. Hazen, Offutt, Walter N. Bas-
tan, president of the District Bar
Association; Leonard w. De Cast, sec.
retary of the Y. M. c. A.; Wade H.
Ellis, attorney; T. w. w. Everett.
vice president, Woodward g. Lothrop:
j. M. M. Gray. president, American
University; Gilbert Grosvenor, presi-
dent. National Geographic Society:
La Roe. DR.. Sterling Rufin, president
Of the District Medical Society; Har-
per Sibley, president of the Chamber
Of Commerce of the United States;
Lloyd B. Wilson. president of the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co..
and George F. zook, president, Ameri-
can Council on Education.
Sponsors Of the women's meeting