Evening star., 1936-11-08
MISSION SUPPORT
|SURGEDBY ROPER
Spiritual and Lay Leaders
From Abroad Are Due
Here Nov. 22.25.

Declaring that the world Is going
Through q period Of fundamental re-
adjustment and that there must be q
revival of spiritual interests If society
Is to be prepared for these changes.
Secretary of Commerce Daniel G.
Roper today called for support OF the
National Preaching Mission to be held
here November 1925.
The mission, which will bring to
Washington spiritual and lay leaders
from Europe and various parts OF the
United States, Is expected to be one
of the greatest events of its kind in
local church annals.
THE entire world" Secretary Roper
bald, "is going through a period OF
fundamental readjustmentS. To un-
dergird and properly safeguard these
adjustments, as related to human So
ciety, we need revival OF interest IN
those common virtues which are prop
erly called the spiritual forces.
The heart-hungry masses of man
kind everywhere are crying out against
the futility of a life which is not
enriched and supported by the salts
faction Of religion. No other force
has enabled man to so well withstand
the dramatic onslaughts Of life.
Just as our progress as a Nation
was prompted and guided by deep
spiritual forces, so present-day prog
ress must be sustained in its more
complex form by the practical appli-
cation of these same spiritual forces.
Thanked for Endeavors.
Recognizing as do the immutable
rules of human conduct and human
relations as found in the precepts and
examples of Jesus Christ, wish to
thank you and your associates for the
endeavors which you are making to
bring this truth more forcibly to the
attention of our people"
Roper's statement was part of
letter to Wilbur La Roe, jr., member
of the local committee in charge of
arrangements for the four-day mis-
sion, which is sponsored by the Fed
eral Council of Churches and other
religious organizations.
The program is to include mass
meetings and services, seminar classes,
meeting of clerical, lay and young
peoples organizations and services and
meetings in nearby towns and cities.
There will be four great mass meet
ings, three of them Sunday, Novem-
Der %. in Cavalry Baptist Church,
Eighth and H streets, Washington
Cathedral, Mount st. Alban, and Ma
tional City Christian Church, the lat
ter for young people only. The fourth
and largest of the mass meetings will
be held Wednesday evening, Novem-
ber 25, in Constitution Hall. with an
overflow meeting in Memorial Con-
tinental Hall These simultaneous
meetings will be addressed by Rev. E.
Stanley Jones of India, world famous
missionary evangelist and author, and
Miss Muriel Lester of Kingsley House,
London, noted for her social service
work and contributions to the culti-
vation Of the devotional life.
Youth Meetings Planned.
In addition to the mass meeting for
young people in the National City
Church, there also will be youth
meetings Monday and Tuesday after
moons, November % and "a, In CAL
vary Baptist Church.
Ministers of every Protestant
church in Washington, with invited
lay members of their congregations.
will attend a luncheon meeting Mon
day, November %, in the Mayflower
Hotel. The clergymen will have a
luncheon meeting of their own the
. following day in Calvary Baptist
Church The Rotary and Kiwanis
Clubs will join forces in a mission
luncheon at the Mayf1ower on the
final day of the mission.
Arrangements are being made by
local committee of one hundred for
the preaching mission. Members of
this committee, representing various
local churches and organizations, have
been appointed as follows:
Baptist Church - Ministers, Rev.
William S. Abernethy, Rev. r. w.
Weaver, Rev. E. o. Clark and Rev.
p. L. Mitchell of Clarendon, Va; lay
men, T. c. Crump, e. B. Shaver, E. H.
De Groot and J. S. Hambly; women,
Mrs. w. G. Waldo, Mrs. S. T. Hughes,