Evening star., 1941-01-12
National Christian
Mission Program
Is Arranged
Week-Lone Event Here
Scheduled to Open
Februory2

With general plans completed for
the week long National Christian
Mission, starting here February 2,
a series of area meetings to work
out specific details will be held dur
ing the next two weeks, according
to announcement yesterday.
These meetings will be held as
follows: Tomorrow evening in the
Metropolitan Presbyterian Church,
Fourth and B streets Sc; Tuesday
evening in the Vermont Avenue
Baptist Church at pm. and in the
Emory Methodist Church, 6100
Georgia avenue, at pm; Wednes-
day evening in the McKendree
Methodist Church, South Dakota
avenue and Twenty-fourth street
NE; January 20 in the Foundry
Methodist Church. Sixteenth and
P streets NV. and January % in
the Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church.
Speaking at each of the sessions
will be Dr. Raphael H. Miller OF
the National City Christian Church,
general chairman of the Committee
on Arrangements for the mission,
and DR.. w. l.. Darby, secretary OF
the committee. who recently re-
tired as executive secretary of the
Washington Federation of Churches.
Social Benefits Expected.
"The mission promises vast So
cial and spiritual benefits to this
city and community" DR.. Miller
has stated in regard to the move
ment which will bring to Washing
ton more than 80 leaders in the
United States and from abroad in
the field of religion and Christian
social work.
"Christianity Has the Answer"
Is the mission theme. The opening
mass meetings at Constitution Hall
and Continental Hall are set for
Sunday evening, February 2, and
the closing mass meetings for the
following Sunday afternoon at the
Washington Cathedral and the CAL
vary Baptist Church.
Area meetings during mission
week at six local churches will be
addressed by prominent speakers.
Women's Christian life forums will
be held in these same churches IN
the mornings, Monday through
Thursday, and morning meetings
will be held for ministers at CAL
vary Baptist Church, the headquar-
ters church of the mission.
A united women's meeting Will
be held Friday morning at Calvary
Baptist Church. at which the speak
ers will include DR.. E. STANLEY Jones
missionary-ev and Miss
Muriel Lester of London. founder
of Kingsley House and prominent
social worker.
Other Features Listed.
Other features of the mission
include:
Afternoon seminars, Monday
through Friday, at Calvary Baptist
Church. Discussion will center
around the Bible, Christian family
life. religion and health. social re-
1ations, world relations and per-
sonal faith.
A special seminar for employed
people, Monday through Friday,
from 4:45 to pm. at Mount Vernon
Place Methodist Church, at which
DR.. Adolf Keller, of Geneva,
Switzerland. will speak.
Five noon meetings to be held
from II to 1890 pm. at Epiphany
Episcopal Church. Among those
scheduled to speak are Dr.. E. STAN
ley Jones; DR.. Harold c. Phillips,
pastor of the First Baptist Church,
Cleveland, Ohio; DR.. Roy E. Vale,
pastor of the Tabernacle Presby-
terian Church. Indianapolis. Ind;
Bishop Thomas c. Darst, of Will
mington, N. c., of the Episcopal
diocese of East Carolina, and DR..
Arthur L. Kinsolving, rector of the
Trinity Episcopal Church, Prince
ton, N. j.
A youth conference will open
Friday night with meetings in the
National City Christian Church and
the Luther Place Lutheran Church.
Rev. Philip Lee to Speak.
Among other speakers will be the
son Of a Christian minister of Can
ton, China, whose grandmother was
one of the first Chinese women to
receive Christian education. He
Is the Rev. Philip Y. Lee and he has
worked actively as a minister in
this country and in church activi-
ties in China. At present he is the
secretary of the China Christian
Broadcasting Association of Chi
cago
The closing meeting at the WASH
ington Cathedral will be addressed
by Bishop Paul B. Kern of Nash
vile, Tenn, and that in Calvary
Baptist Church by Dean Luther A.
Weigle of Yale Divinity School.
The mission is sponsored locally
by the Washington Federation of
Churches and nationally by the
Federal Council of Churches.
Dr. Jesse M. Bader, executive
secretary of the councils depart
ment OF evangelism, has reported
that cities are being made God
conscious" as the mission has passed
through them and that people are
manifesting a new understanding
for the poor and underprivileged
Of their communities.