Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-03-09
INTO HEATHEN LANDS,
THE OBJECT OF THE STUDENT
VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT
The Convention jn Detroit the Largest
OF the Kind Ever Known-The
Aims, Methods, Etc.

board OF foreign missions of the Pres
Syterian~church of the United States
of America, gave the opening address
to the international convention of the
Student Volunteer movement, at De-
troit, and consumed the entire even
ing in its delivery. He took Paul
for his subject and divided it up into
some twenty divisions and subdivisions,
with the resultant conclusions and
''6nally" of the prosaic old school.
now long since gone to their reward.
The audience was all that could be de-
sired in its representative character,
and it filled the edifice from floor to cell
ing. When the session opened about s
O'Clock all the vacant seats were filled
up. and during the evening the aisles
and passageways were occupied to their
capacity. There were present large
number of local clergymeu, the CALLER
les being occupied by the general pub
lie. Several prominent delegates oc-
cupied the platform, together with
about 25 students, who constituted a
chorus. In the front of the platform
were the words in large letters THE
Evangelization of the World in this
Generation" Rev. DIR. A. Il. Pier
son delivered the opening prayer,
Rev. ID. ID. MacLaurin, of the
Woodward Avenue Baptist church,
delivered an address of welcome to the
members of the convention. 1t was,
he said, a right royal welcome that he
extended. The word "welcome" was
written large in their hearts, and the
hospitable doors of Detroit were opened
wide, to them all. The present con-
vention was the only parliament in
which they believed-the parliament
-
one Christ, and before him stood those
who would carry that religion to the
'uttermost parts of the earth.
President Mott replied and bespoke
the thanks of the convention. Rev.
DIR. A. j. Gordon, of Boston, then
offered up prayer. Robert +. Speer
was then introduced as the speaker of
the evening. His subject, was "Paul,
the great Missionary Example"
There are over 1000 actual students
in attendance, and they represent 200
different institutions of learning.
Fully thirty different denominations
were also represented, and probably
fifty societies like the Epworth League,
Y. l.. S. G. E., Brotherhood of st.
Andrew. etc. There were about 400
ladies among the delegates
The feature of the morning of the
second day was the address by Rev. j.
Hudson Taylor, of England, the
founder of the China inland missions.
Mr.. Taylor is a remarkable speaker
and was listened to with rapt atten-
ton by an audience which crowded the
Central NJ. L. church to the doors.
His subject was Spiritual Prepare
ton and his thought that the mission
airy should take the Bible wholly as
his guide in all things. Other speak
ers of the day were DIR. Judson Smith
upon The intellectual Preparation"
and Rev. ii. p. Beach upon 1.-THE Prac-
ticai Preparation" The afternoon
was divided into three meetings at the
First Presbyterian church Robert
Il. Spreer presided and addresses
were made by a number of veteran
missionaries regarding their various
fields of work. At the Central M. L.
church 'Woman's Work. was dis
cussed, presided over by Mrs. Luther
ID. Wishard. Miss Evans, of Tung-
chon, China; Mrs. Lucas, of India; Miss
Dean, of the Girls School in India,
and Miss Gonderdyke, of Africa, pre-
scented the claims for an educational
preparation for the missionary. DIR.
Pauline Root, of India, spoke on
"Woman in Medical Work in Foreign
Missionary Lands" Miss Genevieve
Guinness, daughter of ii. Grattau
Guinness, of London. who founded the
well-knQwn missionary institute In
that city, delivered an address upon
the mission work in China. The
Woodward avenue Congregational
church was also well filed and the
large number of papers read very in
teresting. The evening meeting at
the Central NJ. f. was again crowded,
the subject being, ''The Needs and
Claims of China" presented by Rev.
DR.. j. Hudson Taylor and Miss Geral-
dine Guinness, of China.
The third day was but a repetition
of the first and second with several
meetings in different sections of the
city, variety of subjects and host of
speakers. The morning subject was
''The Significance and Work of the
Volunteer Band" Travelling Secretary
Lyon. spoke pn that line. President
Mott read thd report of the executive
committeawhich'i is divided inJo'eight
parts. The first speaks of the purpose
OF the movement-to lead students to
a thorough consideration of the claims
of foreign missions upon them as life
-univeF siti9E eoh{Ns,l ttsJ Isl Whe
problems whEh m41 he solved r to
keep in aoudirlwfth Isolated volunteers;
permanently holding volunteers; giving
financial aid to needy volunteers; az
sSperils"-too little enthusiasm or too
much enthusiasm, etcsIl54sSzsAtts,s>=
there arc ATT institutions in which vol
unteers are enrolled, there are over so
per cent mppe theological studeHts en-
roiied as studsRts than 10 years ago,
foreign missions last year, there are
$50 volunteer students now in missions;
90 'infuence;" (7) policy the
evangelization of the world in this
generation; (S) needs pathy in
prayer, sympathy in its workings and
sympathy an its financial needs. Eight
sectional conferences were held in vari-
GUS churches in the afternoon. Three
services were held in principal
churches-cin' the evening all very
largely attended -" So
The members. of the Students Vol
uqfeer association realize the necessity
of the speedy evangelization of the
wptld, .apd. nearly astof the students