Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-21
WAR CRY OF INTERNATIONAL STU.
DENT MISSIONARY MOVEMENT.
CONVENTION AT CLEVELAND.
EVERY CIVILIZED NATION TO BE;
REPRESENTED At THE MEETING.
Order Contains 5000 Young People of
Education and ReHnement-Many
DfstinEuished Speakers to
Take Part at Conven-
tiOn This Week.

Christ is the war cry emblazoned upon the
banner of one of the most unique and
what is claimed to be one of the most
powerful and efficient Christian enterprises
the International Student Volunteer Move
ment for Foreign Missions, which will hold
its convention in this city. beginning
Wednesday. 1t will probably be one of the
largest missionary gatherings of the cen
tury. Some of the best known men engaged
in missionary work, both in the field and at
home, and the greatest number Of mis-
sionary boards and organizations ever
brought together at one time will be here.
Practically every nation of civilization as
well as Of heathendom will send delegates.
Students. men and women. and professors.
will come from the five great continents cc
the world and from the islands of the sea-
Cleveland will have the latchstrins out
to receive these representatives of the edu-
cational world. Five thousand young men
and women OF education and refinement.
many of them the possessors Of more than
one college or university degree. and hun
dreds Of them pledged to 60 into the mis-
sion feld-such is the character of the
Student Volunteer Movement. and of such
material will the coming convention be
composed.
Important and far-reachins results are
dependent upon this gathering. A great re-
@vlvai @ and a wakening Of missionary in,
terest in all civilized countries is expected
TO follow In Its wake.
At a recent meeting in New York, to
which the mission boards were invited to
an official conference of these bodies. TWEEN
ty-seven were represented. This was re-
garded at the time as a satisfactory show
teer movement which is interdenomina-
tional and not officially connected with any
denomination, will be apparent from the
sixty of the denominational bodies arc sure
TO send their leading representatives to the
meeting in Cleveland"
resented are Great Britain. India, Burmah.
Laos. Malaysia China, Korea, Japan. Per-
sia. Syria, Turkey, Macedonia, Africa
Columbia. Brazil. Chill and the United
States. There will also be representatives
Pacific islands.
The student volunteer movement has
been in existence only twelve years, yet
friends. what other enterprises for the out
let Of missionary zeal have failed In doing
The denominational missionary boards have
work by the fact that 1t was difficult for
them to secure an adequate number Of men
and women, properly educated and
foreign lands. The Student Volunteer move
ment, in its function az an enlistin8 and
training agency for volunteers among col
changed the condition of affairs Men and
women are no longer lacking, but the
5000 students. largely Of the colleges and
universities of North America. being now
ready to go. In the last few years great
change Is said to have taken place among
the students in their attitude toward re-
ligious matters, and it is stated that the
colleges are becoming the centers OF re-
ligious influence and missionary zeal
This convention will bring together rep
resentattves from denominatlonaI colleEeS
IKE Ike Mams Gse se gns 0n,S ts
Universities of Michigan. Vermont. Ohio.
Wisconsin, Texas. California;; independent
Vsfes Virsinia. stanford. s % Toronto: theoiosicai
seminaries of all the evangelical denomtna-
tions. like Drew. the Chicago. Mccormick;
ley Smith, yassar. Radcliffe and q number
of other women's colleges.
will send official delegates. and among them
will be the Right Rev. Bishop T: U: Dud,
ley. secretary Of the Protestant Episcopal
board: Rev DR.. A. B. Leonard. secretary
of the Methodist Episcopal board; Rev. Mr..
H. c. Mabie. secretary OF the Baptist
board: Rev. DR.. r. p. Mckay, secretary OF
the Canadian Presbyterian board; Rev.
Or. Walter r. Lambuth. of the board of
the Methodist church, South; Rev DR..
Charles H. Daniels. Of the American board
various sessions OF the convention will
number about 13o many OF them being men
and women of international fame Among
them will be Rev. DIR. F. B. Meyer. Of Lon
don, England: General James A. Beaver.
ex-governor Of Pennsylvania. Judge Of the
superior court of Pennsylvania. and VINO
was a general In the civil war, Rev w. A.
Leonard. bishop of Ohio: Rev. Bishop T.
u. Dudley, of Kentucky: Rev. Bishop NJ
E. Baldwin. Of Canada; Rev. Bishop , Will
church; Rev. DIR. Francis E. Clark presi-
dent of the United Society Of Christian En-
deavor: President Charles Cuthbera Hall.
d. D., of Union Theological seminary: Mr..
Robert E. Speer, secretary Of the Presby,
terian board: Mr.. John r. Mott. general
secretary of the Worlds Student Christian
bridge university. England. and secretary
of the British Students movement: and
Rev. S. W. Zwomer. F. r. c. s., OF ARABIA
be held in the new armory Of the Cleve-
land Grays. and division meetings in eight
churches in the heart OF the clty.
In speaking Of the movement. one OF
the officials said: The students of LOO
colleges of the United States. Canada
Great Britain and other lands have within
gether to plan a religious campaign
throughout the entire world Thousands
OF the most prominent scholars and ath-
Ietes in the universities have pledged their
lives to foreign missions, either as teach
ers, preachers or physicians. and they are
ready at any time to cross the ocean un-
der the direction OF the various denomina-
tionaI mission boards as missionaries Be
cause the movement Is Sinterdenomnational
and intercollegiate. it attracts the church
leaders of all lands. President McCosh. OF
Princeton University. Sdlu OF IidS any
such offering of living young men and
women been presented in our age. In our
country. in any age or In any country.
since the day of Penticost?' Among the
objects of the convention are to increase
the interest in missionary work. to AFFORD
an opportunity for conference among the
leaders Of missionary work and to plan an
advance campaign for missions on the
American continent. The objects of tho
Student Volunteer Movement are to enroll
educated men and women to give their
lives to missionary service. to arouse the
churches of America to the necessity of
giving more financial support to the foreign
mission boards to increase the knowledge
OF missions by the establishment OF mis-
sionary libraries in every church and city
in the United States: in short. the object OF
the movement may be briefly stated In its
watchword. The EvangelfZatioD OF the
World in This Generation.