The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-21

women from Wellesley Smith Vassar Rad
clife, and number of other womens coll
leges.
More than sixty of the missionary boards
will send official delegates, and among them
will be the Rt. Rev. Bishop r. U. Dudley,
secretary of the Protestant Episcopal
board; Rev. DR.. "A. b. Leonard, secretary
of the Methodist Episcopal board Rev H
9. Mabie, ID. D., secretary of the Baptist
board; Rev. DR.. r. p. Mckay, secretary
of the Canadian Presbyterian board; Rev.
Walter Z. Lambuth, ~ D., Of the board
Charles II. Daniels, ID. D.. of the American
board
The speakers and participants in the var
ious sessions of the convention will num-
Der about $780, many of them being men
and women of International fame Among
them will be Rev DR.. +; 3. Meyer, of
London England; General James A. Beav-
er, Ex-Governor of Pennsylvania, Judge OF
the Superior Court OF Pennsylvania, and
Rev. w. A. Leonard, bishop of Ohio; Rt
Rev. Bishop T. u. Dudley, of Kentucky:
Rt. Rev. Bishop NJ. q. Baldwin, of Canada:
Methodist Episcopal Church: Rev. Or:
francis Il. Clark, president of the United
Society of Christian Endeavor; President
Charles Cuthbert Hall, d. D., OF Union
Theological Seminary; Robert r. Speer,
secretary of the. Presbyterian board; John
X. Mott, general secretary of the Worlds
Student Christian Federation; d. M.
Thornton, of Cambridge University, Eng
land, and secretary of the British students
movement, and Rev. s. w. Zwomer, F. r.
g. s., of Arabia.
The main meetings of the convention will
De held in the new armory Of the Cleve-
land Grays, and division meetings in eight
churches in the heart OF the city.
In speaking of the movement, one of the
off1c1als said: THE students of one thou
sand colleges of the United States, Canada,
Great Britain and other lands have with
IN the last few years united themselves to-
gether to plan a religious campaign
throughout the entire world. Thousands OF
the most prominent scholars and athletes
in the universities have pledged their lives
TO foreign missions, either as teachers,
preachers or physicians, and they are ready
at any time to cross the ocean under the
direction of the various denominafional
mission boards as missionaries. Because
the movement is INSTRUMENTATION and
intercollegiate it attracts the church lead
erS of all lands. President McCosh of
Princeton University said of it, Has any
such offering of living young men and
women been presented in age, in our
country, in any age or in any country,
since the day of Pentecost? Among the
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 the
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 for
edge of missions by the establishment OF
missionary Libraries I'm every church andy
city in the United States: in short the
object OF the movement may be briefly
stated in it's watchword The Evangelical
ton Of the World in this Generation .