Evening star., 1925-01-27
4,5OO DELEGATES
HERE FOR MEETING
foreign Missions Convention
to Hear Coolidge at First
Session Tomorrow.

More than $500 delegates were IN
Washington today, and hundreds were
arriving hourly for the Foreign MIS-
sIons Convention of the United states
and Canada, which opens week
session tomorrow afternoon IN the
Washington Auditorium. The prime
object of the convention is further
ance of missionary work in all cor
ners of the world where Christianity
has not vet taken firm root and dele
gates from six foreign nations Will
be in attendance.
President Calvin Coolidge Will de-
liver the opening address at the ses-
sion tomorrow afternoon at o'io
o'clock, Immediately after ReV. james
L. Barton. d. D., has called the Con-
ventfon to order and Rev. w > Aper-
netbv u u. of this city has said the
opening prayer
only two addresses will follow that
Of President Coolidge at tomorro"
afternoons session, one by Blshop
Edwin n Nouzon of Nashville, 1ehh.'
on The Compulsion. reGarulnS the
world spreading of the Gospel ana
one bv Miss Jean X. Mackenzie, tor
ner missionary in Africa, on The
Promise" Rev J. +. Sizoo of this
CITY will pronounce benediction, end
ing the first session.
$500 From other Cities.
OF the 1900 delegates now awaiting
the opening of the convention ap-
proximateIy $500 are from all sec
tIons of the United States and Cam
ada, while 600 are local residents.
Thirty per cent of the total repre-
sentaticn at the convention, it is eX-
peCted, will be women representing
women's mission boards of various
churches throughout the Northern
Hemisphere.
The asSemblage here tomorrow is
expected to rival in numbers and in
Importance the great 1910 world mis-
sionary conference at Edinburg, Scot
land, and it has been 25 years-since
19OO-since North America sponsored
such a world mission conference.
Today's activities centered about
preparations for the convention, To-
eating the delegates, and Il meeting
of the executive committee of the
Federation of Women's Boards Of
Foreign Missions of North America
this morning at the New York Ave-
nue. PRESBYTERIAN Church.
Women at Luncheon.
At noon today the Federation of
Women's Boards of Foreign Missions
and the Council of Women for Home
Missions gathered at an informal
luncheon at the same church, under
the chairmanship of Mrs. +. H. Sill
Yerthorn, president of the federation.
Immediately after the luncheon the
federation went into it's twentieth in
terdenominational conference at the
New York Avenue Church, with Mrs
Silverthorn presiding.
Mrs William f. Mcdowell and mis-
Sionaries were to lead devotional
services, after which Mrs. Silverthorn
was on the program for a resume of
the years work.
Other topics of discussion included
Miss Mabelle Rae McVeigh's report
from the committee on the future Of
the federation; objectives of the
years work, by chairman of respec-
tive committees, including Mrs. Don
aid McGillivray's report on the work
of the committee on Christian Litera-
ture; talk by Mrs. Z. c. Cronk. re-
Rarding recognition by the boards of
the Importance of methods of work
general discussion on foreign mission
work among students; a talk by Miss
Pauline Sem, an oriental student, on
efforts for seeking cooperation of
foreign students in America for work
in the foreign field, and address by
Mrs. Lawrence Thurston, president of
Ginling College, China, on the rela-
tionship of the Federation of Inter
denominational Institutions in the
foreign field
Talk on World Federation.
Mrs. Henry W. Peabody will end the
list of speeches with talk on the
World Federation of Christian Wom-
en-"
Rev. William l. Chamberlain, 4. D,
of New York will preside at tomor-
row nights session at the Auditorium.
and Rev. Charles Wood, d. D, pastor
Of the Church of the Covenant, will