ANNUAL APPEAL OF THE STUDENT VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT
to the
BOARDS OF FOREIGN MISSIONS COMPRISING THE FOREIGN MISSIONS CONFERENCE
for 1939

## Response to our last appeal

One year ago we addressed to the Boards of Foreign Missions an appeal for financial assistance in order to insure a continued missionary interest among college students. Most of the major boards have responded cordially and generously. Within the past twelve months a total of $2,530.00 has been appropriated to the Student Volunteer Movement. In the attached comparative table of figures you will note that this amount is somewhat lower than the total amount requested from the boards. It was, however, the response to a first appeal from us. In some cases the appropriation was made for the balance of a fiscal year, budgets having been drawn up before our request was received. At least one board exceeded our request. We are still in correspondence with several boards that are contemplating appropriations.

It is generally recognized that there is a point below which a national organization's receipts cannot fall and that organization still justify its effort to operate nationally. It is not too much to say that the board appropriations, and some other new funds have kept us from falling below that point. We are deeply grateful for the confidence and help you have extended, and present this our second appeal on the basis of the following record of accomplishment and program plans.

## What we have accomplished during the past year

1. Our representatives have taken part again in regional spring and summer conferences, as well as several national student gatherings.

2. We have more than doubled the number of campuses visited in the interests of Missions and World Christianity.

3. We have been welcomed again into the councils of the various student movements, the National Intercollegiate Christian Council, and the University Commission of the Church Boards of Education. We have been accepted among the leaders of the student movement, and it is not too much to say that the Movement has re-entered the fellowship of student Christian movements. Those who have known the Movement in recent years will realize how significant an accomplishment this is. We now have open doors quite generally throughout the country. With this restored confidence, opportunities of service have greatly multiplied.

4. By our intimate association with the University Christian Mission we have reached students and student groups on twenty prominent university campuses. By our part in planning the Missions we have insured a fair representation of World Christian concerns in the Missions. From three to six members of the visiting teams have represented the World Mission.

5. We have brought many student groups into touch with the post-Madras international teams.

6. We have simplified our office procedure, effected some substantial economies in overhead expenditures, and thus freed more of our modest resources for actual field visitation.

7. In June last we added to our staff Mr. George Theuer, whose work has been a real strength to our program.

8. The General Secretary took part in the Madras Meeting of the International Missionary Council and the international student conference at Alwaye, India. At Madras we had several consultations with student Christian movement leaders and friends from the U.S.A., as to the best ways to make the significance of Madras felt throughout our movements. Further, we discovered among Madras delegates a number of younger Christian leaders who will be a strength to our student movements as the years go on, and they come to visit our country. There was much along these lines which we were able to do even while abroad, which will directly strengthen our work.

## What do we plan for the immediate future?

1. After prolonged consultation with national and regional student Christian leaders we issued, in October, to all student Christian movements a Call to intensified emphasis upon the World Mission of Christianity. The call included three aspects as follows:

1. To develop locally, regionally, nationally and internationally a strengthened program on the World Mission of Christianity.

2. To convene a consultative conference of leaders on the Student Christian World Mission, at Christmas-time, 1939.

3. To look toward a North American Conference on the Christian World Mission, in 1941, possibly in connection with the proposed meeting on this continent of the General Committee of the World's Student Christian Federation.

The various movements have responded indicating their willingness to move out in this direction.

2. Therefore, we plan to bring together at Christmas-time next year a group of probably about 500 picked students from the United States and Canada for a Consultation. A picked group of younger Christian leaders from other lands, American delegates to Madras, and others, will meet with this group. The Consultation will face the facts of the present world character of Christianity and its problems. It will try to understand the implications of this movement and build a program within our movements accordingly. It will face the opportunities of overseas Christian vocation.

Please note that this plan has the approval of all the movements concerned, seeks to make the missionary concern indigenous to the movements while maintaining the autonomous character of the S.V.M., and is one phase of a larger emphasis including local campus programs, and looking toward a larger gathering in 1941.

3. We are urging all regional student groups to secure American Madras delegates for leadership in spring and summer conferences. The response is very encouraging. This means that leaders like Henry P. Van Dusen, Georgia Harkness, Celestine Smith, Philip Beattie, Walter Horton, Paul Braisted and others will be

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brought into active participation in the work of strengthening missionary concern.

4. We are continuing this year our support of and cooperation with the University Christian Mission, although the General Secretary of the Movement is no longer Campus Secretary of that program.

5. We hope to add at least one more member to our field staff, and possibly several part-time regional workers. We will continue and enlarge our campus visitation. This will depend upon resources available to us.

6. Through our representatives and friends we will be active at the World Youth Conference at Amsterdam, helping to keep the missionary interest central there.

7. One of our committees is preparing new study material on the World Mission.

8. We are discovering students, now undergraduates, of the caliber required for service abroad in these days, who will eventually be prepared for overseas service. The work we are doing will, we believe, help produce an increasing number of the right kind of able leaders for our work abroad.

The past year has shown marked advance in our program, though we want to do very much more. We trust that the program actually in progress for the ensuing year will commend itself to you and command your support. During the past year our receipts from friends have slightly increased. If we are to meet our new opportunities, new resources must be found. The attached table will show both the basis of our request to the Foreign Mission Boards for the current year (the total not to exceed 33% of our approved operating budget) and the amounts allocated to the various Boards. This calculation is based on the relation of each Board's annual receipts to the total receipts of all societies in the Foreign Missions Conference. We are grateful for every contribution made last year. We hope that your Board will be able to appropriate the full amount of our present request in your current or new budget.

Treasurer

General Secretary

SUGGESTED SHARES FOR MAJOR BOARDS

<table><thead><tr><th rowspan="2"></th><th>1937-8<br>Request *</th><th>Appropriations<br>to S.V.M.</th><th>1938-9<br>Request *</th></tr><tr><th>Dollars</th><th>Dollars</th><th>Dollars</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>American Baptist Foreign Mission Society</td><td>244.00</td><td>150.00</td><td>230.00</td></tr><tr><td>Women's American Baptist Foreign Mission<br>Society</td><td>126.17</td><td>100.00</td><td>121.00</td></tr><tr><td>General Mission Board of the Church of the<br>Brethren</td><td>60.48</td><td>40.00</td><td>65.00</td></tr><tr><td>United Christian Missionary Society<br>(Disciples of Christ)</td><td>148.07</td><td>.....</td><td>141.24</td></tr><tr><td>American Board of Commissioners for Foreign<br>Missions (Congregational)</td><td>282.58</td><td>360.00</td><td>270.00</td></tr><tr><td>Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of<br>the Protestant Episcopal Church</td><td>523.44</td><td>100.00</td><td>495.00</td></tr><tr><td>Missionary Society of the Evangelical Church</td><td>90.19</td><td>30.00</td><td>85.00</td></tr><tr><td>Foreign Mission Board of the Evangelical<br>Synod of N.A. of the Evangelical and<br>Reformed Church</td><td>62.56</td><td>.....</td><td>59.00</td></tr><tr><td>Board of Foreign Missions of the United<br>Lutheran Church</td><td>227.88</td><td>.....</td><td>216.00</td></tr><tr><td>The Women's Missionary Society of the United<br>Lutheran Church</td><td>50.00</td><td>50.00</td><td>50.00</td></tr><tr><td>Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist<br>Episcopal Church</td><td>592.78</td><td>400.00</td><td>561.00</td></tr><tr><td>Women's Board of Foreign Missions of the<br>Methodist Episcopal Church</td><td>673.06</td><td>.....</td><td>640.00</td></tr><tr><td>Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal<br>Church, South</td><td>242.95</td><td>100.00</td><td>250.00</td></tr><tr><td>Women's Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal<br>Church, South</td><td>270.06</td><td>100.00</td><td>256.00</td></tr><tr><td>Executive Committee of Foreign Missions of<br>the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.</td><td>351.91</td><td>.....</td><td>358.00</td></tr><tr><td>Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian<br>Church in the U.S.A.</td><td>1,088.00</td><td>1,000.00</td><td>1,033.00</td></tr><tr><td>Board of Foreign Missions of the United<br>Presbyterian Church in North America</td><td>122.51</td><td>.....</td><td>115.00</td></tr><tr><td>Women's Board of Foreign Missions of the<br>United Presbyterian Church in North America</td><td>89.15</td><td>.....</td><td>84.00</td></tr><tr><td>Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed<br>Church in America</td><td>151.00</td><td>150.00</td><td>140.00</td></tr><tr><td>Foreign Missionary Society of the United<br>Brethren in Christ</td><td>68.82</td><td>.....</td><td>64.00</td></tr></tbody><tfoot><tr><td>Totals</td><td>5,465.61</td><td>2,580.00</td><td>5,193.24 **</td></tr></tfoot></table>

*Based on the proportion of each Society's annual receipts in relation to total amount of receipts of Boards in the Foreign Missions Conference.

**Total of 1/3 of approved Student Volunteer Movement budget.

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Factors with regard to student life at the present time which make our work the more urgent and strategic -

(1) There is a strong tide moving toward the achievement of a united Student Christian Movement in this country.

The Student Volunteer Movement already represents this united movement in the function of education for the World Christian Mission.

(2) Students who are tragically conscious of the interrelatedness of world economic, social, and cultural problems are inquiring of the relevance of Christianity to them.

The Student Volunteer Movement would lead these students to enthusiasm for the participation in the World-wide Christian Fellowship - the Church - as the answer to their questioning.

(3) Many students who are disillusioned by the breakdown of plans for the betterment of social and international affairs, and who are largely "illiterate" as to the essential things in Christian experience, are asking with a new seriousness of the meaning of Christianity. Their inquiry springs from a desire to know what the possibilities of human life are and what the purpose of the universe is, and whether they may find their relationship to that purpose.

The Student Volunteer Movement would call students to commitment to God and His mission for man and the world as unveiled in Christ.

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These facts, together with a generally increased serious-mindedness of college students give us an opportunity more favorable than we have had in recent years. There is every reason to believe that in the not distant future many students will come to a new, living faith. When the day comes, a new enthusiasm for Christian missions will thrive.

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# Program projects for the next three to five years

## A. Enlistment of student interest:

1. Three to ten successful missionaries of proved ability in student work, visiting college and university campuses. Three are traveling during 1937-'38 -- James Puxley, St. John's College, Agra, India; John Elder, Hamadan, Persia; E. K. Higdon, Philippine Islands.

2. A team of graduate students visiting campuses to interest their fellow students. This team would include, if possible, a Negro, one or more foreign students and a young student with a brief experience in mission work abroad. The group would have a training experience under adequate leadership in the summer, before starting to tour the colleges.

3. Seminars, retreats or institutes in various regions. Several planned this year.

4. A national convention (probably in December, 1939-January 1940) to provide for this generation of students what the Quadrennial Conventions did for earlier generations. The theme would be centered upon the world-wide Christian Fellowship (The Church) and the missionary movement in relation to it.

5. Cooperation in summer and other student gatherings of Y.M. and Y.W., and Church student groups.

## B. Vocational enlistment of students:

1. A fellowship of committed "volunteers" still in training.

2. Development of lists of people to whom we can go to locate potential candidates who may not have previously committed themselves to foreign service.

3. Development of a fellowship of Christian students going into commercial, government, or other vocational positions abroad.

## C. Study of program and preparation of program material:

1. Continuance of the Commission on Students and the World Christian Community to study the approach to students.

2. Preparation and distribution of study outline and such other materials as seem needed to enlist student interest.

Two outlines prepared in the Winter of 1937-'38 are -- "The Sino-Japanese Conflict" - four studies on the implications of the conflict for Christians; a Devotional Service; a Bibliography. "On to Madras" - brief studies on the eighteen topics of the Madras Meeting (International Missionary Council). Student groups using these outlines are asked to send their findings for the use of student delegates to the Conference.

C o p y

April 5, 1939

Mr. E. K. Higdon
156 Fifth Avenue
New York, N. Y.

My dear Higdon:

As you know we met this year for the second appeal to the Foreign Mission Board comprising of the Foreign Missions Conference for support of the Student Volunteer Movement. I am sending herewith a copy of that appeal. I think you will be interested in the table of figures. Our calculation was based upon the division of one-third of our budget among the Boards in proportion to their share of the total receipts of the Foreign Missions Conference.

I write to you now especially because Dr. Thomas of the Lutheran Board writes that their policy is to make a single appropriation to the Foreign Missions Conference for all coordinated and inter-board activities. We, of course, by our essential connection with the Student Christian Movements are somewhat different than other cooperating agencies. I am wondering whether this is typical of what we may expect the major Boards to do in the future. If so, is there a formula which you can suggest in which we can share with other cooperating agencies in the appropriations of the Boards for cooperative undertakings? If that is premature, is there a way in which the lump sum of the united Board, when appropriated, can be divided to include a contribution to us?

PJB:DKF

Officers
SAMUEL TREXLER, D.D.,
President
ABDEL ROSS WENTZ, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D.,
Vice-President
GEORGE DRACH, D.D.,
Recording Secretary
GEORGE R. WEITZEL, C.P.A.,
Treasurer

ALL OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS SHOULD
BE ADDRESSED TO THE BOARD OF
FOREIGN MISSIONS

THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS

OF THE
UNITED LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA
OFFICE AND MISSION HOUSE

18 EAST MT. VERNON PLACE
BALTIMORE, MD.

INDIA, AFRICA, JAPAN
BRITISH GUIANA, ARGENTINA, CHINA

Staff

GEORGE DRACH, D.D.,
Administrative Secretary

M. EDWIN THOMAS, D.D.,
Administrative Secretary

EDWIN MOLL, D.D.,
General Secretary

TELEPHONE: VERNON 3091
CABLE: LUTHER, BALTIMORE

January 16, 1941

Dr. R.H. Edwin Espey, General Secretary
Student Volunteer Movement
156 Fifth Avenue
New York, N.Y.

Dear Dr. Espey:

Many thanks for your letter of the 13th with en-
closures.

It is encouraging to learn that the Student Volunteer Movement is again so active. I was a volunteer at Wooster, Ohio (Presbyterian) 1904-05. This naturally makes me quite interested in the Movement now.

I note what you have to say about our Board contributing toward the support of this Movement. In this connection I would like to ask if there is any possibility of the budget being made a part of the comprehensive budget of the Foreign Missions Conference. Our Board seems quite willing to contribute to various organizations, if they are a part of the comprehensive budget, otherwise it is very difficult to get funds appropriated at the present time. Kindly let me hear from you on this matter.

MET/s

JAN 17 1941

January 10, 1941

The Rev. M. Edwin Thomas, D.D.,
Board of Foreign Missions of the United Lutheran Church,
18 East Mt. Vernon Place,
Baltimore, Maryland.

Dear Dr. Thomas:

Dr. Mary E. Markley wrote me recently reporting your interest in the work of the Student Volunteer Movement. I am happy to write you concerning our expanding program. I regret that I have not done this sooner, but I have been awaiting the completion of a brochure which you will find among the materials I am sending by this mail. I am sending you the following documents:

1. The Student Volunteer Movement, Its Origin and History.

2. Another Chapter in our History (The brochure to which I refer)

3. A summarized report of our activities for the fiscal year 1939-40.

4. A supplementary report for the two months of October and November, 1940.

5. A statement comprising answers to questions of an organizational character which are raised from time to time as we discuss our work with the friends of the Movement.

It is, of course, impossible to convey the spirit of a vital program by the printed or written word. I should be most happy, therefore, if occasion might arise when I could meet you personally to talk with you about our work. I should be most grateful for your counsel as we are eager to cooperate to the maximum with all the Boards of Foreign Missions and we are always grateful for the counsel of the experienced leaders of the missionary enterprise. Should you ever be coming to New York, I should be very glad if you would let me know and we could arrange to get together.

In the meantime, I want to take this opportunity to supplement the formal materials with a word of my own personal confidence in the type of program which the Student Volunteer Movement is now carrying. We are eager to concentrate the central message of the Gospel, not at all to the exclusion of its implications for all the areas of life, but rather because we feel that our special Movement is concerned with the special task of evangelization. We are fully aware that world conditions are causing many adjustments in the missionary enterprise and yet we have the faith that the Gospel will always be preached in one form or another. Even though there may not be the number of openings in some countries that there had been up to recently, we feel that the Movement has a basic task of education for the World Mission of Christianity just

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10:30 AM

1941

THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS

Miss Evelyn A. Flower
156 Fifth Avenue
New York City

Officers

GEORGE A. GREISS, D.D.,
President.

SAMUEL TREXLER, D.D.,
Vice-President.

GEORGE DRACH, D.D.,
Recording Secretary.

THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS

INDIA, AFRICA, JAPAN

Staff

GEORGE DRACH, D.D.,
General Secretary.

M. EDWIN THOMAS, D.D.,
General Secretary.

GEORGE R. WEITZEL, C.P.A.,
Treasurer.

MAR 30 1939

March 29, 1939

Paul J. Braisted, General Sec.
Student Volunteer Movement
254 Fourth Avenue
New York City

Dear Dr. Braisted:

Your letter of March 21st together with a copy of
the Annual Appeal for the Student Volunteer Movement
has been received. We wish to congratulate the Student
Volunteer Movement for apparently reviving its activi-
ties in Student Volunteer work.

In regard to our Board making a contribution to your
work, it passed an action recently that it desired all
interboard activities to be coordinated under the Foreign
Missions Conference of North America and is to appropriate
in a lump sum for all its activities.

Would it be possible for the Student Volunteer Move-
ment to be made a part of the Foreign Missions Conference
of N.A.? If so, I believe we could prevail upon our Board
to make an appropriation. As it is, this is impossible.

With kind personal regards, I remain

MET:MF

Letter Transmitting Actions of

THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF FOREIGN MISSIONS
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES

BOX 330, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

April 14, 1939

Dr. Paul J. Braisted
To Student Volunteer Movement
254 Fourth Avenue
New York, N. Y.

I am transmitting herewith an action of the Executive Committee of Foreign Missions taken at its meeting held in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 11:

"A letter from the Student Volunteer Movement requesting an appropriation of $338 was presented and referred to the special committee composed of the Executive Secretary and Dr. Taylor who had previously been appointed to study our relation to the Student Volunteer Movement."

CABLE "LIBERATE"

C. DARBY FULTON
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

POST OFFICE BOX 330
NASHVILLE, TENN.

113 SIXTEENTH AVE.S

November 16, 1938

Dr. Paul J. Braisted, General Secretary
Student Volunteer Movement
254 Fourth Avenue
New York, N. Y.

My dear Dr. Braisted:-

Your letter of November 7 has come to hand and I want to
write to you intimately and frankly about the matter of our support of the
Student Volunteer Movement.

Up until four or five years ago I took a very deep personal
and active interest in the Student Volunteer Movement. For several years I
was a member of the administrative committee and at the time of my resig-
nation was the Vice-chairman of that committee. As the chairman, Mr. Fay
Campbell, of Yale, was at that time in Europe for a prolonged stay, the
duties of the chairmanship devolved upon me for a period of several months.

It is not necessary for me to burden you with all of the
factors leading up to my resignation. It did not come about suddenly, but
was the result of a trend within the Movement that became increasingly ap-
parent from year to year. It was what I would describe as a more and more
"secularized" conception of Christianity and of the Christian mission. The
emphasis in the program of the Movement became increasingly "sociological."
One heard much of peace, race relations, internationalism, social justice
and economic reform, but very little of faith, repentance, conversion, evan-
gelism, soul-winning, eternal life and other definitely spiritual themes.
At times it seemed almost as if the Student Volunteer Movement cared little
what a man believed, or whether he believed at all, just so he possessed
a sense of philanthropic idealism and an attitude of good-will toward all man-
kind.

For several years I stayed with the Movement, working actively
and loyally in its behalf, trying my best to conserve the great spiritual aims
and motives that had made the Movement so vital a force among the students of
our country in another generation. However, I found myself at last at a point
where I could no longer conscientiously lend my cooperation. It seemed to me
that the Movement had become so eccentric in its emphasis that it was definitely
misrepresenting Christianity and the missionary enterprise. It had become, I
felt, a menace rather than a help to our student generation, inoculating them
with a conception of missions that might render them immune to the real thing.

Accordingly, with much reluctance and untold heartache I tendered

Dr. Paul J. Braisted, General Secretary - page 2.

my resignation from the administrative committee. It was rather significant
that at the same meeting, and just a few minutes later, Jesse Wilson, then
General Secretary of the Movement, also tendered his resignation on much the
same grounds.

I did not intend to go so fully into this, but I do want to make
clear the experience through which I have come and which accounts for the rather
aloof position that our Committee has taken toward the Movement for the past
several years.

Now I can assure you that there is no Board in the United States
more deeply interested in the promotion of missions among the students of our
schools and colleges than ours. By every natural inclination we are disposed
to support with our whole hearts a "Student Volunteer Movement." If such a
Movement would stand courageously by the essential elements of the Christian
Gospel, if it would use the word "evangelization" without apology, if it would
preach the redemption of men and not merely the amelioration of society, if it
would adopt an eternal perspective instead of a this-worldly outlook, if it
would boldly proclaim the supernatural and revealed character of our faith in
the face of the sophisticated naturalism of today - if it would do these things,
how enthusiastically we and others like ourselves would like to get behind such
a Movement!

Our Executive Committee has asked Dr. Kerr Taylor and me to inquire
into the premises of the Student Volunteer Movement as it is now organized, and
is postponing action regarding an appropriation until we have made some report.
We are eager to cooperate with a missionary movement for students that fulfills
the ideals that we regard as essential. I would appreciate so much your kind-
ness if you could send me any recent documents of the Student Volunteer Move-
ment that might reveal a change in emphasis toward the more spiritual ideals
and purposes that I have tried to delineate. If the Movement is still proceed-
ing today along the same lines as four or five years ago when I found it neces-
sary to resign, I feel that I can offer very little hope of any appropriation
from our organization. If, on the other hand, it can recapture the spiritual
emphases of its past glorious years, then we would covet an opportunity to share
in its support and would do so with enthusiasm.

With kindest regards and good wishes, I am.

CDF/b

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MAR 27 1939

MAR 24

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1939

TENN.

ROBERT M. HOPKINS, President

MISS LELA E. TAYLOR, Vice-President

C. W. PLOPPER, Treasurer

MISS HAZEL I. SCOTT, Secretary

THE UNITED CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY
A Board of Missions and Education

MISSIONS BUILDING, 222 DOWNEY, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

DISCIPLES
OF
CHRIST

DIVISION OF FOREIGN MISSIONS

Department of Africa and India Missions
C. M. Yocum, Executive Secretary

Department of Latin America Missions
Miss Lela E. Taylor, Executive Secretary

Department of Oriental Missions
Alexander Paul, Executive Secretary

Cable Address—"GO"
Telephone IRvington 1166

March 24, 1939

Mr. Paul J. Braisted,
Student Volunteer Movement,
254 Fourth Avenue,
New York, New York.

Dear Mr. Braisted:

Your letter of March 21st has come to Dr. Paul after
he has left the office for the Orient. However, this is a budget
matter and Mr. C. M. Yocum will be taking it into consideration
when he begins work on the budget in June.

FB:I-d

December 17, 1941

Dr. S. G. Ziegler,
Foreign Missionary Society,
1409 U. B. Building,
Dayton, Ohio

Dear Dr. Ziegler:

Though I saw you in Atlantic City, I want to place on record my
real thanks for your letter of November 11th with its indication
that your Board would consider the question of a possible ap-
propriation to the Student Volunteer Movement during the coming
year. We deeply appreciate the interest of yourself personally
and of your Board.

We were most happy indeed to have the Board for Christian Work
in Santo Domingo meet in our office on November 5th. Feel free
to call on us for this kind of service whenever we can be of help.

RHEE:DKF

"Go Ye Therefore"

FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY
UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST

1409 U. B. BUILDING

REV. SAMUEL G. ZIEGLER, GENERAL SECRETARY
MRS. J. HAL SMITH, SPECIAL SUPPORT SECRETARY
EMMA SPAHR, OFFICE SECRETARY

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

BISHOP A. R. CLIPPINGER
MRS. S. S. HOUGH
MRS. E. M. HURSH
REV. C. W. WINEY
MR. M. B. MONN
DR. A. T. HOWARD
MISS ALICE BELL

DAYTON, OHIO

November 11, 1941

Mr. R. H. Edwin Espy
156 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York

Dear Mr. Espy:

I have just returned from our annual Foreign Mission Board meeting. While I can give you no definite assurance of financial support, I am in a position to say that we set aside a sum for interdenominational work which I think will permit us to make a small grant to the Student Volunteer Movement. I am hoping to work out a schedule of such interests to be presented to our executive committee when it convenes in January. I am sorry, however, that I am not in a position now to advise you definitely.

As president of the Board for Christian Work in Santa Domingo, may I thank you for the use of your office last Wednesday, November 5. They seemed to be crowded for meeting places last week, so they directed us to your comfortable headquarters since you were out of the city. I want to express my appreciation of this courtesy.

SGZ:MC

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March 21, 1941

period ahead. The accompanying materials will give you the background of information
for such a discussion.

I am very eager also to have your views concerning the total strategy of the Student Volunteer Movement in the light of world conditions and the necessary re-orientation of the missionary enterprise in the light of developments around the world. I am eager that the Movement should be in touch with the best thinking of the missionary enterprise as it makes its appeal to students across the country.

Should you like to communicate any counsel or suggestions concerning our work, I
should be glad to hear from you. I trust also that I may have an indication, at an
early date, as to whether we might look forward to a financial contribution in order
that we can make our plans accordingly.

RHEE:DKF

November 19, 1940

Dr. Mary E. Markley
Board of Education,
United Lutheran Church
744 Jackson Place, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

Dear Dr. Markley:

Thank you for your letter of November 18th confirming my proposal that Katherine Parker should be one of the two student representatives at Naperville and very especially for your letter of the same date reporting on the reaction of Dr. Thomas to your helpful inquiry concerning possible support of the Student Volunteer Movement. I shall write Dr. Thomas at the first opportunity and certainly within the next two or three days I shall send you a copy of the letter.

I greatly appreciate your good help in this matter. We are much heartened by the cooperation of a great many friends in our effort to reestablish a sound financial position.

RHEE:B

March 4, 1941

The Rev. S. H. Gapp, D.D.,
Moravian Board,
67 West Church Street,
Bethlehem, Pa.

Dear Mr. Gapp:

The Student Volunteer Movement is happy to report the successful beginning of a new advance in its missionary education in the colleges and universities of this country. The visits of the General Secretary and traveling secretaries have brought us into touch with many new people and have inspired new confidence and support.

You are no doubt well acquainted with the Student Volunteer work of the past, but we are sending some literature to refresh your memory, as well as to set before you our present program and policy. You will see that we have not merely an inspiring history but also a challenging vision of our present and future opportunities.

One of the evidences of new confidence placed in the Student Volunteer Movement is to be seen in the financial support given us from the Board of Missions. During the last two years eleven major Boards have considered the Student Volunteer Movement a legitimate recipient of such support because they see the very real way in which the Movement supplements the work of the respective departments of missionary personnel. Obviously, there are good reasons for limiting the extent of the Movement's dependence upon the financial assistance of the Boards, but the point of limitation is not yet nearly approached. Therefore, I am inquiring whether the Moravian Board would not like to share in this work by making an annual appropriation to the Student Volunteer Movement. To this end we are making this request for $15.00 for your next fiscal year.

In the hope that we may be of greater service to you, I am

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March 20, 1941

The Rev. A. V. Casselman,
The Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in the U.S.,
1505 Race Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Dr. Casselman:

I am writing at this time to the various Boards of Foreign Missions to report on the activities of the Student Volunteer Movement in recent months. To bring you up-to-date on our program, I am enclosing the following four documents:

1. A mimeographed "Summarized Report for the Fiscal Year 1940-41."

2. A mineographed statement "Organizational Relationships - Answers to Questions Frequently Asked," prepared last December.

3. A printed brochure "Another Chapter in our History," which sets forward the present emphasis of the Movement.

4. A supplementary mineographed report "The Record to March 15, 1941."

It has been a source of gratification that many individuals across the country and a number of the Boards as well have come forward in recent months with increased contributions to the work of the Movement. This has enabled us to expand our program and the fruits of our larger work are already evident. We have been able to place three new traveling secretaries on the field. This is the first time for a number of years that the Movement has had any staff member spending full time in actual visitation of the campuses. The response on the part of individual students to this intensive cultivation has been very encouraging. The number of opportunities open places upon us a new responsibility to follow up these beginnings with at least an equal number of visitations during the coming academic year and with an increase in attention to personnel inquiries and demands for literature from the New York headquarters.

The increased staff which this work involves is requiring us to find new resources. A number of the Boards which have not previously contributed are now coming forward with appropriations of $50.00 for the current fiscal year. We should be deeply grateful if the Board of the Reformed Church in the U. S. would be able to make an appropriation of this amount or whatever other amount would be within your capacity.

We are very eager that the Student Volunteer Movement should have an increasingly close relationship to the Boards in order that it may render a maximum service to them in its work. I should welcome the opportunity to talk with you personally sometime at your convenience concerning the present program of the Movement and our plans for the period ahead. The accompanying materials will give you the background of informa-

March 21, 1941

Mrs. J. W. Beardslee,
Women's Board of Foreign Missions,
Reformed Church in America,
156 Fifth Avenue,
New York, N.Y.

Dear Mrs. Beardslee:

I am writing to report the recent activities of the Student Volunteer Movement under
its enlarged program. I am enclosing one copy each of the following documents:

2. A mimeographed statement "Organizational Relationships - Answers to Questions Frequently Asked," prepared last December.

4. A supplementary mimeographed report "The Record to March 15, 1941."

It has been a source of gratification that many individuals across the country and a number of Boards as well have come forward in recent months with increased contributions to the work of the Movement. This has enabled us to expand our program and the fruits of our larger work are already evident. We have been able to place three new traveling secretaries on the field. This is the first time for a number of years that the Movement has had any staff member spending full time in actual visitation of the campuses. The response on the part of individual students to this intensive cultivation has been very encouraging. The number of opportunities open places upon us a new responsibility to follow up these beginnings with at least an equal number of visitations during the coming academic year and with an increase in attention to personnel inquiries and demands for literature from the New York headquarters.

The increased staff which this work involves is requiring us to find new resources. A number of the Boards which have not previously contributed are now coming forward with appropriations of $50.00 for the current fiscal year. We should be deeply grateful if the Women's Board of the Reformed Church in America would be able to make an appropriation of this amount or whatever other amount would be within your capacity.

March 21, 1941

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March 4, 1941

The Rev. Adam W. Miller,
Missionary Board of the Church of God,
Gospel Trumpet Co.,
Anderson, Indiana

Dear Mr. Miller:

One of the evidences of new confidence placed in the Student Volunteer Movement is to be seen in the financial support given us from the Board of Missions. During the last two years eleven major Boards have considered the Student Volunteer Movement a legitimate recipient of such support because they see the very real way in which the Movement supplements the work of their respective departments of missionary personnel. Obviously, there are good reasons for limiting the extent of the Movement's dependence upon the financial assistance of the Boards, but the point of limitation is not yet nearly approached. Therefore, I am inquiring whether the Missionary Board of the Church of God would not like to share in this work by making an annual appropriation to the Student Volunteer Movement. To this end we are making this request for $20.00. We realize that your next fiscal year does not begin until a considerable time ahead, but we wish to put this request on your desk at this time.

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March 4, 1941

The Rev. G. D. Fleming,
Domestic, Frontier and Foreign Missionary Society,
United Brethren in Christ,
407 U.B. Building,
Huntingdon, Ind.

Dear Mr. Fleming:

One of the evidences of new confidence placed in the Student Volunteer Movement is to be seen in the financial support given us from the Board of Missions. During the last two years eleven major Boards have considered the Student Volunteer Movement a legitimate recipient of such support because they see the very real way in which the Movement supplements the work of their respective departments of missionary personnel. Obviously, there are good reasons for limiting the extent of the Movement's dependence upon the financial assistance of the Boards, but the point of limitation is not yet nearly approached. Therefore, I am inquiring whether the United Brethren in Christ would not like to share in this work by making an annual appropriation to the Student Volunteer Movement. To this end we are making this request for $54.00. We realize that your next fiscal year does not begin until a considerable time ahead, but we wish to put this request on your desk at this time.

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March 4, 1941

The Rev. Effie M. Hodgeboom,
Woman's Missionary Association, United Brethren in Christ,
411 U. B. Building,
Huntingdon, Ind.

Dear Miss Hodgeboom:

One of the evidences of new confidence placed in the Student Volunteer Movement is to be seen in the financial support given us from the Board of Missions. During the last two years eleven major Boards have considered the Student Volunteer Movement a legitimate recipient of such support because they see the very real way in which the Movement supplements the work of the respective departments of missionary personnel. Obviously, there are good reasons for limiting the extent of the Movement's dependence upon the financial assistance of the Boards, but the point of limitation is not yet nearly approached. Therefore, I am inquiring whether the Woman's Missionary Association, United Brethren in Christ would not like to share in this work by making an annual appropriation to the Student Volunteer Movement. To this end we are making this request for $37.00 for your fiscal year, May 1, 1941 to April 30, 1942.

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March, 3, 1941

The Rev. Findley M. Wilson, D.D.,
Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Presbyterian Church,
2410 North Marshall Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Mr. Wilson:

One of the evidences of new confidence placed in the Student Volunteer Movement is to be seen in the financial support given us from the Board of Missions. During the last two years eleven major Boards have considered the Student Volunteer Movement a legitimate recipient of such support because they see the very real way in which the Movement supplements the work of their respective departments of missionary personnel. Obviously, there are good reasons for limiting the extent of the Movement's dependence upon the financial assistance of the Boards, but the point of limitation is not yet nearly approached. Therefore, I am inquiring whether the Reformed Presbyterian Board would not like to share in this work by making an annual appropriation to the Student Volunteer Movement. To this end we are making this request for $20.00 for your fiscal year, March 1, 1941 to February 28, 1942.

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March 4, 1941

The Rev. Gust B. Johnson,
Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America,
1005 Belmont Avenue,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Mr. Johnson:

One of the evidences of new confidence placed in the Student Volunteer Movement is to be seen in the financial support given us from the Board of Missions. During the last two years eleven major Boards have considered the Student Volunteer Movement a legitimate recipient of such support because they see the very real way in which the Movement supplements the work of the respective departments of missionary personnel. Obviously, there are good reasons for limiting the extent of the Movement's dependence upon the financial assistance of the Boards, but the point of limitation is not yet nearly approached. Therefore, I am inquiring whether the Swedish Evangelical Mission would not like to share in this work by making an annual appropriation to the Student Volunteer Movement. To this end we are making this request for $10.00 for your fiscal year, April 1, 1941 to March 31, 1942.

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March 4, 1941

The Rev. Noel Perkin,
Foreign Mission Dept., General Council of the
Assemblies of God,
356 West Pacific Street,
Springfield, Mo.

Dear Mr. Perkin:

One of the evidences of new confidence placed in the Student Volunteer Movement is to be seen in the financial support given us from the Board of Missions. During the last two years eleven major Boards have considered the Student Volunteer Movement a legitimate recipient of such support because they see the very real way in which the Movement supplements the work of the respective departments of missionary personnel. Obviously, there are good reasons for limiting the extent of the Movement's dependence upon the financial assistance of the Boards, but the point of limitation is not yet nearly approached. Therefore, I am inquiring whether the General Council of the Assemblies of God would not like to share in this work by making an annual appropriation to the Student Volunteer Movement. To this end we are making this request for $15.00 for your next fiscal year.

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March 4, 1941

The Rev. E. F. McCarty,
Missionary Society of the Wesleyan Methodist Connection
in America,
222 South Clemens Avenue,
Lansing, Michigan,

Dear Mr. McCarty:

One of the evidences of new confidence placed in the Student Volunteer Movement is to be seen in the financial support given us from the Board of Missions. During the last two years eleven major Boards have considered the Student Volunteer Movement a legitimate recipient of such support because they see the very real way in which The Movement supplements the work of the respective departments of missionary personnel. Obviously, there are good reasons for limiting the extent of the Movement's dependence upon the financial assistance of the Boards, but the point of limitation is not yet nearly approached. Therefore, I am inquiring whether the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society would not like to share in this work by making an annual appropriation to the Student Volunteer Movement. To this end we are making this request for $10.00 for your fiscal year May 1, 1941 to April 30th, 1942.

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March 4, 1941

The Rev. J. E. Gronli,
Board of Foreign Missions, Norwegian Lutheran Church,
425 South Fourth Street,
Minneapolis, Minn.

Dear Mr. Gronli:

One of the evidences of new confidence placed in the Student Volunteer Movement is to be seen in the financial support given us from the Board of Missions. During the last two years eleven major Boards have considered the Student Volunteer Movement a legitimate recipient of such support because they see the very real way in which the Movement supplements the work of the respective departments of missionary personnel. Obviously, there are good reasons for limiting the extent of the Movement's dependence upon the financial assistance of the Boards, but the point of limitation is not yet nearly approached. Therefore, I am inquiring whether your Board would not like to share in this work by making an annual appropriation to the Student Volunteer Movement. To this end we are making this request for $117.00 for your next fiscal year.

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March 4, 1941

Elder Irvin W. Musser,
Foreign Mission Board of the Brethren in Christ Church,
Mount Joy, Pa.

Dear Mr. Musser:

One of the evidences of new confidence placed in the Student Volunteer Movement is to be seen in the financial support given us from the Board of Missions. During the last two years eleven major Boards have considered the Student Volunteer Movement a legitimate recipient of such support because they see the very real way in which the Movement supplements the work of their respective departments of missionary personnel. Obviously, there are good reasons for limiting the extent of the Movement's dependence upon the financial assistance of the Boards, but the point of limitation is not yet nearly approached. Therefore, I am inquiring whether the Brethren in Christ Church Board would not like to share in this work by making an annual appropriation to the Student Volunteer Movement. To this end we are making this request for $75.00. We realize that your next fiscal year does not begin until a considerable time ahead, but we wish to put this request on your desk at this time.

GHT:DKP

March 4, 1941

The Rev. Sanford C. Yoder, D.D.,
Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities,
1159 S. Eighth Street,
Goshen, Ind.

Dear Mr. Yoder!

One of the evidences of new confidence placed in the Student Volunteer Movement is to be seen in the financial support given us from the Board of Missions. During the last two years eleven major Boards have considered the Student Volunteer Movement a legitimate recipient of such support because they see the very real way in which the Movement supplements the work of the respective departments of missionary personnel. Obviously, there are good reasons for limiting the extent of the Movement's dependence upon the financial assistance of the Boards, but the point of limitation is not yet nearly approached. Therefore, I am inquiring whether the Mennonite Board would not like to share in this work by making an annual appropriation to the Student Volunteer Movement. To this end we are making this request for $32.00 for your fiscal year April 1, 1941 to March 31, 1942.

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March 4, 1941

The Rev. J. A. Detter,
Board of Missions of the General Eldership of the Churches
of God in N. A.,
60 N. 17th Street,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Dear Mr. Detter:

One of the evidences of new confidence placed in the Student Volunteer Movement is to be seen in the financial support given us from the Board of Missions. During the last two years eleven major Boards have considered the Student Volunteer Movement a legitimate recipient of such support because they see the very real way in which the Movement supplements the work of the respective departments of missionary personnel. Obviously, there are good reasons for limiting the extent of the Movement's dependence upon the financial assistance of the Boards, but the point of limitation is not yet nearly approached. Therefore, I am inquiring whether your Board would not like to share in this work by making an annual appropriation to the Student Volunteer Movement. To this end we are making this request for $11.00 for your next fiscal year.

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March 4, 1941

The Rev. F. Braun, D. D.
Board of Foreign Missions of the American Lutheran Church,
New Hampton, Iowa

Dear Mr. Braun:

One of the evidences of new confidence placed in the Student Volunteer Movement is to be seen in the financial support given us from the Board of Missions. During the last two years eleven major Boards have considered the Student Volunteer Movement a legitimate recipient of such support because they see the very real way in which the Movement supplements the work of their respective departments of missionary personnel. Obviously, there are good reasons for limiting the extent of the Movement's dependence upon the financial assistance of the Boards, but the point of limitation is not yet nearly approached. Therefore, I am inquiring whether the American Lutheran Church Board would not like to share in this work by making an annual appropriation to the Student Volunteer Movement. To this end we are making this request for $89.00. We realize that your next fiscal year does not begin until a considerable time ahead, but we wish to put this request on your desk at this time.

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March 4, 1941

The Rev. Charles E. Maddry, D.D.,
Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention,
Richmond, Va.

Dear Mr. Maddry:

One of the evidences of new confidence placed in the Student Volunteer Movement is to be seen in the financial support given us from the Board of Missions. During the last two years eleven major Boards have considered the Student Volunteer Movement a legitimate recipient of such support because they see the very real way in which the Movement supplements the work of their respective departments of missionary personnel. Obviously, there are good reasons for limiting the extent of the Movement's dependence upon the financial assistance of the Boards, but the point of limitation is not yet nearly approached. Therefore, I am inquiring whether the Southern Baptist Board would not like to share in this work by making an annual appropriation to the Student Volunteer Movement. To this end we are making this request for $65,000. We realize that your next fiscal year does not begin until a considerable time ahead, but we wish to put this request on your desk at this time.

GHT:DKF

March 5, 1941

The Rev. J. H. Jackson,
Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention,
701 South 19th Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Mr. Jackson:

One of the evidences of new confidence placed in the Student Volunteer Movement is to be seen in the financial support given us from the Board of Missions. During the last two years eleven major Boards have considered the Student Volunteer Movement a legitimate recipient of such support because they see the very real way in which the Movement supplements the work of their respective departments of missionary personnel. Obviously, there are good reasons for limiting the extent of the Movement's dependence upon the financial assistance of the Boards, but the point of limitation is not yet nearly approached. Therefore, I am inquiring whether the National Baptist Board would not like to share in this work by making an annual appropriation to the Student Volunteer Movement. To this end we are making this request for $12,000. We realize that your next fiscal year does not begin until a considerable time ahead, but we wish to put this request on your desk at this time.

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March 5, 1941

The Rev. E. D. Dick,
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists,
Takoma Park,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Dick:

One of the evidences of new confidence placed in the Student Volunteer Movement is to be seen in the financial support given us from the Boards of Missions. During the last two years eleven major Boards have considered the Student Volunteer Movement a legitimate recipient of such support because they see the very real way in which the Movement supplements the work of their respective departments of missionary personnel. Obviously, there are good reasons for limiting the extent of the Movement's dependence upon the financial assistance of the Boards, but the point of limitation is not yet nearly approached. Therefore, I am inquiring whether the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists would not like to share in this work by making an annual appropriation to the Student Volunteer Movement. To this end we are making this request for $260.00. We realize that your next fiscal year does not begin until a considerable time ahead, but we wish to put this request on your desk at this time.

GHT:DF

March 3, 1941

Mr. Merle L. Davis,
American Friends Board of Missions,
101 South 8th Street,
Richmond, Indiana

Dear Mr. Davis:

One of the evidences of new confidence placed in the Student Volunteer Movement is to be seen in the financial support given us from the Boards of Missions. During the last two years eleven major Boards have considered the Student Volunteer Movement a legitimate recipient of such support because they see the very real way in which the Movement supplements the work of their respective departments of missionary personnel. Obviously, there are good reasons for limiting the extent of the Movement's dependence upon the financial assistance of the Boards, but the point of limitation is not yet nearly approached. Therefore, I am inquiring whether the American Friends Board would not like to share in this work by making an annual appropriation to the Student Volunteer Movement. To this end we are making this request for $10.00 for your fiscal year, March 1, 1941 to February 28, 1942.

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STUDENT VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT

ORGANIZED 1888 • INCORPORATED 1900

Affiliated with the World's Student Christian Federation

156 FIFTH AVENUE

NEW YORK, N. Y.

CHelsea 2-3673

JOHN A. MACKAY, Chairman, General Committee

JAMES M. SPEERS, Treasurer

R. H. EDWIN ESPY, General Secretary

February 19, 1941

Mr. R. H. Edwin Espy
Hotel Floridian
Tallahassee, Florida

Dear Ed:

Inclosed is a proposed schedule of askings from the various Boards. Notice
I have based these on two figures: $6,000 and $8,000 or one-third of $18,000
and $24,000 respectively. I would be glad to get your criticism or "green light"
as soon as possible. Please check over especially to see whether there ought
to be any more omissions from the present appeal.

A new letter from Mr. Russell states: (1) they cannot consider a grant to us more than what you suggested is needed for one regional conference ($250), and (2) that even this grant is contingent upon their receipt of further information, (a) a budget estimate of such a regional conference including indication of sources of income, and (b) possibilities of making such conference self-supporting.

I should appreciate your help on this very much. I am meeting with Bilheimer
today to talk about literature, and I will also discuss with him the possible
budget of a regional conference, using the Mid-West Region as our guinea-pig. If
you think some other region ought to be the place of the conference subsidized
by the Hazen Foundation I'd be glad to get your figures as regard that particular
region.

I am rushing off to the "Cram" Session just now. I had a good meeting with
the Personnel Committee and I inclose a copy of Tom Currie's Report.

I reserved tentatively for you the dates April 9 and 10 for a conference of
the Committee on Personnell (F.M.C.) with Nationals of other countries. This
would also be the occasion of the next meeting of that committee. It would probably
be held at Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio, although this is in the stage
of exploration.

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OFFICERS:

RESIDENT
BISHOP G. E. EPP, D. D.

VICE PRESIDENTS
MRS. J. S. STAMM
EDWIN HEINA

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
REV. WILLIAM L. BOLLMAN, D. D.

FIELD SECRETARY
REV. CARL HEINMILLER

THE
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
OF THE
EVANGELICAL CHURCH

CLEVELAND, OHIO, U. S. A.
1900 SUPERIOR AVENUE

October 23, 1941.

OFFICE

OF THE
EXECUTIVE
SECRETARY-TREASURER

REV. WILLIAM L. BOLLMAN, D. D.
1900 SUPERIOR AVE.
CLEVELAND, OHIO

CABLE CODE "EVANGEL"
PHONE PROSPECT 2968

Mr. R. H. Edwin Espy,
General Secretary,
Student Volunteer Movement,
156 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.

Dear Mr. Espy:

Thank you for sending me the report and reflections of
the General Secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement
in 1941, which reached my office to-day.

I congratulate you on the clear cut set up and compre-
hensive presentation contained in this report. It
should greatly clarify the thinking of all those who
are interested in the contribution of the Student
Volunteer Movement of the missionary enterprise. I wish
you continued success.

I will be sending you a check in a few days covering
the appropriation from our Board for this work.

WLB:BJP.