Word: missions
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...members of the University, especially new students and those interested in mission work, are cordially invited to be present...
...pennies, etc. Another young man has visited a bed-ridden child who had been discharged from the hospital, but whose case the hospital doctors wished to follow through a volunteer visitor. Other students have heldped run Boys' Clubs. Another man, preferring religious work, has taken a class in a mission Sundayschool. Still another has given talks to groups of poor children in the Home Libraries, on the lives of some famous authors, whose works the children had been reading. Again, under the auspices of the Society for Home Savings, students have visited poor families, and encouraged them to save what...
...teaching force of the Prospect Union and the Social Union, men are assigned to these positions. The work done by a large number of men under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association, in teaching at the Chinese Sundayschool and conducting services at the Sailors'Mission and other missions, offers an opportunity for such work to those who wish...
...unite such students of the University as are connected with Evangelic Churches into Christian fellowship and Christian service. Half-hour devotional meetings are held every Thursday evening at 6.45, at the rooms of the association in Holden Chapel, and to these meetings all members of the University are invited. Mission work is arranged by the association and delegations are sent each week to four established missions in Boston, and on every Sunday morning to a service among the sailors in the Boston docks. The association issues at the beginning of each year a handbook, describing its work in detail...
...Tyler of New York, Rev. E. T. Edmunds of Boston, and others. There are about twenty members. Several of these have been connected with the Associated Charities of Boston, under the direction of the Student Volunteer Committee. A number have also been engaged in Sunday-school and other mission work, and some have been active in the Christian Association...