Word: missions
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This year members of the University have shown a far greater interest in mission work than heretofore. More men have offered their services in helping to carry on the different lines of work, and altogether this department of the Y. M. C. A. is in a very flourishing condition...
...Boys' Club which was organized in Boston last autumn, is now well established and in a condition to fulfil its mission,- that of exercising an influence for the good over the poor boys of Boston. The project originated with Mr. Peabody of Groton, who addressed the St. Paul's Society on the subject in November. Four committees were formed with R. W. Emmons, W. S. Patten, R. Wheatland, and R. Talbot as chairmen. The second story of a house on Oak street, in Boston, was hired and a reading room and gymnasium were provided. The reading room is supplied with...
...these treats the book as a revelation, the very words of God. A second denies the divine element altogether and points to what it considers the unscientific, unhistorical and impracticable elements of the book. The third, an intermediate view, finds the unique element of the Bible in the peculiar mission of the Hebrews as the religious teachers of the world, and in the remarkable work of the Bible in the history of civilization...
Seven years ago a student organization was formed with this object in view, and at the last meeting ninety-nine men signed as willing to go abroad. This foreign mission has claims upon us, only as we are in sympathy with the work which God left for his Disciples to accomplish. This work should have claims upon our sympathy for we can not imagine that the twelve Disciples converted all the world, and so long as we have hopes of the eventual accomplishment of this conversion, we must be willing of lend a hand in spreading the knowledge...
...GAMES COM.Any member of the University wishing to take part in Sailor Mission Work, be at Holden Chapel, Sunday...