Word: missions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...response to an appeal from President Roosevelt in the public press and to direct appeals from Harvard men and other foreign residents in Japan, the Harvard Mission has undertaken to raise by general subscription in the University a substantial sum of money toward the fund for relieving the famine in the north of Japan...
...Hall then considered the attitude of Christ toward mission work. He recalled the time when Christ led his disciples into the open fields. The work they began grew wider and wider in it influence. It was stimulated by the opposition to Mohammedanism during the Middle Ages, and this stimulation was most marked in the period of the Crusades...
...mission movement had two distinct motives, philanthropic pity for the moral condition of the heathen, and dogmatic intensity to spread Christianity. The spirit has since grown better and broader because of the growth of humanism and of the increased knowledge of the spirit and life f the East...
...main sessions of the convention, held morning and evening for five days, were in the Ryman Auditorium, a hall seating between five and six thousand people. Thursday afternoon was given to simultaneous conferences on the great mission fields,--China, India, Japan, and Africa...
...Friday afternoon, various kinds of mission work were considered, and on Saturday afternoon denominational conferences were held...