Word: missions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...subject of his address this evening will be: "The National Aspect of the Church's Mission to the Philippines...
...colleges and universities of all sections of the United States and Canada; and it is probable that fully five hundred institutions will thus be represented. Among those attending there will also be professors, editors of religious papers, national leaders of young peoples organizations, returned missionaries and representatives of Foreign Mission Boards. The three previous conventions were held at Cleveland in 1891, at Detroit in 1894 and at Cleveland in 1898. Over 2,200 attended the last convention...
...clothing which was received by the Social Service Committee in the December collection has been distributed as follows: Four boxes to the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, and one box each to the Sailors' Mission, Boston, and the Cambridge and North Cambridge City Missions...
...convention delegates from colleges all over the United States and Canada will be present to discuss foreign missions, and listen to addresses by men who have had experience in the mission field. The number of delegates will be limited...
...much has been given, much shall be required. It is only selfishness and ignorance which keeps men of our advanced nations from being filled with missionary spirit. It is in ignorance that such statements are urged against missionary enterprises as "it takes a dollar to send a dollar to mission fields." For the truth is that the margin of expense for getting money employed in mission fields is only four per cent; and that a hundred dollars given here, on account of the difference in money and in prices, is worth from three to ten hundred dollars in India...