Word: missions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Eliot and Mr. E.C. Carter '00 of New York, for several years sustained in India by the Harvard Mission, and now secretary of the student department of the Young Men's Christian Association in North America, will speak at the last of the Bible study conferences held under the auspices of the Christian Association in Appleton Chapel tomorrow at 7 o'clock. President Eliot will speak on the "Place of the Bible in the spiritual development of a man," and Mr. Carter on the "Influence of the Bible in India." The conference will last about an hour...
...Undergraduate Committee of the Harvard Mission has recently received several letters offering positions in various forms of missionary work, both home and foreign, to college men. Among these letters are requests from Mr. George Gleason '97, who has charge of Y. M. C. A. work in Osaka, Japan; from Bishop Stringer of Ontario, Canada; and from Dr. Samuel Zwemer of the Student Volunteer Movement in New York City...
...Zwemer sends a request from the Tabriz Memorial School, of Tabriz, Persia, for a French and an English teacher at salaries of $450 a year, including travelling and living expenses. Besides these two positions, Dr. Zwemer has received from various government and mission stations during the past year calls for 140 men. These positions are for teachers of English, physics, chemistry, music and architecture. Also several men are needed as business agents and station managers...
...forces with Mr. Alexander, the gospel singer, in order to conduct revival meetings throughout the world. The first work carried on by the united evangelists and gospel singers was a five weeks' campaign in Philadelphia, and since then the combined work has been known as the Chapman-Alexander Simultaneous Mission. During the past few weeks in Boston, Simultaneous meetings have been held in 25 different centres...
...subjection of your own sentiments and convictions. A high enterprise needs no appeal to loyalty, and an unworthy one is often supported by it. The agitator that dies for the hopeless cause, or the soldier that falls by the shot-torn flag, never thinks of loyalty. It is his mission in life, and he does not question it. If football is merely played for the loyalty it inspires--spring the trap and let it perish." The article supporting Professor Royce's view lacks the worst faults of the opposing statement, but is also inclined to excess, both in language...