Word: speers
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From present indications it is certain that the conference this year will be the most successful ever held. Over 600 students representing 100 schools, colleges and universities in Canada and the East, will be present. Among the speakers this year will be: Rev. G. C. Morgan, Mr. R. E. Speer, Rev. John Kelman of Elinburgh, Rev. C. W. Gordon of Winnipeg, and probably Bishop Lawrence. Mr. John R. Mott of the World's Student Christian Federation will preside...
...programme will consist of addresses during the morning and evening sessions, and section meetings for the consideration of missionary work of the different denominations which will be represented. The addresses will deal principally with foreign missionary work among students. Some of the speakers are Mr. Robert E. Speer, Mr. John R. Mott, who will preside at the convention, Dr. F. H. Taylor of China, President Capen of the American Board of Foreign Missions and Dr. Ament and Professor Gamewell of Pekin...
...Robert E. Speer spoke in Phillips Brooks House yesterday evening on the value of Jesus Christ. There are two great things, he said, which Christ can do for us. In the first place He can show us what is right. Many believe that their consciences will tell them what is right. But conscience is a defective standard, for it allows men to differ most widely. A man's decisions on the rectitude of his actions must be made according to his moral judgment, and that judgment can be profoundly affected by Jesus Christ. It can be powerfully moulded for good...
...Robert E. Speer's address in the Union yesterday evening was a plea for ignorance of all uncleanness. The proverb that "knowledge is power," he said, is only half true. Some knowledge is indeed a source of power, but some is a source of weakness and death, or worse. And of those things of which knowledge may be worse than death, a man should have the courage and the will to remain absolutely ignorant...
...Robert E. Speer will address the University Religious Meeting in Peabody Hall, Brooks House, at 7.15 tonight. Mr. Speer will be at Wadsworth House 1 from 10 to 1 and from 2.30 to 5 o'clock today and again in the evening after the close of the University meeting, and will be glad to see there any men who care to meet him personally...