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Among the speakers at the convention will be the following: Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, the British Ambassador; Bishop J. M. Thoourn, of India; Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland, President of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; Robert E. Speer and John R. Mott, of New York; Sir Algernon Coote, President Hibernian Missionary Society; Hon. S. B. Capen, President of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; Bishops Galloway, of Mississippi and McDowell, of Chicago; Mr. Robert R. Gailey, of Tientsin, China; and Dr. Karl Fries, Chairman World's Student Christian Federation, Stockholm, Sweden...
...Robert E. Speer addressed a large audience last evening in Phillips Brooks House on "The Value of a Clean Record...
There is one incident in the life of Christ, said Mr. Speer, which has a distinctly modern flavor. The interview between Christ and the young man who declared that he had kept all the commandments from his youth up and wanted to know what he should do to inherit eternal life, has a peculiarly strong modern significance. Some people say that the young man was untruthful when he said he had kept all the commandments, and that he was trying to deceive Christ by hiding something else that would prevent his obtaining eternal life...
...Robert E. Speer, of New York, will speak in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, at 8 o'clock this evening on "The Value of a Clean Record...
...Speer prepared at Phillips Andover Academy, of which is now a trustee. He was graduated with high honors at Princeton in 1889. While in college he took a number of debating and public speaking prizes and played on the football team for four years. Since graduation he has spoken frequently at many Universities and colleges both in this country and in England. Mr. Speer is now secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the Protestant Church. On his last visit to Cambridge in 1902 he spoke before a large audience in the Living Room of the Union. Among a number...