America has nine Travelling and Ofice Secretaries whose energies are devoted to the interests of the Movement. In Britain the Secretarial force is equally efficient. The great missionary conventions held in Liverpool in 1896 and in Cleveland in 1898 were the largest and most representative student gatherings ever held. In Liverpool 700 students of twenty-three different nationalities assembled to consider missions. At Cleveland 2,221 delegates attended the Student Convention. These gatherings brought together over one hundred leaders of the great missionary societies, when they, together with the University students, planned a campaign to reach out into the most distant lands.
These students are no theorists; the Volunteer Movement in America alone is regularly conducting classes for the study of missions in about 300 different colleges. In Cambridge University, last year, 130 students were making a systematic study of missions, and at the sume time pursuing the regular University studies, During the past few years 1,633 student volunteers have sailed from America and Britain to foreign mission lands and are serving under at least fifty missionary societies in over fifty countries, in all sections of the world.
The rousing of the greater Universities has been one of the important results of the Movement's work. Students who cannot go abroad, as well as those who purpose to do so, hare united in the financial support of the established agencies, A glance at the situation in some of the American institutions proves the point. (The currency is stated in Mexicans.) During the college year of 1897-8 the students of Yale University gave about $2,600 to foreign missions; Princeton gave $1,000; Cornell $800; Amherst $1,000; Wellesley $1,400; Queen's $600; Oberlin $1,200, and at least fifty other colleges or Universities, State and Christian, contributed orer $200 each.
Of many opinions on the Movement we will note, in addition, but one, and that from an' editorial in the Independent "The Student Volunteer Movement has demonstrated its right to be considered one of the most important agencies in the Christian world, not only for the evanzelisation of foreign lands, but for the development of a true Christian life at home.
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