Excerpt from Report of the First International Convention of the Student Volunteer Movement Foreign Missions: Held at Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A., February 26, 27, 28 and March 1, 1891

The first International Convention of the Student Volunteer Move ment for Foreign Missions was held February 26 to March 1, 1891. Since the inception of the Movement, five years ago, at Mt. Hermon, there had never been held a student convention for volunteers, there had never been even a rallying point for any considerable number of the men and women enrolled upon our lists. The rapidly increasing membership and consequent establishment of mission bands in numerous educational institutions which are geographically too widely separated to be in touch with one another, or to receive help from the central organization, made it desirable that a large number of representative volunteers assemble in conference.

The key-note of the Convention was the key-note of the Move ment The Evangelization of the World in this Generation. The object of the Convention was: 1. To afford an opportunity for the free discussion of many problems confronting the Movement. 2. To secure for the volunteers the advantages coming from intimate contact with Missionary Board secretaries and returned foreign mission aries. 3. To enlighten Board secretaries and others in regard to methods and aims of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. 4. By a closer union in prayer and purpose on the part of volunteers, secretaries, and missionaries, to give a new impetus to the great cause of world-wide evangelization in the present generation.

Cleveland, Ohio, was selected as the place of meeting, because geographically the center of the volunteer population of the United States and the Dominion of Canada. The new and commodious build ing of the Young -men's Christian Association was thrown open for this purpose from February 26 to March 1.

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