Excerpt from The Student Missionary Appeal: Addresses at the Third International Convention of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, Held at Cleveland, Ohio, February 23-27, 1898

O blessed and eternal Savior, we are gathered in Thy holy name, and before we take one further step we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord. We worship Thee, we praise Thee, with spirit, soul and body, which Thou hast redeemed. We would now worship Thee with Heaven, with angels and archangels, with the myriads 'of the sanctified. We on earth adore Thee, for Thou wast slain for us. And as we think of myriads who have trusted Thee and who do trust, we gather with the holy Church throughout all the world and bless Thee and glorify Thee and magnify Thee, our Lord, for Thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to Thyself by Thy blood. Thou hast made us kings and priests unto God our Father. Everything in this life and everything in the next is owing to Thee and to Thy grace. Now, by Thy Spirit, inaugurate this Convention. Be Thou the President from the very start. Take this great meeting in Thy hands and guide it in every hour. May those who come in realize that there is here an unseen power, the power and presence of Christ. We beseech Thee that every one may be anointed with the Holy Ghost. We pray Thee that every one who takes part may have the sense of the presence of God. May a fire be lighted in this place this week which shall burn until Jesus comes, a fire that shall spread into thousands of churches, into hun dreds of the dark spots of earth. We think for a moment of our beloved friends who are on the missionary field. God bless and speed them. Be with them now, and if any of them during these days are keeping in touch with us, though not in visible presence, may they Share in the blessings which we are going to have. Remem ber them - lonely souls in Japan and China and India and Ceylon and Persia and Arabia and in the great continent of Africa, in the north and on the Niger and on the Congo and throughout the south ern regions of it, and in South America and the isles of the sea and everywhere else; wherever men and women are meeting Thee and thus keeping in touch with us, God bless them. Now come very near to us. Make this service one that nobody can account for, except that Christ is'here. We ask it in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.

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