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110 INTER-!\EMIN.\RY "lIISSIONARY ALLIANCE.LIST OF SOBJ ECTS.111HISTORICAL NOTE.[PROM THE LAST REPORT.llThe Publishing Committee was instructed at the last sess ~ on towrite up and insert in the present Report a history of the Alhance.We have found it impossible to get detailed Information on the subject.The following extract from the report of R. \II. Mateer, ofPrinceton, Chairman of the first Executive Committee, gives a conciseaccount of its organization, to which we append 8. ltst of the places ofmeeting.]II The movement, of which the present cODvention is an outcome,originated about a year ago among the students of the Theological8eminary at Princeton, and sprang from a desire for some co-operationof theological students in promoting the cause of missions. Atabout the same time, the students of Hartford Theological Seminary,moved by 8. similar impulse, addressed a circular letter upon the sametopic to the students of various seminaries. After considerable correspondencebetween the members of different institutions, the formationof nn Inter-Seminary Convention was deemed the most feasible ofthe various plans sugge!:lted for the accomplishment of the ends inview. In response to a letter s~nt from Princeton, a preliminary Conferencewas held in New York City, April 9th, 1880, at which twentytwodelegates, representing twelve seminaries were present. Otherseminaries "ent letters approving the general plan. This PreliminaryConference adopted tl. resolution to hold an Inter-Seminary Conventionfor the discussion of themes bearing on the relation which we are tosustain to the work of Forei~n and IIome MissiJns, whether we laboras missionaries abroad Or as pastors at home. An Executive Committeewas apPOinted with authority to make all necessary arrangements forthe boldiug of euch a convention, to which it was ahm instructed tomake its report. It is at the call of this committee that the presentconvention is assembled."The following have been the places of meeting:1880 ________________ __ New Brunswick, N. J.188L ________________ Allegheny, Po.1882 -------- _________ _ Chicago. III.1888 __ -- ---- - _______ __ Hartford, Conn.1884 ____ ---- ____ __ --__ Princeton, N. J .18@5-------------_____ RoCbE'ster,N. Y.1886_ - -- -- -___________ Oberlin, O.lS'i7 -- -- ---- -_______ --Alexandria, Va.1888 ____ ---- - _________ Boston, lIIass.P. 8.-1889, October 24-27 ____ Chicago, Ill....LIST OF SUBJECTS.1 880- New Brunswick.Fundamentally a Missionary Socip,ty." ' .."The ChurchBoston UDlvelslty."The Indifference of the Ch ur Ch to the World's Evangelization; , .its Cause and its Remedy."Allegheny Domlnary." Secular Testimony to the Success of Missions."Oberlin Seminary.e Diverse Talents and Culture in"Scope for the Best and ~ ost New Brunswick Seminary.Missionary Work." . Y Men to Home Missionary'Vork.U The Right Attitude of oung Crozer Seminary.Given to Missions by Theological Students." ."Impulses l'Union Semmary.CI . ms of Foreign \I". .LISSlOnS a n Young Men.""The Present al Alexandria Seminary.Work '!I"M "H What Constitutes a Call to . lsalOnsry . Drew Seminary.1881 Allegheny."Apostolic Methods of Missionary Work." Vanderbilt rniversity.Developing a Foreign Missionary Inter~st in"Importance ofXenia Seminary.Sabbath Schools."Demands of the llome Field."II The Present PeculiarGarrett Biblical Institute.. h D nds of the Home Field."U The Best ~[ethods of Meeting t e ema Hartford 8emlnary.Aggressivenessj the Church's Answer to I~fld~lity.1III ChristianPrinceton Seminary."How may Every Theologlca . I St u d en t be Brou·ht . to • Con-0 Q t. 9". . d Decision of the MiSSIOnary ues Ion.scientious ConsideratIOn snNewton Seminary.R l' to Missionary Work.".. The Practice of ~[edicinei its e atlOnBoston University.1882 Chicago.U Romish Aggressiveness in the Westj How Shall it be Met?"Rochester Seminary.\I Methods of Developing Missionary Interest in Colleges."Lancaster ~emIDary.