1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

382 THE SCROLL.delegates, including 149 representatives of one hundred missionarysocieties, many prominent leaders of forward movementsamong young people, editors of influential papers, and44 missionaries from twenty-six mission lands. Among thedistinguished guests of the convention were Sir MortimerDurand, British ambassador to the United States, Hon. JohnW. Foster, former secretary of state. Sir Algernon Coote ofHON. JOHN W. FOSTER, Indiana,Ireland,, Hon. J. A. Macdonald, editor of the Toronto Globe,and Hon. Henry B. Mc Farland, commissioner of the Districtof Columbia.Intensely serious and unwilling to miss any part of the extraordinaryprogramme the delegates seemed to possess thespirit of crusaders bent on the fulfillment of the holy mission,"The Evangelization of the World in this Generation." Asaddress after address came from leaders of great experienceand renown, their minds were shut up to the contemplationof. the profound and distinctively religious duties which werepressed upon them. The large and comprehensive view of'55.