FIFTEENTH CONFERENCE 
 
 OF 
 
 FOREIGN MISSIONS BOARDS 
 
 IN THE UNITED STATES 
 AND CANADA 
 
 January 29-30, 1908 
 
 entertained by the student volunteer 
 movement 
 
 Fifth Avenue Presbyterian No. 7 West Fifty-fifth 
 
 Church Street 
 NEW YORK 
 
 Mr. F. p. Turner, Chairman. 
 Rev. Henry N. Cobb, D.D. Rev. S. S. Hough, D.D. 
 Mr. John W. Wood. Rev. W. R. Lam^uth, M.D., D.D. 
 
 Dr. F. C. Stephenson. W. Henry Grant. 
 
January 29, IBUB 
 
 Rev. Henry N. Cobb, D. D., Chairman 
 
 9.30 Opening Prayer: Rev. Marion J. Kline, D. D. 
 Organization. 
 
 10.00 Committee on Force Needed: Rev. A. W. HaIsey,D. D. 
 
 11.00 "Place of Native Church in the Evangelization of the 
 World": Rev. A. B. Leonard, D. D.; Rev. W. R. 
 Lambuth, M. D., D. D. 
 
 Committee on Anglo-American Communities : R, E. Speer . 
 
 »2.oo Devotional Meeting, «*Not by Might, nor by Power, 
 but by My Spirit": Rev. A. S. Lloyd, D. D. 
 
 SIfinfHitag Afternnntt 
 
 Rev. H. K. Carroll, LL. D., Chairman 
 
 2.30 Opening Prayer : Rev. Paul de Schweinitz. 
 
 Committee on Reference and Counsel : Ecumenical Con- 
 ference : Rev. Arthur J. Brown, D. D. 
 
 Committee on Russia: Rev. James L. Barton, D. D. 
 
 Mtiittmii&y[ iEtiputng 
 
 Mr. John R. Mott Presiding 
 
 6.30 Dinner at the St. Denis Hotel, Broadway and Eleventh 
 Street, at six-thirty p. m. 
 
 "Light on Administrative Problems," presented in ten- 
 minute speeches by Secretaries who visited the field 
 in 1907. 
 
January 3n, laflB 
 
 JSIlturaiiaa ilnrntng 
 Rev. Ernest M. Stires, D. D., Chairman 
 
 9.30 Opening Prayer: Rev. A. R. Bartholomew, D. D. 
 
 10.00 Committee on Moslem Problem: Rev. Charles R. 
 Watson, D. D. 
 
 11.00 Salaries and Furloughs: Rev. Alex. Sutherland, D. D. 
 
 li.oo Devotional Meeting," The Love of Christ Constraineth 
 Us": Mr. Robert E. Speer. 
 
 SlfurH&aB Afternoon 
 
 Rev. Charles R. Watson, D. D., Chairman 
 
 2.30 Opening Prayer: Rev. R. M. Sommerville, D. D. 
 Young People's Missionary Movement. 
 
 3.00 Laymen's Missionary Movement. 
 
 3.30 Reports from Laymen on the Administration of the 
 Foreign Mission Enterprise. 
 
<EnttHttt«tt0« flf (Emfnmti^ 
 
 This Annual Conference being primarily for the 
 consideration of questions of administration pertaining 
 to Foreign Missions, its membership is confined to 
 executive officers and members of Foreign Mission 
 Boards and Societies, having separate church constitu- 
 encies in the United States and Canada, the executive 
 officers of said Boards and Societies, together with 
 two members from each, duly elected for the purpose, 
 being alone entitled to vote. Other members of For- 
 eign Mission Boards represented in the Conference, 
 and officers and members of the executive committees 
 of interdenominational agencies directly interested in 
 Foreign Missionary work may be elected by the Con- 
 ference as corresponding members. 
 
 In addition the Conference cordially welcomes 
 any foreign missionaries or other interested friends 
 who may be present at its sessions. 
 
 Opening addresses and reports are limited to 
 twenty minutes. 
 
 In the Discussion each speaker is allowed five 
 minutes.