Paul C. Phillips, M. D., Amherst College. The Contribution of the International Committee to the A Right Life an Essential Factor in Understanding the The Principal Aim and Crowning Achievements_of_the PAGES HEADS OF FOUR NATIONS WHO SENT GREETINGS TO THE CONVENTION 47 William McKinley, President of the United States. Edward VII., King of Great Britain and Ireland, and Emperor of India. Wilhelm II., Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia. Victor Emmanuel III., King of Italy. FOREIGN VISITORS-I.... Pastor Alfred Klug, Barmen; president German National Council and member World's Committee. Senator Jules Siegfried, Paris; ex-Minister of Commerce for France; member of the advisory board of the Paris association. Judge Aladar von Szilassy, Budapest; president of the association and member of the World's Committee. Pierre Bovet, Neuchatel, theological student, representing the Swiss Christian Student Movement. Prof. Arthur L. M. Hjelt, representing the Finnish Young Men's Christian Association, Helsingfors. Pastor Hermann Findeisen, St. Petersburg; president of the Lutheran Young Men's Christian Association. Pastor Rodolph Meyhoffer, Brussels; president of the council of the Brussels Young Men's Christian Association; pastor of the Belgium Missionary Church; president of the Evangelical Alliance in Belgium. Pastor Alfredo H. da Silva, Oporto; president of Association; representative of World's Committee for Portugal. SOME BRITISH REPRESENTATIVES AT THE CONVENTION.... W. H. Mills, general secretary English National Council. J. H. Putterill, London, general secretary of Central Young Men's Christian Association. Lord Kinnaird, vice-president English National Council. Andrew Bell, traveling secretary Scottish National Union. Rev. W. G. Marsh, Australia; rector of St. Luke's Church, Adelaide; for thirteen years general secretary of the Melbourne association. FOUR RACIAL TYPES..... M. L. Rallia Ram, Amritsar, India; member of the Lahore association and representing the Young Men's Christian Associations of India and Ceylon. Father Nicholas V. Vassilieff, St. Petersburg, Russia; member governing council of "Society for the Moral and Physical Development of Young Men." Y. L. Hwang, Nanking, China; formerly president College Young Men's Christian Association; delegate to national convention at Shanghai and to conference of World's Student Christian Federation at Versailles, France; appointed visitor to the Jubilee Convention but unable at last moment to attend. Rev. Joseph S. Motoda, Tokyo, Japan; head-master St. Paul's College (Protestant Episcopal); chairman Student Young Men's Christian Association Union of Japan. SOME OF THE FOUNDERS.. W. H. Neff, Cincinnati, president third international convention, Montreal, 1856; prominent in securing the organization of the association confederation; member of the first Central Committee. W. J. Rhees, Washington, one of the organizers of the Washington association; a member of the second Central Committee and general secretary for foreign correspondence. Rev. William Chauncy Langdon, D. D. (died 1895); organizer of the Washington, D. C., association; chief promoter of the first North American convention, Buffalo, 1854, and of_the first world's conference, Paris, 1855; first secretary of the Central Committee of the confederated associations and president of second international convention, Cincinnati, 1855. T. J. 50 63 74 79 PAGES Claxton, Montreal (died 1900); one of the founders of the Montreal association and life-long patron of the cause. George M. Vanderlip, New York, writer of the well-known Watchman article which led to the founding of the Boston association. GROUP OF ASSOCIATION VETERANS.. Men prominent in the formative period of association work, and life-long friends of the organization. James Stokes, New York City. Major-general O. O. Howard, U. S. A. Charles A. Jewell, Hartford, Conn. Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, Bishop of New York. Verranus Morse, M. D., Brooklyn, N. Y. Franklin W. Smith, Washington, D. C. Alexander McKenzie, D. D., Cambridge, Mass. A QUARTET OF LEADERS.. ..... Dwight L. Moody (died 1899); first general secretary at Chicago and life-long patron of the association movement. Robert R. McBurney (died 1898); general secretary New York City association, 1862-1898; member International Committee, 1866-1898; member New York state committee, 1866, 1898; delegate to seven world's conferences. George H. Stuart, Philadelphia (died 1890); president international conventions of 1859 and 1863; president United States Christian Commission during the Civil War. John W. Philip (died 1900); rearadmiral U. S. N.; first naval representative on the International Committee and Chairman of the naval general committee. CONVENTION SPEAKERS-II........ William Caven, D. D., principal Knox College, Toronto. W. H. P. Faunce, D. D., president Brown University, Providence, R. I. G. Stanley Hall, LL. D., president Clark University, Worcester, Mass. Cyrus Northrop, LL. D., president University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Francis L. Patton, LL. D., president Princeton University. William F. Slocum, LL. D., president Colorado College, Colorado Springs. Booker T. Washington, A. M. (Harvard), principal Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. FOUR RAILROAD PRESIDENTS.. Lucius Typical friends of the Railroad Association work. Tuttle, Boston & Maine Railroad. M. E. Ingalls, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway. Joseph Ramsey, Jr., Wabash Railroad. George W. Stevens, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. CONVENTION SPEAKERS-III..... Col. Curtis Guild, Jr., Boston; editor Commercial Bulletin. Lieutenant-colonel U. S. V., Spanish War. Major-general Joseph Wheeler, U. S. A. Rear-admiral J. C. Watson, U. S. N.; member naval general committee Young Men's Christian Association. Commander A. V. Wadhams, U. S. N.; member naval general committee Young Men's Christian Association. Capt. Richmond P. Hobson, U. S. N. FOREIGN VISITORS-II.... Pastor Adolf Hoffman, Geneva; member World's Committee. Charles Fermaud, Geneva; general secretary World's Committee. Christian Phildius, Geneva; general secretary World's Committee. Rev. Th. Biering, Odense; traveling secretary of the Danish National Alliance. Emil Winqvist, general secretary Southern branch, Stockholm association. Helbing, Elberfeld; general secretary German National Alli H. |