Show MISSIONARY FROM INDIA WILL ILL SPEAK Missionary Conven Convention Convention tion to Open in This City Next Monday I GEORGE SHERWOOD EDDY Next Monday the Missionary convention will open In this city and will continue through Tuesday and Wednes Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday day Several widely known men con connected connected connected with the movement will be heard here chief among them being George S SEddy SEddy SEddy Eddy one of the religious leaders In the world Mr Eddy was graduated from Yale In Inthe Inthe inthe the scientific department of 91 He had been Interested in the Christian work w rk of the college and entered the Twenty third street Y M 31 C A in New York City for a year ear to work under the direction direction tion of Mr McBurney who was such a genius In guiding men into Christian work During the year ar Mr Ir Eddys de do decision decision was made to go Into the foreign field A few years later he traveled through the American colleges arousing young men everywhere to a sense of their responsibility to the tile worlds needs India was his chosen field and he entered into work among young men chiefly in the great universities through which he trav tray traveled traveled each year ear India has nas as many col coi college college lege graduates as America and these young men have received little moral and religious Instruction They are an unparalleled field for Y M 11 C A work Tak Taking Taking Taking ing up the Tamil language Mr Eddy perfected himself In its use so that he I can talk like a native Ills His work has kept him in touch with modern currents of thought and his message is that of a adeep adeep adeep deep student of the broad undercurrents of national life As a speaker Mr Ir Eddy has unusual facility combined with a directness which reaches the hearts of his hearers He lie has hus addressed some of the great con conventions conventions conventions and conferences of recent years and was called with John Mott to share in the great evangelistic movement in Japan three years ears ago when hundreds and thousands of Japanese students were converted In the weeks week before leaving India Mr Eddy was conducting a remarkable series of meetings in Calcutta where the stu student student student dent class Is permeated with the revolutionary revolutionary revolutionary spirit and where turbulence is apt to break out at any an time In the pub public public lic lie meetings Each night for two and sometimes three hours his audiences were held with strictest attention while he pre presented presented presented to them th m the message of the new life based upon Christian principles and Christian character After six months In Inthis Inthis inthis this country Mr Eddy returns to India speaking at the great Edinburgh con conference conference conference ference en route rout |