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Show INTERNATIONAL MISSIONARY CONVENTION IS OPENED PITTSBURG. .March 10. With 3500 per-nons per-nons actively participating, half of tlmf number beinjr delegates from all parts of the world. th? firut International conven-tlu conven-tlu --f tho Vouuu People's .Missionary luovJBA'onl convened ben? today In the Alr- . hall of the Pittsburg exposition. T'ie convention represents U.UuO.M 1 1 persons, nnd is on of the largest gathci-ings gathci-ings of the kind over held. At the session held tonight In Imposition Imposi-tion hnll. threo miles of moving pictures Illustrating the missionary fields of the j world wer shown for the first time. At I old city hall and several churches through -out tho city overllow meetings were held. 1 The meetings todav wer very enthusiastic. ! Tho devotional exercises were in charge of . Rev. John Willis Finer, president of Oecl-i Oecl-i dental college. I.os Angeles, who will also j preside during tho convention. Addresses were made by C. C?. Mlehe-I Mlehe-I ner of New York, general secretary of the j Young People's Missionary movement of ! the United States and Canada; Rev. I James I. Vance. .Newark. N.' .7.. on "The ! Resurrection;" and on the forelsn mls-1 mls-1 slotiary movement by Kenneth MacLen-: MacLen-: man. Great Britain: Rev. J. I,. Gerdine. Korea, and Rev. Hewing, India. |