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Show I O.ME OF THE STRONG MEN WHO WILL ADDRESS LAYMEN'S CONVENTSON One of tho strongest. If not tho strong- est. speakers before the Laymen's Missionary Mis-sionary convention, which will be in session ses-sion hore Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Wednes-day of next wee:, will' be George Sherwood Sher-wood Eddy. Mr. Eddy will be one of ten or ilftccn strong speakers to the meeting. Mr. Eddy was graduated from Yale in tho scientlilc department In 1S91. He had boon Interested In the Christian work of the college and entered the Twenty-third street Y. M. C. A. In New York City for a year to work under the dlroctlon of Mr. MeBurnoy, who was a genius In guiding men Into Christian work. In tho year Mr. Eddy's decision was made to go Into the foreign Held. A few years later he visited tho American colleges, arousing young men everywhere to a sense of their responsibility to the world's needs. India In-dia was his chosen field, and ho entered Into work among young men chiefly In the great universities through which he passed each year. India has as many college graduates as America, and those young men have received little moral and religious Instruction. Thev are an unparalleled un-paralleled field for Y. M. C. A. work. Taking up the Tamil language, Mr. I2ddy perfected himself In its use so that he can speak like a native. Twenty-two millions In South India nrc open to workers work-ers using this language. Half of each year he spends In the traveling work among students, while In the other half he leads bands of native Christian workers work-ers In evangelistic tours among the native na-tive churches. Few men have known such an opportunity of becoming widely acquainted with the problems and tlie workers of India- His work has kupt him In touch with modern curronts of thought, and Ills message Is that of a deep student of the broad undercurrents of national life. As a speaker Mr Eddy has unusual. facility, fa-cility, comblncd-wlth a directness which reaches the hearts of his hearers Ho has addressed sonic of the great conventions conven-tions and conferences of recent years and was called, with John Molt, to. share In the great evangelistic movement in Japan t,hree years ago when'fhousands of Japanese students were converted. In the weeks before leaving India. Mr. Eddy was conducting a remarkable series of meetings In Calcutta, where tho student class is .permeated with the revolutionary spirit, and where turbulence Is apt to break out at any time In the public meetings. Each night, for two nnd some times three hours. hlG audiences were held with strictest attention while he presented to them the message of the new life bashed upon Chrlstlnn principles and Christian character After six months In this country Mr. Eddy will return to mm iitiMf Irei wrap GOVERNOR SHERWOOD EDDY, India, speaking at the great Edinburgh conference en route. A unique feature of Mr. Eddy's work Is that lie has never received a dollar of salary from the Y. M. C. A. or from any other movement under which ho has worked. Being able to live from his own resources, he has preferred to give his services to the needs of India. This fact has profoundly Impressed the native church for. in Its poverty. It makes a deep appeal to the natives to understand that a man has come from across the world at his own expense In the spirit of brotherly love to bring to them the message of the Christian missionary. This fact removes him from the ranks of professional pro-fessional Christian workers and business men everywhere sense this subtle difference differ-ence In the point of view suggested by his talks. |