Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1920 — FOREIGN MISSIONS WAS TOPIC [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN MISSIONS WAS TOPIC

Presbyterian Church Speaker Urges League of Nation* Idea. Crawfordsville, Oct. 7. — Foreign missions were discussed last night at the 95th meeting of the Synod of Indiana of the Presbyterian church, now in session in this city. Dr. Robert E. Speer of New York city, general secretary of the board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian church, made the address in the auditorium of Crawfordsville high school. x. Dr. Speer made a strong plea for support of foreign missions and advanced the thought that it is through this missionary work that the salvation of the world will be accompMsbed. He advocated a league of nations for world peace and told in his address of the manner in which, through foreign missions, the cause of humanity throughout the world Is being advanced.