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JUN 7 1918
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FIRST GENERAL CONFERENCE
FOR THE
EVANGELIZATION of Russia
AT THE MOODY TABERNACLE
Chicago, June 24th to June 28th, 1918
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TELEPHONE HARRISON 5141
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CONFERENCE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
REV. JESSE W. BROOKS, Chairman
Supt. Chicago Tract Society
440 S. Dearborn St., Chicago

MR. A. M. JOHNSON, Treasurer
Pres. National Life Ins, Co., U.S.A.
29 S. LaSalle St., Chicago

REV. PAUL RADER, Pastor
The Moody Church, Chicago

REV. WILLIAM FETLER
Pres. Russian Bible Institute
1820 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia

REV. DAVID NYVALL
Pres. North Park College, Chicago

MR. CHARLES G. TRUMBULL
Editor S. S. Times, Philadelphia

REV. A. T. FRYKMAN
Pastor Swedish Evang. Mis. Church
102 Chandler St., Jamestown, N.Y.

REV. OLOF HEDEEN
Pastor Englewood Swed. Baptist Church, Chicago

REV. N. F. HOIJER
Forty Years Missionary in Russia and
Deputy Pan Russian Evang. Cem., Chicago

REV. ERIC OLSON
Missionary Evangelist, Chicago

REV. HARRY LINDBLOM
Pastor Lake View Swed. Free Church, Chicago

MR. THOMAS E. STEPHENS
Director Great Com. Prayer League, Chicago

REV. ELOF K. JONSON
Pastor Swed. Evang. Luth. Ebenezer Ch., Chicago

DR. V. J. VITA and MR. JOHN J. FRANZ
Chicago

REV. E. Y. WOOLLEY
Moody Church, Chicago
Chairman Committee on Entertainment
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AMONG OTHERS WHO ALSO UNITE IN CALLING
THIS CONFERENCE ARE:

J. WILBUR CHAPMAN, Moderator
Presbyterian General Assembly

W. H. GRIFFITH THOMAS
Toronto, Canada

C. I. SCOFIELD, Editor
Scofield Reference Bible, Douglaston, New York

FRANCIS E. CLARK, President
World's Christian Endeavor Union, Boston

CORTLAND MYERS, Pastor
Tremont Temple Baptist Church, Boston

GEORGE H. SANDISON, Editor
Christian Herald, New York City

DELAVAN L. PIERSON, Editor
[mark?] Missionary Review of the World, New York

WILLIAM I. CHAMBERLAIN, Secretary
Board For. Miss., Reformed Church in America
and Chairman, For. Mis. Com., Federal Council, Churches of Christ in America, New York

WILLIAM I. HAVEN, Corresponding Secretary
American Bible Society, New York

D. M. STEARNS, Pastor
Reformed Episcopal Church of Atonement, Germantown, Philadelphia.

CHARLES A. BLANCHARD, President
Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois

JOHN F. CARSON, Pastor
Cent. Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York

R. A. TORREY, Superintendent
Bible Institute, Los Angeles, California

CHARLES L. HUSTON
Coatesville, Pennsylvania

JOSEPH M. STEELE
Philadelphia

LYMAN STEWART, President
Bible Institute, Los Angeles, California

W. A. HARBISON
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

W. H. RIDGEWAY
Coatesville, Pennsylvania

A. B. WINCHESTER, Pastor
Knox Presbyterian Church, Toronto

WM. B. RILEY, Pastor
First Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota

FLOYD W. TOMPKINS, Pastor
Holy Trinity P. E. Church, Philadelphia

AUSTIN K. de BLOIS, Pastor
First Baptist Church, Boston

WILLIAM R. WEDDERSPOON, Pastor
St. James M. E. Church, Chicago

A. Z. CONRAD, Pastor
Park Street Congretational Church, Boston

S. B. ROHOLD, Pastor
Christian Synagogue, Toronto
and President, Hebrew Christian Alliance of America

GUSTAV F. JOHNSON, Pastor
Swedish Tabernacle, Minneapolis, Minnesota

H. W. FROST, Director
China Inland Mission, Germantown, Philadelphia

ROBERT M. RUSSELL, Ex-Moderator
United Presbyterian General Assembly, Chicago

WILLIAM HOLLOWAY MAIN, Pastor
First Baptist Church, Chicago

Dr. EDWARD F. WILLIAMS, President
Chicago Tract Society, Chicago

A. J. RAMSEY, Dean
Union Missionary Training Institute, Brooklyn, New York

DANIEL HOFFMAN MARTIN, Pastor
Washington Heights Presbyterian Church, New York

A. DeWITT MASON, One Time Editor
Mission Field, New York

Professor GEORGE L. ROBINSON
McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago

ROBERT C. McQUILKIN, Correspond. Secretary
Victorious Life Conference, Philadelphia.

J. FRANK NORRIS, Pastor
First Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Texas

DON O. SHELTON, President
National Bible Institute, New York

HUGH R. MONRO, Vice-President
Niagara Lithograph Co.
and Chairman, Gospel Committee for
Work Among War Prisoners, New York.

JOHN R. DAVIES, Pastor
Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia

IVAN V. NEPRASH, Dean
Russian Bible Institute, Philadelphia
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June 6, 1918

To his Excellency,
Hon. Woodrow Wilson,
President U. S. A.,
Washington, D. C.

Honorable Sir:—

On June 24th to 28th the first gen-
eral Conference in the interest of helping Rus-
sia spiritually and educationally, is to be held
in the Moody Tabernacle, Chicago.

Having been sentenced by the late re-
gime in Russia to exile in Siberia for my Gospel
work in Petrograd and in Moscow, and later allow-
ed to come to this country, I have established in
the City of Philadelphia a Russian Bible Institute
for training Russian men and women so as to pre-
pare them for missionary work in their native land.

On Monday next, June 10th, I expect to
take fifty of these young missionaries through the
City of Washington on our way to Chicago, where they
will sing before the Conference. As this may be
their only opportunity to visit the capital of the
United States, I am planning to spend Monday in
Washington.

PLEASE TURN OVER

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