Church Council and Missionary Departures

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 10, 1908

Church Council and Missionary Departures

THE first quadrennial meeting of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America was held in Philadelphia, December 2-8. As the doings of this body are of great significance in their relation to the fulfilment of the prophecy concerning the future of this country, several brethren from Washington attended this meeting during the whole or part of the time. The editor of the REVIEW was present during the first part of the session, and Elders G. B. Thompson, K. C. Russell, and W. A. Colcord during the latter part of the meeting. Brethren Russell and Colcord came directly to Philadelphia from Pittsburg, where they attended the meeting called for the organization of a National Lord's Day Alliance. Reports of both these important gatherings will appear in the REVIEW.

LAST week another missionary party left New York on the steamship "Cedric" for India, via London. The party was made up of Albert Beckner, W. E. Perrin and wife and two children, and R. H. Leech and wife. Brother E. Ingle, of South Africa, who has been in the States on business, accompanied the party as far as England. Brother Beckner goes to Burma to take up evangelical work; Brother Perrin to Lucknow, to assist in the publishing work; and Brother and Sister Leech, both of whom are nurses, will assist at the Mussoorie Sanitarium.