Missionary Campaign and World News

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 13, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 27.

Missionary Campaign and World News

The Laymen's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada has inaugurated an extensive campaign for 1915 and 1916. They will hold a series of seventy-five great conventions in as many cities in the various parts of the United States, beginning in October, and continuing to April. The campaign will culminate in "a national missionary congress in Washington, D. C., April 26-30."

Secretary of the Navy Daniels has awarded to a Connecticut firm the contract for constructing the first American dirigible war balloon.

The statistics show that the average life of a British officer, after he goes to the field of action, is only twenty-three days.