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formed a stock company to continue the publication, with the following board of directors: Dr. Robert E. Speer, president; Frank L. Brown, vice-president; Walter McDougall, treasurer; Delavan L. Pierson, secretary; Prof. Harlan P. Beach, Yale School o f Practical Religion; Mrs. Henry W . Peabody, Federation o f Women’s For eign Missionary Societies; Fleming H. Revell, member Home Mission Board Presbyterian Church; Mrs. A. F. Schauff- ler, Schauffler Missionary Institute; Dr. Charles R. Watson, president-elect o f Cairo University;. Dickinson W . Richards, law yer. The Editorial management will continue in the hands 'o f Delavan L. Pierson, who has been for twenty-five years connected with the magazine and has been the editor- in-chief since the death o f his father, Dr. Arthur T. Pierson, in 1911. Extensive improvements are planned, but the general purpose and editorial policy o f the mag azine will remain unchanged. Its aim is to give, month by month, and to interpret, the most important missionary news gath ered from all parts o f the world and from all denominations. It furnishes valuable material for pastors and missionary speak ers and devotes a large amount o f space to best methods that have been discovered for use in Sunday schools, missionary societies and other organizations. Among the interesting articles in the October num ber may be mentioned the following: “What Christianity is doing for China,” by Hon. H. Wellington Koo, Chinese Ambas sador at Washington; What Christianity has done for Japan,” by Hon. T. Tanaka, Charge’d’Affairs o f the Japanese Legation at Washington; “Daughters o f the Night in Shanghai,” by Miss M. C. Morris o f the Door o f Hope in Shanghai, China;' “ Are the Turks worth Saving,” by Rev. Charles T. Riggs o f Constantinople; “A New Beginning,” editorial by Dr. Robert E. Speer. I
"D EGINNING with the October number, * The Missionary Review of the World passed into the hands of the new Mis sionary Review Publishing Company, of which Dr. Robert E. Speer is president, and Frank L. Brown, vice president. The offices are at No. 1S3 Fifth Avenue, New York City. ' The Review was founded in. 1878 by Rev. Royal G. Wilder, who had just returned from missionary service in India. Ten years later, the magazine came under the joint editorship o f Dr. Arthur T. Pierson and Dr. James M. Sherwood, by whom it was greatly enlarged and improved. Since then it has continued to make progress, keeping pace with the onward march of Christian Missions. On the death o f Dr. Sherwood in 1890, Dr. Pierson became editor-in-chief, and so continued until his death twenty-one years later. Under his management, it became very widely known and influential and brought the world field into vision. It was especially helpful to pastors and other Christian workers, not only as a storehouse o f missionary facts, but because o f its leadership in high spiritual standards and its interpretation of the signs o f the prog ress o f Christianity. The Review will continue as an inter denominational and international magazine, serving the whole missionary cause. In view o f the present prominence given to united effort, there is clearly greater need than ever for such a periodical. Dr. John R. Mott has said repeatedly that the service rendered by The Review makes it indis- pensible. The Home Mission Council, rep resenting the various denominational, boards, and the Foreign Mission Confer ence, which gathers annually at Garden City, have both expressed their apprecia tion o f its services, and have appointed committees to co-operate with the editor. A number o f missionary leaders have
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