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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Agencies for Russian Work Unified
As a result of the Chicago Conference in the interest of Russia,
there was organized the Alliance for the Evangelization of Russia,
with purposes of immediate effort to carry the Gospel by the written
and spoken word into that land, and for the establishment and main-
tenance of educational and missionary centers. Prior to the Chicago
Conference the Russian Missionary and Educational Society had been
organized with central offices in Philadelphia, and with the Russian
Bible Institute as a credential of its purpose and activity. This society
received its charter of incorporation during the period of the Chicago
Conference, its statement of purposes embodying the same lines of
effort proposed by the newly organized Alliance for the Evangelization
of Russia. In order that there might not be two agencies in the field
with practically the same aims and purposes, and dependence on the
same constituency, steps have been taken for the amalgamation of the
two organizations, and, on Wednesday, November 6th, 1918, a joint
committee consisting of an equal number from the respective boards of
the Russian Missionary and Educational Society, and the Alliance for
the Evangelization of Russia, met for conference at the William Penn
Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pa., and the members of this committee being
empowered to act for their respective organizations, a union was
effected under the name of the Russian Missionary and Educational
Society and the charter as already secured under that name. The
united boards will constitute the Board of Directors of the unified
society, while the work of the society will be carried on in such a
manner as to include the original purposes of the two organizations
and the full utilization of the forces of both, and meantime the Chi-
cago Tract Society, under whose auspices the preliminary steps of
this conference were taken, will continue to the utmost of its ability
its aggressively evangelical, but strictly interdenominational work,
for the millions from Russia who are now on this side the Atlantic.
It is believed that the unification of agencies for the evangelization
of Russia as thus secured will meet the approval of all thoughtful
people and be a means of hastening effective Gospel work in that
needy land, the appeal of which is set forth with clearness and pathos
in the lines on the opposite page.
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