George Sherwood Eddy was an American Protestant missionary, administrator and educator. He authored numerous works and traveled extensively to promote dialogue and understanding between missionaries a
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Sherwood Eddy & Sun Yat-Sen in Canton
Poster announcing a public forum to be held in Des Moines, Iowa, at which Sherwood Eddy would speak to the theme "America and the world crisis" (between 1936 and 1940).
The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions was an organization founded in 1886 that sought to recruit college and university students in the United States for missionary service abroad. It al
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…this generation" and worked on the staff of a local Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). In 1893-1894 he served as a traveling secretary for the Student Volunteer Movement in the United States. Eddy's father died in 1894, leaving him an inheritance that made him financially independent and enabled him to work for the…
Memorial plaque for the origin of the Student Volunteer Movement, July 1886, Northfield Mount Hermon School
Arthur Tappan Pierson founder of SVM