Student Volunteer Movement
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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
Memorial plaque for the origin of the Student Volunteer Movement, July 1886, Northfield Mount Hermon School
Conference memorial
Arthur Tappan Pierson founder of SVM
Arthur Tappan Pierson
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Arthur Tappan Pierson was an American Presbyterian pastor, Christian leader, missionary and writer who preached over 13,000 sermons, wrote over fifty books, and gave Bible lectures as part of a transa
Student Volunteer Movement
…university students in the United States for missionary service abroad. It also sought to publicize and encourage the missionary enterprise in general. Arthur Tappan Pierson was the primary early leader. The social and religious milieu of the late nineteenth century was favorable in nearly all ways for the birth and growth…
Arthur Tappan Pierson D.D
His first son Delavan Leonard Pierson at the age of Princeton University
Metropolitan Tabernacle in 2004