Excerpt from North American Students and World Advance: Addresses Delivered at the Eighth International Convention of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, Des Moines, Iowa, December 31, 1919 to January 4, 1920 Within a week the coal strike ceased and the holding of the Convention was made possible. This prayer preparation had much to do with the success of the Des Moines gathering. Mention should be made of the remarkable hospitality of the people in Des Moines. A sufficient number of homes were thrown open to make it possible, together with the hotel accommodations offered, to entertain a thousand more delegates than actually at tended the Convention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.