CONFERENCE OF MISSIONARIES
A conference of missionary teachers and preachers who have heretofore labored, or are now laboring, in the Southern States from the North, is called to meet at Ocean Grove, New Jersey, Aug. 11 and 12. This conference will form a part of the proceedings of the National Education Assembly which will then be in session at that time and place.
An address of welcome will be delivered by Rev. C. H. Fowler, D.D., LL.D., of New York City, and responsive addresses will be made by representatives of the different denominations engaged in the work.
The Conference has the approval of the corresponding secretaries of the American Missionary Association, the Freedmen Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal church, the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian church, and the Home Missionary Society of the Baptist church. These secretaries will all be present and participate in the conference.
A committee of entertainment will be on the ground to receive those who attend, and arrangements will be made for their entertainment at hotels and private houses at reasonable rates.