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Sejt«mber 10, 19ll
A b'AiVllLY PAPER.
ed the libraries of Harvard, Yale, Botton,
'and New York, making American Jews and
American Jewish Alissions his special study.
'ews and Christians soon began to come to
lim for information, and the Alissionary
leviem of the World, The Jezvish Era, and
>ther German and EngLish Alissionary niagizines
published many of his articles. In
[QOi he was invited to be one of the speakers
at the Messianic Conference in Park
Street Church, Boston. In 1902 he was
Dne of the speakers at the Jewish section of
the Student Volvmteer Convention of Toronto,
Canada. In 1903 he was the organizing
secretary of the International Hebrew
Christian Conference at Alountain Lake
Park, Indiana. In 1902 hd furnished the
tables of Jewish Alissions for the x\tlas of
Missions by H. P. Beach, which he revised
in 1904 for the New Encyclopedia of Missions
and again in 1910 for the "AA'orld Atlas
of Christian A/Iissions.'' In 1905 he wrote
the article on Judaism for the textbook of the
Sfudent-Volunteers "Religions of the Alission-field."
In February, 1906, Air. A'leyer accepted the
offer of the Chicago Hebrew Alission to become
their Field Secretary.
Air Meyer was also editor of the Alissionary
Department of the Jezvish Era, the
quarterly magazine of The Chicago Elebre-iv
Mission, and was a regular contributor to
the Christian Nation. In 1900 he began to be
a frequent contributor to the Missionary RenVii'
of the World and in 1909 became one
I of the associate editors. In this capacity he
[rendered very valuable service as transla-
_tor for the General Alissionary Intelligence
department, as editor of the lezvish Missionary
News and as compiler of missionary
statistics.
For four years Air. Aleyer traveled as
Field Secretary of The Chicago Hebrew Alission,
visiting all parts of the country from
Maine to California, not as a collector of
funds, but asi lecturer to create an interest
in Jewish work in general.
\ In May, 1909, Dr. Meyer was appointed
^y the General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in U. S. A., to take charge of
|.tne Jewish work inaugurated by the Board
°f Home Missions in its Department of Immigration,
intending thereby, as Dr. A-Teyer
supposed, to prosecute a gospel work
among the thousands of Jewish immigrants
nocking to our shores. But after two years
he withdrew from this local effort and gave
""nself once more to the national field.
,^'tho a man of rare ability, he still at
''es showed much timidity and fear, so
en found in magnetic speakers. This is
fought out in a private letter written from
fj'inceton, N. J., where at the invitation of
. "• Wm. Borden he gave three lectures
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