There is another marked increase in the number of times the building has been used by church and civic organizations as a common-ground meeting place. The study of the international Sunday school lesson, under the leadership of Rev. Edward Mack, D.D., of Union Theological Seminary, was one of the new features of the work, and will recall the splendid class that for years met under the leadership of Dr. Pell. The extension work of the association has reached out so that meetings or Bible classes were conducted in forty-two different places, there being a total of 353 meetings. In shops, factories, Fire Department houses, wholesale houses, jails and missions, schools and colleges, with an attendance of over 20,000.

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The association has not confined its efforts to the walls of its own building, nor to meetings and Bible classes under its own auspices, but has cooperated in an efficient way with the association at the Virginia Union University, and is supporting W. P. Mills in China, under the auspices of the Foreign Work Club. Mr. Mills has been transferred from Nanking to Peking.

The board of directors of the Richmond Association has extended an invitation, which has been heartily seconded by the Ministerial Union of Richmond to the international convention of 1919 to meet in Richmond. The invitation was presented by the General secretary at the convention held in Cleveland last month. The Richmond Association was represented at this great meeting.  Gathering by four delegates. Ft. C. Hawkins, Jr., A. Harrison Saunders, D. L. Buchanan and S. K. McKee. 