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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.3 | The History Cooperative

The Kingdom of Character: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 1886-1926. By Michael Parker. (Lanham: University Press of America and American Society of Missiology, 1998. xiv, 250 pp. Cloth, $57.00, isbn 0-7618-1012-9. Paper, $32.50, isbn 0-7618-1013-7.)

Michael Parker's volume in the American Society of Missiology's dissertation series utilizes extensive manuscript collections at the Yale Divinity School to delineate the ideology, recruitment program, and cultural significance of a major force in American Protestantism's global expansion. The Student Volunteer Movement (SVM), and the World's Student Christian Federation it spawned, originated in a now-legendary student conference in 1886 at evangelist Dwight L. Moody's home in Northfield, Massachusetts. Part of a surging foreign missionary movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the SVM recruited by 1920 approximately half of those sent abroad by denominational agencies. Nondenominational and widely inclusive theologically, it also made important contributions to the international ecumenical movement. . . .

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