THE NORTHFIELD CONFERENCE.

The annual Northfield Conference, hold at East Northfield, in Northern Massachusetts, aims to create in every man who attends a sound mind in a sound body. With this object in view, it provides for mental, spiritual and bodily exercise. One of the really great endowments that Northfield hands down lies in the strong friendships that are formed there. For men of common interest in the fundamental things of life come together in a delightfully informal manner and find in each other characteristics that make for strong and permanent friendship. Perhaps the strongest impression one receives, however, is that life must be lived in sincerity and integrity with all the energy one possesses. With an attractive sternness the life of highest service becomes concrete and real before a man's eyes. This does not mean that every man will choose the profession of a foreign missionary; by far the larger part will not: but it does mean that whatever profession or calling he may adopt, in it he will be a missionary of the deepest things of life, and a minister to the life of men about him.