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Today marks their 200th anniversary:

*Haystack movement*
In August, 1806, Mills and four others were caught in a thunderstorm while returning from their usual [prayer] meeting. Seeking refuge under a haystack they waited out the storm and gave themselves to prayer. Their special focus of prayer that day was for *the awakening of foreign missionary interest among students.*

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“Bowed in prayer, these first American student volunteers for foreign missions willed that *God should have their lives for service wherever he needed them*, and in that self-dedication really gave birth to the first student missionary society in America.”
Read More @ Urbana.org
*Source:* *http://www.urbana.org/wtoday.witnesses.cfm?article=61