“ The convention, started in a private manner by Canon Harford-Battersby, then vicar of Keswick, and Mr Robert Wilson in 1874, met first in 1875, and rapidly grew after the first few years, both in numbers and influence, in spite of attacks on the alleged “perfectionism” of some of its leaders and on the novelty of its methods. Its members take a deep interest in foreign missions.
In the History of the C.M.S., vol. iii. (by Eugene Stock) , the missionary influence of the “Keswick men” in Cambridge and elsewhere may be readily traced. ”