« Mr. Whiteside, who has had charge of the mission in Pittsburg for many years, was the heart and soul of the deep spiritual movement that was back of this convention. And our long-tried friends, Mr. Conley and Mr. Best, were shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart with him through it all, and their strong faith and bold and boundless enterprise stopped at no effort or sacrifice to secure a successful meeting. » — Magazine : The christian alliance and foreign missionary weekly, Editorial correspondance, May 1 1895, page 280 § 5.