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YALE IN FOREIGN MISSIONS.
The Student Volunteer Movement
and What it is Doing.
In the early part of the century, a
few men at Williams College met for
prayer with the purpose of arousing in
this country an interest in Foreign
Missions. This missionary enthusiasm
was carried to Andover Theological
Seminary and then spread through the
country, at last culminating in the
formation of the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
It was not until the Summer of 1886, at
Mr. Moody’s home at Northfield,
Mass., that the missionary spirit began
to take deep hold on the lives of col-
lege men. At that time 251 college
students met with Mr. Moody for Bible
study, and through the prayer of a few
consecrated students the thought of the
conference centered upon the last com-
mand of Christ,—‘‘Go ye into all the
world and preach the gospel to every
creature.”’
At the beginning of this series
ot meetings, 2I young men were
found who had thought seriously of
giving their lives to missionary work;
at the close of the meetings an even
100 had responded to the call for volun-
teers to enter the foreign mission field.
The subsequent history of this student
movement has been no less remarkable
than its inception, and the hand of a
guiding Providence can be seen, as the
movement has faced its dangers and
ridden in safety through many storms.
In 1886, the prayer of one of its leaders
had been that 1,000 students in the
United States and Great Britain should
be willing to enter this work. Al-
ready 1,173 students, as a result of this
movement, have sailed to foreign lands
from this country alone. At first the
organization was dangerously weak,
but in the year ’88-’89 this weakness
was remedied by the appointment of an
executive and advisory committee.
The separate mission bands in the col-
leges were organized and united by
traveling secretaries. During ’94-’95
three of the five traveling secretaries
were Yale graduates—G. S. Eddy,
’91 S.; H. W. Leeee, ee
Pitkin, ’92,—and in ’95-96 Mr. Luce
was again traveling as a secretary of
the movement. Mr. Eddy is now in
the student work in India, and Mr.
Luce and Mr. Pitkin are located in
China. One of the secretaries in New
York, H. P. Beach, “78, for some years
a missionary in China, has charge of
the educational department. In 1802,
Mr. Robert P. Wilder of Princeton
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carried the missionary uprising to
Great Britain and Scandinavia, and
since then a volunteer movement,
closely modeled after the organization
in this country, has been planted in
Germany, French-speaking Europe,
Australasia, South Africa, China, India
and Ceylon.
A PROPHECY SEVEN YEARS AGO.
Seven years ago the prophecy was
ventured—“If the students of the
Protestant world are linked together
by the power of the spirit in this
movement, it will greatly strengthen
the establishment of Christ’s Kingdom
throughout the world.” That pro-
phecy has been fulfilled, and the gath-
ering of 2,200 students at Cleveland,
Ohio, from February 23-27 was an
indication of what tremendous power
the missionary spirit is exerting in the
colleges of this country and the world.
Following is the report which the
chairman of the executive committee,
Mr. John R. Mott, read at the Cleveland
meeting:
“Through the Worlds Student
Christian Federation, the Christian stu-
dents of the lands of Protestant Chris-
tendom have been united by the spirit
of Almighty God. Still more, and a
most significant fact in the judgment
of missionary leaders, the students of
mission lands have joined hands with
those of Christian lands in a deter-
mined effort ‘to make Jesus King’
among all races of mankind. In the
history of the Church there has been
nothing like this Federation which has
made one in Christ the tens of thousands
of Christian students scattered through-
out five continents.” As coming from
one outside the movement, Governor
Beaver’s testimony at the convention
will carry more weight than Mr. Mott’s.
Said the former: “No movement since
Paul’s time —not even the Reformation
—has had a tithe of the promise in it
that this movement has.”
YALE SPEAKERS.
Among the speakers at the conven-
tion were the following Yale men:
Panic j,, Durrell, 07; HH. Po Beach, ’76;
W. B. Boomer, ’80; E. C. Lobenstine,
as + GoW Viekery, P.G.: A. Bo Wil
Wate, Ja, 208:
the following representatives: Prof.
Saneers. ©. Ls Storrs, “T.S: to a.
Lawson, 1.S.; V..Vicked#y, .4°G.
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‘90D: B. Eddy; Dp. Li. Eddy, BoM.
Gilbert, C: B..Gage, E: .F. Bell, L. G.
Billings, H. Bingham, Jr., C. M. War-
ren, A. B. Williams, Jr., L. Thurston.
RK. Heme.
’99 —W. D. Cutter, C.-H, Walker, C.
H. Welles, Jr.
1000--H. G. Heinz, :T...W-: Swan,
. Kingman, B. Johnson, J. M. Hop-
ins. :
19o1—A. H. Richardson, R. H. Ed-
wards, S. W. Gardner, B. P. Twichell.
r900,5.-—O).. H, Schell, .G.. D. Wood,
j. F. Symes.
Out of these thirty Yale men, thir-
teen are “volunteers” who have signed
the declaration of the movement—“It
is my purpose, if God permit, to be-
come a foreign missionary.” The re-
maining seventeen Yale delegates, who
are interested in the progress of mis-
sions but do not purpose to enter the
work, are like many other students
whom this movement has attracted.
DR.’ HALL AT YALE.
On Sunday, March 13th, the meet-
ings at Dwight Hall and the meeting
at the Sheff. Department of the Asso-
ciation were given up to the reports
from the convention. The class meet-
ings were addressed by the undergrad-
uates, and at the University meeting in
the evening Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall
of New York, who was a speaker at the
recent student gathering, spoke on
“Some Aspects of the Cleveland Con-
vention as bearing upon the Student
Movement.”
Dr. Hall’s remarks were somewhat
as follows: His recent experience at
Cleveland had been the most exalting
for years, because it had brought him
so near the reality of the forces which
are making for the movement of mis-
sions. At the heart of the leaders of
the movement there is absolute per-
sonal consecration. They are working
for the glory of God and are filled with
the apostolic message to evangelize the
world. There is criticism of the move-
ment, but it is due largely to lack of
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The Outlook for 18698.
All over the country, Yale men are now
following with interest the reports of the
development of the teams which are this
year to represent Yale in athletic contests.
The decision that assures us of another
triangular race adds a greater interest than
ever to the work of the crew. The present
promise of a strong Mott Haven team, and
the growing hope of ultimate success on the
diamond, keep the alumni of Yale in closer
touch with their Alma Mater. In all of these
directions the outlook is decidedly encourag-
ing, and if the material in the hands of our
trainers will develop itself as well as it will be
developed, Yale will close the season with
flying colors.
The foregoing sentence may sound absurd
to some and platitudinous to others, but it
none the less is so true that too much atten-
tion cannot be paid to it. Success means
more than able teaching, more than good
personal training; it means constant and
conscientious care on the part of our
representatives themselves. That, with such
advice and instruction as no Yale team has
ever yet lacked, can only bring results
creditable to all concerned.
This habit of self-training is in itself of
such very real value that to acquire it to
oneself permanently is to become possessed
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If you are not now in such training you
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