Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-18
Last Day Of the College
Mems Conference.
International Secretary Mott
on the Student Missionary.
The Main Features of an Impressive
Address.
Tbree Sessions of the Conference Yes
terday-A Happy Gathering-his-
sionary Work Discussed.
Conference Adjourns.

The last days meetings softhe Southern
California College Young Mems Chris
tian Association conference, held at
University Place, were heralded by
prayer meeting for personal blessing
conducted by Mr.. Harry Hillard, state
college secretary, in Aristotelian hall at
9:3Oo'clock yesterday morning.
At IL O'Clock services were held in the
University M. E. church, under the.
auspices of the Y. M. CA. Music was
provided by the Los Angeles Baptist
University orchestra and the following
choir of university young men: Messrs.
N. Larrance, H. Bndlong, w. Harmon,
F. N. Lapham. J. S. Daugherty, I. w.
Stagg, Z. r. Warren, r. T. Hall, R. Van
Cleve, T. w. Robinson.
Dean Randall, of the Ontario Chaffey
college, read the Oath Psalm as scrip
ture lesson. S. M. Sayford followed the
singing.o OF hymn with scripture read
ing from st. Luke iv and Acts i. Harry
Hillard offered prayer, and the collec.
tion was taken.
J. r. Mott, international college Sec
retary, made the address of the morn
ing on the topic, The American Student
Missionary Uprising. "There is one part
of our country which you are more in
terested in than any other, because it
was there that every missionary effort
worthy place in history has been con-
ceived, and after conception has been
extended until it has made its way into
the other parts of the land. This center
is found in New England-in Massachu-
setts.s College men have particular in
terest in these scenes, because college
men were associated with every one of
the efforts to spread the gospel to the
heather lands. David Brant, when a
student at Yale college, had the mis-
sionary spirit so burned into his soul
that he left college before graduation to
60 into the work. That was the be-
ginning of the American student volun-
teer movement for missions.
At Williamstown, Mass, in circle of
evergreen trees, is marble monument,
on the top of which is a globe. That
slab OF marble represents story like
this: In their college days five young
men went out to a field to pray, as they
were won't to do. A rain storm came up
and they hied to hay-stack near by.
The subject of foreign missions was
thoroughly discussed, and those young
men talked over the advisability OF
starting missionary movement. Sam
Mills said to his fellows: "We can do
it if we WILL" and they did. They went
to the other colleges spreading the
plans, which resulted in Inauguration OF
the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions.
At DIR. Moody's Mt. Hermon Boys
college across the Connecticut river
from Northfield, Mass, not many years
ago, the International college Y.M.C.A.,
was organized. At the end of two years
a young Princeton student attended and
pushed the missionary idea. DIR. Ash
more, an missionary to China, and
DIR. Pierson, made addresses, mission
ary meeting was held, and the result
was that plans were laid and per-
fected. They resulted in 5000 college
students offering themselves for mis-
sionaries when called upon; 400 Of them
have already gone. some were rejected
for disabilities and hundreds are wait
ing only until the money for missions
shall be forthcoming. 1t is an inter-
denominational, transcontinental move
ment, and is not the result OF youthful
enthusiasm. DIR. McCosh, president of
Harvard, has asked, HAS there been
such an offering in this age in this coun-
try; in any age in any country 2" The
answer comes, No. Three reasons which
have influenced the students are:
l.. Gods purpose concerning the
world as expressed in the Bible. The
Bible is the greatest OF missionary text
books.
2. The need of the world as shown by
facts and figures. In the United States
there is one Christian worker for every
iorty-eight persons; in South America
one for every 100000; in Europe one
to every 100000 persons. Tonight when
we go to bed 1000, 100000 on this round
earth will be without Christ and with
out hope. "Think on these things"
3. 1t is the plain command OF our
Lord, $50 ye into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature" "
Does ''go' mean stay? Does
''preach'' mean to repeat the work to
the one-third of the world who can
hear it every Sunday, and let two-thirds
of the world grope in darkness? The
watch-cry of the volunteer college
movements "The evangelization of the
world in this generation i" If we have
10000 young men and women mission
aries, and 1600th iof the wealth of the
church members in the United States
and Great Britain, this world can be
evangelical in this generation. Mr..
Mott, in closing, said that che that
loves not lives not, and he that lives the
life shall never die"
IN THE AFTERNOON,
yesterday, w. H. Mead, state secretary
G. A., spoke from the topic,
"New Callings for College Men," The
work of the Young Men's Christian as
sociation is spreading out i'll so many
different directions that the men for the
management OF them are forthcoming.
1t takes college-trained man to direct
one of these departments. Mr.. Mead
characterized the general secretaryships
OF the Y. M. G. A. worthy the study