The San Francisco call., 1896-05-24
WORK BEGINS
At CAZADER0.
Spiritual Topics Discussed
at the College Mems
Conference.
NEW ARRIVALS GREETED
Nineteen Student.Yells Blended
in a Mighty Shout of
Welcome.
PLANNING FUTURE CONQUESTS.
Veterans in Christian Service Outline
Campaign for the
Cause.
PLANNING FUTURE coNoUEsTs.

CAZADERO, CAL, May 23.-The first
day of the first conference of Young
Mems Christian Association undergradu-
ates from the colleges of the Pacific Coast
is ended, and the programme gives sam
pie OF the purpose for which representa-
tives of nineteen institutions have come
| together in this mountain retreat At 9
| o'clock the men arose and at 7:15 they
breakfasted. From $50 until II 80, with
the exception of a forty minute recess,
they were in their meeting nall. engaged
in discussions calculated to deepen their
| spiritual life and to train them for leader
ship in organized Christian work among
their fellow-students, for such are the
chief purposes for which these earnest
young men have assembled.
| During the whole afternoon every one is
at liberty to amuse himself as he sees fit.
| Some of the Oregon boys went fishing in
the creek, but the majority broke up into
little Intercollegiate parties and struck out
up the hillside trails and winding roads on
exploring expeditions. They came back
in time for supper, bringing great punches
of wild flowers with which to decorate the
dinner-tables and their rooms. Some of
the more venturesome had taken dip in
the swimming pool.
| After supper, and while waiting for the
arrival of the only train of the day, with
its additional delegates and the mail, the
whole crowd joined in the juvenile game
of duck-on-the-rock, and concluded with a
hearty review OF every college yell repre-
sented in the conference.
For half hour the hills rang with what
was probably the most remarkable series
of concerted, ear-splitting whoops ever
heard on the Pacific Coast, and then the
little train came swaying round the curve,
and with renewed force the conference
yell burst forth in repeated greetings.
| The new arrivals were from four differ
ent colleges. From Yale University there
was G. s. Eddy 1891 of New York CITY,
| From Stanford University, its all around
athlete and Coast Young Mems Christian
| Associations greatest athlete, Charles S.
Dole 1898 of Riverside, studying for the
law; Elmer w. SeaFle 1897 of Delavan,
! WIS, Methodist and prospective minister;
! g. Z. Leavitt 1899 of youngstown,
Nevada, Baptist and future physician.
From the State Normal School at
Los Angeles, w. w. Nichols 1896 ot Gar
den Grove, Cal, president of the School
Association, Friend and future teacher.
From the University of the Pacific, near
San Jose, Karl III. Seamen of lone, Cal,
| the secretary of his association, a Metho-
dist and future missionary.
Dole's arrival was the occasion for great
rejoicing, particularly by the Stanford
men, who constitute the largest college
delegation here, and who propose now TO
challenge ali the other colleges com bined
to baseball game and a general athletic
contest, in which mark will be estab-
lished for the next annual conference
to emulate.
At O'clock began the evening session
/ Of fba. al
eran in the work among colleges, gave the
boys confidential talk on the hindrances
| to Christian life, and the first day closed
with song and prayer.
The average age OF the delegates is %
years, the youngest being II and the old
est SO.
During the morning session, which is
the business part of the day, S. NJ. Say
ford outlined the history of the Young
| Mems Christian Association movement in
colleges and reviewed the organization of
conferences OF Young Mems Christian
| Association collegians.
The Young Mems Christian Association
was first organized in London, England
in 1874, by George Williams, who because
of that fact was knighted two years ago
| by Queen Victoria. The idea was intro
duced into the United States in 1851, and
in 1858 the universities of Michigan and
| Virginia took up the work as a feature of
gether delegates from twenty-one colleges
to discuss college work.
But it was really not until 1886 that the
conference of college Christians became a
regular institution. In that year Dwight
Il. Moody called together at his home at
Mount Herman, Mass, 200 young men for
Bible study.
That meeting also resulted in what is
known as the student volunteer move
ment, which means to-day that there are
6000 college students pledged to devote
their lives to foreign missionary work.
| Since 1887 the original college conference
has held annual summer meetings at
Northteld, Mass. In 1890 the second sum-
mer school of the kind was organized at
| Lake Geneva, Wis, and the third one was
that at Knoxville, Tenn, which has been
in existence since 1892. The growth OF
| that at these three schools there were over
1000 students last summer.
| The fourth summer school of Christian
college men established in America is the
Pacific Coast Conference, now holding its
first session at this place. The NTH Is
soon to be opened at Lake Stone Creek,
South Dakota. There are similar college
Young Mems Christian Association sum
mer schools in Great Britain, Ger
many, Switzerland. CeyIon, Scandi-
navia and Japan. That in Japan Is
one of the greatest of all. Estab-
uSneQ IN 1871 at hlOIO through tHe Ell
forts of Nisam, the first christianized Jap
anese to be graduated from an American
college, in its first year it had an attend
ance of 500. Subsequently it grew to be
the University of Kioto, which now has
800 students.
John R. Mott, now in China on a tour
of the world, is engaged in an effort to
unite the college Young Mems Christian
Associations of fifteen countries in the
conference movement.
Hugh Beaver of Pennsylvania, the
youthful instructor in the Bible study
work of the present conference, outlined
his plans this morning. The first part of
the session will be devoted to preparing
the students to do personal work in lead
ing men to Christ. The latter part will be
given to devotional Bible study.
Q. Z. Michener concluded the programme
of the morning with detailed instructions
as to the way the work should be done by
the Young Mems Christian Association at
each college. He said that the object
/ should be TO lead Christian men to become
connected with the church and with the
| association, and to induce non-Christian
men to become associate members of the