The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-23
CHRISTIAN WORK
AND ATHLETICS
Busy Day at Students
Conference.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PACIFIC GROVE, May 22.-To-day' s
session of the conference of the Pacihc
coast students began earlier than usual, IN
order that the accumulated work of the
day might be disposed of, the first lecture
being begun at a. m. Early as was the
hour the delegates were all in place for
the devotional exercise. and when Dr. j.
Rutter Williamson of London began his
lecture on the way to carry
on a missionary campaign among
college men everybody was ready
and listened with interest. Dr.
Williamson dwelt with much emphasis on
the necessity for systematic giving, say
ing, as an example. that If a 2-cent stamp
daily were given to the support or Tor
eign missions by each member or Amer
ica's young peoples Christian societies
more money would be the result than now
aggregates from all sources of support OF
foreign missions.
II. w. Rose of Ann Arbor University,
and a member of the international COM
mittee of the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION, conducted the second depart
ment of conference work, the association
conference, the department In which the
nolicv to be followed in Pacific coast col
lege Christian associations during the
coming year will be considered and de-
termined general discussion among the
delegates
by the conductor on the fundamental
noints to be considered. He said car
diral point was that the membership or
a college association should be limited 10
men because men could best reach men.
The conference lost one or It's most Ell.
ficient directors to-day in the departure OF
c. c. Kitchener. Mr.. Kitchener goes to
Grand Rapids, Mich, to take charge of
the International students conference
ties as director of the Pacific Coast Con-
ference have been transferred to II. w.
Rose, who will henceforth act as inter
national college secretary OF the Young
Mems Christian Association.
The platform address of to-day was
delivered by Rev. DR.. Mach. Wallace Of
Oakland his subject the 6eng Ihe life ehi nn
the basis that man must become as a
child to enter the Christian life.
To-day marked the opening of the
athletic department of the convention,
the preliminary events in two contests
baseball and tennis singles-being begun.
]. c. Prawl. the Stanford Splinter, is
chairman of the conference athletic com
mittee and is conducting the various
events. The baseball game of to-day was
played between a University of Califor-
MIA nine and picked nine from the re
ing by a score of 8 to s. In the prelimi-
naries of the tennis tournament, Sanders,
former State champion of wisconsin, now
of Stanford. was one of the notable
AT 7:30 D. m. DR.. J. RuIter Williamson
head of the Medical Missionary of Lon
don, England, spoke to the members of
the life-work class on the advantages OF
choosing a missionary career in life and
the present need for highly educated mis-
sionaries.
The work of the Young Mems Christian
Association and the Christian Commission
in the army and navy during the late
war with Spain was the subject of a lee
ture by n. H. Jacks of Oakland tonight
The lecture was illustrated by over a
hundred stereopticon pictures of army
and navy scenes in the Philippines, Cuba
Rbrto Rico and the camps in which the
United States troops were modified pre-
paratory to TRANSFORMATION to the field
of action. This concluded the days pro-
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