The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-23

Special 10 inc 1rlpHne.
ROCHESTER,. y. y. Jan. @g.-Ncarl.
three lourths OF the 3iOo delegates 10 th
recent Student Volunteer conference n
Rochester came from the Young Men
and Young Womcns Christian associa
tions cf the colleges. This student Vol
untcer movement which has sent on
$500 missionaries 10 foreign fields: saw Il:
beginnings ut tho FIRST student y, NJ, .
a. conference at Northhcld, In 1856
when the veteran missionaries, fatoI
and Chamherlin, so appealed TO the heroic
in that company OF 500 college men tna
100 OF them declared their Willingness 10
so TO the ends of the earth II thcy 81"
that they were needed there @mous
VAS Killed by the BOXERS Now the same
S-,niC e. happening in China. Last yeal
al Shantung Union college. exactly lOo
oG the older students pledged 10 give
their lives TO me Christian ministry. aud
that meant TO chem the sacrificing OF
prospective positions commanding Ten
times the salary. This was 80 surpris-
ing that the veteran missionaries OF
China sent M investigating committee To
check il up They reported. the iur-
ther We go into this the more We arc
convinced that it Is genuine 10 the
core" The y NJ c. y. sustained and
'stocred" this missionary uprising untll
fl was on its feet and there were added
Ia its leadership experienced secretaries
OF the mission boards. In the past Tour
years l"T5 trained. educated ana tSstoo
young men and women have sailed Tor
focien fields and 1916 since tho beginning
OF the movement.
A second undertaking Of Tho associa-
tion. which is now we'll In hand, Is "a
secure recruits for the ministry from
the bcst-ittod men OF the universities.
Lie work talks arc given By able min
listers before tho 2l00 mon attending the
siX teu-day summer training conferences
OF the college associations. and ad-
dresses on The opportunities OF service y,r,
are given before the college and unlVcr-
sity associations,
Laymen's S Missionary Movement Begun
The laymen's missionary movement
which Is Just now taking in hand with
large success the securing OF millions for
missions had its beginning at the stu
dent Volunteer conference In Nashville lT
1906 Two of the delegates present were
John +. Sloman, Jr., the young banker
al Washington, who bad been for ten
years secretary OF the Washington Y NJ
{. A.. and j. Campbell White who vas
one OF the original hundred student vol
lntccrs and had bcen for ten years gem
eral secrc tary OF the y. NJ. e. a In India.
Al the Nashville conference more stu
dents reported ready TO so TO The foreign
fields Than the mission boards could
finance. Then they began the laymcn's
movement, which is putting up TO the
men OF sevcnty-fve cities the financing
oi missions "a mans job" and so
successful has been the campaign that in
city after city, such as Toronto Buffalo,
cleveland and Richmond. the gifts OF the
churches have been largely increased.
sometimes doubled and trchlcd. Business
mcn have taken hold OF this as their Job
one Pcnnsylvauia man said that he had
hereafter would he devoted TO missions.
The Vice chairman OF the movement, NJ
fred T. Marling who is also Vice chair
man Of the international committee oil
tho i. NJ, G. a. thus challenged the Roch-
ester delegates. III We business men !
supply the money, Will you supply the
lives. until death do us paCt? The asso-
Citations are joining in with the laymcn's
movement in pushing these campaigns.
Half its field force are men VINO nave |
worked as association secretaries or arc |
now OH leave OF absence from foreign |
posts.
Teaching School Boys to Swim.
II is encourag giuG 10 sec that The rliys'-
cal departments of the y. NJ {. y. arc
being utilized Tor the physical wciiate
and protection of the lives of the BOYS
OF n city as we'll as for athletics agd |
physical training Of its members The
latest development In TINS Inc has oeen
tn" undertaking To teach the boys ot |
America 10 swim TO save drowninS per
sons and TO resuscitatc the apparently
drowned. good example OF TINS neW
application of lifc-saving work was
shown ny the association at New Brtt.
ain in holiday week The names OF an
tho BOYS in the public schools who could
to the y. NJ. &. y. swimming pool for
thirty minutes instruction each Day AZ
The hands OF G II, Corson. swimming IN
structor Of the University OF Toronto.
over 500 accepted the invitation. which II
was frst 20. K'd" ny their parents. /,
Then they were examined ny a pmyli
clan. In the week more Than hait ol
thcm learned 10 swim. II IappGheS ina
the Catholic parochal schcol had a pool
40 the association loaned In" instructor
10 teach its boys. Nh. CorSon s method
Is 10 teach bov 10 keep himself up 4
in the water by ''anv old way al iirst,
and this may be by the dog paddle
stroke the Australian crawl, and be-
tween whiles. when the boys arc drying
off in the warm robins he gives them
little lectures ON how 10 prevent drown
ing accidents. take a helpless person
into a boat, resusciiate, etc. This Kind i
OF thing is 10 he repeated the country
over. Another undertaking this depart
uent has in hand is To give lectures In
shops and factories on hrst aid. SANTA
ton OF the home. best food TO work on,
and all sorts of directions on how 70 I've
we'll and long.
BY Wireless TO the Fleet.
a message was flashed hy wireless
from Admiral Schroodcrs flagship to
every United States man Of war ot the
Atlantic fleet from Sandy Hook to
The sailors, telling them Of her apprccia
t!on OF the loving cup presented her CA
whila centored at Brooklyn navy yard
had daily crowded the fine Brooklyn II
naval Gould Memorial Y; NJ. g. y build
pleted by Mrs. Sage, .and providing for
565 beds IL was their hotel IA we'll as
clubhouse when on shore. since tho days n
when Miss Could generously provided for
the sick soldiers at Montauk Point tho
United states enlisted mon have loaded
her, and others vino have provided fur
ihciT comfort. With valued tokens Of their
appreciation. Among the souvenirs treas
iEed by Miss Gould in special room In
her lirincton home arc a great variety OF II
relics and curios, flags and ponnants and
tokens from the men who Wear the blue.
~ CHRIST mas the men sent her Il ham
Incred brass desk set. and then there are
IufiuS cups galore. Nh. KOckcfcllpr
whose $1,000 building was opened for
the idckies use n year ago at Norfolk
received bronze Stntucttn al Christ
mas ana tcicgI1ms and letters along
with II 10 tell how much tho n,cn or the
naXy have thought Of him when i'm the
hHIlJlIg. Mrs. Russell Sage also received
I Just word in regard to A
orr to1e,,hopo ec,.,,; w W