The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-01-02
CRITICAL BATTLES
MUST Be FOUGHT
IN OUR COLLEGES
John r. Motto Points Way to
Win Fight for Evangelization
Of the World in Presen
Generation.
seventh Annual Convention Of
Student Volunteers Moves
ment at Kansas City Sur
passes All Others.
BY JAMES CANNON.

ny OfANAE<o A&ANNON.
KANSAS CITY. MO, Jan. 1.-The
seventh International convention OF
he student volunteer movement has
surpassed all predecessors in attend
Ance. The great auditorium was to-
atght filled with fully eight thousand
representatives from all over the
United States and Canada They are
being well entertained by the Kan
sas City people.
a@. The Quadrennial report of the
executive committee was read this
morning by DIR. John r. Motto. chair
man 1t Is comprehensive docu-
ment of f1fty-five printed pages.
Many to Foreign Fields.
Since the movement was organized
b.SS2 volunteers have sailed for mis-
sion fields, 1,I66 having sailed since
the Rochester convention four years
ago. The report declares:
The most critical battlefield from
the point OF view OF the volunteer
movement II NOT the Mos1em world.
not the educated classes OF Japan.
not the iitrati OF China. not the cita-
dels OF Hinduism, not the aras OF
neglect In Latin America. put our
own American and Canadian un:ver-
stiles and colleges IL the churches
Of North America are to wage
triumphant warfare in these distant,
difficult fields which call today so
loudly for our help, the missionary
facts and spirit must first dominate
our own seats of learning. II we are
to 80 forth to attempt world conquest
we must have no untaken forts In
our rear This attaches the great
est possible Importance TO all we'll
considered efforts to promote the
moral and religious welfare OF the
Nnrth American student 1eld.
Work In Colleges.
The moral evils, the prevailing
student temptations. the unaforable
college traditions and customs and
everything else in modern college
life, which Ii contrary TO the teach
cve-.h-own IL there Is TO be most
largely developed among us truly
worid-conquertng power. II we are
10 20 forth with unshakable conf
dence to preach Christ as q world
saviour we must know beyond per-
adventure his saving power in our
own lives. and In the lives OF our
fellow students
I'VE must be able TO present Christ
and his work in terms that viii COM
mand the intellectual and spiritual
assent Of the most thoughtful men In
own universities. II we ARE to have
q message which will challenge the
attention and win the intellectual
confidence of the educated classes OF
the orient and Latin America II
the colleges and seminarses are to
furnish the missionary conservation
requisite TO meet the demands of the
mission boards and OF the mission
Aeids, they must be brought under
the wonderful sway Of the living
Christ himself.
ITO this end we should give our
selves even more than heretofore to
tive reverent stury~ OF the Scriptures.
We should seek to kindie the evan
Eelixtic4 fires far and wide among the
students OF North America"
The OPENING Address.
Bishop Kingsolving. OF Brasil. a ma.
tive OF Virginia made the opening ad-
dress, at the night session on Latin
American NAtions."
He spoke strongly OF conditions
among ATTY millions. Americans he-
tween Rio 0rande and Straits Of Ma
9sllan- Only twenty per cent can read.
only two per cent are students con-
Aectsd with Church. While called
Christian nations. they need the word
Of God ~ much ~ China. Japan. india.
Giving them inAltenabIo right 70 prf-
vate Judgment In religion wc must car
nv them truth and freedom.
The greatest address Of the conven-
tion 20 far was delivered by DR.. Robert
Hpeer. on "Our Watchword"-"Evan
welixatlon Of world in This Genera
ton" The Fundamental fact OF Chris
tiAnity is sts universally.
Tho second emphasis was placed
upon. "In This Generation"
The world which we must deal with
is world OF our own generation. The
last twenty FIVE years have witnessed
the unbindinE OF physical, Intellectual
moral and spiritual power.
Not Chrlst's Attitude.
Attitude OF those who defer world
evangelixation ID not attitude Of Christ
But emphasis today must be placed
upon eyangelixation.
Schools ard hospitals are good but
must be esanKelistic. The whole world
today needs more preachers. The pro-
fessions are crowded and men rise by
pushing aside Others but In all coll
leges Christian ministry must be EN-
phasixed.