The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-12
REPORT ON
STUDENTS TRIP
LENGTHY REPORT SUBMITTED
BY SECRETARY sWEETMAN
AND OTHERS JUST RETURNED
FROM GREAT STUDENT GATH
ERING AT KANSAS CITY.

Secretary Sweetman Of the North
Dakota Agricultural college Y. M. c.
a, n others who have just returned
from the great students gathering al
Kansas City, submitted a lengthy re-
port or the meeting yesterday after
noon at a session Of the college stu
uents held in the armory building OF
the agricultural college.
IN part Mr.. Sweetman had to say:
IN Fargo n Moorhead there is
Just returned, a body of fifteen OF
twenty enthusiastic students who have
represented their colleges at the con-
V~ention of the student volunteer move
ment, which has just closed in Kansas
City, last Sunday night.
The daily press the country owe has
given wide publicity to this great
gathering of more than 5000 college
students n professors from some 750
institutions Of higher learning in the
United States and Canada. Out of
his number more than 1900 actually
expect to give their lives to service in
the foreign mission fields. Three
hundred and fifty of these are to sail
to their places of appointment within
the next twelve months.
"Ihe great note which sounded
throughout the entire convention, and
which was voiced by almost everyone
or the principal speakers, was. that
the responsibility of the task Of a k
ing pure christianity to the n~on-chris-
tan world was primarily upon the
student world. Never before in the
history Of the world have the students,
especially in North America. had the
opportunity that is theirs today said
j. A. Mcdonald of Canada, the well
known political leader and editor of
Toronto, who, with Secretary Of State
Bryan, defended the proposition that
1t is the duty of America to provide
to the Latin nations and the countries
of the far east the same opportunities
for development as we have had here
in North America. The responsibility
for the accomplishment of this great
mission was made clear by them to be,
in no small part, upon the shoulders
Of the christian students IN our col
leges.
MI. Bryan's speech at the conven-
ton contained some wonderful state
ments about the future of mission
work. We can far better Afford he
said, ito spend our money in. bring
ing the young men and women stu
dents from the non-christian nations
to our colleges to educate them and
to instill in them our ideals. than to
put that same money in million dollar
battleships.'
ut is impossible to overestimate the
Importance Of this great gathering of
students. No one who was not present
can appreciate the mighty forces that
went out of hat meeting, no one can
prophesy what good will be accom-
plished in what Mr.. Mott called our
greatest undeveloped field, the Amer
lear colleges of today, as the result of
the convention.
This session today at the armory
will be conducted as nearly as pos
sible on the order Of one Of the Kan
sas City sessions. Delegates from
each Of the local colleges represented
will speak and the college quartette
from the A. C. will give several male
quartette numbers.
North Dakota was represented
there at Kansas City by a large Sec
ton of students, coming from seven
different higher institutions of learn
ing. They took an active part in the
convention, and were represented in
every session of the entire week. A
large number of Fargo and Moorhead
people helped by their generosity to
make this trip possible, and they will
be most anxious to hear the reports
that will be given this afternoon.
It will be Of considerable interest to
many to know that there are at the
present time, in our local institutions,
ten young men and women who are 10Y
planning very definitely on giving their
lives in service to the work Of extend
ing christianity throughout the world
in the present generation. That is the
slogan or watchWord of the student
volunteer movement: The evangelical
ton of the world in this generation,
meaning, that in the lifetime Of those
of us now in college the pure mes
sage of Christ may be brought to each
and every living human being through
out the world, and hat ignorance,
crime and low ideals may be accord
ingly reduced to the lowest possible
minimum. Certainly if in our own