Arizona republican., 1919-11-30
STATE OF EUROPE AND ASIA
 APPEARING TOY.M. CA. WORKER

world. There is need of an advance of the Christian forces all along the | line. As the agent of the Christian 1 churches, as the skirmish line or ad- vance guard to meet prejudiced and 1 strategic classes of students, officials, l and business in foreign lands, the Young Mems Christian association also is called to render a definite and unique service.
 In Japan it is reaching the leaders and affords 8 practical demonstration of united Christianity. In China it has an unprecedented access to students, officials and commercial classes. It is bringing a physical gos- pei for the body, education for the mind, and furnishing a moral and spiritual basis for life to the students and educated leaders, in this time of transition when the superstition and agnosticism of their old religions are breaking down. Here, with the churches, it must raise up a Christian leadership for one quarter of the hu- man race.
 In India it's field includes some CO., 0e0 English speaking students in the colleges, the million English-speaking | leaders and politically minded classes of the great cities, and nearly 00,000,- 900 or almost one -fiftieth of the hu- man race, scattered in rural India, 1 which is beginning to reach through | it's rural department and agricultural l banks. Many among the one million returning Indian soldiers are asking for the association in the villages of India.
 In the near east it furnishes a common platform and rallying center | for the graduates of the Christian colleges, both Christians and non- Christians. It can make here a prac- tical demonstration of Christianity
 which is absolutely essential for the winning of prejudiced Moslem leaders.
 The doors of the whole near east are flung wide open with new opportunity
 Tn queen of Rumania has earnestly
 asked us to open permanent work in
 her capital. The Metropolitan of
 Athens has asked us to enter Greece.
 Here we enter not to proselytize but
 to vitalize. In Russia and other
 countries where Catholic and Oriental
 churches are found. the Y. M. c. A.
 has unique opportunity to vitalize
 and win for Christian leadership the
 masses of young men in these great
 1atIOnn CnurcneS, without the theO-
 logical, ecclesiastical, or denomina-
 tional controversy raised by the en- trance of a Protestant missionary
 propaganda. In Europe at the close
 of the war there is a call for a prac-
 tical demonstration of vital Christian
 ity among the military and civil popu- lation. The whole world is wide open
 for great Christian advance, and a score Of nations are calling today, , Come over and help us."
 And yet, just at this supreme hour F of crisis and opportunity, I return to find that owing to the reaction caused by the war, the high rates of ex-
 change, the multiplied number oi drives, the foreign work of the Y. M
 C. A. is heavily overdrawn at the
 bank and imperatively needs moro than S500,0G0 before the end of the . year, if it IS not to close with the first debt in it's history, at this time of al
 times when we are called upon for z great advance. Never was there g . time when we were in such deep neec of financial hap as today. Only by ', united prayer and effort can we hope f trlumphantly to enter the new year II and the new era that is before us.