The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-01-08
AN INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE HELD
STUDENTS VOLUNTEER MOVE
MENT AT DES MONIES At
TENDED BY 5000
ADDRESSED BY WORLDS BEST THINKERS
Delegates From Africa, Arabia, China,
India, Japan, Persia, Siam
and Turkey

Brookings and Brookings county
were well represented in the great
International Student Volunteer con-
vention just closed at Des Moines, Ia,
after a session lasting eight days, and
which included among it's delegates
representatives from practically every
civilized country In the world Among
the men who addressed the conven-
tion and took part in its deliberations
as delegates were some of the strong
est men known to the world today
in church and missionary work and the
better movements for general social
reform. AS is understood, this organ
iZat!on has for it's primary and ulti-
mate purpose organization, correla-
ton and development of the Christian
activities of the world as expressed
in the churches and allied institutions,
regardless of denominational or ma
tional separations. Realizing that
such work can best be done by edu-
Gated men and women, the students
in educational institutions over the
world are especially appealed to to
interest themselves in it's work Hence
the name-Students Volunteer Move
ment The rapid growth of the move
ment since its inception in 1856 and
its main purposes were fully explained
before the convention by DR. John r.
Mott, chairman of the executive COM
mittee. The following quotation from
DR.. Motifs address states briefly wnat
this organization aims 70 accomplish:
First-To awaken and maintain
among all Christian students of the
United States and Canada intelligent
and active interest in foreign missions.
Second-To enroll a sufficient num-
Der of properly qualified volunteers to
meet the successive demands of the
| various mission boards of North Amer
| lea in their effort to give all living
men the opportunity to know the Liv-
ing Christ.
Third--To help all such intending
missionaries In preparing for their
lifework and to enlist their co-opera-
tion in developing the missionary life
J VI lHe COlleSeS anu VI TIE HoLic
| churches
| Fourth-To lay an eqaul burden oi
responsibility on all students who are
to remain at home as ministers and
lay workers, that they may actively
promote the missionary enterprise by
their intelligent advocacy, by their
gifts and by their prayers.
The State college located here sent
it's full quota of nine delegates. The
local churches were represented by
Rev H. w. Fulweiler, and both the
Y. M. c. A. and the Y, w. c. A. were
represented and Mrs. Fuiweiler at
tended with her husband. The list OF
delegates from Brookings Is here
given: Joseph M. Smith, Guy Thelin,
Hubert, Thornber, George Valentine,
Thomas Terney, Helen Johnston, Eliza
beth Chase, Marie Hanson, Elizabeth
Brown, f. G. Meinzer, Rev. H. w.
Fulweiler, Carl S. Metzger, Laura
Keith.
At an early date delegates will give
reports of the work of the convention
to the churches, Sunday schools and
Young Peoples societies in Brookings
and in neighboring towns and commu-
mites. Any desiring to secure mem
bers Of the delegation for such ad-
dresses should communicate with the
State college Y NJ G. A.