The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-01-29

is tor the upll1tlng OF mahhlhu al ee
eral.
DELEGATES TELL
THEIR IMPRESSIONS
Normal School Budget)
Last Saturday the delegates from
V. C. n, who had the privilege OF at
tending the great Student Volunteer
Convention in DesMoincs had the op..
portunity to give to the Normal School
something of the enthusiasm. and srlr-
it gained because of their attendance.
For this purpose five minutes were
taken from each of the morning per-
iods so as to lengthen the chapel hour
Miss Lillian Gubelman, faculty repre-
sentative, presided and very ably IN
troduced each Of the studenS delegates
with appropriate remarks concerning
the topic each speaker discussed.
Miss Adelaide White 49,
Miss Phillips read the paper pre-
pared by Miss White on the scene and
the setting. Miss White could not be
present that day. With some excep-
tions the paper is about as follows:
The Eighth International Conven-
ton of Student Volunteers met at Des
Moines. Iowa, December 81, 1919, to
January l, 1920. This is conven-
ton of young people from all oyer
the world for the purpose OF inspiring
some or all of them to become mis-
sionaries in foreign parts. These
conventions are held every four years,
but because of the war it has been
six wears since the convention which
was held in Kansas City.
Valley City sent five delegates. we
were allowed one representative TOR
every one hundred students. On
Tuesday night a special train left
Minneapolis carrying the Minnesota
and North Dakota delegates and a
lively bunch they were. Boy Scouts
met US at the train in Des Moines, pi-
loted US through the Court House,
checked our baggage, and gave US our
places to stay.
At about nine o'clock in the morn
ing hundreds and hundreds of people,
for there were $500 Of US, could be
seen tearing down the streets toward
the Coliseum with note books under
their arms. The meetings began at
9:15. The Coliseum is huge build
ing holding 10000 and it was full to
the brinl. The stage was packed with
missionaries. The room and walls
were a sea of faces, broken here and
there by a placard bearing the name
of the state from which certain
group of delegates came. Everyone
was there from the North Dakota rad
icals it was said to the conservative
North Caro1inians. There were rows
and rows of Persian ladies in pink
embroidered wells, Hindus in colored
turbans, Filipinos, Hawaiians. South
Americans, lines of straight black
hair from America, Servia, aad
Greece, other men and women with
kinky black hair whose ancestors
came from Africa and the islands of
the sea. }
Before the meeting this body was a
seething mass. College after College
would stand up to cheer and yell.
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Berkeley,
and all the rest But when John r.
Mott, the leader Of the convention,
arose to address us, the place chang
ed from boisterous bedlam to quiet
attention and you felt those $500
people were not there merely for play
but that great purpose dominated
them.
All of the time wasn't spent at the
Convention for we climbed to the top
of the DesMoines capitol--412 steps.
We also took an auto trip to Camp
Dodge. Then there were various 9TH
er trips to get souvenirs enough to
pass around at home.
On Sunday night our special tour
list car was there to take us home.
Coming home we hired a stateroom at
eighty-four cents a piece and let the
rest Of the car know that North Da-
koa was abroad. 80.
We now know people from Oregon
Georgia, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Iowa
Illinois, and Texas. We have rubbed
shoulders with the Hindus and the
Filipinos and we have had an expert
ence which none will forget.
,e. Miss Edith Hue
|, Miss Edith Rue spoke on the "Stu-
dent Volunteer Movement, It's History
and Aim" This movement dates back
to the year 1886 where students from
higher schools of learning met al
Mount Hermon, Massachusetts, anc
formed the organization. The pur
poses of this organization are: 1.-Te
establish among students of Americ:
interest in foreign missions; Ito en-
roll qualified volunteers to- meet thu
demands of v arious Mission Boards o.
America; 3.-to prepare intending
missionaries in their life work; and 4
to lay an equal burden of RESPONSE
bility on all students at home as min
listers and co-workers in order tina
| they may promote the missionary en-
terprise. @"@
! Since the organization Of the "Stu
dent Volunteer Movement" it has beer
customary to hold great Information
al Convention every four years. Tn
first one was held in Cleveland in 1897