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Women to Give Tea
The University Women's Association will give a spring tea to all women of the University Thursday, March 11, from 3 to 5:30 o'clock in Haworth Hall.
Will the person who stole overcant from the Gymnasium last Saturday please return it to Gym and avoid exposal?—Adv. 106-3*
SENIORS AT STAFFORD WILL
GIVE CLASS PLAY MARCH 18
By Jav Rutan
Stafford High School—The senior class has chosen "The Dream That Came True" as its class play and members of the cast are working to make the production the best seen in Stafford in years. The students have set March 18, as the date for the production.
500 STUDENTS PLEDGE DURING MOTT CAMPAIGI
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Hold Second Meeting
All who had filled out decision cards in any of the meetings or made decisions at any time during the campaign were requested to stay at the close of the regular meeting. "I have something tremendously important to say to you," said Doctor Mott, "something more important, perhaps, than anything that I have said during this campaign."
"First, from tonight we must cut away completely from everything which our reason, our conscience, and our experience tells us to accept. We are the largest things possible for us. We must burn our bridges behind us."
The meeting of 600 men and women which followed was opened with a prayer by A. J. Elliott. Doctor Mott, after expressing a desire to assist the man in need, had an opportunity for a private interview with each person present, said:
"Second, we must spend some time unharmed, each day in the reading Gospel."
"Third, we must spend some time each day in secret prayer. I believe in what I may call ejaculatory prayer. That is, prayer to God offered many times each day and on the instant that occasion arises.
by joining one of the groups being
organized, and others in industry,
work and kind purpose.
"Fourth, we shall be greatly helped
"Fifth, we must face up to the question of our relations to the Church of Jesus Christ. The Church is a hospital, a training school, and an army. My experience has taught me to say that you should join the church so you feel most at home, and be enabled to do the greatest service.
"Sixth, we must give vivid heed to the responsibilities of Christian service. We must have moral courage to overcome our temptations, and drive ourselves away from the influence will count for something in the spread of the kingdom of Christ.
K. U. Students Sincere
"The one outstanding thing which has impressed me during my stay at the University of Kansas is the spirit of reality and sincerity toward religion which characterizes the students. I have found very little sham and doubt."
"Another thing you should do is to write home to your parents tonight telling them of the important decision you have made."
A. J. Elliott announced the meetings for today, "Conservation Day," after which the meeting was dismissed.
Christ Real to Those Who Cultivate Him
"Christ becomes and remains very real to those who persist in the cultivation of the habit of reminding themselves of his presence," said Dr. John R. Mott in the last and largest of the men's mass meetings in last week's religious campaign. He said that Jesus had instructed the gymnast at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Gov. Arthur Capper predeed.
"The man who cultivates this habit," said Doctor Mott, "becomes a good hater of sin, he can detect tempation far off, he develops heart purity, and is conscious of a close relationship with Christ.
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World’s Condition Now is Unique of History
“The world’s religious condition today is unique in history, and offers the greatest opportunities ever known for the spread of the Christian religion,” said John R. Mott speaking before a called meeting of 200 men and women at 1:30 in clock Sunday morning in Myers Hall. “One of the chief reasons for this is the shrinking of the world caused by improved methods of communication and transportation. All of the religions of the world are giving up some of their oldest beliefs and practices without substituting new ones in their stead. This is a dangerous condition. The only thing that can make the world a safe place is the spread of Christianity in its purest form.”
“Upon the students of the United States falls this burden. The need is urgent, and can not be put off. Among the continued action necessary are the present plasticity of nations, the rapid spread of corrupting influences of the Western civilization, the leprous growth of the non-Christian religions, and the rising tide of spiritual success. The Christian religion has seen its highest triumphs in the last six years.”
The meeting was under the direction of the Student Volunteers of the University. The aim of this movement is “the evangelization of the world in this generation.”
“Sin is Man's Greatest Handicap to Success”
Cards bearing the following promise were passed to be signed at the mass meeting in Robinson Gymnasium Saturday night:
“It is my purpose, with the help of God, to pay what it costs to be a sincere follower of Jesus.
“How can we remind ourselves of Christ’s presence?” is a question often asked me by students all over the world. One of the chief ways is by frequent prayer. Another way is adopting an apostolic prayer. The observance of the ho:y communion is another forceful reminder of Christ’s presence. The law of association may be used to advantage. Some great men have allowed the striking of the clock to remind them of the necessity of the surest ways to overcome temptation is to let the temptation itself remind you of Jesus Christ. Christ becomes real in the presence of those to whom he is real. But the realization of Christ’s presence comes most strongly by seeking to help others, especially those in great need. Christ will become real to those who open their hearts this afternoon, who form the undiscouragable resolution to have Christ become real to them. Ye are as holy as ye are to you; you are holy? You are real to you as you really will him to be real.”
The speakers at the meeting were John Hott and Mark S. Kubbs, presided.
"A man's body, his intellectual efficiency, his descendants, his memory, his conscience, all these help his sins be repaired," he said. "and has other alarm bells besides these."
"The greatest single handicap to any man's success is sin," said Doctor Mott in opening his address. "Our sins can never be hidden from the Almighty God. He knows the hangings in the chambers of our imagery. Our sins are known more by our fellowmen than we imagine. The look, or rather the lack of look in a man's eye the lineaments of his faith, will be revealed when he will be traught him. Sins of omission, hypocrisy, and dishonesty, if they are not found out, will find us out. There is no such thing as a little sin.
"When will a man's sins find him out? I hope it will be quickly, for sin is tireless. It tracks you, it defiles, it kills. Christ is here tonight to begin to make you strongest where you know you are weakest."
At Doctor Mott's request, E. A.
takes the cave there's a Fountain
filled with Blood.
Ted Mercer then told the story of his life.
"The there men here tonight at the fork of the road," said Doctor Mott after Mr. Mercer had finished speaking. "Do we not need this power of Christ, this Christ of power." The ushers at this time passed the doorbell and a salutation.
"Many men have asked me the question, 'What is the record of overcoming temptation?' during my work among students," resumed Doctor Mott. "I shall now answer that question. Those who do not care to stay are at liberty to go, and will please leave the room quietly."
"Make such use of these cards as your better nature suggests that you should dug" utter Buster. "Let, for example, take out our reasons." The cards were then collected.
Half of the audience left the hall while one stanza of "Stand Up. Stand Down."
After expressing his regret that he was unable to have a private interview with all the men present, and assuring them that he would talk as to one man, Doctor Mott gave the following advice:
"Resist your temptation promptly and earnestly," he said. "Never compromise with it. Do not go into the presence of temptation when you can avoid it. Make your battle a positive as well as a negative fight. Overcome the evil with good. Be preoccupied. An idle brain is the devil's workshop. Be vigilant. I am talking about victory tonight. The man I fear for most is the man who doesn't ask questions to him. He is armed. In time of peace prepare for war. Do not fight alone. Lastly, associate sufficiently with Jesus Christ." The meeting was closed with prayer.
Mercer and Heinzman Talk to 50 Athletes
Fifty of the University's athletes heard talk by E. C. Mercer and H. L. Heinzman in a meeting in Fraser chapel at 11 o'clock Saturday morning. Mr. Heinzman was graduated from college in 1906, and during his college career played on the Varsity football team. "Cleanliness is absolutely necessary for all athletes. They are subject to great temptations, and the threat of retribution is found in Christianity," said Mr. Mercer. "The influence of you of the athletic teams in the University," said Mr. Heinzman, "is great, and
Both Mr. Heinzman and Mr. Mercer told anecdotes of famous athletes with whom they have been and are well acquainted.
Mercer Talks to 250 Fraternity Members
E. C. Mercer, of New York City,
spoke before a meeting of two hundred fraternal men in Boston chapel
rock School. Stock Shares he had the last five years, Mr. Mercer has
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spoken before more than 400,000 college men and visited 4,000 fraternity and club houses. He is a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
"The same changes that are taking place in America outside the colleges are taking place in the colleges," said Mr. Mercer. "For instance, drunkenness among college men has decreased and the increase in this change and other improvements to the tightening up of the curricula, to the refusal of business men to hire 'rounders' at the close of their college course, to the high level on which athletic colleges are playing, and to the general tendency to clean up immorality in the nation.
"Fraternities are cleaner today than in the last 10 or 15 years. This is partly due to the practice in some fraternities to employ a travelling secretary who visits the chapters and investigates conditions in the houses. Of the many charges which are brought against fraternities and which result often in anti-fraternity attacks, the most justly is that fraternities tend to kill spiritual life and to make men selfish. The old accusations of snobbishness and expense are no longer just except in isolated cases.
"There is not much immorality here, but there is the tendency to selfishness and the failure to put things first, which I have mentioned. As one fraternity man to another, I appeal to you not to allow the petty things of college life to rob you of the big things."
University of Kansas Twelfth Annual Concert Course
Fifth Concert by
The Zoellner String Quartet
ROBINSON AUDITORIUM Tuesday, March 9th, 8:15 P.M. Admission 75c and $1 at the Door