The Gavelyte, November 1910

CEDA H:V ILLE COLLEGE. IG5 Y. W. and Y. M. C. A. Mission Leaders Conf ere nee. LYDIA E. TURN.BULL, ' 11. ten years and ended his lecture by show– ing how (a) The Political Situation in the Philippines Challenges the U. S. (b) McKinley Challenges the U. S. (c) Challenge to Success (d) Challenge for the Orient. : I The session Saturday morning con- The Y. M. and Y. W. C. A: of the ducted by Mr. Turner, was called the colleges located in the southern part of Mission Hour. Miss Sewall talked on Ohio and northern West Virginia held a , 'The Weakness in Mission Depart– ~ission Leaders conference at the State ment.,, Mr. Turner told how Mission– University located at Athens, Ohio, ary meetings should be conducted. De– Oct. 21-23. votionaJ3 were lead by Miss Milcher, This conference was for the chairmen the Y. w. C. A. National Volunteer and workers of the Mission Study de- Secretary. partment of the Y. W. and Y. M. C. A. Saturday afternoon, the first . address and the Student Volunteers. was by Prof. Sopher, of Deloware Un- The first session of the conference iversity, on "Why Should a College was held in the Y. W. C. A. hall, Fri- I Student Study Missions." Mr. Turner, day afternoon at 3:30. The devotio-i:ials I Rev. Robbens and others. gave short were conducted by Mr. Turner, Natwn- 1 talks on various phases of the Mission al Sec. of Mission. The rest of the Subject. meeting was given over to a business At the close of this session, the En- meeting and announcements. tertainment Committee had planned a Friday evening the meeting was held walk to the State Hospital, which is a in the University chapel and was opened most beautiful place and beautifully by the Pres. of the conference. Pres. kept. The grounds are situated on high Ellis of the University gave an address hills which overlook the city and are of welcome sayin~ in it, "that the best covered with trees of all kinds. we have is for you, but the best we Saturday evening, Mr. Higginbottom, have cculd not be nearly good enough I a missionary to the lepers in India, gave for the Lord's work. a splendid lecture about the horrible Mr. Pen tius, Internationa_I Sec. of I condition of these poor afflicted outcaste Missions, gave an address on, "What I and what the Christian missionaries are missed by net studying missi0ns in col- I doing for them. · His plea was, "What - lege." will you do for them." · · Rev. J. C. Robbins, a .returned mis- After this. meeting the Y. M. and Y. sionary fr(m the Philippines lectured I W. C. A. of the University gave a re– on "The Chailrnge to Christion Na-, ception for the delegates. tions." He first told of the wonderful Sabbath morning the meeting was _ wealth of the Philippines, the condition given over to the Volunteers. · of the country and the social problems Sabbath afternoon closed the confer- of the islands. 'I hen he told of t he pro- ence. This meeting was a very infor– gress which had been made by the mal one. A Question Box was conduct– hrisiian missionaries during the last I ed by Messrs. Turner, Hi~ginbottom

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