The Gavelyte, September 1910

('EIJARVILLE COLLEGE. llO t~ink about. "Our lives must be ac- j Quite a large Student Volunteer ~1ve. Would you recomm nd your hab- Band held their meetings each evening its of prayer t_o others? I_f not good and were very enthusiastic missionary enough for universal adopt10n are they work. Altogether we had a splendid go.:>d enough ~or you? . Are your habits conference and I hope a large delega– of personal Bible reading good enough tion will attend next year for all college girls to adopt? Then · are they good enough for you? Can S anyone say, "1t has been easier to be ome of the Good good because you were in college." Is Times at Granville. your relation to your home church one I BY 8 ERTHA STORMONT '11 to ad pt. Are you a problem or a ' · p·Jwer there? Can _you say to your . .-- neighbor, "Follow me as J follow I Dear friends of the Y. W. C. A. and Christ." Think about it, pray about I Y. M. C. A:- it, look your life straight in the face." 1 · You are ~II, no _doubt, more or less Bishop McDowell closed the confer-I mtere~ted m hearmg how we, who had ence with a sermon Sabbath evening. the pr1velege of attending the Y. W. His text was "Quench not the Spirit. ~- A. C)nfer~n:!e at Granville, en– Despise not prophesyings. Prove all I Joyed ourselves. Of course we heard things. Abstain from all appearance I some excellent lectures and sermons of evil." "These are not separate but . a~d attended interesting and profitable connected in a vital and <'!ssential rela- ( Bible study_ a~d missi~n study classes tion. Let God have a way. By a low I and other ~imilar meetings, but we also roof do not shut out the stars and sky. , had good times along other lines. Keep the path to the upper world open. I There were b~tween 250 and 300 girls A command to immortality is not a di- f~om about 65 different colleges and it vine command. The test is does it did n~t take us long to get acquainted. make the ljfe sweeter and better. Do We did not have time in the forenoons not say a good word for evil. A little for much fun, but after our quiet hours evil spoils the whole life. No one 60 froi:'1 2_ to 3 ?'clock in the afternoon much as He kept open the channels to until dmner time at 5:15, we could do the sky." as we pleased. Aside from these excellent addresses There was no lake so that we did not and the splendid music led by Miss get to enjoy ourselves boating, but Grinier, we had mission and Bible there were plenty of other things to do. study classes daily taught by returned There were seve-ral tennis courts, a Missionaries from China and South swimming pool and a fully equipped America and good Bible teachers. Each gymnasium, all of which were taken eyening at bedtime we held delegation advantage of by a large number of the prayer meetings, where we had heart delegates. The recreation committee to h~art talks about the things which I had something planned for nearly ~ad impressed us most during the con- 1 every afternoon. The first dav there terence j · f · sl · was an m ormal recept10n on the