Identifier: christendomannod02gran (find matches)
Title: Christendom anno Domini MDCCCCI ... A presentation of Christian conditions and activities in every country of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, by more than sixty competent contributors
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Grant, William Daniel, 1853- ed
Subjects: Church history -- 20th century Christianity Missions
Publisher: New York : C. Holt
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Jesus Christ. IsChrist, as some would try to lead us to believe, losing His hold onstudents, or are they year by year in greater numbers acknowledgingHim as Lord and rendering unto Him a larger obedience ? Therecould be no more important question for us to consider as men whoare to become leaders in the church, for surely nothing more con-cerns the welfare of the church in the world and her ultimate tri-umph. There are different ways in which we might attempt an answer tothis question, but possibly one of the most satisfactory will be toview the various organizations of students in the different parts ofthe world, organizations which hear the name of Christ Himself.I say one of the most satisfactory ways of approaching the ques-tion and of attempting to answer it, because an organization puts intangible form what men are thinking about and what they believe.That for which men are willing to go on record pubhcly, that towhich they lend the weight of their influence, that to which they
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JOHN K. MOTT STUDENTS FEDERATION. 409 give time and money and earnest advocacy, puts in concrete formwhat men are thinking about and what they believe. In this re-view I shall try to give an up-to-date statement of the tendenciesand conditions in the universities, colleges and seminaries. WhatI shall now say could not have been said three years ago. Much ofit could not have been said one year ago. I shall try to avail myselfof the most recent information, as it was poured in upon us at thememorable conference held last August at Versailles, near Paris,the conference of the Worlds Student Christian Federation. I shallalso ask your permission to view these movements somewhat in theorder in which it was my privilege to study the conditions of stu-dent work in different parts of the world even before many of thesemovements came into existence. AMERICA. This necessitates our commencing on this continent, and it isifitting that we do so, because, strange as it may seem to us, on thiscontine

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