Excerpt from Strategic Points in the World's Conquest: The Universities and Colleges as Related to the Progress of Christianity
IN the month Of August, 1895, there was held within the walls of the ancient Swedish castle Of Vadstena, on the Shores of Lake Wettern, a gathering Of students which is destined to occupy as important a place in the history of the Christian church as the famous haystack prayer-meeting at Williams College. Never since the Wartburg sheltered the great German reformer while he was translating the Bible for the common people.
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John Raleigh Mott was a long-serving leader of the YMCA and the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF). He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for his work in establishing and strengthening international Protestant Christian student organizations that worked to promote peace.
During Mott's remaining two years at Cornell, as president of the Y.M.C.A. he increased the membership threefold and raised the money for a university Y.M.C.A. building. He was graduated in 1888, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and history. In September of 1888 he began a service of twenty-seven years as national secretary of the Intercollegiate Y.M.C.A. of the U.S.A. and Canada, a position requiring visits to colleges to address students concerning Christian activities.
The sum of Mott's work makes an impressive record: he wrote sixteen books in his chosen field; crossed the Atlantic over one hundred times and the Pactfic fourteen times, averaging thirty-four days on the ocean per year for fifty years; delivered thousands of speeches; chaired innumerable conferences.
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