Excerpt from Voices From the Field: Address
Then I heard the cry of hopelessness and despair among the followers of the non-christian religions. And I have no narrow view with reference to these non-christian religions; I studied them patiently as an undergraduate; I attended the Parliament of Religions; I count among my friends followers of all of them; I am not unfamiliar with their sacred writings and the influence the religions have had wherever they have been established; I don't forget the word of Christ, that My Father worketh hith erto, and I work; yet I must say in simple accur acy, in the light of my studies of the working of these religions, that the followers of them, without the help of the Living Christ, are literally without hope. I say it, not as a matter of personal opinion, but as a scientific statement in the sense that science seeks to take account of all the facts. I am not talking about the hereafter - I have m own views as to that - but of this present life. Hese people, I repeat, weighing my words, without the knowledge of the Living Christ are literally without hope in this present life.
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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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