Pleads For World Evangelization at Students Meet

1914

Preacher Says It Must be Done in This Generation

Appeal From World

Kansas City, Jan. 2. — "The evangelization of the world must be accomplished in this generation," declared Rev. Dr. Robert E. Speer of New York in an address to the Student Volunteer convention. L. L. Kinsolving of South Brazil, bishop of the Episcopal church, emphasized the needs of Latin-America for more missionaries.

Previously 8,000 students and visitors listened to impassioned appeals from natives of China and Japan and from missionaries returned from India and South America for help in meeting what was characterized as the greatest opportunity Christianity ever has faced.

"A new era of world life," said Rev. Dr. Speer, "has broken upon us revealing the essential unity of the problems of personal salvation and national character and of racial relationships across the world. It is soon realized that for us the only world that there is is not the world of thousand-year-old trees or century old brutes, but of a single generation of men."

Dr. K. Kato of Japan, now of the University of Chicago, told of the progress of Japanese thought.

"The educated classes are dominating every department of Japanese life today," he said, "but among these upper classes atheism and agnosticism are growing."

J. H. Si of Yale university, a native of China, appealed to his hearers for help in the work of Christianizing China and for greater consideration of foreign students in North America.