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THE FORUM
A Challenge!
Will the students of Nebraska please
read the article In the present Issue cf
the "Nebraskan" giving a list of the
graduates of our University who are
now in missionary work in foreign
lands? Some of these men and wo
men, you will notice, are engaged in
teaching, some are medical mission
aries, some are ministers, others are
doing educational work of various
kinds connected with the Y. M. C. A.
and Y. W. C. A. Would it not be well
for the under graduate student to com
pare the opportunities for service iu
the various professions of the home
country and these foreign countries?
We graduate in our American colleges
more than ten thousand men and wo
men from the medical .-colleges. The
country actually needs two thousand
five hundred, in order that we may
have a physician and surgeon to every
bix hundred of our population. China
now has one physician and surgeon to
every two tnd a half million people.
Some opportunity for the practice of
medicine in China. Our surplus output
might be well employed in China
alone. The late Justice Brewer of the
U. S. supreme court declared that we
v cni.iint low! business in the
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United States for thirty thousand law
yers, and we have a supply of sixty
thousand lawyers. There are fifty
times as meany teachers in our school
supplying the educational need of a
hundred million people as are to be
found in the whole nor.-christian world
with its thousand million population.
Some day the coal supply of China,
which will last the world a thousand
years, will need to be mined and en
gineers will find greater oportunities
there than anywhere in the world.
We have In America one minister
for every three hundred persons. In
the non-christian world the church is
supplying one minister to two hundred
thousand of the population. Today
there are seven hundred eighty-three
known positions in missionary service
waiting to be filled by those who will
volunteer for such service. How does
. the great commission read? It is this:
: "Go ye into all the world and preach
the gospel to every creature." The
challenge to the christian students of
the world is this: the evangelization
of the world in this generation. It can
be done if the thousands of christian
students throughout the world are
willing to help do it.
STANHOPE R. PIEU.
There is not one student in the
University of Nebraska but in whose
subconsciousness, at least, there lurk3
a recognition of some factor which
control his life, some standard which
he strives more or less earnestly to
attain. This standard and its attain
ment he commonly regards as his re
ligion. There are a good many of us.
however, whose religion does not man
ifest itself very much above our sub
consciousness. It is simply a smolder
ing something to which we pay little
or no attention in so far as our daily
actions are concerned. On Sunday.
--hn w have nothing else in particu
lar to do. we let a breath of atr pass
,..r iht almost extinguished source
of warmth. A tiny flame breaks out.
. i. ...ffsttatofi Aeain 'ere we
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reach our eight o'clock class.
tm. edition within our lives, la
mentable to those spiritually inter-
in im. and vet not even recog
nized bv others, is rather a puzzling
nmblem in Dsychology to the great re
iiP-inna leaders in educational life.
' Moreover this condition is peculiar to
Liioee fitudents. We, of all the classes
in this complexity of modern life, are
....iH tn he the most indifferent, the
most irreceptable to an appeal tor
more vital Christian living. And yet
they say of us that we are to be the
leaders within our community and are
; to mould the destinies of our fellow-meii-
Quite so that Is the reason we
are enjoying the privilege of a higher
j education. At the same time, we ior-
gct that we are neglecting to develop
tht spiritual side of our lives. Surely
we have come to realize that the great
leaders of the movement for the bet
terment of the human race recognize
a Supreme Being.
The" reason, fellows, for this spirit
of indifference which predominate?
the universities like ours is chiefly
due to three things: First, to the in
born attitude of self-satisfaction which
is individually assumed by so many of
us; second, to. the distraction of
school and sociai activities, especially
as we carry them to excess; and last,
but primarily, to our ignorance of the
practical reality of a Christian life.
The first reason may be discarded
with but a remark. The attitude cf
self-satisfaction, although bad enough
in itself, is nothing more than a sur
face trait, which may be easily over
come. Let us rather believe that there
is no such spirit very deeply ingrained
withiu our lives. The second reason,
however, is one which weighs more
heavily upon us.
Amidst the perplexities of school ac
tivities and social engagements, we
are apt to forget the things that seri
,i.ir traft nnr future welfare. We
forgot our studies, or more often, we
intentionally neglect them. We fail to
remember that in our home town most
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of us were affiliated with and quite
regularly atteuded some church.
Then. too. those of us who are frater
nity men find in our respective houses
the comradship and good times which
leave little desire for Christian ser
vice and ideals. We are too liable to
follow the lines of least resistance-
lie in bed on Sunday morning until
noon or lounge around the house half
dressed, when we do get up. It has
been said. "What gets r attention.
gets you." That is the reason why so
man v of us lead an indifferent and
doubtful Epiritual life. It has not got
our attention. We are more or less
ignorant as to just what it means to
lead a vital Christian life. We have
never felt the necessity of it and we
think we fare very nicely without it.
But. fellows, it is something worth
while, something worth our very earn
est attention, and we should be will
ing to investigate its claims at least.
One of the best ways we can be
come acquainted with what it really
means to live such a life Is to exam
ine the fellow next to us, whom we
feel certain is an example of Christian I
Ideals. He may not be hot and heavy
in spring track work, or on some Uni
versity publication, but as far as will
power, character and general efficiency
is concerned, he very likely has the
edge on the other man. We all recog
nize the presence of sin in one form
or another and know how much easier
it is for the fellow who Is a vital Chris
tian to overcome tlie temptations that
bob up in our college life than for one
who is not. So let us step back on
high ground for a minute and "take
stock." that we may see ourselves as
our fellow-students see us. Then try
to stay on high ground. It isn't how
well we get along WITHOUT recog
nizing a Divine power to whom we
can turn In time of trouble, but how
mucli better we can get along W ITH
the spirit of Christ In our dally life
and WITH Him for a guide In our
every action. And, fellows, we can t
lead a Christian life without practic
ing it. any more than we can become
an "N" man or a Kosmet "lead witn
out practice. By practice, we mean,
a conscientious effort to better our
habits, recognizing Christ, the while,
as our guide to those ends.
GLENN S. EVERTS.
The $6,000 coach of Northwestern
gave Bishop Henderson his hand on
the Life Covenant, wiich is. "What
ever, wherever, whenever, pleases
Him." . . -
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Eight Week Clubs and Service
Eight Week Clubs are groups of
girls organized during the summer in
the small towns or In the country.
ThP leader la a college girl and a
member or a Young Women's Chris-,
tian Association.
Thp club has social meetings, fol
lows some little course of study, and
does something for community service.
Probably the matter of service is the
thins; which appeals most to Nebraska
girls.
Two vears ago a University or Ne
braska girl had the lest club in the
United States. It wa up- in the sana
hills and was made up of girls of sev
eral different nationalities and of vari
ous religious creed!?. These girls
wished to do something in the way of
dramatics, and being hampered by too
small a knowledge of English, they
gave a pantomime.
Thia name club Is working now to
get a consolidated rural high school
for their community.
One club started a Sunday school.
which has made a splendid recora,
another gave a successful "old time"
program for the old peo,.le of the town.
But whatever the girls are aoinK
whether it is getting better street
lights, better books or better piay-
erounds. in the very service tney
rmvcna ClOSeT lO-
gether. The college girl is getting re
nrnuainted with the girls "back nome
and the girls are getting a glimpse of
college and all are learning something
of the bigger meaning of sisterhood
Captain-elect McCormack of Nebras
ka Wesleyan is the newly elected pres
ident of the Young Men's Christian
Association and Is an untiring worker
for the promotion of religious life
' among the men of the University.
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