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TWIG 3 N. C. S. V. CONFERENCE HELD AT N. C. STATE TWELFl’H A>>UAL ASSE3IBLY 3IARCH 9, 10, U Tho twelfth aniuial X. C. Student Volunteer ConCerenco was held at N. C. State College March 9, 10, 11. Rep resentatives troni all the colleges of the State, both non-volunteers and volun teers, were present. From time to time we were privileged to have with returned missionaries and Christian workers here at home who contributed much Inspiration as well as informa tion to tho delegates. The first session held Friday after noon sot the keynote for the whole conference. It was a brief but impres sive prayer service. W. C. Cummings, president of State Y. M. C. A., led the devotions. From beginning to end the spirit of prayer and a desire for service permeated the atmosphere. The one dominant note sounded throughout the whole was "That the World Might Know Jesus as He is revealed In the Bible.” At the Friday evening service Dr. W. C. Riddick, president of State Col lege, extended to all the delegates a heartfelt welcome to State Collogt- cum- pus, His State boys, folloiving his ex- mnple. made the newcomers to State dialect "a stranger never comes on our campus feel “ui home,” for in Pfn*-' campus.” At this time Pauline Patton. More- dith, conducted the devotions, after wliich she and Joscelyn Cox sang “Teach Mo to Pray.” An address by Rev. Wade C. Smith, pastor of the Pres byterian Church In Grennsboro. fol lowed, entitled “Looking unto Him.” A very striking feature of the even ing service was the unique use of Illustrated songs brought to the con- lorence by Georgo C. nollingrftth from Tnion Seminary. Mr. Bellingrath fur ther favored tho conference by an il lustrated lecture, “The Challenge of a World Task.” Saturday and Sifnday were full days of the conference. Saturday morn- ins Mrs. D. W. Herring, a missionary on furlough from China, addressed the conferouce on the '‘Work of Women among the Chinese Women.” She re echoed the age-old Macedonian cull “Come over and help na." Following her. Dr. Leo, a Medical .Missionary to China, spoke on “The Growth of Hospitals in China.” Noc- essarlly because of Chinese ignorance and enslaving superstition such growth was slow. From the half-sniotliered ef forts of the pioneers in Chinese Medi cal Missions comes a new challenge. Those who respond find a two-fold op portunity for service while minister ing to the diseased body tliey have a great privilege of ministering to tlie sin-sick soul^ Part of the morning hour was do* voted to practical suggestions from the delegates as.to the most effective ways of carrying out a special missionary education campaign on the college cam pus. We were fortuimte In having with us dnrlng this conference Virgin ia Pritchard and Lyman Hoover, trav elling secretaries Cor the Student Vol unteer Movement. On Saturday evening the Trinity del egation presented a pageant, “The Gift of Self," in Pullen Hall. After this all the delegates were entertained at au informal "get-together" in the Y. M. C, A. building, by the Y. W, C. A. Cabinets of Meredith and Peace, and Y. M. C. A. Cabinet of State. Along with the other treats such as ice cream and cake, Pauline Patton sang “If No- one Ever Marries Me.” At morning watch on Sunday morn ing Dr. R. C. McQullkln, Dean of DlUe Institute. Columbia, S. C., talked on “The Secret of a Christian Life,” hold ing up as a model the Apostle Paul. Paul’s secret of the Christian life Is found in Galatians 2:20: “I am cruci fied with Christ, nevertheless I live; yot, not L hut Christ liveth in me, and the life which I no%v live in the flesli I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.” At the regular eleven o’clock church service the delegates wera privileged to visit in any of the City churches. On Sunday afternoon Mrs. J. L. An derson, a returned missionary from interior China, told us of the origin of the N. C. Stiident Volunteer Union, and the World Student Christian Fed eration, held in Peking, China, it is interesting for ub as Meredlthitos to note that Mrs. Anderson is a graduate of Meredith, Minnie Middleton while hove, who later married John h. Ander son, a State College man, and sailed for China. AU of us know John L. Aiiderson, if from no other way, through Gordon Poteat’s A Grofit Heart '■! (he South. As briefly as possible, Mrs. Anderson gave us an outline of the beginning and early proceedings of the N. C. State Union, In 1909 John L. Anderson and Gordon Poteat, stu dents at Wake Forest College, and Dessle Lane from Meredith, attended a State Student Volunteer Conference in South Carolina. In these great hearts the seed of the N’. C. State Union were sotoi. The first vislhlo fruit was borne when in 1912 a N. C. State Union was organized and a con ference held in the Astrotekton Society Hall of Meredith College. The second conference was held at Greensboro. Madge Hardaway, from Flora Mc Donald. and J. A. Bradley, Carolina, the Council mem"bers of the Union for 1923-1924. made Interesting reports of their trip to Yonkers, New York, where wore discussed vital plans for the Stu dent Volunteer Movement at large. Representatives were at this Council from all the States in the Union. On Sunday evening the devotions were led by J, A. Bradley, the newly- elected president for the year li)23- 1924. The out-going president of 1922- 1923 was Guy B, Weeks. Davidson. The closing session was fraught with prayer and earnest consecration. Dr. C. L. Housall of the Methodist Epis copal Church, delivered a crowning ad dress to the conference, emphasizing the bigness of the task' .that falls on student volunteers. Lyman Hoover followed him with a keen inspirational talk. The conference meant to the Volun- .cers a strengthening of their purpose which is to go, if God permits, to the foreign fields. To tho non-volunteers It was a clearer vision of their rela tion to Jesus and their relation to the world. Wo rejoice that so soon two from our own Meredith girls havd volunteered for definite service In the foreign Helds. We are praying for others. Will you be one? May we each search honestly our hearts and Uvea and be able to say truthfully, “Father, not my will, but Thine b: done.” CoUegc Mary Bigg.s and Helen Se*.itelle spent a most unusual week-end at Zebulon. Marion doVlamIng and Blanche Stokes wore the house guests of Dot Miller in Kinston. Bonnie Fogleman and Ruth Buffnloe visited In Greensboro the latter part of the past week end. Susie Herring was in Futiuayi Springs the past week, Bessie Tomlinson and Elizabeth Dan iel were in Wilson last week, Mary Bowers, Beatrice Martin, Hel en Thompson were the week-end guests of Janet at Wake Forest. Ruby Honeycutt spent the week-end with her parents. Xell Benthall left college Friday lo attend the wedding of her sister. Geraldine Gower was in Cluyton for the past week-end. June Beavers and Blanche Banics apent a most enjoyable week-end at Boyliin Heights. Gaorgy Bunn wus the recent guest of her sister, Mrs. Witherspoon, in Raleigh. Gertrude Bowen has been at hoj’ borne in l')urhnni for the past few days, Tasca Tolar is at home for recupera tion. Elizabeth Purnell visited her home in Frankllnton, Margaret Duncan and Margaret Wy att were in Castaliu visiting friends last week. Edna Askew and Blanche Martin were In Benson during the past week. Virginia Barnes, too, spent a pleas ant week-end In Henderson. Margaret Herring spent Sunday in town with her sister. Nannie and Susie Reams visited their home last week-end. MISS V. PRITCHARD IN CHAPEL FRIDAY rUAVETJNO SECHLTARY FOR S. V. MAKES EA«\KST APPEAL T() Grnis On Friday morning, March D. Miss Virginia Pritchard, one of the four traveling secretaries for the Stiident Volunteer Movement, spoke in chapel. She gave a brief sketch of the lives of three men, who have stood out iu iheir service for humanity, and their work with Volunteers of the United States. These men were Sam Higgins- bottom, Cyril Haas and Paul Harrison. Each, after going through with many hardships in their early life, did serv- 'ce not only in the United States, but in foreign countHes. These men are i-eniembered today for what they have done, and are still doing. Their pow- 3rful Influence has touched many lives and they have made students face the problem of life work for the Master, As a result, girls and boys have Ite- come Volunteers, some of whom are on tho foreign field now. Mlsa Pritchard euded her taik by telling the audience that Mrs. John L. Anderson, formerly Minnie Middleton, an old Meredith graduate, was to be at the N. C. Student Volunteer Confer ence which began that afternoon and lusted through the following Sunday n.’giit. There were two visitors present for tlie chapel service; Elmer King. Treas urer of N. C. Volunteer Union, a senior at N'. c. State, and Guy Weeks, Presi dent of the Union, a senior at David son College. MRS, JOHN ANDERSON SPEAKS IN CHAPEL FOJlMEll :\rKI{li{)lTU STl l)l-:XT JIKAU1» niTlI EM'Ht’SlAS.M Mrs. John L. Anderson, one of .Mere dith's Alumnae, gave a very iuuircss- ive talk in Chapel Saturday morning. March 10, on “Prayerand Self-conse cration."’ First, she told about a Chini'sc Bible woman, who had prayed earnestly all night for money with which to carry on her work. Tho answer came ne.xt morning in the form ot a hundred dollar check. In the true, unuelflsh spirit she gave God all tho praise, and threw herself more eager ly in the work that she might prove her appreciation. The other story was one which rep resented self-sacrifice. It was about an old Chinese bell-niaker, who, in obedience to the command of the E’m- pcror, was compelled to make a per fect bell. Twice he tried and failed. Word came lo him that If ho did not succeed the third time, hia head would answer lor it. Human blood had to be added to the metal in the making of this perfect bell. Discour aged, he went home and told his wife and little daughter. Luter, when the metal was ready to be molded into this perfect bell, tho daughter came and threw herself into it, thus supply ing the human blood. Her sacrifice M’tts through love of her father; our love for Jesus should make us give ourselves for Him In serving our fel- lowman. Annie Bowen—“Oh, George, are you going to be a Mason?” George Muri-ay—“Yes, really so, are yon going to be a ‘Carpenter’?” Ida Lowe—“Why does he carry his cane?" Blanche Stokes—"Because it can’t walk!”
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