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Hill from the University of Minnesota
where be was greeted by an audience
of 1,000 men.
Of his work at Cornell during a re
cent campaign similar to the one to
be conducted here next week. Stanton
I messaire has been abidingly helpful to
us since. Carolina welcomes his return
and expects from" it another great
moral and spiritual uplift.
"TJfrTwTK.'Wtllisiaa native of South
Carolina. Ho is an A. B. and A. M.
'o-raduate of WolTord College, and was
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Sun wrote: ."Before his visit was fin
ished he had spoken 'at every, frater
nity house on "the Hill" and had held
the largest religious meeting ever held i
at Cornell University.
"Cornell University is undenomina
tional. It depends on no creed or sys
tem of religious r belief. But to Sage
Chapel came each Sunday the greatest
American divines preachers, pastors,
and theologians. But these young
men, said a member of the faculty,1 re
ferring to Mercer and Farmer, "did
more good during their brief stay here
than all the preachers in Sage Chapel
during a single year.
" 'Eddie' Mercer, a college man him-
f, knows well the temptations of
college men. He knows their battles,
their trials, and defeats, and as a col
lege man, he appeals to the better in
stincts that his listeners have often
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forgotten in college with its free and
easy atmosphere and its lack of re
straint. His lessons are concrete and
entirely comprehensible. Mercer
couldn't preach if he wanted to. His
ideas are straight from the shoulder.
Mercer comes with a message and a
purpose. The message strikes home,
his purpose, at least at Cornell, is ac
complished." Mercer was here for two davs last
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for several years at. the head of Wof
ford Training School. He afterwards
entered Vanderbilt University, and re
ceived the Master's degree from that
institution. After spending several
years as an instructor in mathematics
at Vanderbilt and teacher in Branham
and Hughes school, he entered the ser
vice of the Y. M. C. A. He served
the Tennessee state committee of the
Y. M. C. A. as student secretary two
years, and is now associated with Dr.
W. D, Weatherford, as international
student secretary for the south.
John I Edgerton, the great Vander
bilt half-back (for four years) and a
college mate of Mr. Willis' says of
him, "With an unblemished character,
a thorough christian spirit, a splendid
ly trained mind, and an unusually
strong personality. Mr. Willis fulfiljs
theTdeal for leadership in the Y. M.
C A. work."
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and northwest than Air. A. J; Elliott,
familiarly known as "Dad"1 Elliott.
Even during his undergraduate days
he was an all-western college figure,
chiefly so because of his athletic
achievements and his conspicuous ser
vice in christian association work. He
played left end on the Norhwestern
University football team four seasons,
and was named all western end in '01.
year and the influence of his life and IJe was captain of the University track
team in the spring of '01, In 1895 he
attended the first western student con
ference, at Loce, Geneva, which cor
responds in the west to the Southern
Student Conference which meets each
summer at Mon treat, and from that
time until the present his relation to
t h c c h r i s t i a ri life of the wester n col
leges has been one of ever-increasing
helpfulness. He was graduated front
Northwestern' in" 1(02 and since his
graduation has had, as an Internation
al secretary of the Y M. C A., super
vision l tin- college christian associa
tion work of -the west..
Dean E. 1. Bosworth, who is well
known 1 ere, as everywhere in America,
thiu, his -.scholarly 'courses on . Bible
study, savs .t Elliott's work in the
west, "No man in all the west and
northwest comes closer to the student
bodv hau E'iiott. He knows student
t imrouo hlv in all its phases. All
tlie n. en, wlutlier christian or not,
resject him fur. his clear, straight for
ward pn seulalion of the christian life
and lor his own strong, steady illus
tration of it in his own personal char,
acter. Hundreds look tp him as the
one who led them into the christian
life. Pres. Boer, of Occidental College,
California, writes, "Mr. Elliott is not
only an attractive platform speaker,
but he gets under the jackets of the
men, and the students appreciate that
his red blood is thoroughly consecrat
ed." "Elliott's special strength," says
State Secretary Dadisman, of Kansas,
"is his virility an4'. his big hearted
and contagious enthusiasm. He is
strong without being rough. He has
been powerfully used among our west
ern men in promoting masculine Chris
tianity." Mr. Elliott is this spring making
his first visit to the south. On this
trip he will visit Vanderbilt, Georgia
Tech., and Carolina. A cordial wel
come awaits him at Carolina.
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