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The Campus Mirror
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President Read's Decision
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of the opportunity to work on an impor
tant world problem with such distinguished
persons as would be appointed with her.
The following is a brief summary of the
origin and nature of the Layman’s Foreign
Missions Inquiry:
Laymen and women representing denomi
nations are undertaking a laymen’s Inquiry
into Foreign Missions. Last May four
groups, each consisting of five laymen
and women connected with the Baptist,
Congregational, Methodist, and Presbyterian
churches formed themselves into a commit
tee to sponsor such an inquiry. The United
Presbyterian Church, the Reform Church of
the l nited States, the Episcopal Church, and
the Reform Church of America have since
that time joined in the enterprise. The gen
eral purpose is to make a comprehensive and
penetrating appraisal of foreign missions in
order to aid Christian leaders in readjusting
the missionary enterprise so that it will re
sult in making Jesus Christ more widely and
fully known, loved, and obeyed and will
minister more adequately to the needs of
mankind in accordance with His purpose
and ideals.
The study is to consist of two major stage;
(1) fact-finding by technical staffs, (2) an
appraisal by an appraisal commission. The
Institute of Social and Religious Research is
conducting the fact-finding study. The Ap
praisal Commission expects to spend the
academic year 1931-32 in actual visits to the
mission fields in Japan, China, and India,
including Burma. The commission is to con
sist of about twelve men and women. Among
the members of the commission are William
E. Hocking, Professor of Philosophy at
Harvard l Diversity; Frederick Woodward,
\ ice-President of the University of Chi
cago; Ruins M. Jones, Haverford College;
Mr. and Mrs. Harper Sibley, of Rochester,
X. V., and other men and women who occupy
important positions in the educational world.
The complete study will require between two
and three years.
The second of the two occasions referred
to above was at Vespers Sunday afternoon,
January 25th, when Miss Reead had just
returned from New York and I)r. John Hope
of Atlanta University announced to the stu
dents her decision about accepting a place
on the Layman's Foreign Mission Inquiry.
After the Spiritual at the close of the serv
ice, with his characteristic earnest good hu
mor and deliberation he held the students in
a few moments of intense suspense, making
it an experience never to be forgotten, while
he questioned them on their genuine serious
ness in their every-day attitudes and their
visions of present, past, and future for them
selves, their race, and their college. He made
them fully aware of what it would mean to
the program of Negro education and race
progress in these affiliated institutions and
in much wider fields for Miss Read to leave
the work she is doing here and go to work
on the problems of foreign mission fields.
He then announced that Mi.-s Read had
chosen and that she would be released from
serving on one of the greatest international
inquiries since the World War, a commission
to study the general problems of how man
kind is learning to live in accordance with
the purpose and ideals of Jesus Christ—
had renounced this chance of service in order
to continue her work at Spelman College.
The effect of the announcement on the stu
dents was like a great peace. Their response
was a great silent demonstration of deter
mination to be worthy, and it was a very
thoughtful student body which filed out of
the Chapel.
Rip Van Winkle
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Derrick Yon Beekman, Evelyn Pittman,
discovers that, although he is very shrewd
in making things go his way, he is not
quite shrewd enough to outwit Rip.
Nicholas Tedder, Marjorie Stewart, the
liquor dealer, and Jacob Stein, Matilda Mc
Mahon, his helper, used their influence to
help Derrick Yon Beekman by encouraging
Rip to drink more and thus raise his score.
Hendrick (eight years old), Juanita Jerni-
gan, the son of Nicholas Tedder, and Meenie
(six years old), Rip’s daughter, Hettie Mae
Jackson, were typical children.
Cockles, Elnora James, a nephew of
Derrick, suggested every plan to Derrick
which meant ruin for Rip and his family.
Meenie (twenty-six years old), Erostine
Coles, had the sympathy of the audience be
cause of the cruelty of Derrick, her step
father, to her mother Gretchen, whom Der
rick had married after Rip’s disappearance.
Seth Slough, Lottie Lyons, and his wife,
Katehen, Julia Hatcher, were the new keep
ers of the liquor inn when Rip returned from
the mountains.
Curtis Miller did an effective piece of
acting in the part of Gretchen, Rip’s wife,
who had to suffer for the way she had
treated her husband, but the audience was
gratified to find that she resented Der-
i ick’s cruelty to her daughter, Meenie.
Clara Stanton, as Hendrick (twenty-eight
years old), arrived from sea just in time to
save the day—to make things better for
tliose who deserved it, to defend Rip and
to claim Meenie, his childhood sweetheart,
also to undo the trickery of Derrick and
Cockles against the family of Rip Tan
Winkle.
I he persons who took the parts of the
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Freedom in a Ship
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not physical. He described the old concept
of freedom under the figure of a ship carry
ing rudder, sail, anchor, chart and compass
and the new concept as a ship minus rudder,
sail, chart, anchor and compass and no
where to go.
People are seeking freedom without re
straint, but, “A man’s worst difficulties
begin when he is able to do as he likes.”
Christianity insists that there is no freedom
apart from restraint and self mastery. When
a man feels that nothing masters him he
loses his freedom. No man can keep you
from experiencing the inner concept of free
dom. The more power you have the more
dangerous you are.
Christianity says use your power in the
right way; no man can keep the human spirit
from the right use of power.
He cited his experiences in the home of
one of his college friends on the occasion
of the friend’s death. Meeting his friend’s
parents and feeling the atmosphere of the
home he knew that the splendid character of
his friend had not been an accident. Avoid
the itch of becoming up-to-date. Discrimi
nate between what is new and what is true.
His subject at Spelman Chapel for Feb
ruary 3 was, “Prove all things, hold fast
that which is good.” He introduced his sub
ject by saying that religion is a friend of
truth. We must develop minds that are
keen and rational, which, will detect the two
great evils resulting from the war camoflage
and propaganda. Half truth is worse than
an error. If everybody is doing the same
thing, then that thing isn’t worth doing;
prove all things, be apparently critical. In
vestigation and appropriation are two meth
ods of arriving at truth, yet we must accept
some things as true because the race has
discovered that they are good. Morally and
scientifically we must begin where the race
has left off. He cited these things as being
good: faith in a living and loving God, the
eternal value of personality, belief that it is
light to do right and that the door of life
is not opened by the key of selfishness. We
must investigate the truth and keep our
minds open to the truth.
“One man in New York dies every
minute. ’ ’
‘‘heath? I’d like to see him.”
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