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CAMPUS MIRROR
The University Christian
Mission
During the week of February 5-10 the
University Christian Mission will visit the
University Community in an effort to
stimulate a “fresh religious movement”
among the students. The University
Christian Mission is an outgrowth of the
National Preaching Mission, held in 1936
and 1937. which visited strategic points
among which were included many uni
versity and college campuses. The mem
bers of the Mission saw in their associa
tion with the college students an eager
ness to learn more about religion, what it
meant, how it could help them, and
whether it really had something effective
to offer. So in the second year of the
National Preaching Mission there was a
proposal brought to the Department of
Evangelism that resulted in the organiza
tion of a University Christian Mission for
the purpose of meeting college students
and answering their questions about re
ligion.
Following the approval of the proposal
by the Executive Committee of the Fed
eral Council, a National Committee was
organized. Representatives of four or
ganizations formed this committee: The
National Intercollegiate Christian Coun
cil, made up of the Student Divisions of
the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A.; the
Student Volunteer Movement; the Na
tional Council of Church Boards of Edu
cation, and the Federal Council of
Churches.
Twenty-five persons make up the Na
tional Committee, with Miss Mary E.
Woolley as Honorary Chairman, Dr. John
A. Mackay as Chairman, and Jesse M.
Bader as the National Director.
On each college campus visited there is
a General Committee composed of repre
sentatives from the Administration, the
faculty, the student body, the religious
organizations, and the churches. The
General Committee of the Atlanta Uni
versity System will hold an initial meet
ing on the campus on Monday evening,
January 16.
The University Christian Mission is
usually composed of sixty-six speakers.
Its list has included such persons as E.
Stanley Jones, T. Z. Koo, Sam Higgin-
bottom. the Rt. Honorable Margaret
Grace Bond field, Mrs. Grace Sloan Over-
ton of Ann Arbor, and Miss Frances
Greenough of the Baptist Board of Edu
cation.
The program of the Mission calls for
students through the chapel services, spe
cial meetings, personal interviews, sem
inars, and convocations together with
gatherings planned by the college cam
pus.
The Missions visited sixteen college
campuses last year, all state universities
except two, and had splendid, inspiring
reports concerning all sixteen. They will
Rev. Jesse M. Bader, New York City
continue through February and March of
1939 during which time they will visit
twelve campuses.
General Schedule
Atlanta University System Christian
Mission
1939
Saturday. February 4 . Evening Retreat
Sunday, February 5—
Morning—9 o’clock. Morehouse Chapel
Spelman Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Negro Churches
3:00 p.m. Vesper Service
4:00 p.m. Tea at Reynolds Cottage
6:30 p.m. Informal Supper
Discussions
7:30 p.m. Student Groups
Daily, February 6-10—
Breakfast for Team and Committee
Members.
Chapel Talks—Monday, Wednesday,
Friday:
8:00 a.m. Spelman
9:00 a.m Morehouse
Convocations—Tuesday and Thursday:
9:00 a.m. Sisters Chapel
Class Visitations to 12:25 p.m.; 1:40
p.m.-4:35 p.m.
Faculty—Team Funcheons.
Seminars—3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
General Meeting (daily), 7:30 p.m.
Informal Discussion Groups, 8:30 p.m.
Committees for University
Christian Mission
At Atlanta University
1939
Executive Committee
President Clement, Acting President
Hubert, President Read, Mrs. Ernestine
Erskine Brazeal, Mr. E. B. Williams, Ida
Wood, Marshall Cabiness.
Publicity
Chairman, Mr. Chandler; Co-Chair
man, Ollie Franklin.
Program and Printing
Executive Committee.
T ransportation
Chairman, Mr. A. A. Reid; Co-Chair
man, James Hubert.
Hospitality
Chairman, Miss Feger; Co-Chairman,
Eugenia Dunn.
Music
Chairman, Mr. Kemper Harreld; Co-
Chairman, B. J. Anderson.
Faculty Luncheons
Chairman, Miss Yeomans; Co-Chair
men, Ola Newsom, Zelma Thomas.
Class Appearances
Chairman, Mr. Cook; Co-Chairman,
Leon McCrary.
Seminars
Chairman, Mr. N. P. Tillman; Co-
Chairman, Frances Mason.
Ushers
Chairman, Miss Helen Rodger; Co-
Chairmen, Mary Alice Norman, Timothy
Shadowens.
Personal Interviews
Chairman, Mrs. Cannon; Co-Chairman,
George Sampson.
Follow Up
Chairman, Mr. George Kelsey; Co-
Chairman, Minnie Wood.
The Senior Prayer Meeting
One great fault of ours as human be
ings is that we are too apt to take things
for granted, too prone to do things me
chanically or merely as a form of course.
We finally awake (or do we?) to find
that all of our activities—our lives to this
point—have merely glided along with
probably a bump here or there which was
not severe enough to bring us to con
sciousness so that we might realize the
seriousness of our duties.
On Thursday evening, January 5, at the
Spelman College weekly prayer meeting,
Anatol Reeves, in a very interesting and
effective manner, talked to us on the topic,
“What It Means to Live,” making us
aware of our failures due to traits of slug
gishness and insensitivity. “We live,” said
the speaker, “if we contribute in quality
and amount a maximum to ourselves and
to all to whom we are in any way related;
we live, if we are sensitive to what is go
ing on around us. We discover the road
to life and to the fulfillment of ourselves,
if we recognize that we are a part of all
people and that they are a part of us, if
we accept and interpret our own experi
ences in such a way as to grow, and if we
don’t look for a short cut but are true to
the largest demands of all people.”
May we prove ourselves worthy of the
gift of our chance to live.