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4 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.