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THE MAROON TIGER Page Forty-seven Special Articles Ut Omnes Unum Sint Wm. H. King, Jr. “All the world is one”—was the greatest motto of the National Student Conference, which truly was a great gathering and truly a momentous oc casion. Dr. A. Bruce Curry well said of the Na tional Student Conference: “It represented a will ingness to see the right way and a willingness to begin following the right way as soon as we see it—a willingness to throw off the ‘excess bag gage’.” The conference was a great communion—we were seeking a way out. “What Resources Has Jesus for Life in Our World?” This was the great question. How can Jesus’ principles function in a world of race prejudice, imperialism, unfair com petition, war, nationalism and a host of other things? Such problems were heavily on our minds. We sought for “the way out.” Some of the most outstanding scholars of the day were present. Dr. Reinhold Nilbuhr spoke on “The Practical Unbelief of Modern Civilization.” He stated that there are four enemies to faith: (1) Cynicism of the strong man; (2) Cynicism of the weak man expressed in communism; (3) Cynicism of the observer who looks on in dis gust as others try life, and (4) Hypocrisy of the man in ordinary life. Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Union Theological Seminary, spoke on “How Jesus Found Fellowship With God.” Lie compared the conditions this student generation faces today with those that Christ faced in His day, finding these conditions very similar. Rev. Howard Thurman spoke very convincing ly on “Finding God,” or the “Quest For Fulfill ment,” as he preferred to call it. Dr. G. A. Stud- dert-Kennedy was another high point man. He spoke on “Modern Science and the Accessibility of God.” Dr. Studdert-Kennedy was perhaps the most sought for man in the entire conference. His view was practical and yet so lofty—always poetic. Dr. Timothy T. Lew, Yenching University, Peking, China, spoke on “How Christians Make It Difficult for the World To Belive in Christ.” Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, president, Howard University, Washington, D. C., spoke very fluent ly and convincingly on “The Meaning of God’s Universal Fatherhood in the Relations of the Rac es.” He gave a very thorough analysis of the so- called race problems,” and offered solutions not Utopian, but simply civil. Prof. Robert A. Millikan, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, spoke on “The Changing Conception of God and Duty,” in which he traced the conception of God from a being of caprice to one of scientific methods. He stated that the only effective preacher in the world preacher in the world today is modern science. Just what has it all meant? Milwaukee meant the revelation of the way, the truth and the light for some. Certainly there were some who didn’t get the point, so encrysted were they in the conventions of the time—in the prejudices and maladjustments of an age, whose prosperity allows it to shut out God. Christ’s pro gram can be found in the relations of races, na tions, classes, sects, creeds, etc. Just what has it all meant to students on this college campus? I have expressed my ideas of its effect in the fol lowing article sent to the “Intercollegian” of the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A., on request: “A statement as to the actual results of the Milwaukee Conference on my college campus would lead to a statement of the questions asked and the currents of thought stimulated. “There are those who prefer to think of Mil waukee as an ‘absolutely vague and inaccessible idealism—a real Utopia.’ ‘Who could ever believe that the dominating white races of the world would ever recognize the darker races as their co-equals?’ ‘Don’t let them deceive you,’ they say, ‘they all have a point to cary.’ ‘Who could be so ignorant of the economic and political status of the world as to believe that war can be outlawed? And to talk about actual production for use with the elimination of production for profit on the large scale, is simply absurd.’ “There are the cynics—the misanthropes. You’re fools,’ they say. ‘Poor creatures trying to bring an impracticable philosophy of life as a solution to these great problems of the day. Christ has no place in the great world of real affairs. “And then there are those who are less vehe ment—those who might be called agnostic if this were a purely theological question. ‘I don’t know,’ they say. ‘Can it be possible that these men and women are sincere? Do you actually think they are conscientious?’ ‘When over two thousand said they were willing to give to the members of other races equal opportunities—do you think they were sane and meant it?Do you think they STILL mean it?’ “And finally there is that small group that sees Milwaukee as the way out—the door to the new social order of peace—of brotherhood—of fair play—of justice. They would say along with me: Some how, some day Though it’s black as the night of day I shall know that Truth from Thee That leads 7>te on my weary way. Somehow, some day I shall behold the light that gleams Along my road— Along highways and in the rings Of Social Brotherhood There is a God whose fragrance givei There is a One who reigns and lives Whose Light the Heathen sees with me, Beholds it, though we distant be.