THE STUDENT MOVEMENT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 300, 7 September 1918, Page 9

THE STUDENT MOVEMENT

GREATER SERVICE SCHEME.

A meeting was held in the Y.M.O.A. on Thursday evening, when a number of professional and business men met to consider the work of tho student movement. Mr. E. K. Lomas, M.A., M.Sc, occupied the .chair, and read apologies for übsence from Mr. J. P. Luke, Mayor of Wellington, Surgeon-General Henderson, the Hon. J. G. AV. Aitken, and others. ,

Major l'ettit, NiZ.M.C, spoke on the work the movement had , accomplished in the university lifo in finally lands, ■ and said it had been a great force in combating the materialism and scopticism which prevailed so widely before Dr. John B>. Mott undertook tho work of organising the World's Student Christian Federation over twenty years ago. In Europe, America, India, China and Japan the movement was powerfully influencing the student communities. Its aims.were:—(l) To strengthen, the bond of union among Christian students: (3) to lead students to become followers of Christ in failh and life; (3) to lead students to choose the life-work which would enable them most effectively to serve their fellow-men and extend tho Kingdom of God. The Now Zealand branch of the Australasian Student Christian Movement had decided on a forward policy. Tbis greater service. schemo aimed at securing two organising secretaries for the work in the universities and secondary schools in New Zealand, and two student secretaries to go out to work among students in ;oue of tho great centres of learning in the Bast. No work could' be more important. It would bring the purifying forces of vital Christianity to bear upon the men and women who would nil positions of special influence at home and abroad. Already thousands of men and women had gone out from this movement to enter the , work of medical educational and evangelistic missions. Those who doubted the wisdom of extension during war time should remember that Groat Britain's annual to foreign missions would meet her war expenditure for only eight hours! Tho best way to avert tho menace of the awakening East was to permeate its life with the Gospel of' Christ—''the' light that.shines the farthost shines the brightest nearest home."