FOR DELEGATES

of the

KANSAS CITY CONVENTION

on their Homeward Journey

UNITED THANKSGIVING

For the wonderful unity, spiritual power and practical helpfulness of the Convention.

For the unprecedented attendance, and especially for the presence of the large and representative Oriental delegation.

For many new personal friendships formed, and for a realization of the spiritual solidarity of the Christian students of North America.

For the flood of light thrown on our personal lifework problem.

For a new vision of the great possibilities of our own college as a missionary force in the world.

UNITED INTERCESSION

For each delegate, that he may be obedient to the truth that laid hold of him at the highest inspiration points of the Convention and fulfil the solemn vows which he made before God.

For each delegation, that on the homeward journey they may plan unitedly and resolutely to enter into the larger opportunities in their respective colleges.

For the friends in Kansas City who received us So graciously and generously, that the vital forces released during the Convention may profoundly influence the religious life of the community.

For the secretaries of the Mission Boards and for the missionaries and native teachers throughout the

world, that under their leadership the Church may press her present unparalleled advantage.

For the leaders and special workers of the Volunteer Movement during the Post-Convention Campaign, that it may result in large accessions to the roll of volun

teers.

UNITED PLANNING

For large and representative meetings in the colleges, at which adequate and inspiring reports may be made of the Convention and its messages.

For a campaign in the Churches and young people's societies of the college neighborhood and outlying country, to impart the most telling facts as well as the spirit of the Convention.

For such a thorough mission-study canvass as will result in the enrollment of a far larger number of students than have ever before been enlisted.

For making the Volunteer Band a recognized and more efficient factor in facilitating the preparation of intending missionaries and in the enlistment of new volunteers.

For the promotion of more intercessory prayer among the Christian students. To this end make use of the new pamphlet "Intercessors-the Primary Need."

For nothing less than such a revival of the Christian religion as will cause students to give Christ His rightful central place in their lives and as will make His Gospel seem to them indispensable to all men, and therefore something to be propagated by themselves among all nations.

OPENING SESSION

The Possibilities of the Kansas City Convention

The Lordship of Christ

What Is God's Will?

POSSIBILITIES OF THE KANSAS CITY CONVENTION

JOHN R. MOTT, M. A., LL.D., NEW YORK

IT IS WELL, as we enter upon this wonderful Convention, that we pause to remind ourselves of the purposes that have brought us together.

Why have we traveled trom virtually every State and every province of North America to come here? Why have fraternal delegates from the nations of Europe come among us? Why have we with us those who have been warriors on nearly all the battlefields of the Christian Church? Why have the responsible leaders of the aggressive forces of the Christian religion laid aside their work to come and sit with us and to counsel with us? Why have the editors of the religious press and the representatives of the secular press identified themselves with this great Convention?

We have come here to face in its entirety the task that confronts the forces of Christianity as they look into the non-Christian world. Necessarily, each one of us has been largely occupied with a fraction of the work that lies before us. It is well that we should have an opportunity, which, like no other in North America, enables us to come into one another's presence, and to view the great task in its complexity, in its entirety,-in some measure as Jesus Christ, the founder of our religion, must view it. This will necessarily enlarge us, widen our vision, expand our hearts, enrich our characters, send us away with fuller purposes and with higher ideals.

We have come here also not only to view the wholeness of the undertaking, but to remind ourselves that we who acknowledge Jesus Christ as our Lord-honestly desiring to become more and more like Him, and having the ambition to make His reign coextensive with the inhabited earth-are all one; and that, no matter how we may feel or think about other things, being one in those essentials we are one actually.

We are here also to realize the spiritual solidarity of the Christian students of North America, and to remind ourselves of a large unity, the one that binds us to the Christian students of other lands and other races. Happily, you and I live in a generation in which there is a world-wide Christian student movement. Our generation is one of the first of which this can be said. Our situation is enviable indeed, in that our lines have been cast in a time