NEUCHATEL, SWITZERLAND: "God wants you."-Swiss Student Movement. KIEV, RUSSIA: "Pray for tragic Russia. Uphold heroic Russian leaders. Sustain your North American comrades here. We welcome you to the glorious fellowship of Christ's sufferings."—Day. STAMBOUL: "Stricken Turkey realizes greatest needs are moral. Undreamed-of possibilities challenge Christian world to reveal uplifting power of Christ."-Volunteers in Turkey. TACOMA, WASHINGTON: "Let the American churches cease neglecting the nations of South America, amid the new necessities and possibilities which are making urgent the glorious work of Pan-American evangelization." -Thomas B. Wood (of Peru). MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY: "Awakening continent presents an opportunity that calls urgently for volunteers of faith and power."-South American Volunteers. SHANGHAI: "China_choosing her destiny. Why not make it Christ?”. Wang, Zia, Yie, Yui. (Leaders of Chinese Student Movement.) ALLAHABAD: "India, with thirty thousand college students, at this juncture imperatively needs your help."-Volunteers in India. FUCHAU: "China challenges, Christ or Confucius, which?"—Volunteers in China. KYOTO: "Japanese students experiencing unprecedented spiritual thirst. Need bearers of living water."-Volunteers in Japan. ASSIOUT: "Greetings from Assiout. Unprecedented evangelistic and educational opportunities throughout Moslem world invite you."-Volunteers in Egypt. FLAXTON, N. D.: “Lebanon's greeting to Student Volunteer Movement Convention. Psalm 328."-Anna Jensen. CALCUTTA: "The line wavers in this sternest battle-field of the world's religions. Will you furnish reserves?"-Volunteers in India. MADRAS: "India's Christian Students facing their country's renaissance. Call for comrades in service."-Slack, Doenkal, Paul, Carter. OMAHA, NEBRASKA: "Heartfelt greetings to the Student Volunteer Convention. May this Convention prove to be the means of affording a mighty impetus to the successful carrying out of the Lord's command, Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.'"-Robert Weidensall. EVANSTON, ILLINOIS: "Call America's youths to new fellowship with Christ for world redemption. The races have no other redeemer. Jesus Christ is sufficient and able. Let us bring Him and the world together for His redemptive purposes."-William F. McDowell. HONOR ROLL THE NAMES of "sailed" student volunteers whose death during the past four years has been reported at the office of the Movement were read by the Reverend J. Ross Stevenson, D. D., vice-chairman. Rev. Herbert Marsena Allen... Rev. William Whiting Borden..Yale University, Princeton Theol. Sem Rev. W. J. Brandon.... Mrs. C. H. Brosius (Louella Rev. Charles H. Brubaker. inary. Died at Cairo, Egypt, en route Grove City College, Westminster College, Victoria College, Wesley College. Turkey . China .India ..India Africa India Rev. John Anthony Cherney... Denison University, Rochester Theological Seminary Mrs. Alice Harding Churchill..Wellesley College Miss Laura Bookwalter Dosch..Cincinnati Training School. Miss Daisy Pearl Drake.. Dr. Frances L. Draper. Miss Alice Duryee. Dr. Francis Hall.. Dr. Edgerton Haskell Hart. Rev. Arthur Hockin China . China ....India .India ..India ..China ..China Yale University, Johns Hopkins University China Rev. Charles Henry Holbrook...Boston University, Union Theological Sem Mr. Oscar Johnson...... Dr. Lawrence Percy Jones......University of Toronto Medical College, Dickinson College Crozer Theological Seminary China Smith College, Albany State Normal Col- Turkey .India Miss Mary Katherine Kurtz.....Moody Bible Institute, Newton Theological ... India Rev. Theodore Samuel Lee.... Williston Seminary Dr. Ambrose Fredrick Lepper...University of Toronto Medical College.... China Albion College, Chicago Training School..Africa Miss Jane Lewis.. Miss Anna Randall Limberger...Bloomsburg (Pa.) State Normal School...Mexico China Rev. Arthur Charles Lindenmeyer Garrett Biblical Institute... Mrs. Basil Lee Lockett (Josie, LeGrand Still) Methodist Training School, Nashville Miss Marie Brooks Poole...... Library School, New York City.... . China . China ...Japan Africa .Turkey ..... Miss Nellie Rankin Rev. William George Russell....University of Toronto, Manitoba College, Knox College Rev. Carl Axel Salquist..... .University of Chicago Theol. Seminary. (Helen .Korea India India ...China .India .Africa .Arabia .Africa ....Scarritt Bible and Training School........India OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS WE GO FROM THIS CONVENTION SHERWOOD EDDY, M. A., NEW YORK I BELIEVE that we have a fourfold responsibility as we leave this Convention and go down from this mount of privilege to the plain of human need and human service. First, there is our personal responsibility to our Lord and Master to face the facts that have been presented to us in these days. We must now act upon these facts. Not thought but action, not sentiments but actions, not emotions but actions, will lay the bed-rock of character, the primitive stratum of the soul. How shall we incarnate the visions of these days? How shall we live the life we have seen in pattern here on the mount? How shall we become the men and the women we have dreamed of to-day? The old psychology says that a man does what he is; the new psychology says, with equal truth, that a man is what he does. The old psychology says that past character expresses itself in present action; the new psychology says that the present act determines the future character. Act to-day, act tomorrow; put into concrete life what we have here thought and felt and resolved, and we become forever that higher ideal that we long to attain and need never go down to those lower levels of life. We have faced the facts of the world's need in these days. Let us now do some thinking. Let us think the question through to a conclusion. Our Lord said, in another connection, "Settle it therefore in your hearts." He recognized the power of a major choice, of a dominant decision in a life-purpose that was clear. Have we this sense of mission, of vocation, of knowing the will of God? The Apostle Paul said, "Understand what the will of the Lord is." Have we found it for ourselves? Will you pardon a personal reference? I hesitate to make it. I look back to two nights of decision that determined my own life. I remember first the night that I faced this volunteer declaration card-the card that was handed to each of us this afternoon. I faced that night these words: "It is my purpose, if God permit, to become a foreign missionary." My life that night wavered in the balance. What did I want-a career or a mission, to get or to give, silver or souls, mammon or God, self or Christ? While my |