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Great Layman. Chairman of the War Prisoners Aid Committee is John R. Mott, who at 79 is still the Y's most inspiring member. Last week, his physical vigor far from exhausted, strapping, square-jawed Dr. Mott was pursuing his favorite sports of boating and fishing in the Laurentian backwoods of Quebec...
...John R. Mott was converted to the gospel according to George Williams in his home town, Postville, Iowa, where his father was a lumber merchant. By the time he graduated from Cornell University (1888), he had become student secretary of the Association's International Committee, soon became its U.S. general secretary. In 1926 he was made chairman of the Y.M.C.A.'s World Committee. Outside the Y, Dr. Mott organized the International Missionary Council and was its chairman from...
...source of Mott's success in spreading the Y around the world is twofold: 1) an indefatigable energy that has taken him 2,000,000 miles in 80 countries (he toured Latin America five times in one two-year period); 2) an organizing ability that enabled him to whip up other men's enthusiasm, made them give their time and money (he has raised $300,000,000 for his causes...
...Asia and South America Dr. Mott pioneered in training native-born Y workers, saw them strengthen the Y's influence in countries like China, where seven of the ten members of one Chiang Kai-shek cabinet were former Y workers...
Woodrow Wilson thrice offered Dr. Mott the post of U.S. Minister to China. Thrice Mott declined. Religion was his life, the world his field...