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Died. Clarence Mott Woolley Jr., 22, captain and outstanding player of Yale's 1939 polo team; of a brain concussion after a hard spill during a Brook League match; in Manhattan...
Greatest U. S. Protestant layman is Dr. John Raleigh Mott. For more than 50 years Dr. Mott, a serene-faced man of disciplined energy, has traveled the world for the Y. M. C. A. and the International Missionary Council. The I. M. C., coordinator of Protestant foreign missions, re-elected Dr. Mott its chairman at its meeting in Madras last winter. Dr. Mott, now 74, requested that his term be limited to three years. Last week he addressed the Foreign Missions Conference of North America at Swarthmore College...
Declaring that only 30% of U. S. and Canadian Protestants give money to foreign missions, Dr. Mott said that the whole missionary system is "overworked and undermanned." A 15% increase in staff, he declared, would bring a 100% increase in results. But if missionary zeal is dull at home, Dr. Mott thought that it was keen in the field. Said he: "If Christianity should die out in Europe and America, it exists in such vitality and propagating power in the younger churches of India, China, Japan and Africa, that sooner or later it would spread from those bases...
...become older and older. Nevertheless, if the Y. M. C. A. has diluted its Christian message in nominally Christian nations, it has become a powerful force for Christian leadership elsewhere in the world. Its international organization, built over many years by a great international Christian, Dr. John Raleigh Mott, is now activated by 900-odd native-born "Y" secretaries, whose influence is great in such lands as China...
...that the sum of approximately $1 from every inhabitant of the U. S., Canada, Great Britain and France, would sustain for six months or more the entire population described by Dr. John R. Mott. Surely the world...