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...Bellevue Hospital's Surgical Clinic in 1884, Dr. Erdmann as a medical student saw "Dr. Alexander Mott, dressed in his Prince Albert coat, the sleeves of the coat turned up to show his white cuffs. He made no attempt to clean his hands as we do today but used just enough water from an old basin to lubricate them. There was no anesthesia. The physiology table used for animal demonstrations was his operating table. Mott would put the scalpel in his mouth and possibly several strands of waxed silk or linen. His sponges were the ordinary reef sponges...
...Minister of the Congregational-Christian Churches, Quaker Frank Aydelotte, "Y" General Secretary Eugene Epperson Barnett, 16 college and seminary presidents (headed by Princeton's Harold Willis Dodds and Union's Henry Sloane Coffin), ten Methodist bishops, five Episcopal bishops, and such other ecclesiastic bigwigs as John R. Mott, Reinhold Niebuhr, Edgar DeWitt Jones, Roy G. Ross, Daniel A. Poling...
...drafted the program were 15 bishops of five denominations, seven seminary heads (including Yale, Chicago, Princeton, Colgate-Rochester), eight college and university presidents (including Princeton's Harold W. Dodds), practically all the ranking officials of the Federal Council and a group of well-known laymen, including John R. Mott, Irving Fisher and Harvey S. Firestone Jr. "Intellectually," said Methodist Bishop Ivan Lee Holt of Texas, "this is the most distinguished American church gathering I have seen in 30 years of conference-going...
Scores of serious-minded young men in school and college ha ye felt that Dr. Mott was the greatest man in the world. (One now famous Manhattan pastor expressed this conviction so firmly in prep school that he was nicknamed "John...
...world know more about missions than Dr. Mott. Their indefatigable booster, he has never been a blind optimist about them. In 1930 a talk he made to a lay group called together by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (who put up the requisite $675,000) led to the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry and resulted in the much-debated Re-Thinking Missions-probably the severest appraisal of missions churchmen have ever penned...