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More than any other one man, Dr. Mott is responsible for the Y.M.C.A.'s great international organization, which now numbers 2,000,000 members in some 10,000 local associations in 60 lands. He pioneered in training native-born Y. workers, saw them strengthen the Y.'s influence in such lands as China-where six members of one Chiang Kai-shek Cabinet were former Y. secretaries. He personally has raised more than $300,000,000 for his causes...
...Anglican Bishop of Ely once rightly described Dr. Mott as "this Ulysses of modern missionaries." For example, he has toured Latin America five times in the last two years. Though given to car, air-and seasickness, he has traveled more than 2,000,000 miles by train, plane and ship. "Sometimes when I wake in the morning," he says, "I have to ask my secretary what country...
...Mott's talents as a diplomat have made him welcome alike among Greek Catholics and Scotch Presbyterians. Presidents have tried to enlist him, but he has thrice declined diplomatic posts, once an ambassadorship, and twice the post of U.S. Minister to China. He has never let any blandishment lure him away from religious work...
Tall, deep-voiced and deliberate, John R. Mott, still hale at 76, has practiced self-discipline since youth. He got an en cyclopedia from his father for neither drinking, smoking nor gambling until 21. Not famed for wit or humor, he knows how to find and use facts, whip men up to enthusiasm...
...years, Dr. Mott has written himself frequent memoranda containing pious advice. At Cornell, for instance, Student Mott wrote: "No worry, no excessive indulgence of the emotions, no doing two hours' work in one hour's time. . . . Have only a few intimates and those the best-for no man rises above the moral level of his intimates. Don't neglect the society of cultivated women." His favorite maxim: "Let us turn stumbling blocks into steppingstones...