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Born of sturdy stock in Sullivan County, N. Y. in 1865, John R. Mott grew up in Postville, Iowa. When he was five, he mistook a white-bearded bishop for God. Brought up in piety, he got an encyclopedia from his father for neither drinking, smoking nor gambling until 21. He went to Upper Iowa University at 16, to Cornell at 20. More interested in law than in religion, he changed his mind during his first year at Cornell. Thereafter John R. Mott's work was for Christ. He began Y. M. C. A. work as Cornell vice president...
Nearing 70, John R. Mott is tall, clear-eyed, square-faced, husky, a deliberate, disciplined worker, a restrained speaker. Though Biographer Mathews attempts to discount it, Dr. Mott is not famed for wit or humor. His great power is his ability to make his facts march into battle and win, to whip up men to enthusiasm, to pick able associates and subordinates. Biographer Mathews estimates Dr. Mott has raised $300,000,000 for his causes. Though given to car and seasickness, he has traveled 1,700,000 mi., the equivalent of 68 times around the world. Woodrow Wilson wanted...
...mystic sense of sin, no dark preoccupation with the soul, no confessions of failure appear in Dr. Mott's books and speeches. A resolutely practical churchman, he is solid to the point of saying: "Always plan your leisure." While at Cornell, Student Mott wrote out advice to himself which he has since followed: "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...
...Mott's favorite maxim: "Let us turn stumbling-blocks into stepping-stones...
...John R. Mott, World Citizen (Harper...