Christendom anno Domini MDCCCCI ..A presentation of Christian conditions and activities in every country of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, by more than sixty competent contributors . hat stole him away from the death in the tempting dram That the reason and senses drown;He drank the alluring poison, And thus my boy went down. Down from the heights of manhood To the depths of disgrace and sin;Down to a worthless being. From the hope of what might have the brand of a beast besotted He bartered his manhoods crown;Through the gate of a sinful pleasure My poor
Christendom anno Domini MDCCCCI ..A presentation of Christian conditions and activities in every country of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, by more than sixty competent contributors . hat stole him away from the death in the tempting dram That the reason and senses drown;He drank the alluring poison, And thus my boy went down. Down from the heights of manhood To the depths of disgrace and sin;Down to a worthless being. From the hope of what might have the brand of a beast besotted He bartered his manhoods crown;Through the gate of a sinful pleasure My poor, weak boy went down. Tis only the same old story. That mothers so often accents of infinite sadness. Like the tones of a funeral bell:But I never thought onf^e, when I heard It, I should learn all its moaning myself;I thought hod be true to his mother, I thought hed be true to himself. 406 CHEISTENDOM. But, alas! for my hopes, all delusion! Alas ! for his youthful pride !Alas! who are safe when danger Is open on every side?Oh, can ncthine destroy this great evil? Nor bar in its pathway be save from the terrible maelstrom The thousands of boys going down? — THE WORLD-WIDE STUDENT MOVEMENT.* John R. Mott, , NEW YORK. [A few months before his death, Mr. Moody said to me that, from a relig-ious point of view, he loolied upon our colleges as the most hoppful field inall the world. The colleges and universities constitute, without doubt, themost religious communities in our country. Taking the young men of Americaas a whole, not more than one in twelve are members of evangelical have placed the proportion as low as one in twenty. Among students,however, nearly one-half of the young men are members of evangelicalchurches. The proportion among the women students is larger. Amongprofessors and instructors the percentage of evangelical Christians is farlarger even than it is among the students. This is true in state and otherun
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