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 . inning to show itself, although the conditions arevery difficult, Take Ceylon, for example. Within the last yearand a little over, the students in a college in the northern part ofthe island of Ceylon have started a missionary society, and havesent one of their own graduates to work among their own race inSouthern India. They have caught the idea of Christ. Let us hopeand pray that it may be
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 . inning to show itself, although the conditions arevery difficult, Take Ceylon, for example. Within the last yearand a little over, the students in a college in the northern part ofthe island of Ceylon have started a missionary society, and havesent one of their own graduates to work among their own race inSouthern India. They have caught the idea of Christ. Let us hopeand pray that it may be planted and germinate in every one of theseassociations in India and Ceylon. AUSTRALASIA. We might, by way of variety, drop down into the Southern Hem-isphere. It involved a journey of fourteen thousand miles for meto go down there and get back into the regular circuit that is usuallytaken around the world. I did not wonder at it, when I reachedthere, that God had taken me to that part of the world. I foundin Australia and New Zealand and Tasmania a country as large asthe United States and Canada, with a population nearly as large asthat of Canada, a people combining the characteristics which mark. SIR WILFRID LAWSON. STUDENTS FEDERATION. 417 off the Canadians and the Americans, and that is, by the way, astrong combination. I found universities there that stand muchhigher in their record and in their requirements than many of theuniversities in the two countries that we represent in this universities were given over largely to secularism. Therewere only five religious societies among them, and three of thosedid not bear the word Christian. When they heard what thestudents were doing in Canada and Britain and the United States,their appreciation of the value of organization, that you find amongAnglo-Saxons everywhere, responded to the suggestion, and theybegan to organize, and had some twenty-five societies organized asa result of their efforts before I left. Th
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