Dr. Mott's Address at the Town Hall The present advantageous _position of the world-wide Christian movement was the subject of a striking address delivered on Thursday by Dr. J. R. Mott at a meeting of the National Christian Conference in the Town Hall. There was a very large audience, only a few seats being unoccupied.
In the course of his address, Dr. Mott said that the world-wide Christian movement was in an advantageous position to-day because of the world's admitted extremity. Never before had other powers and influences so fully shown their inadequacy as during the recent years. Within a decade we had seen pillar after pillar of our so-called modern civilization break and fall in pieces. How true this was of diplomacy and_statescraft both before, during and following the War.
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The economic-and financial structure reared through generations at incredible cost fell apart in a day and had not since been re-established. Some of the most powerful traditions and social sanctions, which held firmly tens of millions, had relaxed their grasp, and whole peoples were being tossed on tempestuous seas without adequate guidance. Governments supposed to be among the most securely established had fallen The military and naval power of the nations, never before employed on such a colossal scale, had demonstrated its complete inadequacy. Education, as most widely understood in the modern age, had served to make nations more dangerous than ever. International conference and understandings were showing their insufficiency by them-feives, and they recalled that leaders at the Washington Conference had appealed to the leaders of religion to ensure the support needed to give true effect to its findings. Thus they might say that the past eight years had constituted an almost infinite process of exclusion—serving as they had to withdraw the confidence of mankind from one after the other of the traditional supports of nations and of society.
Never had there been such a chance to put the Christian move-iment in its central place in the thinking, planning and _relationships of men. Against the black background of disorder, destruction and chaos so widely prevalent in parts of the East and of the West, they saw the cause of Christ as a vast, world-wide, peaceable, constructive, vitalizing force for the stabilization, reconstruction and regeneration of the world.
The central question thrust upon almost every nation, and most emphatically upon China, was. "In what moulds should the new world set? Should they be the ancient
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