(3)—There is yet another quality of young manhood which provides it with a divine opportunity—I mean the power of friendship—that delight in one another's company, that interest in the other follow's standpoint, that happy consciousness that things can be done if they are undertaken together, which is all so characteristic of life in its youthfulness. In middle life this power rarely survives, It has been supplanted by a kind of obstinacy which some mistake for strength. As our career becomes stereotyped and our occupations become preoccupations we find it ess easy to adopt that common mind which Mr. Oldham has been advocating so persuasively. Life becomes a question of holding the fort,-or the stagnation of trench warfare.
But if you want to understand the powers of youth leave the official and professional stand.) point and breathe the atmosphere of students in Camp or Conference. There they come full of their own ardour and loyalties of course, but how ready, how delighted to appreciate other aspects of truth and service. New and larger thoughts are assimilated, not along lines of logic but through the powers of friendship. In every generation there have been groups of young people who have together given a new outlook to the world. Coleridge, Hazlitt, Lamb were the nucleus of one set; the pre-Raphaelites made another. At Oxford the Tractarian group was followed by the Broad Church group and so on. But far and away the most important is the Christian Student Movement, with its cultivation of corporate prayer and the cmnen mind in the things of Christ.
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