The Archive · 1937

Y.M.C.A. WORLD ALLIANCE MEETS

Details of Conference Held in Mysore Told by Returning Chinese Delegates Four of the six Chinese delegates who attended the ist -meeting of the World's Alliance of the YMCA. which was held at Mysore, India, from. January 2-10, returned to Shanghai in the s. Vietoria_ which arrived. from Colombo on January: 27, These four were S.C. Leung, General Secretary of the National Committee of the ¥.M.C.A's of China, D,'W, Edwards, North China regional scerolay, Boon Chu, student secre. tary of the Shanghai YMCA, and Joseph T. F Wang, a student ='The two other official delegates from. China, Peter Shih, Gener Secretary of the Nanking ¥M.C.A., and C, D. Sing, General Secretary of the Amoy YMC.A., will return later. The former has remained in India to do special deputation work speaking fo Indian students in North India and in Burma, The returning delegates report a most significant time: The conference metas the nests of the Maharaj of Mysove, His Highness Sri Keish~ harajendra Wadiyar Bahadur, who Attended the opening meeting of the conference in state dress, Although himeelf a devout Hindu, in a brief address he discerningly "summarized the object of this meeting of Christian Jeaders as "laving a Yead to youth as faces the balling confusions of our time and seeks a way of life in which it'finds both authority and freedom" ud then went on to quote an Indian philosopher's preseription:—"Religious Ttleatism seems to be the most: hope~ ful. political instrument for,~ peace which the world has seen, Treaties and diplomatic. understandings may restrain passions, but they do not Femove fear. We want. religious heroes who will not wait for the transformation of the whole world, but will_astert, with their lives if necessary, the truth of, the conviction on earth one family'

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