apart for special meetings each year when they can 'come across,'
as they put it.

"The teaching of Professor William James, of Harvard, showed how useless
it was to get men to listen to appeals if they were not energized to
act on them. This gave a scientific basis for registered decisions.
As soon as John R. Mott and G. Sherwood Eddy dared act on this the
results were so remarkable that the conservatives no longer opposed it."]

Very wisely must the Christian influence of the home and the church
be exerted during this period so as not to seem or wish to limit the
freedom of thought and research, yet at the same time to hold the eager,
questioning young life true to the highest and best, that with the
development of the mental life may go also a deepening and widening
of the spiritual.

Home Missions, too, must be watchful and efficient in its attitude
toward the student body and recent graduates, that it may offer
the special presentation of its scope and appeal, and the concrete
objects of interest to which the students may contribute service
best fitted to meet their peculiar requirements.

With the superficial dominance of the materialistic in our
civilization has come also a marked relaxation of standards in
social and religious life.

Into both have crept a lenience toward tendencies that are
vicious and destructive. In social life certain dances, amusements,
styles of dressing, have been tolerated even by Christian women,
that savor only of the lowest and most vulgar practices and places.