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 332 FAMOUS LIVING AMERICANS greatest needs are moral. Undreamt-of possibilities challenge Christian workers to reveal uplifting power of Christ. ' ' From Kiev, Russia, came this appeal: ^^Pray for tragic Russia." The volunteers of India cabled, * * India with thousands of col- lege students, at this juncture needs your help." In June, 1910, there was staged in Edinburgh, the gray old capital of Scotland, the most remarkable and significant gath- ering from the standpoint of missions that ever came together. gether there to plan and organize a campaign of world-wide scope for the Christianization of every nation. * * They were not ordinary men — every member of the assemblage had some achievement to his credit. Together they could have drawn a map of the world from first hand knowledge, and they repre- sented almost every shade of doctrine and Church government known to man. There were cabinet ministers and peers of the realm, Korean dignitaries, Hindu pundits with princely titles, Anglican archbishops and bishops, ex-governors of the British over-sea dominions, Japanese whose names are inseparable from the recent glory of Nippon, Chinese scholars, Australian officials, Americans of international renown, and representa- tives not only from each European nation, but from lands and islands of which the ordinary mortal has scarcely heard. On the left of the platform sat the archbishop of Canterbury ; on the right stood Lord Balfour of Burleigh, as the Herald of King George ; in the center, presiding with calm and dignified impartiality over the notable gathering, was a young Ameri- can layman, accorded the honor by unanimous acclamation, the most conspicuous figure in the hall — John R. Mott." ' It is a difficult thing to follow John R. Mott as he goes about the world on his great mission. In the autumn of 1912, Mr. Mott, as Chairman of the Continuation Committee appointed by the Edinburgh World Missionary Conference, went on a tour in the Far East, spending seven weeks in the Indian Em- pire, six weeks in China, five days in Korea, and three weeks in Japan. To show the plan which he follows on such journeys I give a brief account of his stay in India. Sectional confer- ^ Outlook, 99:749.
 * Thirteen hundred men from the ends of the earth" came to-