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S. C, A. Membership

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
March
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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For some time a feelinjt ha8 been growing in the Student's Christian As-ociation that the existing basis of membership was not the best one for this particular association owing to the conditions peculiar to a University city. A elight effort at modification was made last year but it was not until this year, last November, that the question came up in a way to show how vitally important it was. In December it was voted to go from the Y. M. C. A. basis, which requires a person to be a member of some evangelical church before becoming an active member of the S. C. A., to a personal basis which requires each student to subscribe to the folio wing pledge: So far accepting the aim of this Association that I can work in harmony with its members I agree to abide by its laws and seek its prosperity; I desire that my life be guided by the spirit of fuith, prayer and love which animated the life of Jesús Christ; I will cultívate a Christian friendship and sympathy with my associates, and will ever strive to help them to a knowledge of Qod and a realization of the spiritual possibilities of the Christian life. The aim of the Association is declared in its constitution.to be as follows: The purpose of this Association is to lead men to an earnest study of the Scripturee; to a renunciation of sin; to a knowledge of Jesus Christ as Iheir Divine Lord and Saior; to the acceptance of His words and the Holy Spirit as the guide of life; and to the cultivation of Christian fellowship.- Art. II, Constitution. Immediately after Christmas the work of adopting the articles of incorporation was taken up and those who had held so strongly to the Y. M. C. A. basis of membership urged a special qialification for the officers. ThiscauseJ many discussions and a compromise was at last effected which requires Ihe trustees to subscribe specially to the "purpose," and four of the trustees are the four principal officers of the Association. The other eight trustees are members of the faculty of the University. Harmony has at last been fully restored.

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