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Show ?Of'E H"PE FOR AMERICA. F: p ir"'""ttr. :ifter b's ai -'vtl in i'ond.n 'ist evening, Hev. rv. ;1. Camp- li-!!. who -has evidently boftn harden- I lM &a y American interviewers, gave I V H mo an hour of his Impressions for 1 M me Newa after hir, wonderful tour In M tno West, I never saw a man more k. V thoroughly invigorated. He has been 9 breathing American life like ozone. MB ' Are you pessimistic about the fu- BH ture of die United States?" HK "No not at all. But you must recog- IPHI nlze that for the moment vast bar- ' w JM baric elements have asserted them- . m?t H aelyea, Just as they did when Rome- .EH and Greece' fell. What It means Is CV'9 that the materials for a bigger, more &l virile civilization are chaotically ac- 'K'B cumulating. The larger, order will WL"M come In time." 't'jSB "h will come, but how'" 'MB "My final message to America was: ft 1H Put your energies in your unlvcrsl- R? M ties. Think of It 8,000 students at V'l Columbia thousands and thousands W'c'l clBewhore at universities all over the W$R country East, West, North, South." T'H "Does the training strike to tb V VW fundamental things of life?" &iffl "It is. apt to be utilitarian. "What, Kr'lH tho boy 1b to be an engineer? Then SWI make him one quick right here lot HLI .him get at it' " lBH "Not enough of the humanities?" 9H "Just so. The specialization is so 1 complete that a student may leave ll without having received a real educa- ' H Hon at all. But a complete revolution fH has been achieved sinco I was last in il America, nine years ago, and Br. An- IH drew Whlto of Cornell, the former iffHl embassador at Berlin, assured me that IKB. Western universities were becoming Ifll the most wonderfully equipped of any . i in the world. They seem to want some il great educational statesman like Dr. IH Arnold." "Ah, their scenery!" added Mr. il Campbell. "A battle of roses in Call- ' H fornia on Now Year's day this after ' Bi it had been 48 degrees below1 zero in ; HM the Northern stales." HH It was, indeed, with the West that H Mr. Campbell seemed to have been D most Impressed. He thinks that the ' H churches of the United States need ' every able recruit they can get for i the ministry, confronted, as it Is, with j H such vast possibilities and dangers. ! H "You will talk of all this at the ' H City Temple f" H "Yes, but what is one address for I such a subject?" t H Doubtless there will bo many ad- H dresses, and not alone at the City H Temple, ! H no 1 |