Article September 9, 1950 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Ralph W. Decker, Canon J. P. Hodges

An editorial in the Christian Advocate Chicago, Illinois

"We feel the need for spiritual uplift," is the way a sixteen-year-old athlete ... explains the fact that hundreds of students in six high schools at Columbus, Ohio, begin school days with prayer meetings. "We feel that the only salvation for the world is through religion. Anyone who can read a newspaper can see that every other method of bringing peace to the world is failing."

It all began when [this boy], who is a minister's son, came home from New York City, where he had met other students who were holding prayer meetings. He found half a dozen boys who felt as he did, and together they found a minister who said they could use his church for their meetings. When cold weather came and the church was not always open, they began meeting in the churchyard.

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