What is the Mt. Vernon League?

The Mt. Vernon League is primarily a Young Men’s Christian Association Organization. Its affiliations with state, national, and international organizations are regular. In this respect her position is at once unique.

With the majority of her members belonging to the ordained clergy of the Church, the Mother, their membership is still retained in this, the most influential of all her children organizations. The opportunities thus afforded are worthy of publication in Gath and Askelon, and the duties thus obliged are, or at least ought to be, as binding as the law of the Medes and Persians.

Some things have been accomplished through the organization. The devotional meetings have increased in interest and good through the more efficient leadership of faculty and leading pastors.

An assistant gospel team leader was secured to carry on active evangelical work among the sailors of our harbor. Meetings have been held monthly during the past year on board the United States battleships. Plans are being consummated for leadership in college campaigns by a united team of the leading University undergraduate men of New England.

These “demonstration campaigns,” for such they truly are will, it is hoped, do much toward exploding common elite opinion among college men that the Christian ministry and laity of this immediate generation possessed only of fossils of preceding generations.

Of the things that are of the earth earthy the Mt. Vernon League advertises her full share of possessions. Incidental as these functions truly are to her primary purpose their returns are “good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over,” and out of respect to the laundry agency, the Luke 6:38 quotation must be completed in that this full measure “shall they give into your bosom.”

The Mt. Vernon Book Store is another “Savings Bank” department of the League. Its savings are trinitarian in the true Y.M.C.A. spirit; physical, in that they find the books and bring them to the institution; mental, in that they compile lists of books that are marked; financial, in that they save money which is needed.

The reading-room on the second floor of the building is supplied with all of the leading secular and religious periodicals from the League funds.

In these various ways the organization, though primarily the Young Men’s Christian Association furnishes an organ of the student body and cares for the student needs of the institution.

Early Alan Roadman