John R. Mott, Evangelist and Activist
Died: January 31,1955, age 89 in Orlando, Florida
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John R. Mott was an influential evangelist who had presided over the 1910 World Missionary Conference.
Mott and a colleague were offered free passage on the Titanic by a White Star Line official who was interested in their work. Mott declined and took the SS Lapland instead.
Upon hearing about Titanic, the two men looked at each other and remarked that "The Good Lord must have more work for us to do."
Mott went on to tour Europe to promote ecumenism. From October 1912 to May 1913, he held 18 regional and national conferences in places like Ceylon, India, Burma, China, Korea, and Japan, earning him the title as the "most widely traveled and universally trusted Christian leader of his time."
From 1920 to 1928, Mott served as the Chairperson of the World Student Christian Federation. His personal papers are on file at the Yale Divinity School Library.
In 1946, he received the Nobel Peace Prize for h is contributions to creating a peace-promoting religious brotherhood across nations by organizing youth and study groups and for his relief work for prisoners of war. Other recipients of the Nobel Prize that year were author Hermann Hesse for Literature, American physicist Percy Williams Bridgman, American economist and sociologist Emily Greene Balch, Chemist James Sumner, Biochemist John H. Northrop, and Nobel Laureate-biochemist Wendell M. Stanley
John R. Mott was honored with a feast day of October 3 on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church.
His ashes were interred at The Washington National Cathedral in St. Joseph's Chapel, Nave Vault.
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