Thousands are annually converted and
turned over to the pastors of the vari
ous churches. This work cost in 1893,
12,350,000 about two thirds of which
was paid 111 by the young men them
selves and the remainder was given by the
public. In addition to this $2,000,000
were subscribed towards new buildings.
Time fails me to speak of the work of
mercy and help done by the association ;
the work lor boys, liible trainingclasses,
of the two schools for training General
Secretaries and gymnasium superinten
dents, located at Springfield Massachu
setts and Chicago: Of the summer
schools at Kuoxville, Tennessee and
Mount llermon and other departments.
It has been said that the Young Men's
Christian Association is "the greatest
religious movement of the nineteenth
century." "It goes into all departments
of a young man life. It supplies him
with an education, if he can not gain it
elsewnere, it gives him as complete a
physical training as is obtainable any
where in the world, it provides him with
congenial and elevating social surround
ings; it helps him to reach the full stature
of manhood: and it supplies him with
aids to life's work, and points him to
the cross, as the only hope of reaching
the highest usefulness, and the grandest
possibilities.
Fifty years have been spent in the work.
Fifty years is not such a long time, as
the centuries measure time, but it has
been long enough to allow of a practical
demonstration of tne woria-wide impor
tance of the 1 . M. (J. A. movement.
Flowers, Friendship and Fare
wells. "They have been at a great feast of lan
guages ana stolen tne scraps.
