The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-10
The Y. M. G. A. and THO Nlinistry-A
Contrast.

Editors Of the Register;
In The last annual report Of the Pres
tident of the Philadelphia Young Meme
Christian Association We find the fol
lowing paragraph:
During the past year, upwards OF nifty
sermons have been preached TO young
men by our city pastors in their own
churches at the request of our Associa'
tions. Many of the youug men thus
reached are strangers in the city, with
out regular places of worship, and the
influence for good thus exerted cannot
be estimated. A number of these SER
were kindly preached BY our city pas
tors on the Sabbath recommended by
the International Convention at Port
land as day of Special Prayer for the
blessing of Almighty God upon the
Young Men of our Land.
We thus have the favor and co-opera-
ton of the ministry and members OF the
Evangelical churches, and our great
aim is to cooperate with them in their
work for Christ, and though we are a
union organization, working among
yeung men, yet we desire to make 1T
an auxiliary to the divisely appointed
means Of grace, the Church of Christ,
which ever claims our first affections
and most earnest labors.
In striking contrast with the above
we find the following among the last
annual reports of the Wheeling Asso-
citation:
Il ha inf mil a a
arranged programme for course OF
sermons to young men, to be delivered
from the pulpits of the different Evan
gelical Churches. The movement,
heweyer, was not received with favor
by the Ministerial Association, and fer
want of their support and encourage
ment the project was abandoned"
1t has long been a question among
the members of the Wheeling Associa
tion why it is that the organization re-
ceives 80 little encouragement and sup.
port from the ministry. Elsewhere the
ministers are aotire members Of the As
sociation, generally speaking, and not
only attend the meetings, but use every
effort to bring the organization and It's
work before. their congregations, and
the young men of their respective
charges into the membership of the
Association.
Wherever we find pastors actively at
work among young men and for the in
teresrs Of the Y. N. T.. A., we find a
liuc, Working church. Among the orig.
inal founders of the Association il this
city we remember pastor who devoted
Nd Lob ta hol
church never lacked male ,corkers; the
prayer meetings were always interest;
ing; the Sabbath school had plenty Of
male teachers, and as natural conse.
queuce great good was accomplished.
We're similar efforts put forth by the
ministers of Wheeling to day, the
young men might be aroused to proper
sense of their duties as church members
and workers for Christ.
The Young Mems Christian Asse-
citation is not rival enterprise.
1t does not in any way con.
fiict with the work of the min.
istry. 1t should be used az an auxiliary.
1t should be an active co-worker in the
labor of love. And we here venture
the assertion that if the Ministerial As.
ISOLATION of Wheeling wonld join hands
with the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, beget a proper understanding
of its aim and ohject-its work and its
difficulties-and then from the pulpit
bring the subject clearly and forcibly
before the young men, We would soou
see glorious awakening in the great
cause. Soon would we bee the Rooms
crowded; new impulse wonld seiz-
the membership, aud the whole city
would be blessed by the work. The
Association does not lack funds; the
rooms are comfortably fitted up-in fact
the machinery is very good. All that
is necessary is to beget IA interest in
the cause, and with faith and prayer 90
to work in earnest. COP will own and
bless the effort. 1t is hoped every pastor
in the city will Immediately give the
subject his personal attention, and that
soon the rooms may be filled with earn
est eDquirers.
The twelfth anniversary of the Asso-
citation will soon be held and it is hoped
that the beginning of the thirteenth
year will be signallzed with an earnest
zeal, and that the young men, backed
by the ministry, may resolve, in the
strength of COP, to 90 10 rork and labor
increasingly tor the salvation of INNER
tai souls. Y.M. c. A.