The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-13
TIE YOHNG MEMS HOME

VERY large number of the young men who
are commencing life in this aud other great
cities are deprived of the influences of home,
and are thrust into the great world of busi-
ness and pleasure just at the time when they
most need to be surrounded by those moral
and religious restraints that belong to the
home circle, and it is not to be wondered at
that the best-intentioned go astray and fall
into evil habits simply because there has been
no one to give warning or counsel in the time
of temptation or danger. The great work
that the Young Mems Christian Association
has undertaken is to surround the young men
who are working their way in the world with
such influences as will tend to form their
characters and to encourage them in good
habits. It extends a cordial welcome to
all young men and introduces them into
circles of sympathizing friends who will take
an interest in their temporal as we'll as their
spiritual welfare; and by providing pleasant
places of resort for leisure moments, it seeks
to prevent the haunts of vice from becoming
attractive. Many young man has fallen into
bad habits and has become a pest to society,
not from any inherent depravity, but simply
because circumstances have thrown him
among demoraliziDg associations at q most
critical period of his career, when his charac-
ter is forming, and when he has not sufficient
experience in the ways of the world to decide
between good and evil and there are thou
sands who become dissipated or vicious who
might have been easily trained to walk in the
paths of virtue if they had at the commence
ment of active life been kindly taken by the
han nd to thair nlo
and companions from among the cultivated
and religious members of society. The Young
Mems Christian Association, with its pleasant
reading rooms, its popular lectures, and other
appliances, has done and will continue to do
q great and important work; but it is obvious
that many young men will not be reached in
this manner, and that something more is
needed. The association, to carry out the
objects of its creation in the fullest manner,
must follow the young men to their homes,
and it must provide many of them with
homes where they will be made comfortable
and at the same time surrounded by the best
influences The managers of the association
have recognized this necessity for long
time, and they have now endeavored to pro-
vide for it by establishing Young Mems
Home, where, for a moderate rate of
board, respectable young men can be pro-
vided with conveniencies and comforts not
obtainable in ordinary hotels and boarding
houses, and at the same time where they will
be brought under good influences that cannot
but have powerful effect in forming their
characters and in encouraging them to prac-
tise religion and morality. For the purposes
of this Home the building of the Union Club,
on Twelfth street, below Walnut, has been
purchased. 1t will be necessary to make an
addition to this for dormitory, and in order
that this may be done about $50, 900 will be
required. There ought to be no difficulty
whatever about raising this sum, for the en-
terprise is one that commends itself in the
strongest manner to the business men of the
community, who are directly interested in
having the young men in their employ
brought under just such influences as those
exerted by the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation. This establishment is in
tended to be home in
the best sense of the word, and
as it will be conducted in an entirely unsec-
persons of all shades of religious opinion, as
well as of those who have no religious
opinions, but who are able nevertheless to re-
cognize the moral value of the influences
which will be brought to bear upon the young
men who will reside in the home. The esta-
blishment of Young Mems Home is practi-
cal matter that requires no argument to de-
monstrate its value, and we sincerely hope
that the comparatively small amount needed
to make the scheme an entire success will be
forthcoming without delay,