Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-05-20
u. Nj. e. A.
TWENTY-FlRST ANNUAL
ELECTION OF OFFICERS FOR 1874.
REPORT OF GENERAL SECRETARY.

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President l. C.. O'Neal in the chair. Alter
the usual opening religious exercise, the minutes
of the April meeting were read and approved.
An introduction of the newly elected members
then took place, and they signed the Constltu-
ten.
The Corresponding Secretary reported that
he had replied to the communication from
Dublin Depot in this State, aud had forwarded
a suall supply of books for the purposes OF a
Sunday School at that locality.
The regular order Of business was, on motion,
SUSPENDED, and the Society proceeded to the
work of the occasion.
The President then addressed the meeting,
saving that he would omit the regular report
of the operations Of the Association tor the
mast wear, as the ground would be covered by
a report to be given subsequently. He spoke OF
the lime as having arrived when be must re
tire from his present Office and make way tor
his successor, whom he hoped would be the
right man in the right place; thankfully ac-
knowlrdging the uniform kindness aud courtesy
which he had received from the members dur
ing the two years of his Presidency mentioned
that his own soul had been truly stirred ana
STRENGTHENED by the glorious frequent reunions
he had had with brethren; could point to the
nrosperitv of the work of the Society in most
of it's activities as a proof of the zeal and ener-
gv of the workers; cxhorted the members to
cultivate, during the coming year, a large ap
nreciation of the "tie that binds our hearts ID
Christian love-" to live more closely to the
cross to lead more earnest and unblamable
lives in the cause of the Master, and to be To-
slant in season and out OF season 10 the work
of the Association. ;,
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praise. -.
as follows:
ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 10, 1874.
The General Secretary of the Young Mems
Christian Association Of this city herewith pre-
scuts his third annual report:
During the year ending with date above the
Executive Committee have reported the III
of twelve persons for active, and two Tor asso
ciate membership, all OF whom were unani-
mously elected ; during the same period We
have lost four members by death Bros. JAS.
I, Bradley, John I. Cooke, VIM. H. Glover
and r. r. McCaine two have resigned, four
teen have left the city and tour have been drop
ped from the roll, the number at present beng
one hundred and twenty-nlne active and twelve
associate members, a gain Ut but one member
during the year.
The financial COUulllOU VI tlC DbClClJ uOC
not present the same favorable condition as re-
ported during the previous Two or three years,
owing to the striugency of the times, and to the
fact If our losing by death and removal some of
our best contributors to the monthly fund,
hence, one of our most important activities had
to be suspended, and we are again behind hand
in our room rent, a position, 1t is hoped. we
shall not long occupy, nor would we, did every
member contribute his quota to the monthly
contribution fund.
The room has been agaiu rented during the
year to the Lutheran congregation for their
services, and again during part OF the year to
the First Presbyterian Church for prayer meet
ing purposes; the rental has been promptly
paid by both parties and applied directly for
the liquidation of our back rent.
The tweuty-Grst anniversary meeting of the
Association was held in the Second Presbyteri-
an Church on the night Of the Sd day Of Feb
ruarv OF this year, at which the sum Of two
hundred dollars was subscribed and added TO
the building fund Of the interesting exercises
held on that occasion, aud the pleasant reunion
of brethren at home and from abroad, It Is not
necessary to detail in this report, the whole
proceedings being published in the city papers
of next days issue.
Pursuant to a recommendation from the
Washington Association. u District Convention
of Associations was called By this Society and
held 10 this city in the Methodist Episcopal
Church, commencing Nov. 10th, 1873, and
continuing TWO days and lights IN session OF
the proceedings and OF the glorious results OF
this Conference, to the participants therein
engaged, the latter is best known to them, the
former being published fully in our city pa
pers, and therefore not necessary to be detailed
here.
The Sunday afternoon prayer meeting has
been holden itty-two times during the year,
with the full average attendance of former
years, and with the same glorious and happy
Interchange of Christian effort and result which
has ever characterized this blessed means of
grace gathering Sunday after Sunday up
wards Of two hundred of the youth of both sex
es, and a goodly number Of the older member,
of the churches within its sacred catholic lnfu-
enccs, it stands before the community as a type
of the glorious reunion beyond the river it
is still held in six of the city churches on alter
nate Sundays, and the committee and brethren
are unremitting 10 their efforts to foster the
truth as it is in Jesus upon the he lrts OF the
uuconverted.
The room of the Association was opened
from the date of last years report until No
vember lst, 1873, for daily afternoon prayer;
this service, which, in times goue by, was so
fully sustained, was suffered to fall into such
decay, that the General Secretary, upon the
approach Of cold weather, decided to close the
room, very reluctantly however, for he is fully
pursuaded that much Of the lack of zeal and
interest displayed during the last four months
of our history is due to the neglect of this &C
livity, and the cessation of the services.
The Aims House activity has been managed
by the committee without parallel in its history; |
6fty-two meetings were held during the Sun
days of the year, and occasional week day SER
vices we're rendered; at each of these services
there we're overfpwiDg congregations, except
in unfavorable weather; there we're always
present a full and energetic band of workers,
and they have experienced their earthly re-
ward 10 seeing "the work Of the Lord prosper
ing in their hands," they can point to a large
number Of converted ones; to a goodly number
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