Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-10-16

Young Men in our Work p, was opened by
Mr.. Woods White, OF Atlanta. Before we
can interest others, he said, we must be
interested ourselves. To be in
terested we must believe in the work of the
and to believe in the work we
must understand it. Most opposition to
the Y. NJ. G. A. arises from ignorance of
its object.
Mr.. Bianton said that young men should /
be madeto believe that they have a special |
work to perform
Mr.. Douglass said he believed in speak |
ing of the work in prayer meetings, holding !
public meetings and organizing training |
classes. Speak to your fellow.men person |
ally, andsget them to work at something.
!, Mr.. Cowan said .scircle4 of prayer"
often had good effect in bringing young
men out
The discussion was further continued BY
DIR. Munhal and others
After the discussion had been closed, Mr..
Douglass, of st. Louis, was called to lead in
praise and prayer meeting, This meeting
was very interesting, and quite number
expressed their thankfulness to God for
what he had done for them and their work.
Several were affected to tears: At the close
of this meeting, all kneeled in silent prayer,
and before rising, sang softly the beautiful
hymn Nearer My God to Thee"
The convention then adjourned, till the
afternoon.
LUNCH AT THE ROOMS.
| During the noon recess the delegates were
served with lunch at the Y. NJ. G. A. rooms,
| in most 1lendid and sumptuous manner.
About $50 were seated and amply provided
| with rich, substantial and palatable yiands,
1 prepared by the noble ladies of the city,
and they are to be commended for the gen.
crosby and skill evinced in the preparation
of this bountifnl feast which was enjoyed
! SO much. God bless the good ladies of
/ Knoxville, is the prayer of the Y. NJ. c. 4.
delegates.
1 After the lunch an open air meeting was
held on the corner of Gay and Cinch
streets, led by DR. Munhall. >f
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The afternoon session opened with devo-
| tional exercises, led by Mr.. Ewing, of Chat
tanooga, after which the association was
called to order and the president announced
the following committees
On associations W. A. Kite, of Mill
gan College, L. D. McCord, of Pulaski,
Frank Marshall, of Knoxville
'On business: Fl. X. Boehms, of Muir
freesboro, JAS. 81. Cowan, of Knoxville, J.
W. P. Massey, of Athens, A. ]. Cole, Of
Tusculum, W. W. Pinson, of Winchester.
On credentials Taylor Bernard, of Leb
anon, D. s. Roberts, of Sweetwater, D. A
Heron, of Maryville, P. B. Leas, of Nash
vile, r. w. Lewis, of University of Ten
nessee.
On devotions; M. L. Blanton, of Nash
vile, A. B. Bixby, of Knoxville, Ed. L
: Patterson, of Athens, M. H. McCorkle, o.
University of Tennessee, J. d. Scott, o.
: Wartrace.
On resolutions: P. R. Calvert, of Nash
: vile, Sam'l A. Putnam, of Culleoka, NJ. L
Gray, of Vanderbilt, G. K. Frenger, O
, Tuscullm, Z. c.. Bramlet, of Athens
l Mr.. NJ. l.. Blanton, of Nashville, read thu
following report of the executive commit
! tee:
: To the Members of the Third Annual Con
vention of the Y. M. G. A.:
The Murfreesboro convention last year
in looking over the field of Tennessee, an'
!. fully realizing the great need of pushing tn
I work, ordered your executive committee t.
raise the sum of 81 200, at their discretion
for the coming year, and instructed then
TO employ Mr.. Wishard the internationa
= committees college visitor, to make q tw
months tour among our college associa
tons, and to further employ a secretary fo
:. a part of the year at least. $3.50 of thi
amount was subscribed by the delegates a
Murfreesboro, and of this amount 5000 6
was paid into the treasury and expended a
per his report. The amount remaining un
paid can all be collected when needed. At tn
8 first meeting of the quorum committee re
siding in Nashville. many plan
n
g now ending, and intending t
carry out the instructions given them by tn
u Murfreesboro convention. Mr. Wishar
u was asked to include in his skeleton of wor
Il at least one month in Tennessee, if n
70 more. The international committee wa
also correspondent with to that end, bu
!. owing to pressing demands elsewhere tn
Il College Visitor could not be obtained
: About this time your committee received
h communication from the Kentucky Stat
q executive committee suggesting the feas
y bility of employing a secretary for th
3 States who should use the time as needed i
c each State. Many things, for and aSains
this plan, were discussed by both commi
&c tees, as it had both strong friends an
strong opponents in each board. You
10 chairman was called eft Lou sville to atten
L conference of the Kentucky State commi
tee, Dut not DelnS instructed, Clu not lee
= authorized to enter into negotiations, an
g consequently no definite plan of action wa
ID arrived at, and SO the time passe
and the way not seeming to be opened,
IL was considered best and wisest by your con
< mittee not to press the matter further, an
I'd consequently did not make the call for tn
money for a secretary, nor did they pref
IL associations to pay the amounts subscribe
a while they were financially embarrassed
I'D because they did not need the funds, NJ
r. being able to secure suitable visitors. 70,
m last convention ordered the printing of tt
minutes of the Murfreesboro meeting
II. connection with the previous meeting he
nd at Chattanooga, believing that copies suf
Gent would be sold to pay the cost of prin
at ing. The result is shown by the treasurer
ng report The work of compiling &C., W,
s, done by special committee appointed fl
ly that purpose, who had it done at the vel
ng lowest possible cost, and used the me
ne freely to advertise and secure the subscri
GA tons of associations but failing to get r
sponses, the number of copies to be issue
wv had to be guessed at and the greater pa
ng left on our hands.
nj Yet we do not feel that this labor was
together lost, as much free distribution W
e; made and was, we trust, the means of doil
ir- good and extending a knowledge of O