The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-12

terest should not cease when your business doors
are closed, nor your duty terminate They stand
in our streets at night by hundreds and don't
know where to 90. If this building is built
many will come to IL, and that influence will
spread If your employees know that you have
given of your money TO provide for an association
of this kind. by law of human nature there
will develop in them a kindlier feeling toward
you than there possibly could otherwise. They
will know the estimate you place upon young
men, upon their lives and their future. But
II you cease your interest or care, When
you close your doors the result will be
different AS man sows so shall he reap; and
you will not get the return In honest earnest
service from them you otherwise would. Your
business life will not 60 along with that sort of re-
ciprocal feeling that there should be between
employer and employee Boston has an association
numbering f. 900 young men, and with those in
the suburbs of Boston there are more than IL 00O
The salutary influence OF an army of that kind
is incalculable. Eigheytwo cities have found it
well to establish these associations. Atlanta, q
city not more than half as large as indianapolis,
raised $125 600 inside of month to erect Y. NJ
c. A. building. In Alabama little place with
only 8, 500 white inhabitants, railroad town.
raised $l5, 900 for a like purpose. The railroad
men deemed it advisable to DO this. It is better
to invite young men to such places than to
brothels. Temptations for young men are on all
sides in indianapolis
ut may be said by some that this is not good
time to start such thing in Indianapolis we
have had too many of these fearful Jeremiahs.
There has been enough of this weeping and wall
ing and possibly crashing of teeth What is
needed is to get up out of the ashes put our saces
to the future and show people that Indianapolis
can do something 1t is certainly great mat
ter to raise $35 000-thats per capita of 30cents
on our population. If there are not $50 men who
will give 800 each, or 700 men $50 each, to carry
out this enterprise, think we had better fence
in the town, hang Grape the walls and write
'Ichabod" over it If we build this structure it
will give an advertisement worth more than ten
times that amount of money to the business in
terests of Indianapolis. We need to come up out
OF tho fog and I know no place better to start
than with Y. NJ. g. A building
The audience was much pleased with the re-
marks made and manifested an interest favora-
BILE to the enterprise. The quartet, composed of
Messrs Blake. Butler, DeWolf and Hoover, sang
several songs, which were well received.
The arrangements for the Sunday night meet
ing in the interests of the Young Mems Christian
Association building project are now complete.
Nearly all the principal churches will suspend
their services among them the First
Second, Third and Fourth Presby-
terrain, the Central Christian, Ply
mouth. Congregational and Centralavenue
Methodist. Others probably will which have
not been heard from. The meeting will be in
the Grand Opera-house Governor Gray will
preside, and addresses will be made by Hon.
William Wallace, HI. Thane Miller of Gncin-
natl, and others. Prof. Max Leckner and the
choir of the Second Presbyterian Church will
have charge of the music. The full programme
will be published to- morrow.