Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-03-08
THE Y. NJ. C. A.
The Pastors Meet and Draft a
Letter.


The Pastors Meet and Draft n
Letter.
A Ameeting of the city pastors was held
at the rooms of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association Thursday and good
representation was present. DIR. r. s.
Cantine presided and Rev. @. w. Heisler
was appointed secretary. The situation
Of the building enterprise was fully pre-
sented by the financial secretary, @. g.
Baldwin. Many questions were asked
and it was the unanimous vote of those
present that the case should be carefully
laid before the people next Sabbath by
each pastor that the full extent of the
emergency might be more fully realized,
and Rev. Drs. Read, Chichester, Viii.
iiams and Haskins were appointed a
committee to draft letter addressed to
all citizens without respect to creed or
nationality, and the following letter was
presented
FELLow-CIrIzENs-An emergency has
arisen threatening an institution of our
city, an institution which, in its history
Of less than fifty years, has made for
itself an acknowledged position and a
lus
Churchmen and non-churchmen are
united as never before in feeling that in
nineteenth-century conditions this insti-
tuition of the Young Mems Christian AS
sociation, when rightly equipped for a
broad work, is necessity.
They agree with John Wsnamaker that
"a first class city might as well be with
out it's street-railway system as without
vHlo >fr
men" such as is furnished by the build
ing now in process of erection in this
city. All men in their hearts believe
pulled down. This is the sole object of
the beautiful building which has been
projected and by the gifts of the people
We have realized today, after
of the plan of canvass now in progress
will result in the final loss of this build
ing, SO far as can be seen. We plainly
Bee that the money needed to carry this
enterprise while we wait for better times,
cannot be secured, because all such
money will be in grave danger of final
loss. This means therefore, as we
plainly see, that at midnight of March
18th we shall have succeeded in placing
this enterprise out of danger and pro-
vided for its equipment for q century of
usefulness in ways needed in Los Ange-
les as much as anywhere in the world
or we have failed. To succeed will mean
courage that all else near our hearts will
come out right; that our city has made
q step forward in times which make
backward steps expected. While, as
chosen leaders of various divisions of the
Lords army, we have felt the stress of
these times, when we do well to hold our
positions simply, we feel like uniting to
press the line forward, and that this
union will not tend to weaken our own
division of the forces, but will give
courage all along the line. We
refuse to contemplate failure in
. work like this. Its ma.
terial loss and spiritual loss to
Los Angeles cannot be adequately ex-
pressed, and, with our faces to the front,
let us push through to victory which
will crafty all our own citizens and give
pleasure to thousands in other cities who
know our condition and who will hear of
our deliverance and rejoice with us.
Fifty-nine thousand dollars in cash
hava been paid in by citizens to bring
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six thousand dollars more have been
lately subscribed, conditioned upon sc.
curing balance of thirty-four thousand
more by March 18th, aud of this amount
twenty one thousand may be in good,
clear real estate, as estimated by re-
sponsible committee. To save 80 much
can we not make this final effort success
full within the nine full days that re-
main? We feel like saying, eyes. we
will" and we call upon all our citizens
to cordially cooperate in this one enter
prise now, giving time and means as they
can to secure the end we all desire.
D. B. READ, First Baptist Church.
W. J. CHICHESTER, Emmanuel Presby-
terian Church.
7. w. HAsKINs, Christ Church.
A. @. WILLIAMS, Simpson M. E.
Church,