The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-19
YOUNG MEMS EVENING".
Suggestions Which Arc Applicable To MI
Our Larger Towns and Cities.

Suggestions Which Arc Applicable to h"
Our Larger Towns and Cities
A Young Mems Christian Association
committee in Southern city made an
investigation recently with view TO
ascertaining how many young mon
there were in the city between the ages
of twenty-one and thirty years. inc
nun Der was found to be nine thousand.
On a certain night, when the weather
was fair, the committee found chat only
ono hundred and focrteen on these
young men were in attendance upon the
weekly prayer meetings OF the Guy.
During the same hour there were 'ound
one thousand and eight of the .ioung
men in the saloons. What other places
of evil resort may have harbored oissrs
of them that particular night, the re-
port does not say, but the figures al
ready given are sufficiently startliRgr
and we are not surprised that IT leads
the Christian Observer of Louisville,
Ky., to ask: "What can we do for the
young men during the evenings OF this
year?"
We remember reading an article III D.
small paper almost a score OF years ago,
which bore the heading: Wanted,
Hundred Thousand Cups of Tea" Tho
article contained the suggestion that
many young men might be helped and
blessed if they were invited from their
frequently uncomfortable boarding
house to take tea on Sunday afternoon
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who do not attend church might, 1T was
thought, in this way be induced to join
the family IN their attendance at the
house of God. The article was just
plea for the extension of personal social
kindness to young men with view tc
reaching them spiritually. 1t is quite
certain that in spite of all our
efforts to reach young men-and
much is done for them by the Young
Mems Christian Association and
other agencies is an army Of
them who tread the downward road and
serve sin and Satan. Taken somewhat:
at random, we believe that If we could
secure the facts showing just what
Thousand young men do with their even
ings we should come to the conclusion
that a great many are wasting their
nights in sin and folly. We do not be-
lieve that the evil would be entirely
remedied by providing harmless places
of amusement and recreation. A public
institution does not exercise home in
fluence. We could wish that means
could be devised whereby ahappy COM
bination of Christian and social infiu-
ences might be exerted to secure an in
fiuence upon our young men who are
away from home. There are hundreds
and thousands of Christian homes
in this city that might each
do something for one such young
man, and thus make life little
brighter for him. Many would thus be
helped to q nobler purpose than the
mere seeking out the means of getting
a living. We know something of young
men. We know something of their
trials and difficulties, and In converse.
ton with very many of them we have
learned from their own lips that the
lonesomeness of life in NewSYOrk leads
them to seek companionships and assO-
n Citations thatA are evil, simply because
others of better and purer character
do not seem to be accessible, 1t is easy
to tell such young men that they are
mistaken or unmanly. 1t wcnld be far
more practical and resultful OF good to
: show them a better way; to show them
its accessibility and to invite them ia
u enter.--N u. Observer.