Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
WORK OF CHRISTIAN MEN.
THE z. Y.Mc. A. INTERNATIONAL CON-
vENTI0N IN SESSION.

Missionary Work In Foreign Lands Dis
cussed In a Committee Report-List of
the Oficers EIected-A Paper on the
Snares for Young Men.
KANSAS CITY, May 6.-The 18th inter.
national convention of the Young Mems
Christian Association convened in this city
this morning. The convention was called
to order at II o'clock, in the Calvary Bap-
tist Church, by H. B. Chamberlain, of Dem
yer, President of the 28th convention. The
Committee on Permanent Organization re-
ported the following officers for the perma-
nent organization: Thomas II. McPheeters,
of St. Louis. President; Vice Presidents,
Charles A. Jewell, of Connecticut; Thomas
A. Wilker. of Ontario; David Coleman. of
Alabama; Henry A. Avery, of South Da-
kota; Thomas D. Foster, OF Iowa; Samuel
B. Harbizon, of Pennsylvania, apd John A.
Scheuerhorn, of Colorado; Secretary, Her
bert A. Clark. Of Michigan; Associate Secre-
taries, Ralph Z. Goodwin, of Massachusetts;
William Mcbride, of Alabama, and William H.
Meade, OF California.
The afternoon session of the conventio nwas
opened by an address OF welcome by William
Mcdonald, President of tho Kansas City Asso-
citation, which was responded to by President
McPheeters. A very interesting paper was
read BY c. 8. Holt. Of Chicago, on the "Snares
in the Path Of Young Men of To-day-Doubr
Licentiousness. Intemperance, Gambling and
Haste to Get Rich"
In the evening the report Of the international
Committee was read by the Secretary. fhe
Association, it says, owns buildings ard other
real estate to the value of over Sl2 $50, ,00O The
total Indebtedness is less than 81 5O00O0 One
Thousand and eighty-three persons are engaged
a. as General Secretaries and other paid officers:
almost 1000 books. are reported. The total
membership is 225.0O0. Great interest was man.
1fested in that part of the report in regard to
mission fields. On this point the resolution
considers that its field for work in mission lands
Is now open, and so far as it has been attempted
the results seem to establish Its value and USE
fulness. The general foreign missionary work.
suggested by some of the Associations is looked
upon with alarm. Upon this question the com.
mlttee consulted with its committees
within whose jurisdictions efforts to
promote general missionary work seem to be
the most prevalent. At the conference held in
Topeka September II, 1880, it was generally
agreed by the committee that the associations
OF the country ought not, in technical and
legal sense, be connected with general mis-
sionary movement The committee doesn't
oppose missionary work. but advocates every
reasonable project looking to a better knowl-
edge OF Christian missions and securing sup
port for them, It encourages all young men
who exhibit willingness to accept the work of
the Church upon the foreign fields.
Inc report recommends the observance OF
the second Sunday in November and the fol-
lowing week for prayer for association work;
authority TO prepare and publish topics for
prayer meetings and Bible classes for the next
two years: an increase of the fund at the dis
posaI of the committee to s75, 000; the establish
ment of fund for provision of those who. having
given their lives to association work, have be-
come incapacirated to earn alivelihood. The
report mentions the death of two persons who
were the associations warmest friends. DR..
Howard Crosby, of New York City. and Henry
II. Webster, q member of the Iternational
Committee