Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-04-27
TILE WORK Tor YOUNG MEN
What Good the Y. NJ. G. A. Has
Accomplished.
THEIR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
The Event Observed in a
Number of Churches.
Fourth Anniversary Of the Young Mems
Christian Association of This City
Celebrated in Different Churches--
What tile Annual Report Says.

The fourth anniversary Of the Young
Mems Christian Association was observed
sunday. Instead Of making it the occa-
sion Of a special meeting, the event was
signali2cd at a number Of city churches.
General Secretary j, K. King spoke at
Union Church in the morning and at Scott
and West in the evening. The speakers at
other churches were Us follows: Grace
Church William X. Crosby: st. Paul's,
Charles Baird: Scott, l., A, Bower; Asbury,
Harry i.mmons; Union, ]. r. King and c.
II. Cantwell; First Presbyterian. Job H.
Jackson; Central, Joseph Pyle; Hanover.
George W. Todd; West, Alfred Lee; Second
Baptist Aaron Willis Delaware Avenue
Baptist Isaac T. Johnson; Church of the
Covenant W. +. Hoffman.
AT each church the annual report Of the
board of directors was read. Il spoke of
the good work accomplished last year,
ami said;
The object Of the association is to assist
those who are desrnus of bettering them
selves by throwing around them good in
ituence, hy providing for them those
things which tend to advance them i'll
their intellectual, moral and spiritual lives.
We have tried 10 Keep abreast of the times
by introducing into our building and into
our work all the different modern methods
which carry out the object specified iii
our constitution. viz: The spiritual, in
tcliectua, social and spiritual welfare Of
Young mcn.
cur doors are Onen seven days of the
week, and IL We add together the sum OK
! all those who come for social intercourse,
| for the benefits Of the different depart
| meNts. for lectures and practical talks, re-
| ceplions and other things. the total for the
| year would run over 2S,0ll, not including
| the attendance on sundays
! The membership al the close of the fiscal
| wear, February 1st, WAS 46j There were
I 2uS members received during the year.
\ With the proper eftnrt put forth by the
1 Young men this number ought 10 be
! doubled yes, trebled before the next anni-
yersary We recommend to the members
that they continue the good work OF secur-
ing new members so well begun.
During the year death claimed four of
onr brightest and best members. They are
| Asa r. Iuinsett Godfrey Y. Thomas,
George L. Crozier and William L. Auster-
muhl
The invitation committee has done faith
fal work. Its members have distributed
hundreds of invitations on the streets and
every saturday night have visited all the
leading hotels and have left with the
guests a lis. OF the churches of easy access,
together with an invitation to attend the
meeting Of the association.
Next to the matter of a more liberal
support our chief need is new building,
costing with site and furnishing in the
neighbDrhoQd Of SlUD,U0O, Al present We
are trying 10 entertain nearly 500 members
and Il host of strangers i'll building
originally constructed for Il family of
about seven or eight persons. Growth IN
our present quarters is next to an lmpossl-
bility. We are taxed TO the uttermost to
find accommodations for the membership
we have and are therefore circumscrlbed
in our work, while i'll 4 Gommodlous and
pr0pcrly-equipped building we could easily
treble our membership and thus reach