The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-11
Coy of San Francisco having been re-
ported, he was elected to the vacancy.

10Y OF 6du IdnclSCO having D6on re-
ported, he was elected to the vacancy.
Y. M. c. A. EDUCATIONAL WORK.
DR.. F. D. Billiard of this city read a
paper on Our Educational Work. He said
that the boy is fortunate who recognizes
that the true purpose of an ed ucation is
to cherish and unfold the seed of i'm
mortality already within him, to develop
to their fullest extent the capacities of
every kino with which God who made
him has endowed him. Education is a
even more than duty. No Christian
has any right to remain ignorant and un-
cultured. True religion begets neither
narrowness, slothfulness nor bigotry: re-
ligion indeed has been defined as culture
touched with emotion. 1t is as much
the duty to exhibit the culture as the
emotion.
ITS LABORS ARE PREVENTIVE.
1t is the work Of the Y. NJ. G. A. TO
improve the character and attachments of
its members. and young men who are not
Y. M G. A. members ought to be. 1t is
not the special worK OF the association to
go Summing. Its work is preventive
rather than creative, constr uctive rather
than msdial. 1t Is IN favor Of a muscu-
lar Christ ianity and of an intelligent
Christianity. The Y. M. G. A. does not
confne its attention to professors of relis-
ion it offers is advantages tn any young
man OF respectable character. 1t would
be wrong for the association to close its
doors to such as have minds to be cult-
waited, because by educating the mind
side of man the spirit side is often
reached. The association gives to young
men q practical course under the auspices
of a non-sectarian but religious organlza'
toin, and they can but respect the opin-
ions and beliefs of their instructors. The
Y. M. G. A. receives the appreciation and
often the support OF those who are indlf-
ferent Or opposed to churches, because
they see in it great educational WORK,
protector of manhood against Ignorance
and vice.
SOON HAVE A GRADED COURSE.
The educational branch of the Y. M.
G "A, said DR.. Billiard, is a step be-
tween the Chautauqna idea and the uni
verslty. Ere decade passes it will have
full graded course, whose diplomas
will have weight wherever presented: He
denied that the courses are super fetal,
and referring to the study of foreign lam
guages he claimed to have learned more
in twenty-four lessons in the Y. M. Z.
A. than he had in a twc-years' course
in one of the most thorough OF New Eng
land colleges
WHOM THE COURSES BENEFIT.
The speaker said that almost every
young man ought to take the Y. III. G.
A. courses, but more especially SHOULD
they be taken by non-educated Chris
tians. by moral young men desiiing ad-
vancement and culture, by college gradu
ates who wish to brush up foreign Ian
guages, by wage earners EN- ployed by day
who are anxious to attend a high-grade
night school, by wealthy young men
and by clerks and Others for whom
knowledge of commercial and linguistic
matter would be an advantage. Hand
workers are a class which to a great extent
has passed from under the control Of the
church. That such is the case, said DR..
Billiard. 10 not entirely the fault OF the
workingmsn, because money and time
have been lavished by the church on col
lsges for the classes, while very little was
given for the schooling of the masses. So
it is eminently proper that tho Y. M. G..
A. should have course. in mechanical art.
And it may therefore =, ct be the province
of the association to regain the hold
on the rank and file of the working peo-
pie. DIR. Billiard S paper was thoroughly
discussed by several delegates, led by
George B. Hodge. The in setting then ad-
journed to reconvene at the First NJ. T..
church in the evening,