The record-union., 1895-01-12
STRENGTHENING CHRISTIAN HANDS
EnIisting Society Ladies in the Work
of the Y. w. C. A.
An Address by Miss Price, the In
ternational Secretary, Also by
the Local Secretary.

The spacious parlors in the handsome
residence of Mrs. General Tozer, at Fiji
teenth and Ii streets, were crowded yes
terday with members of the Young
Women's Christian Association and
others, who had assembled there to well
come Miss e. K. Price, International
Secretary of that association.
Miss Chandler, the local Secretary, de-
livered short address, in which she ex-
pressed her pleasure at having the counte-
nance OF women of such assured social
standing as were present.
She spoke enthusiastically of the pur-
poses of the association, which were to
provide enjoyment for and to educate
and enlighten the young women of the
United States. They also desired to reach
the lower classes and embody them in
one grand sisterhood, to be banded to-
gether for mutual aid and advancement.
Miss Chandler then urged all who were
interested in the furtherance Of this great
object to employ every talent at their
command to the end that, hand-in-h hand,
all women might be bound together in
sisterly love.
At the conclusion OF her remarks the
| President of the association introduced
| Miss Price. The lady is an earnest and
! eloquent speaker, who at once impreSSeS
her hearers with the fact that her entire
being and her every talent is enlisted in
the work to which she has devoted her
life.
After giving thorough delineation of
the purposes, work and growth of the
association. its membership and the
amount of benefit its work kerS were ac-
complishing throughout the country, she
earnestly urged the young women OF all
churches to join shoulder to shoulder for
the eVangelization of all their sex, with
out regard to their different stations in
life. This work was not intended for any
! particular class, but for all
Miss Price then pictured the divinity
OF the Savior and portrayed how, by di-
rect contact, he had influenced and led
the lower masses OF the people to the
higher levels of spiritual lite. In like
manner should lovely, cultured, Chris
tan woman extend helping hand to her
sisters III the lower walks OF daily exist
ence.
The lady related several instances in
which young and uusOphiSticated girls
had taken the downward path through
| lack OF restraining hand. and of others
who had been sustained and uplifted by
this SlSterhOOd OF noble Christian women.
Miss Price concluded her address by
soliciting the aid OF all present for the
assistance OF the society, its new Secre-
tary, who had just come among them,
and the local officers OF the association.
The lady will deliver an address next
| Sunday in the SiNth-street NJ. +. Church
at =. NJ, and in the Congregational
| Church on Sunday evening.
| The \ 1oung WOmen's Christian Asso-
citation has been doing good work in Sac
ramento for three years past. Its rooms
are situated at l0lI Ninth street, where all
women are cordially welcomed.
! They have fifteen classes in operation
to tit the sex for active participation in
| the battle of daily fe-stenography,
telegraphy, dressmaking and book Keep
ing being among the things taught