The morning times., 1895-07-29
ITS FUTURE VERY BRIGHT
Hopeful Words Spoken by Rev. Mr..
Mills at the Y. M. G. A. Meeting.
Young Men to Begin the Work of Sub.
scription by PIedging 500 Each
for "a New Building.

The deep interest and abiding faith the
members Of the Y. NJ. c. A have in the
present and future OF their organization
were manifest in the large attendance at
the meeting held yesterday afternoon s5
Foundry NJ Z. Church. The object Of the
meeting was, OF course, to hold the usual
religious Sunday exercises, but the pros
poets OF the new building We're discussed
in an interesting and enthusiastic manner.
President Williamson and the trustees in
town Were in the audience, as were also
several visitors to the city.
The features OF the occasion were ad-
dresses by General Secretary Pugh, in
which he outlined a practical plan By which
the young men could take the initiative in
subscriptions at small cost and personal
sacrifice. and then Rev. Slr. wills, OF
Oswego, y Y, on Human Limitations,'
with an application of the thought 70 the
Y. NJ c. 4 OF Washington.
The devotional exercises were led By
Mr.. Pugh, President Williamson, E. F.
Simpson. and H B. F. MacfarIaud. r Car
ringtOn leading In prayer.
Secretary yPugh Ouuced that the sermon
next Sunday would be by the Rev. Howard
Wilbur Ennis, or the Wesleyan Presbyterian
Church. Also that it was proposed TO hold
on Wednesday or Thursday of this week
a meeting at Masonic Temple, 70 which
the business men OF the city have been tu-
yited.
The Rev. Mr.. Wills preached from ths
story of Naaman, as read by the secretary
in the ScripturaI lesson of the service.
The speaker did not believe that tempta-
ton was the only subject that young men
should be addressed on. He would prefer
TO regard them as possible sons Of God.
The peculiar fascination OF the story OF
Naaman lay in the fact that it introduced
into the society Of young men a force which
is able TO lift them up and make them
more than they dared 70 be.
His limitations We're evidenced in the text,
where, after TeCOuntlng all his glO ries,
II was said. Bat he was a lepeI." Like
Naaman's, all lives are limited. no man is
absolutely perfection. The speaker warned
the young men Of the danger of being made
towards or indOlents by a sense OF their
limitations; fol it is human history that men
who laboIed under supposed disabilities
became citizens Of enlarged lives and IA
nous in art, literature and business. To-
day one may be lepeI; tomorrow king
He cOunseIed the audience not TO be dis
cOuIaged The question for each resolves
itself. not so much into a consideration Of
capacity, ,asOf conservation The NJ c. A.
had its limitations, but so far as he could
now see there was nothing ahead for the
society but what was brightest and most
hopeful.
Their undertaking was sure of success;
the people were with them. and the press
OF the city was unanimously loyal 70 the
association. He closed by invoking the
divine aid on the design OF the new building,
which he predicted would be one worthy OF
the Capital of the Nation.
Mt Pugh then made reference to q
letter Just received from an absent MEM
ber, in which he said that it was now
Gods time for the new building although
the association had intended il at a later
time. He pursued this line or thought,
spoke of the associations OF the old place,
and then explained his plan OF soliciting
subscriptions
This was that the young men should
begin the work; that at least fifty OF them
should subscribe S1OO, to be paid in four
years. Cards for this purpose were handed
to the young men as they left the meeting.
An enthusiastic speech was made towards
the close of the meeting by Mr.. E. F.
Simpson. who advised the heCO-Operationofthe
women as a condition precedent for success