The record-union., 1897-11-06
Y. N. C. A. MATTERS.
NEXT WEEK WILL BE A WEEK
OF PRAYER.
Handha11 Tournament Games Will
be Finished Week After
Next.

For the thirty second time the In
ternational Committee Of the Young
Mems Christian Association calls the
associations of North America TO a
week of prayer for the young men
in all lands, to be held November I4th
to 21st. The Sacramento association
will observe the week November ith
to 18th, instead of the week prescribed
by the committee, and it will be OBJ
served in the following manner
On Sunday afternoon there will be
mass meeting held in the association
gymnasium at $3.50 o'clock, at which
the work Of the International Commit
tee will be presented and a collection
taken for the same. There will be
three short talks by three young men.
and Rev Leslie r. Drake, pastor of the
Christian Church, will deliver an ad-
dress OF the subject: Self Dead Man
Is the God Alive Man"
The gymnasium will be decorated
with chrysanthemums, and each per-
son will be presented with a flower. A
thousand chrysanthemums are wanted
for the decorations, and friends who
have flowers to spare for this pur-
pose should send them in to-day.
The triangle quartet will sing to-mor-
row afternoon, and one or two solos
will be rendered during the programme.
An invitation is extended to both men
and women to attend this service.
Noel II. Jacks General Secretary at
Oakland, Will have charge of the regu-
lar week of prayer service, which will
begin Monday evening, November Sth,
at 7:45 o'clock. These meetings will be
nra1x I
evening during the week Mr. Jacks
has won some prominence around the
Bay for his firm stand on questions of
moral import, and he undoubtedly will
be listened to with great interest The
meetings will be held in the lecture
hall and the first fifteen minutes will
be given up TO a song service, led by
the triangle quartet.
Tuesday afternoon at 3:45 o'clock the
fire cracker meetings" for boys will
begin. Mr.. Jacks will speak to the
boys about The Hand" and some
good music has been provided. Boys
over 10 and under Is years old are
invited.
AS many of the games of the hand
ball tournament as possible have been
played this week so as not to inter
rupt the week of prayer by having too
much excitement in the gymnasium
This afternoon at ) o'clock Brown and
Enos Will play Tonight the sets to be
played are as follows: Tracy against
Bishop; Arnold against Philip: Gum
drum against Enos. Arnold lost his
first game in the tournament yesterday
in his set with Brown, the score stand
ing 21-9, 21-3. 6-21. Brown winning
the last game.
Philip is the only player who has not
lost a game thus far in the tournament.
he plays Arnold tonight and much
interest is manifested in the game The
doubles will be played week after next
and they will prove more interesting
and exciting than have the singles. :.
The business mems gymnasium class
has been formed to meet every Tues
day afternoon at ) O'Clock. The bath
rooms have been thoroughly renovated
and repainted, making them sweet and
clean.
several young men have taken ad-
vantage or the night classes in pen
manshlp grammar, bookkeeping, COM
mercial arithmetic, commercial law.
shortnand and typewriting now offered
py the association to its members and
an opportunity may soon be omen for
classes in algebra. Latin. elocution
higher English, etc The purple and
gold committees are introducing annIi-
cations for membership in the associa-
ton nearly every day During October
the names of four new members werA
placed on the roll and eleven have al
reaoy joined since the 1st of November