El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-11
Y. III. c. A.
SERVICES IN THIS CITY YESTER-
DAY IN HONOR OF 1T.
Sermons in the Morning and Union Ser
vices at Night i'll chopin Hall With
StereOpticOn Illustrations.

It was field day yesterday for the
Ell Paso Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION, and the special services held
in the morning and at night showed
up well the good work that is being
pushed here for the betterment of the
many young men in this city, and the
efforts being made to carry out here
the great work that has beeu carried
out with such marked degree success
elsewhere, both in this and in other
countries.
In the morning. there was a sunrise
prayer meeting at the Y. M. Z. A,
rooms and later there were morning
sermons on the y. NJ. G. a. and its
work in the First Methodist, the Pres
bvterian and Christian churches.
There was special service at the Y. M.
G.. A. in the afternoon, and at night
the day ending with union meeting
IN Chopin hall. The Trinity pastor
was unable TO preach on the subject in
the morning as he had intended to be-
cause of illness; while at the Baptist
church there was a revival in progress,
and the pastor didinOt think it advis-
able to make any break IN the continu-
ity of the work there.
Owing topressure on the HERALD
columns today, the synopsis of the
three Y. NJ. &. a. sermons. preached
yesterday morning, and the revival
discourse of Rev. rardy OF Palestine,
have had to go over until tomorrow.
Y. NJ c. a.
Chopin hall was well filled last night
wlthinterested people in attendance on
the exercises there, and the evening was
profitably spent The program as
printed Saturday by the HERALD, was
successfully carried out, and on the
program were what railroad official
a college pastor. and a prominent pas
tor said of the Y. NJ. g. A. as follows:
Theodore Voorhees,, vice-president of
the Philadelphia 81 Reading railroad:
From strictly utilitarian point of
view the work pays. We can see it in
the improved tone of the men. The
work of the association is directly in
the interest of economy. While 1t may
be urged by some that it is no part of
the business of railroad company to
make Christians of its men, or under
take to do the work OF the churches, it
may confidentially be said that it is
very much the business of the com
pany to make sober, moral men of its
employees, and that any money success
fully expended for that end is well in
vested, and will bring manifold returns
in better service, better care of stock
and track-real economy in all expen-
ditureS.'
Seth Lowe president of Columbia
College,:
Going about your streets is a young
man, perhaps without a friend. To-
morrow one of your members may meet
him and bring him here. That man,
who tonight is Il stranger, wond ering
what he can do to pass the time before
him, tomorrow comes here, and in his
hands are placed all the agencies of
this association as a weapon for him to
use, and he can go next week or the
week after and bring in another like
himself. But | ask yOu to remembe
that it is not the association as a whole
that does it; it is the association that
allows he individual to do it. Just as
the steam engine has increased the
power OF man in communicating
through these TO distant places, so an
association like this increases the
power of the individual N u IN his eff
forts to do good in his day aud gen
Grafton
Rev. Floyd ". TOmpkins, Jr, rector
of Christ church, Hartford, Conn
Nothing in the past century has
done more to ill up our churches, to
give US earnest lay work ers, and, more
than all, to save young men and lift
them up, than the Young Mems Christ
tian Association
At the foot of the card was:
Yearly membership 500: Junior
50 90, which entities the holder to
baths, gymnasium, reading room.
library and many other attractions
Rooms open from 9 a. m, until 10 p. m.
each week day.