The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-08
4 Big RELIGIOUS MEETING
Celebration of the Fiftieff Ami
versary of the Y. VI. c. A.

] Representatives From Several Coun-
tries to Participate in the Obsery-
nnce to BE Held in Boston Next
| Tuesday Programme Arranged.
/ Commemorative Of the fftieth ami
versary of the beginning of Young
J Mems Christian Association work in
/ North America there viii be held in
! Boston June II to I6 one Of the most
I important religious gatherings North
! America has known, and, perhaps, the
/ greatest convention ever held in the
/ history OF the Young Mems Christian
! Association movement
The gathering will be notable because
Of IS representative character Wash
/ ington, it is understood. viii be well
/ represented Associations have been
/ organized in as many as twenty-five
! countries and nearly all Of these Will
/ have representatives at Boston.
Five English visitors have just arrtv-
! ed IL America, including J. Il. PutterilI
/ General Secretary at Exeter Hall. Lon
don, and W. II. Mills, of the English
| NatinaI Council About thirty En-
! glish visitors in all are expected to at
/ tend the convention and one of these
/ IS to be Howard Williams. who comes
/ as Vice President Of the English .ya-
| tionaI Council and as a personal rep
/ resentative of his father, Sir George
/ Williams. founder of the parent London
! association
a group of eight OF ten delegates are
coming from France. including Emil
| Sautter. the National Secretary. Jules
! Siegfried, former Minister of Commerce
in the Republic Of France, arrived some
! days ago
/ Two delegates are assured from Rus
sia-Franlzlin Gaylord. general secre-
! tary, and Father Vassilief, a priest Of
/ the Greek Church, who has been grant
! ed permission by the Holy Synod of
| that church to attend this convention.
| Already 1900 delegates are reported
as definitely planning to attend the
J convention from the United States and
| Canada. and a thousand more is the
number estimated as coming from
States not Yet reporting. The dele
! gate LIST includes railroad presidents,
/ bank presidents, prominent cIergymen.
/
the forefront in education, religious,
! philanJhropic. and industrial pursuits
The sessions Of the convention viii
/ open Tuesday morning June H. ana
I continue through Sunday. June Is, and
( viii be held in Mechanics Han, OF Bos-
/ ton.
I There viii be an opening praise ser
/ vice in Trinity Church under the di-
rection Of President Charles Cutkbert
! Hall. of Union Theological Seminary.
/ one Of the addresses on the first even
! ing will be given by Col John J. Nc
! Cook on Great Facts in q Half Cen
/ fury Of Work Of the Young Mems
/ Christian Association of North Ameri-
! ca" On the army and navy evening the
/ presence Of Admirals Sampson. Barker.
! and watson, Major General Wheeler,
/ Gen. James y. Beaver. and Capt. Rich
| mond P HobsOn IS assured, and most
! Of these viii speak
On railroad evening there viii be ad-
! dresses by LuciuS futile. President Of
/ the Boston and Maine Railroad. and by
/ other prominent railroad officers. john
/ NJ Han, President OF the New York,
/ New Haven and Hartford Railroad,
/ viii also be present.
! On college evening there viii be ad-
dresses by President Patton. OF Prince
/ ton University; President NoTthrop, OF
+ the University Of Minnesota and Book
! Ct T Washington
! Other speakers viii be CephUs Brain
/ erd, for twenty-five years chairman Of
I the international committee: William
/ + Dodge, Of New York; Rev W Il. p.
/ Faunce. Of Brown University PreSi-
/ dent G. Stanley Hail. Of Clark Cniver-
( sity; Robert E Speer, of New York.
I Hon James H EckeIF- of Chicago; Hon.
/ Salden ?. Spence. Judge of the Circuit
]
! Baldwin. Of London Ontario. Bishop
4 Henry G. Potter. Of New York the
/ Rev DR. James N Buckley. Of New
/ York; the Rev. Dr.. J. Wilbur Chapman.
! of New York. the Rev Dr. Theodore /.
/ Cuyler. Of Brooklyn; the Rev DE- Fran
! els E Clark. Of Boston
! Aside from the strong and varied
/ programme there will be many striking
! features in connection with the cOuven-
! ton An extensive and impressive jubi-
/ lee exhibit, showing the evolution Of
/ the association work IN all depart
ments. viii be arranged in the large ex-
| hibitiOn hall of the Mechanics Build
/ ing, being open for inspection Monday
! evening, June 10. and remaining open
/ throughout the convention
/ To this jubilee exhibit the Baltimore
! association has Just sent valuable
/ contribution 1t consisted Of five large
I packing cases filled with samples of the
/ varied phases of the association work.
including educational class work, So
/ cial work, religious work, and work in
, the gymnasium. The coIOred assOcia-
/ ton also sent good exhibit Perhaps
/ the most striking Of the pictures sent
( was that Of the first Young Mems
/ Christian Association building in the
/ country, which was located at Schroed-
/ eT and Pierce Streets in Baltimore The
/ building is still standing and Is used by
/ a German Lutheran congrega lion II
/ was built in 1853 for the use Of the as
/ sociation and is thought to be the ear
! hest building erected for the Young
/ Mems Christian Association in Amer
! lea
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