The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-02-22

ed 81, 900 at a rummage sale. In the
state university there are 400 mem
beers, and employment has been found
for 81. who are working their own
wav through the institution. Work
has been undertaken at Fort Smelling,
but it is going slow. Miss Helen
Gould has donated an elaborate music
box there. The association in the
state had a humble part in the anti
canteen work. For the first time an
actual soldier from Fort Smelling is
attending the convention as a delegate.
Applause.
Mr.. HAYNES recommended that $5,-
900 a year be raised hereafter that
more earnest endeavor be made to
strengthen religious work that the
associations of the state unite in sup
porting the Indian work on the from
tier that each association that does
not already own its own building buy
a site. Several other recommendations
were also submitted. Comparing the
work of the association in the state
with 1870, he said that then there was
one association, now there are twenty
two then there were no paid agents,
now there are tw~enty-four then there
was very little membership, now 1T is
between 8, 900 and 6, 900; then there
were only five delegates to the state
convention, last year there were PA /;
then only a trifie was expended, last
year the amount was owe $40, OUO
then there was practically no property
belonging to the associations, now
there is nearly a quarter of a million
dollars worth then there was great
grace of God in the work, but now he
questioned whether there was as
much.
r. II. Chute, the state treasurer,
was absent. and Mr.. Haynes read his
report, which showed that on Jan.
LIST, 1900, there was a balance OF
800. Al on hand, and that the total re-
ceipts were 81, 403. 10. The disburse-
ments included So, SOC. 46 for salaries,
and a balance of $106. 81 was left Jan.
Is t, 1901.
The two reports were referred to the
state committee on reports.
Prevention, Not Cure.
The new chairman, Mr.. Dean, came
in at this point and vas escorted to
the platform by a committee. He
spoke briefly, and said that he did not
huOW WuSUuOI W NC Uudllhlul, put hO
considered it an honor to hold any
Office in the convention. He introduce
ed DR.. Cyrus N%orthrup, president Of
about half an hour in In entertaining
lack of faith in God, and the small
as compared with women. He said
4ho4 ,,4cf fNu,nc houn too roonu
churches, and that it would be better
to have n strong one. Applause. J
He advised against having too many
reviewed the work of the associa-
ZION, and pa..rtlcularly the benefit
which it is to young men who are
strangers. Its best work was in pre-
venting young men from falling into
evil associations. "The boy that gets
into the Y. M. @. A., with its arms
of love around him, is not the one
who will go into a bar room at two
o'clock in the morning and commit
murder fighting over a dissolute
woman" said the speaker with ear
nestness. ''How many people have
the churches of Mankato saved? How
many have the Y. NJ. @. A. saved from
~ u1oSOluOC 11lC, LII Ills CIlJ NIL.
Northrup answered his own questions
said that prevention is easier than
begun, where decay is setting in all
the preventing of young men from &c
prize in the Y. M. G. A., said Mr..
NnrthTr1n II oIcN fra;no n phuoi-
cally. Closing, the speaker said
speed as it goes on its mission to save
world if we all did our best to lift
it up. Hope, faith and love, and the
greatest of these is love. Little child
rem. love one another"
The following. committees were ap-
pointed by the chairman:
Devotional, S. w, Douglas, S. r.
Mccarthy, E. L. Broecker, Abner G.
Graw and Peter Hansan.
Resolutions, T. f. Upham, w. L.
Cars, S.. S. Staring, Prof. S. P. Pease,
P. A. Davies.
State committee report, G. A.
Gruman, chairman, B. A. Schuman,
G. E. Woodward, w. S. Jones, III. A.
Lyddon.
Business, Fl. P. Goddard, w. S.
Mccormick.
Auditing, Frank Nay, Fl. FL. Mann.
Mr.. Goddard announced that the
sessions would begin promptly on
time, and adjournment was taken
after a benediction by Rev. T. M.
Edmands.
FRIDAYS Sessions.
This forenoon session began at nine
O'Clock. Rev. G. f. Swift of Mime
apolis spoke upon "The Tool and the
Association reports were re-
ceived and Fred R. Smith, secretary
OF the international committee, New
York, gave an address on ''The AS
ISOLATION as a Spiritual Force"
The following program was carried
out this afternoon
Bible hour, DR.. E. I. Boswo rth,
Oberlin college, in charge of G. G.
Kitchener, Chicago, secretary of inter
national committee, assisted by G.. S.
Phelps, state university, Wisconsin
city, town and railroad conference,
Thomas 81. Dickson, st. Paul, presi-
ding. Educational problems-(a)
"Needs and Features of the Educa-
tional Department" w. Y. Chute,
chairman educational committee, Min
neapolis. (b) "Means of Interesting
Young Men," George W. Asling,
educational director, st. Paul.
(c) "Organizing and Developing a
Night Glass;, E.. A. Purdy, educa-
tional director, Minneapolis. ID
christian Work Among Educational
Department Men" 3B. A. Shuman, |
general secretary, Duluth. Practical
Christianity" L. S.. Coffin, ex-rail-