The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-24
IT'S 18TH BIRTHDAY
TO BE CELEBRATED BY Y. vi. C. a.
WITH ELABORATE PRO-
GRAMME SUNDAY.
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS
WILL TELL OF ASSOCIATIONS
WORK IN FOURTEEN CHURCHES.

Among Prominent Visiting Speakers
to BE Ex-GOv. w. J. Northern, c. L..
Gates. w. II. Frazier and j. v.
Read-At Each Meeting Annual
Report of President of Association
VIII BE Read--Mass Meeting for
Men to Re Held in Afternoon.
Building Committee VIII Hold
Session MOnday-Tuesday Annual
Meeting and Election of Board of
Directors VIII BE Held.
The Y. NJ C. A. will celebrate its
sixteenth anniversary Sunday with an
elaborate programme that is intended
not only to show the present excellent
condition of the association, the best
in its history, but will include also an
institute for the purpose of instructing
the mem bership of the organization,
and the public generally. in the work
that is being done and that it is hoped
to do. h., ..
The anniversary part of the pro-
gramme will take the same form as
that of last year: number of speak
ers. prominent in Y. M. c. A. work.
fourteen of the chief churches of the
city, and at each of these services the
annual report of the president of the
association will be read by a member
of the Board of Directors.
Gov. Northen to Speak.
Among the speakers will be ex-Gov.
W. J. Northen, chairman of the State
Committee of the Y. NJ. c. A.; Mr.. ].
V. Read, state secretary Y. M. c. A;
Mr.. C. l. Gates, international secre-
tary, and Mr. w. T. Frazier, chairman
of the Finance Committee of the Att
lanta association. These, in addition
to a number of the members of the
association, residents of the city, and
several of the local ministers.
The programme of Sunday services
as at present arranged includes MORN
ing services in the Independent Pres
byterian Church where the speaker
will be Hon w. ]. Northern; In West
minister Presbyterian Church, where
Mr.. j. V. Read will deliver the adj
dress; in the Duffy Street Baptist
Church. Mr.. w. T. Frazier speaker;
in the Lutheran Church of the Assem-
sion. Mr.. c. L. Gates, speaker; in
Christ Church, where Rev. M. Camp
bell Stryker win deliver the address,
anu III iIle where
the speaker will be Mr.. w. B. Stubs
Sunday afternoon a mass meeting for
men will be held in the Y. NJ. c. A.
when Mr.. Gates will be the speaker,
and at which a special programme of
music viii be given.
Building Committee TO Meet.
In the association building, Monday
afternoon at $50 o'clock. there will be
81 session of t1e biaildiOa C.or1 mi foo 70
hear two addresses under the general
head of lessons from experience" One
of these addresses will be on the char
aeter Of building required for Y M. c.
A. work" and the other on success
full financial methods in canvass" The
speakers for this session will bN select
ed from among Messrs. Northen, Gates
and Read.
Services i'm All Churches.
The night services will be held in
the First Presbyterian Church, where
the address will be given by Mr.. Read;
in the First Baptist Church, by Hon.
Mr.. Northen: in st. Paurs Lutheran
Church, by Mr.. Frazier: in Trinity
Methodist Church, by Rev Bascom An
thony; in Wesley Monumental Church.
by Mr.. Gates: in Grace Methodist
Church. by Rev. c. A. Jackson in ED
worth Methodist Church, by Rev. ]. A.
Smith, and in st. Johns Church, by
Mr.. Stubbs.
The following afternoon, at the same
hour. will be held another session. for
committeeman, when the necessity for
organization win be discussed, and also
"The Model Committeeman" At 8
o'clock p. M the same day. will be
held the annual meeting, at which will
take place the election of the board of
directors. This meeting will be open
to all active, or voting, members of the
association. An address on privileges
and Responsibilities of the Active
Member" will be given, after which a
supper will be served to those present
by the members of the Ladies' Auxil-
iary.