Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1903-11-19
Y. M, G. a, Notes.


ian Association Is offering its third
successive building for sale for $526,-
| 600 Its first building purchased III
! 1871 cost $40, 900. This was outgrown
an1 replaced by a second in 1881, cost
| ing $50, 600, and this in turn gave place
| in 1891 to what was considered TO be
one of the finest Association buildings
in the country, erected at cost of
| $3.50 600, and built to accommodate
| ;, 600 members. This has increased in
value so that the land is worth the
price asked-$526, 600 The Associa-
! tion is seeking to erect building at
| least twice as large to accommodate
its growing work. Besides this central
building, there has grown up in the
| past fifteen years five other branches,
one being for boys, with a building
recently occupied and now having 800
members.
! The building which was built for ,,
! 600 members, now has to accommodate
1900. The gymnasium built for 200
members now has , 200 members, one
of the stores having been fitted up for
| a business men ; gymnasium club con
nected with the gymnasium. The hall
which was destroyed by fire a year
ago has been replaced by social rooms
and a cafe. Yet the Sunday afternoon
meetings, which take the focm of a
Sunday Club, ~ fill other parts Of the
! building The best musical talent IN
| the city is employed. and leading
speakers discuss live themes which are
before young men Following the
discussion which is "open to the
floor, " fourteen different Bible
study clubs meet III different rooms,
under wide-awake leaders, who dis
cuss the application Of tha principles
of the Bible to daily living. \ lunch
! is served afterwards, which the Strang
er in the city finds congenlal. Usual
" two to four hundred men remain at
this lunch and 500 men attend the
Bible study clubs At the Broadway
Department is such a sunday Club
with five classes; at the West Side
Boys Department one with six class
es at the Junior Department one with
three, making % such Bible classes
At these buildings there are nearly
! 900 men and boys II attendance
every Sunday afternoon. Besides this,
there is Bible class held in a bust
ness college and led by a popular
young lawyer, which averages 200
men. The popular mid-week meeting
is called the Arena Club, where
some 200 men discuss the problems of
every day life in the light of Bible
teaching, taking such themes as "Who
is the successful Man, " Does Relig-
ion Help or Hinder in the Business
World, - etc Besides these, there are
forty MONDAY shop Bible classes held
in the large fOundries and machine
shops, attended by nearly 1000 men
each week. The majority of these men
are not Christians, and all religious
beliefs are represented, as well as
nearly score Of nationalities The
Railroad Department conducts five
shop Bible classes each week. This
religious work is III charge of Board
of leading laymen, two of whom are
treasurers of important trust com
panlcs, one is the auditor and another
the manager Of the United States
Steel Corporation, with others who
are of equal business standing. They
are making this Association, which
reaches in its religious work four to
five thousand men week, one Of the
leading factors in the religious life Of
Cleveland. There are besides nearly
800 men in the evening educational
classes. In every department Of the
Association similar energy is display
ed. The Association has used so
thoroughly and well this its third
building. in addition to its many
branches, that its demand for another
building 10 accommodate at least ;, ,0OO
| men il likely soon tO he met