The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-14
', M [. A, SERVICES
 TEAM WITH INTEREST
Mir. HameII Delivers Discourse
 on Rich Young Ruler
WIDE EDUCATIONAL SCOPE
Young Mems Christian Association Is Doing Large Work in Training Young Men for Prctlcal oc.
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| Sunday club was addressed yesterday af- ternoon by D. N. Hamell. who made an earnest appeal to the men present on the claims of the gospel, taking as the basis of his plea the rich young ruler
 The speaker stated that to many the in- terview between the young man and the Savior was a puzzle but that it all seemed clear if one kept in mind the fact that Jesus was giving the young man an opportunity to choose eternal life on His terms.
 In the first place the young mans con- ception of Christ was inadequate in that according to the speaker he recognized Christ only as a great teacher and good man, overlooking the fact that Jesus was the Christ.
 The speaker said that Christ was up braiding the rich young ruler when He said to the young ruler, as Is reeorded: Why callest thou Me good?" meaning if you don't attribute divinity to me, then don't call Me good, since there is none good but God.
 The fact that the young man did not realize Christ's divinity proeluded the possibility of his accepting in the right spirit what Christ said to him In the rest of the interview Every man, said the speaker has a dual nature; the one may be satisfied by the things of time and sense; the other only by a true and intel ligent conception of God
 We may call the one nature temporal, the other eternal.
 Rich Mans Desire.
 It was the desire of the rich young ruler to project himself into the eternal and he was so anxious to know the way of eternal life that he "eame running to the Master" as one of the gospels records. But his desire to inherit eternal life was not strong enough; 1t was not strong enough to overcome all other desires, the chiefest of which was the young man love of riches It is written: He went away sorrowful because his possessions were great"
 Had the young man met the first con dition of becoming a christian, viz; oi believing that Jesus was the Christ, there would doubtless have been very diff ferent story recorded of him.
 In closing the speaker related the incl dent of where a ship was sinking Som' of the crew, when all were ordered to tn ise. taa4. +1,a,,ol,4f,,l11y yroyidada them selves with enough provisions to las until they might reach the land, whil others In their greed, took chests of gol' instead of bacon aboad their life boats.
 These latter, when sorely pressed b. hunger, offered by signal to swap thei gold pound for pound, for the bacon Il possession of the other party. So witt many present, urged the speaker tn time would come when they would gladl. exchange all for a living faith in Christ The question for decision was, would tn terms of the gospel be accepted now, o would the time of deciding be put of until it was everlastingly too late, as W have reason to believe was the case wit the rich young ruler.
 Social Visiting.
 At the close of the devotional meetin the members present. with their families were invited to attend a social meetin held in and adjoining room.
 George B. Hodge. at the head of tn educational work of the Y, M. c. A. i North America, was the guest of homo at this meeting. After the refreshments State Secretary c. II. Moorman intro duced MT. Hodge, who spoke on the edu catlonal department of the associatio work He stated that the educationa work of the Y. M. C. A. was the larges under Christian auspices there being en rolled 32,653 men in the Y. M. c. 4 classes, studying seventy different line of instruction.
 He stated that the association desire to make Christian men strong physica ly, mentally and spiritually, that the edr cational work was only one of the sex eral departments of the work
 The motto constantly kept in view wa Help Young Men to help themselves. tu years dBO lne young Hltu III UT night classes, paid only 10 per cent the expense of running the schools no they pay s6 per cent of the expense, statement, which indirectly speaks we for the efficiency of the instruction give in the association; for the men woul not have been willing to pay more an more of the expense unless they were gef ting their moneys worth.
 Several of the new lines of work re gently taken-up by the education dc pertinent were mentioned.
 Variety of Schooling.
 There are now established distint schools In the associations of our Iarp cities, for instruction in engineering steel and iron, an automobile school, school for practical art and househol decoration, a contractors and builder schoolS a school of real estate, and man other new schools were mentioned by th speaker. MT. Hodge expressed It as h opinion that Birmingham had the greai est possible future and that he thougl there was a large constituency here wh would be glad to avail themselves of tn privileges which the association her would be able to offer in the near fu | ture.
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