The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-11
Y.M|.C.A. PRAYER WEEK !.
BEGINS THRu0uT WORLD
OBSERVANCE AT REQUEST OF
COMMITTEES. .'r.
World Committee and the World Wide
Church of Christ Is the Subject for
Today--Association Operating Now
in Forty-five Countries and Has 749,-
900 Members.

The World and International commit
tees of the Young Men IS Christian asso-
citation at Geneva, Switzerland, and
New York, have asked that beginning
today, Nov. IL to II be observed as a
week of prayer for young men in all
lands.
Associations are now operating in
forty.fve different nations and have
10000 members. In America in some
as twenty-five nationalities in the
membership The associations have
been immensely prosperous, receiving
over $l0,O00,000 last year in America
for new buildings and current expenses,
and attracting to their multiplying
buildings greater numbers of nom
church going young men by educational
classes, social features, and 500 gym
nasiums.
The committee states that altho the
Bible classes have doubled in three
years and religious services have vastly
increased in attendance, that the APP
peal for the support of prayer is made
with larger earnestness and more con-
Germ that the agencies of moral and
spiritual influence upon young men be
made increasingly effective.
Men and boys in shops and factories
to the number of 100000 have at
tended the noon shop Bible classes.
In the new county department TWEEN
ty-ive secretaries are directing groups
of a half dozen or more associations of
country young men and boys.
The forty-fve Indian associations, as
well as the Chinese, associations, have
the largest prOportionate number of
men in their Bible classes.
The rapid extension of associations
among railroad men at western division
points, which often attract more mem
bers from along the line than the entire
population Of the town, is also men
toned by the committee as matter Of
encouragement and prayer for further
service among these men. Street rail
road associations are also being organ
lied in numbers.
The 700 student associations have
over $4,000 members with $4,000 in
Bible classes. In these, the cali to the
ministry and to foreign missions have
been the emphatic note.
The large number of 81, 729 working
and school boys are in the association,
$4,000 of whom are receiving physical
training.
In the foreign department. of the in
ternatlonal committee there are now as
many secretaries as on it's North Amer
lean force, and its budget has reached
Sl5oO0O. In the japanese army, in
Seoul, Korea, and the great political
and commercial centers of China, the
associations have become powerful or
CARNATIONS. With the approval and
cooperation of the government; the as
ISOLATION has been established at Pana-
ma and army and navy posts.
With a view to the Increasing obi
cations coming upon the association in
It's constantly opening fields among all
classes of men and boys in all lands,
the committee has named the following
subjects for prayer, and asks that
churches and Christian people join them
III prayer for young men:
The World Committee in Europe,
and the Worldwide Church of Christ.
is the subject suggested for today,
Nov. H.
=. For young men in United States and
Canada, Monday.
For Mexico, South America, Cuba and
student association work, Tuesday.
For Great Britain. educational, physi-
cal and social agencies, Wednesday.
For Asia and associations among
railrosd and industrial men and boys
soldiers and sailors. Thursday.
For Africa and religious and Bible
study work, Friday.
For Australia and association secre-
taries and enterprises, Saturday.