The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-04
PLEA FOR GIRLS
REV. w. G. FENNELL TELLS
OF MANY TEMPTATIONS.
Praises Y. w. G. A. Managers for Efforts
in Their Behalf and Asks for Deeper
Sympathy-Other Speakers.

The conditions hat make for temptation
among girls and young women removed
from the influence of the home, and who
are obliged to earn their living among
strangers, formed material for an able dis
cussion by the Rev. William G.. Fennell
pastor of the South Baptist Church, at the
annual meeting of the managers of the
Young Women's Christian Association, held
in the parlors of Peddie Memorial Church
yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Fennell paid a
glowing tribute to the members of the
association who by their earnest efforts are
~endeavoring to build an association home
for young women and otherwise further
their interests. He declared tire is nothing
SO pathetic as a young woman without
friends In a crowded city.
He spoke of the temptations which are
apt to assail these lonely girls, cut off from
all family and religious restraint, and said
the number who succumbed to temptation
was Small in consideration of the condi-
lions that surround them.
The speaker did not hesitate to say that
the loss Of religious influence was largely
responsible for the lack of moral restraint
in many.
Young women separated from their
home ties" he said, Twill remain away
from church because their companions
do not go. They grow careless step by
step until finally they refuse to go at ALL"
Reason with Them" he said, land they
Will tell you nobody knows and later on
their answer Is TWho cares"
He further averred that 1t is the duty of
every Christian to care, and it is within
the power of each one TO prove that
somebody cares" when a soul is at stake.
He drew a vivid word picture of the girls
who make their homes in small apart
ments and furnished rooms, and who live
on canned food and poorly baked bread
stuffs, because of the lack of suitable
boarding houses. where girls may surround
themselves with the influences and en-
vlronment of the home.
Mr.. Fennell asked the women to apply
the picture to themselves and their own
daughters. The only difference, he said,
was that most of their girls who were
away from home were away at colleges
and boarding schools, with every atmos-
phere of the home around them. He said
II the women would compare the condi-
lions surrounding their own daughters and
the girls Of less fortunate families, who
by force of circumstances were obliged to
earn their living, they would double their
efforts to provide a suitable Young
Women's Christian Association building.
He complimented the women on the work
they are engaged in and wished them sue
cess In their efforts.
Miss Edith Brown, the travellers aid
worker of the association, told of many
instances of relief-giving to strange girls
and women at the various railroad sta
tons.
Miss Mary S. Dunn, the national secre-
tary of the association, spoke of the plan
of work about to be adopted, and urged the
women to a greater sympathy for the girls
without homes and who cast their lot
among strangers.
She spoke of the proposed plan OF cot
tage boarding homes, and said that an
effort is being made to establish these be-
fore work on the new building is begun.
She exhibited a large chart, which will
be used to register the amounts of re-
deemed pledges between now and Decem-
Der 10. when it is hoped 1900 will be
added to the building fund.
Tea and light refreshments were served
at the close of the meeting, Mrs. William
II. Warner and Mrs. George Stremple pre-
siding at the urns,