Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-20

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| chairman of the foreign committee Mr.
Murray keeps in touch with every man in
the field: He is personally acquainted with
them all and carries on an animated cor
| respondence with them.
Richard c. Morse has been general sec
rotary for thirty years and keeps travel
ing from country to country. He is as
| sisted by Clarence J. Hicks John R. Mott
H. B. Anderson. F. T. Cotton, w. f. Hol-
dren, Edward c. Jenkins and other active
men who give their entire time to the
work.
Maj. Elijah w. Halford, who was secre-
tary to President Harrison and has just
been retired from the pay corps of the
regular army, will soon join the staff and
will now devote his entire attention to
Y. M. c. A. work with headquarters at
Washington.
Among the committee are such men as
George Foster Peabody. James Stokes,
Charles M. Pratt. Robert Fulton Cutting.
John c. Havemeyer. Frederick Billings
Morris X. Jessup, Col. John J.. McCook
James G. Cannon William Sloane. Mar
H. Mccormick. N. w. Harris. William F.
Mcdowell. e. P. Baily of Chicago. s. w.
Woodward of Washington. Rear Admiral
Barker of the navy, Joshua lowering of
Baltimore. H. Kirke Porter of Pittsburg,
L. S. McPheeters of st. Louis and business
men of similar standing in different parts
of the country
The international committee employs a
force of 143 secretaries and spends 1898.
524 year. so that YOU can see that it is
quite business institution. 1t has asso-
Citations in twenty-eight cities, in eleven
countries and the most important centers
of the non-ChriStian world. The largest
associations are in Toxic and Mexico City
| where the membe rship exceeds 1000 each
Foreign Work.
When I asked Mr.. Edward c. Jenkins
one of the foreign secretaries, when and
where this foreign work commenced, he
said:
american participation in spreading
the association movement in non-Cnris-
tan countries began officially in 1889. In
that year commissions were issued to
John T. Swift to be secretary for Japan
| and David McConaghy, jr.. to hold a
| similar office in India. This step was
| taken only because the Protestant mis-
| that representatives be thus sent out.
! Sporadic associations were then formed
| in India. Ceylon. China and Japan These,
| however. were under honorary leaders
| who were giving their time gladly, but.
! of necessity. in limited amount. From
| the very start no secretary has been sent
| to any city in non-Christian countries eX-
| cept at the unanimous call of the Prot
eStant missionaries of that city. In this
| way the association has had the support
| of the leaders of the church and the secre-
taries owe their success in no small
| measure to the generous aid that has been
rendered by the representatives of the
| older societies. --. ,...-
! After this manner the international
committee has sent secretaries to foreign
| lands in the following order Brazil 1888;
| China. 1895: Ceylon. 1896; Hongkong.
J 1899; Argentina. 1901: :, Korea, 1901: Mexico,
| 1902: Cuba. 1903: the Philippine Islands,
| 1908. At the present time there are sixty
| four secretaries on the staff of the COM
mittee. There are twenty-five in China.
| fifteen in India. and the rest scattered
among the other nine nations.
The personnel of this company of sec
retaries is a matter for favorable COM
| ment Having all the evangelical churches
| to choose from. it would be strange ii the
committee. did not have Il strong force of
men. Forty-two institutions of learning
| are represented: Oxford. Cambridge, the
| University of Copenhagen. McGil, To-
| ronto. Harvard. Yale. Princeton and seven
| state universities of the west. as well as
smaller colleges. are on the list. Galley
of Picking was famous in his day as
center on the Princeton eleven; Carter
the national secretary of India, was on
Harvards famous lacrosse team of 1899
1900. Service of Chens-tu broke all rec
ords IN the intercollegiate half mile and
mile contests on the Pacific coast while
at the University Of California. Robert
son of Tien-tsin was captain of the Pur-
dee eleven of '95 and the track team OF
'9G. He also held hh records in tbs
| hammer-throw and shot-put Other sec
retaries have attained rank in various
departments of college life Phi Beti
Kappa keys are common in this group
i They are men who have mixed we'll witt
their fellows. they have been trained il
| association work and they have shown
executive ability before being sent out.
Cooperation of Leading Residents
Because of the quality OF it's repre-
sentatives and because o. the supper
of the church. the association has beer
singularly fortunate II securing tic ac
tive assistance of representative Chris
tan leaders in these foreign countries
Sir Andrew Fraser. governor OF The vas
/ province of Bengal. is president IF tit
Calcutta association. and Rajah Sir Hlr
| man Singh. probably thu very foremos
Hindu Christian. is the chairman of the
India National Council which supervise!
the associations of the empire For
many years the presidents of the Tolli;
association have been men standing higs
in the political life OF the island empire
notably the late X. kataoka. president o
| the diet. On every board OF directors o
these fore ign associations are to be founf
leading merchants. provincial and city
officials and prominent missionaries.
IN this way the policy of making the
association indigenous is carried out,
continued Mr. Jenkins. "The American
leaders of the societies hope to carry ot
their work 50 that their presence will Ill
timately be no longer needed. So far a:
possible the men Of the country are Sc
to work for their fellows The aim Is
to make the foreign associations self
supporting and self propagatIng. This
great seed principles of TIE association
are transplanted to foreign soil, there tt
develop into the organism best adaptee
to the conditions.
GUST because these associations seai
to become Indigenous do they find favo,
with the people. During the boycott o.