The Washington herald., 1912-09-29
LEADERS IN Y. NJ. C. A.
HOLD IMPORTANT NATIONAL
CONFERENCES ON WORK

OF all the religious activities in the
world, perhaps the most pictorial and
inherently interesting are those of the
Young Mems Christian Association as
reported to the meeting of the interna-
tional committee which was in session in
Atlantic City last week. Washington
members Of the committee, S. w. Wood
ward and II. B. F. Marfarland. were in
attendance and report a remarka BILE
meeting
While only 300 men were present at
this gathering of leaders and the meet
ing was so small that il made scarcely
a dent on the boardwalk. yet the at
tendants came from the four quarters OF
the globe, and the committee to which
they reported exercises oversight and
direction over 2,1S2 organized associations
which report more than 10000 paid MEM
bers and spent a sum exceeding 81 600. 900
every year for operating expenses. Ev-
erybody knows the Young Mems Chris
tian Association in terms OF a local or
ganization; but the scope and size of
its operations appear only on some such
occasion of review as the present. The
Y. NJ. c. A is not only interdenomina-
tional, representing all the churches. but
ii Is also international. having branches
in all the capitals and large cities of the
earth.
The Atlantic City meeting was attend
ed by notable group Of young Ameri-
can men who have been working as as
ISOLATION secretaries in foreign lands.
Their reports read like modern history
in tabloid form. All foreign capitals
have been invaded by the Y. NJ c. A.
and at Atlantic City II would have been
easy to secure speeches by Americans
in dozen different tongues.
These secretaries have carried Ameri-
can ideals and American athletics to the
Orient. Careful observers recognize that
they have been an important factor in
helping to bring mankind toward a COM
mon standard of life, and that standard
predominantly Western and increasingly
Christian.
Prior to the Atlantic City meeting, the
fall training conferences Of the leaders
and secretaries of the volunteer. student.
and foreign departments of the Y. NJ. C.
A., which were in session at North
field, Mass, from September l to Is,
brought over 100 secretaries and special
lists into touch with John r. Mott. their
leader. laying plans for the coming win
ter's campaign. Among the most noted
Of these leaders were Count Moltke. the
John r. Mott, of Denmark; DIR. Julius
Richter the great specialist on missions
from Germany; Rev. Arthur Rugh. and
F. NJ. Brockman. of China; George Glea-
son. of Korea; Rev. ]. Ross Stevenson.
of Baltimore; DIR. Harley Smith, of To-
ronto; John B. Hurley, of South America,
and F. p. Turner. of New York, the
general secretary of the student volun-
teer work.
A new feature this year of the gather
ing was the Language class taught Dy
Thomas Cummings. a missionary from
India. Mr.. Cummings bas been teaching
the first principles of Oriental language
study to several recruits who are soon to
go to the foreign field. The guests of the
Mortified and other visitors and friends
from the town greatly enjoyed the adj
dresses given by these men each morn
ing in the parlors of the hotel.
DR.. Mott with several associates sails
October for world campaign among
the student centers of the world. They
will visit the large colleges and schools
of learning in the Orient and attend sew
eral conferences in connection with the