The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-05-31
Y. N. c. A. MEET
ING FOR SOLDIERS
AMERICA BEING STIRRED-S0L-
DIERS FLOCK TO THESE SERv-
ICES-"Y" SHOULD HAVE UN-
LIMITED SUPPORT OF ALL.

Gypsy Smith, the man now stirring
America, the Evangelist who served
at both ends of the hut, has some
things to say about Y M. c. A. work
which should enliven the interest of
mothers, wives and patriotic citizens
alike in the Association movement
at home and abroad. He says:
"If you saw your boys attend a
Y. M. c. A. meeting just behind the
lines under the shell fire you would
not be surprised at my statement
that they need me. You should see
them flock to a service, 1t is far
more easy to get them to crowded
, meeting than it is to get some of
you to church on a Sunday morning.
**% "
If the churches are wise they will
use Y. Nj. C. A. workers and huts for
all they are worth. You know that
the Association both in Britain and
France and America is the child Of
the churches. Don't you get jealous
of it, because it is your child. You
never knew rose bush that was
! Jealous of rose; you never kneW
an apple tree jealous of the apple;
you never knew the vine jealous of
the grape; you never knew the sun
Jealous of the summer beauty and all
that is glorious in your garden; you
never knew the sunshine that comes
over the cliff tops of eternity every
morning and bathes and drenches the
world with harmony and song-you
never knew the sunshine Jealous OF
its results. Why should you be jeal
GUS of a bit of work like the Y. M
lC. A? It is the child of churches
When | see the Red Triangle, | want
to say, Hail, child of the Church OF
God!' When people at home or any
where else in the world say to you
that the churches are failing and thai
they have done nothing, you point tC
the Red Triangle. 1t is an unan
swerable argument for Christianity
and don't forget it, 1t is a beauti
full bit of work; and if you are wise
you preachers and you leading lay
men of your churches and you bust
ness men'-if you are wise, you vii
pour into the channels of the Y, NJ
c.. A. all the forces that you possess
that they may be consecrated to tht
boys who are making world freedom
possible.
Would it not be fine thing if tn
view advanced by Gypsy Smith wa
shared by large number of publ
men in the South, in Tennessee, yea
in Nashville? The $4,000 subscribe
, by prominent citizens March, 1911
was for the purpose of making annua
payments on the Y. M. &. A. builC
ing. There is no source yet discoI
cred aside from the ground foo
store rooms which are rented, t
which the Committee of Manage
ment and the Board of Directors ma
+ look for meeting the Indebtedness o
, the building other than the subscrit
ers to the building fund debt. Shoul
the building revert to the owners
there would be only one explanatio
to be given-the delinquent sui
scribers whose subscriptions wer
renewed in 1917 and those who SUI
scribed anew. The $4,000 or $500
, paid by the 1914 subscribers, and tn
7 faithful work of a few who have CT
7 operated with the Secretary and tn
r Committee of Management is all ths
} has played a part in giving the A
2 sociation movement for colored me
2 and boys its present rating in tn
city of Nashville and throughout tn
3 country. 1t seems that every man {
. woman with an ounce Of public spir
} could not longer hesitate to pay SUI
: scriptions which were made and a
l. | rented in good faith