Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1901 — Y. M. C. A. MEET CLOSES. [ARTICLE]

Y. M. C. A. MEET CLOSES.

Qreftteit Gathering in History of Or* gani station Comes to an Bnd. The greatest convention in the history of the Y. M. C. A. Hosed in Boston Sunday night, .Just before the convention adjourned each of the fifteen foreign delegates spoke to the convention in their native tongue on the text which in English means “One Is Our Master, Even Christ, and We Are Brethren.” It was a dramatic dose to what will long be known as a memorable convention. John R. Mott of New York, international secretary of college work, made an eloquent plea for funds. “There are 200 cities in the world,” said he, “with a population of 100,000 or over without a y. M. C. A., and we should send out not less than 100 secretaries to this field. We should send men to Mexico, the Philippines, to a new regenerated China, to Japan, to India, and to the Levant. It is our aim to raise up in these countries native teachers and leaders who will then convert their own people. Our great needs are money and men.” Papers for pledges to raise $25,000 to send out additional secretaries across the seas were then passed to the emonvention, and in seven minutes $12,700 was secured in pledges. This was raised to more than $15,000 before the meeting closed, and it is understood that more money • will be forthcoming. Several gifts were for sl,000 and many for SIOO. In the afternoon one of the largest mass meetings for men ever helfl in Boston was conducted in Mechanics' building. There were at least 5.000 men in attendance. The exercises were in the hands of Fred B. Smith of Chicago, who made an earnest appeal for those in the audience who were not Christians to lead an upright life. As a result of his exhortation about fifty men came forward and signified their desire to lead a better life.