Y. M. C. A. Doing A Good Work

Y. M. C. A. DOING A GOOD WORK

APPEALS FOR A HOME SHOULD BE HEARD

And at No Far Distant Date the City Will Have a Magnificent Structure 

The canvass for the new Y. M. C. A. building continues with spirit and success and it seems that at no far distant date the city will have a magnificent structure devoted to the work of the most successful social organization in America. The strength and influence of the Young Men's Christian association is largely due to its social feature. Young men will avail themselves of social intercourse and unless places are in existence where they can meet under helpful surroundings they are apt to congregate in places which are questionable. 

The Y. M. C. A. is, too, a place where all men of self-respect can meet on an equal social footing. In a visit to the local association the other evening we found the laborer reading at the same table with the merchant and manufacturer, and the clerk, bookkeeper and the young man from the factory meeting and working together on the same committee. The association is not for any one class of men, but for all classes of well-meaning men. No questions are asked as to family tree or financial condition. 

The home is the safeguard of our young men, but although the home may be elegantly furnished and the mother and sisters in it noble, pure, and charming, yet the young man in that home must and will have the fellowship of other men of his own age. The association makes such fellowship possible. 

But the great majority of young men, it must be admitted, have no such homes as the above. In some places which we call home the social atmosphere is anything but pleasant. Many other young men are away from home and boarding and the four walls of their room soon fail to satisfy them. A nicely furnished Young Men's Christian association building is, therefore, a benediction to every young man, be he rich or poor, living at home or boarding. By our gifts let us make it possible for our city to have such a home for its young men- a home which shall stamp its influence not only upon the present generation of young men. but with ever increasing power upon every succeeding generation.