ing" courses and "coming of age" courses are both needed if the city problem is to be solved. Through the factory department, which has been recently organized by the American Committee, we are promoting the welfare of the commercial and industrial classes. Your aggressive warfare against the forces which are destroying young men, and ours against the forces that are destroying young women, are both needed in order to create a demand for a uniform standard of morality for men and women. Third, our fundamental principles are the same. We stand with you for the divinity and atonement of Christ, for the personality of the Holy Spirit and for the integrity and authority of the Holy Scriptures. If there has been any person here who has questioned the necessity for and the value of the evangelical basis, I am sure that at the close of this convention all doubt must have been removed. We, too, consider the principal aim and the crowning achievement of all association work is to lead souls to Christ, and to direct them to the church of God. The question has occurred to me whether the Young Men's Christian Association can do its very best work if the Young Women's Christian Association does not rise to its responsibility, occupy its field and perform its mission. As you enter upon the fifty-first year of your history and we upon our fifteenth year, I wish again to thank you for the many ways by which you have proved your desire to see the Young Women's Christian Association become the widespread blessing to women that your organization has been to men. May I, at the same time, promise-in the name of the American Committee-that with absolute dependence upon the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit, we will be faithful to our trust, and will do our part in solving the great problems which we have been considering. Telegrams and Letters of Greeting from Heads of Nations and from Other National Dignitaries A TELEGRAM FROM WILLIAM MCKINLEY, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, June 11, 1901. On the assembling of the Jubilee Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association of North America, please express my regrets at being unable to attend and assure those present of my deep interest in the work of the associations and my hope that the convention may devise means for even greater success in the cause to which they are dedicated. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. A TELEGRAM FROM EMPEROR WILLIAM OF GERMANY WASHINGTON, D. C., June 11, 1901. To Mr. James Stokes, Young Men's Christian Association Jubilee Convention, Boston: The German Ambassador has the honor to transmit the following telegram of his Imperial German Majesty: "I ask you to transmit to the brotherhood of Young Men's Christian Associations of America, assembled for the Jubilee Convention, my hearty congratulations. With pride the brotherhood may look back on its past life, which promises further to flourish and increase. May this expectation be fulfilled in a rich measure. With satisfaction I see that the German associations, active in the same endeavor, take part fraternally in this solemn gathering. May the American associations also in the future train for their great fatherland citizens who are sound in body and soul and of earnest convictions of life, standing on the only unmovable foundation of the name of Christ, whose name is above every name. WILHELM, I. R." (Imperator. Rex.) A TELEGRAM FROM THE IMPERIAL GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D. C., June 11, 1901. I send you my sincerest congratulations and most earnest wishes that your social, educational and religious service may equal in the future the wonderful progress of your noble work in the past half-century. BARON VON HOLLEBEN, Imperial German Ambassador. A TELEGRAM FROM KING EDWARD VII His Royal Highness and Imperial Majesty Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Emperor of India, desires to express his hearty sympathy with and encouragement to the Young Men's Christian Associations assembled in conference at Boston, June, 1901. SIR DIGHTON PROBYN, Equerry. A LETTER FROM FIELD MARSHAL LORD ROBERTS WAR OFFICE, LONDON. Dear Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, which has been delivered to me by Lord Strathcona, and I beg that you will convey to the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association my best thanks for their kind invitation to attend the Jubilee Convention of the American associations, to be held in Boston, June of this year. I appreciate very fully your kind words in regard to myself, and I feel glad that I was enabled to further to some extent the interests of your association in carrying out their good work among the soldiers in South Africa. I regret extremely that I should be unable to avail myself of the privilege of being your guest on this auspicious occasion, but you will understand that the duties of my office will render it impossible for me to leave England. Believe me, Yours very truly, A TELEGRAM FROM THE SWISS AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D. C., June 13, 1901. To the President of the Young Men's Christian Associations' Jubilee Convention : The minister from Switzerland to the United States, whom you were good enough to honor with your invitation to be present at your congress, regrets very much that he is prevented from attending, the more so as he would have taken the opportunity of offering you in the name of the oldest republic the deeply felt thanks for your having intrusted to her from the |