beginning the seat of your universal committee. He must content himself in sending such expressions from afar with the wishes that your efforts among the youth may more and more increase the army of soldiers fighting for the welfare of mankind.

J. B. PIODA.

A TELEGRAM FROM HIS MAJESTY, VICTOR EMMANUEL III, KING OF ITALY

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 11, 1901. In compliance with the orders of His Majesty the King of Italy, I have the honor to express his sincere and warmest congratulations to your grand association on the day of its Jubilee, and his best wishes for its prosperity and increasing welfare in behalf of those principles of humanity and religion which constitute the glory of our Christian civilization.

CARIGNANI, Charge d'Affaires.

A LETTER FROM PRINCE HILKOFF, IMPERIAL MINISTER RUSSIAN STATE RAILWAYS

ST. PETERSBURG, May 24, 1901.

Much regretting that I am deprived of the pleasure of attending the Jubilee conference, I wish to express my earnest desire for the utmost possible success of the conference and of the Young Men's Christian Association in America.

M. HILKOFF,

Imperial Minister, Russian State Railways.

Greetings from Association Leaders and Brother

hoods of the World

OFFICIAL GREETINGS OF THE WORLD'S COMMITTEE

To the Jubilee Convention of the Young Men's Christian Associations of North America at Boston:

Dear Brethren :

With great joy as well as with deep interest, the members of the World's Committee have heard of your preparations for the celebration of the Jubilee of the Young Men's Christian Associations of North America. We have received your cordial invitation with great thankfulness and are happy that it is possible for some of our members to respond to it and to repre

sent us.

We wish now to express to the whole convention our feelings of affection and sympathy for your work. It has wonderfully prospered in these fifty years; may it always continue to develop and be an increasing blessing to the young men of your country.

When we look back to the beginnings of this work, and think of that room at St. Paul's Churchyard in London, on the sixth of June, 1844, and of him we all love and so highly honor, Sir George Williams, a man chosen and led by God to be the founder of all this, then we wonder, and we can only bow our heads, saying: "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory."

Great things have been done, brethren, great things remain to be done. And what is there greater in the world than the immortal soul of man? What can there be higher than pointing out to young men the only necessary thing, the only way to eternal life, the only name by whom man can be saved?

May your Jubilee be an occasion of great blessing to all present and all represented; may it prove to be the beginning of a new period of development and active work to the glory of God.

The World's Committee, in presenting its hearty congratulations and salutations, is happy to include those of the Young Men's Christian Associations from all parts of the world, united in one great aim, benefited and helped by one another and honored when one member is honored.

Receive, brethren, the renewed assurance of our love.

In the name of the Central International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations.

(Signed) PROF. EDOUARD BARDE, President,

CHARLES FERMAUD, M. A., General Secretary.

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(5) A. Hjelt

(3) A. Von Szilassy (4) P. Bovet (7) R. Meyhoffer (8) A. H. Da Silva FOREIGN VISITORS-]

AN ADDRESS BY PASTOR ADOLF HOFFMAN, MEMBER OF THE WORLD'S COMMITTEE

The World's Committee in Geneva, Switzerland, sends its fraternal greetings and prays for the richest outpouring of the Spirit of God during all these gatherings. We know with what zeal your associations are working, and we rejoice with you at the work you have accomplished. We have always felt it to be an honor that our committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations all over the world should be a kind of bond between the old world and the new. Our aim has been, and ever is, to promote a lively interchange of the best ideas and experience between the associations in different lands, and up to the present God has crowned our efforts with success.

Our desire is to render this service in that spirit of brotherhood which wells up in the royal heart of Christ, the kingly Brother of all young men in North America, in Europe, and throughout the world.

With you, we burn with a desire that by the efforts of truly converted young men everywhere, the reign of Christ, the King, may be evermore widely extended. May this festival become a veritable pentecost! May thousands of young men be seized upon by the Holy Ghost and won for Christ, and be brought to serve Him with all their hearts in His vast vineyard!