The JUBILEE OF WORK FOR YOUNG MEN IN

NORTH

AMERICA

A Report of the Jubilee Convention of
North American Young Men's Chris-
tian Associations

Reports of the Commemorative Services
of the Montreal and Boston Associ-

ations

A World Survey by Countries of the
Association Movement

New York

The International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I

The Jubilee Convention of Young Men's Christian

Associations

THE CONVENTION PROGRAM...

THE SERVICE OF COMMEMORATION AND THANKSGIVING AT

TRINITY CHURCH..

SALUTATORY

The Addresses of Welcome, the Responses, and Other

Salutations

Telegrams and Letters of Greeting from Heads of Nations

and from Other National Dignitaries....

Greetings from Association Leaders and Brotherhoods of

the World......

THE GREAT THEMES OF THE CONVENTION.

Association First Principles: Are They Still Applicable?

Cephas Brainerd.

Great Facts in the Half-Century of Work of the Young

Men's Christian Association in North America....

John J. McCook.

Outstanding Lessons of Fifty Years' History of Associated

Work for Young Men.....

Judge Selden P. Spencer.

The Relation of the Young Men's Christian Association

to the Churches.....

President W. H. P. Faunce, Brown University.

The Relation of the Young Men's Christian Association

to the Churches.....

Rev. Francis E. Clark, D. D.

The Need of a More Aggressive Warfare Against the

Forces Which are Destroying Young Men......

Rev. James M. Buckley, D. D.

The Seven Million Young Men of Our Small Towns and

Country Districts....

President W. F. Slocum.

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5-16

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17-32

33-78

33-46

47-49

50-78

79-256

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86-91

91-96

96-99

99-103

The Masses of Young Men Untouched by Our Association

in the Great Cities of the United States and Canada 110-112

Hon. James H. Eckels.

The Contribution of the Association Toward the Solution

of the City Problem..

Herbert B. Ames.

103-109

112-119

119-124

The Intercollegiate Young Men's Christian Association.... 125-127

Luther D. Wishard.

The Contribution of the Association to the Moral and Re-

ligious Life of Universities and Colleges..........

President Francis L. Patton, Princeton University.

The Contribution of the Association to the Moral and Re-

ligious Life of Universities and Colleges....

President Cyrus Northrop, University of Minnesota.

The Contribution of the Association to the Moral and Re-

ligious Life of Universities and Colleges......

Principal Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute.

The Work of the Young Men's Christian Association

Among Railroad Men....

John J. McCook.

The Railroad Men of North America................

Lucius Tuttle, President Boston and Maine Railway.

The Religious Life of Railroad Men and the Contribution

thereto of the Railroad Department.....

R. S. Logan, Vice-President Central Vermont Railway.

The Association in the Army and Navy................

Col. Curtis W. Guild, Jr., U. S. V.

Sea

Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, U. S. N.

Association Work in the Navy and Its Influence on Foreign

Missions

Captain A. V. Wadhams, U. S. N.

Women's Work for the Soldiers and Sailors....

.....

Mrs. E. A. McAlpin, Chairman of the Woman's

Auxiliary of the International Committee.

Association Work Among the Dakota Indians....

Arthur T. Tibbetts (Walking Horse), Secretary of

the International Committee for Indian Work.

The Contribution of the Young Men's Christian Associa-

tion to the Welfare of the Commercial and Industrial

Classes

Edwin L. Shuey.

A Boy's Religion...

George E. Dawson, Ph. D.

Boy's Work from the Standpoint of the International Com-

mittee

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152-155

The Open Door of Opportunity in Our Island Possessions 156-157

Major-general Joseph Wheeler, U. S. A.

The Meaning of the Association to the Life of the Sailor..

Rear-admiral J. C. Watson, U. S. N.

The Navy's Need and the Association's Response........

Rear-admiral F. J. Higginson, U. S. N.

Christian America's Duty to Her Defenders on Land and

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William D. Murray.

The Contribution of the Association to the Welfare of

Boys ...

James H. Canfield, LL. D., Columbia University.

The Contribution of the Association to the Physical De-

velopment of Young Men...

President G. Stanley Hall, Clark University.

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132-137

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