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

i

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

A World Survey by Countries of the
Association Movement

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1901
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COPYRIGHTED 1901 BY

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS

WAR 9 2

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

PAGES

5-16

17-32

33-78

33-46

Association First Principles: Are They Still Applicable? 79-86

Cephas Brainerd.

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

Men's Christian Association in North America...

86-91

John J. McCook.

Outstanding Lessons of Fifty Years' History of Associated

Work for Young Men..

91-96

Judge Selden P. Spencer.

The Relation of the Young Men's Christian Association

to the Churches....

96-99

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

The Relation of the Young Men's Christian Association

to the Churches....

99-103

Rev. Francis E. Clark, D. D.

The Need of a More Aggressive Warfare Against the

Forces Which are Destroying Young Men.....

103-109

Rev. James M. Buckley, D. D.

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...

112-119

Herbert B. Ames.

The Seven Million Young Men of Our Small Towns and

Country Districts....

119-124

President W. F. Slocum.

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.

PAGES

127-132

132-137

137-142

Principal Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute.

The Work of the Young Men's Christian Association

Among Railroad Men..

142-146

John J. McCook.

The Railroad Men of North America.....

147-150

Lucius Tuttle, President Boston and Maine Railway.

The Religious Life of Railroad Men and the Contribution

thereto of the Railroad Department...

150-152

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

The Association in the Army and Navy.

152-155

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

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.

157

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

157-158

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

Christian America's Duty to Her Defenders on Land and

Sea

158-160

Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, U. S. N.

Association Work in the Navy and Its Influence on Foreign

Missions

160-162

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

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

163-166

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

Auxiliary of the International Committee.

Association Work Among the Dakota Indians.

166

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

166-175

Edwin L. Shuey.

A Boy's Religion....

176-182

George E. Dawson, Ph. D.

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

mittee

182-185

William D. Murray.

The Contribution of the Association to the Welfare of

Boys

185-189

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

The Contribution of the Association to the Physical De-

velopment of Young Men..