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Show Wm World Embracing 'Enterprises in Which the IY. M. C. A. Has Engaged II' lj ; l Special io Tho Tribune. I' f . :: ROCHESTER. N. 1.. Jan. 22. Xc.irly R :tlirco-fourtlis of tho .TiOO (lcilcgfftc? lo Uift h rocrnL SUidcnt Volunteer conference nt. I ' . ; Rochester came from tlio Vounj,' Men's I ! and Vomit; Women's Christian nssoHa- I Tlons ct IUp collcsos. This Siiulpnt Vol- I untuer movement, which linn sent out I ' ' 4300 missionaries io foreign Holds, sjiw Us nuglnntngs ut Iho first. StunVnt V, M. C. ' A. conference nt Xorthtlclil. In ISSb. ' when the vcleran missionaries. Pnion ' ami Chamherlln, so appealed lo the heroic in that company of :iOO co!Ipkj men that 100 of than declared their willingness 'o ! i , go lo the ends of tho earth" If they saw ' Hint thev were needed there. Among , ' That first group wns Iloraro Pitkin, vho vas killed by the lioxcrs. Sow the same ' Wniup: ii; happening- In China. Last year i I at Shantung Union college, exactly 100 r of iho older students pledged to give , - ihtdr lives to Ihe Christian ministry, and tint meant to them the sacrificing of , prospective positions commanding ten I times tho salary. This was so surprls- i lnt; that the veteran m.-jsluiiarlos or China sent an investigating committee to cheek it up. They reported. "I hp further fur-ther we go Into this tho more wo arc convinced that it Is genuine to the core." Tho V. SI. C. A. sustained and "s'locrod" this missionary uprising until it was on its foot and there were added to its leadership experienced seerelailcE i of tho mission hoards, in tho past four yam- U'75 trained, educated and tested ' young nnn and women have sailed for , ' foeicii fields and 4.TIG since the beginning Hi A .second undertaking of the associa- H ' ti on. which is How well in hand, is to j f-ecuie recruits for the ministry from l iho bcst-litled men of the universities- Ht Life work talks are given hy able niln- H. isters before tin 2100 men attending the H ix ten-day summer training conferences H of the college associations, and ad- Hl dresses on tho opportunities of service L I in the mission field and in the ministry H arc given before thu college and univcr- 1 sity associations. H Laymen's Missionary Movement Bosun. B The laymen's missionary movement mBU' which is Just now talcing in hand with mmma lrge success ,tlic securing of millions for missions had Its beginning at tho Stu- 1 dent Volunteer conference in Xashvlllc In H 3!iUii. Two of the delegates present wen Hi John R. Sle.man, Jr., the young banker B of Washington, who had been for ten j years secretary of the Washington V. -M mBW C A., and J. Campbell A'hlt who was Hr one of the original hundred student vol- Hj' untoers and had been for te my ears gen- i cral secretary of tho V. M. C. A. in India mBW' At the Nashville conference more stu- H, dents reported ready to go to J he foreign Hi,' Holds than the mission boards could HL il nance. Then they began the laymen's 1 movement, which Is putting up to tlx- Hk men of seventy-five cities the ihmuclng H of missions as "a man's Job." and so H successful has been the campaign that in H city after city, such as Toronto. Buffalo, HL Cleveland and r.lclunond, the gifts of the Hv churches have been largely increased. H soinellmes doubled and trebled. Duslucss i men have taken hold of this as their job H. One Pennsylvania man said that lie had H made money cnouglu and all ho made H hereafter would be devoted to missions. m 1110 v'(' ehalrman of the movement. Al- fred K. Marling, who is also vice chnlr- H man of (he international committee of H' the V. M. C. A. tlius challenged the Roeh- H Cfte.r delegates: "If we business men j supply tlic money, will you supply tho t lives, until death do us part?" The asso- 1 ciHtioiis are joining in with the laymen's 1, movement in pushing these campaigns. Half Its ileld force are mn who have H' wotkod as asso'-iatlon secretaries or are now on lea. e of absence from foreign H( Teaching School Soys to Swim. Hh It is "tifouraglng to see that the pltysi- 1 eal departments of the V. M. C. A. are p being utilized for the ldiysical welfare l and protection of the lives of the boys WBW uf o, city as well as for athletics and 1 physical training of its members. Thft H' latest development In this line has been the undertaking to teach the boys .of America to swim, to Eavo drowning per-v per-v sons, and to resuscitate the apparently H" drowned. A good example of tills new 1 application of life-saving work was H, shown by the association nt New Brit- t niu in holiday ucck. The names of all the hoys in tho public schools who could swim were secured. These, were invite) L to Ihe V. SI. C. A. swimming pool for. P ihirlv minutes' instruction each day at the hands of G. II. Corson, swimming in-k in-k structor of the ("nlvprslly of Toronto. ,' Over SfiO accepted the Invitation, which L was fust "O. K'd" by their parents, h Then thev were examined hy a physl- cian. Jn the week more than half of J Uioni learned lo swim. It happened that 2 the Catholic pnruchinl school had a. pool. ' mo the association loaned the instructor H to loach its boys. Mr. Corson's method. is to teach a bov to keep himself up in the water hy "a ivy old way" at ilrst, , and this muy he. by tho dog-paddla , stroke; then he is: taught the breast H, stroke, the Australian crawl, and he- k twoen whiles, when the hoys are drying off in Ui3 wann rohnis he gives tluui if litllo lectures on how to prevent dmwn- ipg accidents.' take a helpless person 1 , into a boat, resuscitate, etc. This kind L of thing is lo be repeated the count rj i over. Another undertaking this depart- ment has in- hand is to clvc lectures in ! i shops and factories on first aid. snnlla- f' ti'ou of the home. best, food to work on. H) ' and all sorts of directions on how lo live Htt well and long. By Wireless lo the Fleet. H,' A' jnessago was flashed hy wireless 'from Admiral Schrocder's flagship to. i every United Stales in an of war ol the r 'Atlantic fleet from Sandy Hook to H, Ci'uantanamo. from Mrs. Russell Sage to the sailors, telling them of her apprccla- tion of tho loving cup presented ncr on H -.Now "Vear's day. The men of the fleet J whllo c;iilereri at Brooklyn navy yard I HU 'had tlally crowded tho fine Mroolclyii l, .naval rtould Memorial Y. M, (,'. A. build- J ing. with Ua big addition lately com-H' com-H' pleloil by Mr. b'nge, and providlnc for ."ifi.i beds. II. w.'us their hotel a: well as clubhouse when on shore-. .Since the das ii 'when Miss Gould generously provided for the sick soldiers at IMonlauk Point, the 1 ITnited States enlisted men have loaded jl -her. and others, who liavo provided fur l their comfort, with valueil tokens of their 'appro-elation. Among Hie souvenirs trca - I -tired by Mlsa Could in a special room In j .her irrlncton home nro a great variety of ' t) nvlles and eurlon. flags and pennants and tlokens from the men who wear tho blue. Al Christinas the men sent her a ham-H) ham-H) mered hras.s desk set. and. then then, uro ih'iirig eups galor.i. .Ml-. Itoe.kefeller. Hi i .whoso $:;oo.00u building was opened for the jaekies' use a year :igr at Norfolk, i 1 ii-clved a hronzo .statuette at t'hiist- I mas and telegi-nms and letters jilong' -nuh it to tell how much the i)in of tho ) Jiayv have thouglit of him when in tho b'lllding. Mrs. Russell Sage. :ilsn receUed i rn testimonial sicnod by JL'Ou of tho soldiers sol-diers at Kort' William MeKlhley In np-prociallon np-prociallon of tho gift of a jLTi.yuu gymnasium gym-nasium for (heir use. "On tho Scrap Heap." One of tho many V. M. C. buildings soon (o he abandoned and sold as outworn out-worn and outgrown and to "go to tho scrapheap," to be replaced by a new structure Is tlio handsome building on tho back Hay Boston, which was erected In J SSI at a cost of $'80,000. It Is now on the market and la worth nearly S700.-000. S700.-000. A few days ago Iho Cleveland association as-sociation building, which cost ?l'U).O0O. was sold for half a million, and a building build-ing four times Us si.o will take its place. Tho Winnipeg Y. .I. C. A. lately sold Its building, which had been well lo-catod lo-catod In the early days of tho growing city on a pivotal comer, for S"f0.ii00. It cosl ?00.000. Cood financial turns, which evldeneo (be foresight and judgment of the directors, were shown by tho sale of Montreal's building, which cost $10.-000 $10.-000 In IS!) I. for SJ.-O.OOO. Tho Indianapolis Indianapo-lis building, which cost JJ'S.iMO. was sold for S'-'iT.-Omi; Pot roll 's $.'10,000 was sold for 52..ono. and Omaha, which cost $S7.-000. $S7.-000. was sold for ?::..ri,u00. In cverv ease these buildings have been supplanted hy a new structnro which provides from two lo five thnca the space of tho old. Government Gifts for Y. M. C. A. Governments, corporations and business i men are. today safeguarding and providing provid-ing for the comfort of employees as never before. A mrognition of tho V. M. I C. A. as a ready medium for Ibis pur-nose pur-nose has come from urprisliig sources of late. 1'or Instance, tlio municipality of Shanghai, China. lately mado nu appropriation appro-priation of SlitiOO from thu city's budget for an nihb-tle field and site for tho boys' building of tho Y. M. C A. there, mid a cablegram tells of the completion of a fund of JiS.fiOO for an association building build-ing at Tientsin. This fund was started by a nnn-Chrlstlau Chinaman with a pledge of ?i;i.0H0. Tho Seoul. Korea, government gov-ernment has subsidised tlio Y. M. C. A.'s educational work at the rato of J.'000 a year for several yours, and the Jhitlsh government dues the same in India. Jn Colombo. Ceylon, a site In the city park was conveyed to the association for a nominal sum. mid in Dalny. Mnnohui-Iu. the government has furnished a site within a block of the center of Ihe city i to erect a building, to which Americans gave $2ii.ii00. Coming nearer home, we (Hid the government of Mexico has given SliO.OOrt to ilnlsli tho Y. M. C. A. building build-ing In tbe City of -Mexico, which will provide for the social life of employees on the government railroads, and the oily government of Los Angeles has made an appropriation of $7fi00 a year for three, years to pay Y. M. C. A. secretaries, who will look out for the welfare of the employees em-ployees on Its U.'iO-nillo aqueduct. Y. M. C. A. Briefs. On January !, the international committee com-mittee of the V. M. C. A. closed lis books with every dollar of Us budget for its homo and foreign work amounting lo ?i"".OO0. provided for, a record It lias es- (ablishod and maintained for years. This sum Is ?.".P,0ii0 more than liny previous yea r. Lord Klnnalrd, the president of the. lingllsh National council of the T. M. C. A., has issued a call to all Kngllsh associations as-sociations to place religious work abovo social and athletic, features, declaring that the original Christian purposo was being gradually "Wiped otit. This is not so in America, nor Is It believed lo bo the general experience In Groat rJrllaln. In America Ihe greatest advance in the past decade has been made in tho Blhln class onrollnient and lit distillery religious reli-gious inccllngH and features. Tho fourth hostel or boarding house has been opened by the V. M. C. A. in Japan within the year. These aro popular association as-sociation buildings In which -f to flfi students stu-dents room and where social and religions reli-gions work centers. Kaoh Is directed hy a resident teacher and Christian students. Thoy provide n valuable, moral safeguard for sludonls hi cities whore there, Io scarcely a boarding hotiso of good character char-acter lo bo found. , , Tbe recent bequest of Thomas Murdoc.ic to the Chicago Y.'AI. C A., which will bo from .ti'00.000 lo ?SOO.O00. is the largest vet given to an association, although tho organizations are receiving and using in gifts for buildings and equipment ,n.-000,000 ,n.-000,000 lo J8.noo.000 a year. |