| Show i Y M C A Founder Honored by Monument I I l t e eLONDON Dec honor LONDON L hu has recently beset paid to the tit Ler found 11 till gir er of oC the Youn Simi Melr Chris then Ian A splendid 11 at greeted to hi his memory now stands In Inthe tb the crypt of lit et Paul Pauls site It Ms 1 It wax WI In III that thul It I tO this spot Mot BUOn of the th Y W N C A took The 1 oil on t 1 II I of oe 62 3 to today numbers S 01 11 Bud and buildings un I Irein rein 1 slab Ill to 10 the value dUl or of than It I Is one uDe or of too the moel l lu III thE oil I It rd fact thud ho t of attempts on has h prove utter I In tie tI Is ht i KiI jJ a I is d t tors larl of r the Ihl tul of 11 the Y M K r e A and d yet et though hili he Mme is Ie eu widely known Iuan he always y kept the personal la In the back fter his hla death It was found that eT every particle of his 1111 correspondence had bad been am It If he be deprecated publishing hi his achievement to UM the world Id THE THI Y M I l A Though the y N C C A relit net Lode tan III so solid a 1 it wa 1 not Dot al always ways In MO cut It h au and anel had hoAd It ii nut hn gown for fill the personal peral self atte of II its f under founder It II l very 11 doubtful tr if Ih the would weathered h d Many ot of the covers lIVI through which It pawed The rats 1141 of r Its t w was un an upper ur of u n big dl lol that of k di td In InKt Kt hit churchyard In Young w wile u Ii In III that unit and though hut hul LU u Ial l of t age I Ih h ho excited u a pow iii on th hr call callIn In lie Ill ti several fl el I low clerks clerke W to loin hint him In once er 0 tWice a week In the dormitory of th the ment most ot of tM the cIk 1 those day as no now seeping In With ret reference to tM the morality ot of hi hirt his rt young did not no speak In iii VOlT V 7 flattering term and aDd lie he attributed bl big as much to th the nonattendance of of h his cool COlli as aa to the of others othe het had bad converted X all of ht hs fellow not oven Ien excepting some IOme bItter who whit we were down don on that religious the founders of the In nuin their Ir attention to t A Mutual nt so clety and a Young Mene canoe Into being and nd the In duen w of th the or of Hitchcock k kand and Rogers on nth Alums In III 1 quite quit Theirs tM was a perhaps the lust attempt In England to protect thu Ihu or et shop ant Int and out of thud early h ha grown the great Shop union of todaY A As to the actual founding of the Young Hen In association a as such It a 01 tug Into being at a meeting held on June JUIN 6 ISH 1611 wIth a collected on the t and the first circular letter addressed to h hyoung young amplo employee In London wu was posted a few days tIan later young and his hili friends having sufficient mon money even to pay IY fO tor postage and stationery However the dominating personality of f cal cah clod everything lid before It and the Y id 1 c 1 A wan WI launched in 10 suite of All One On noteworthy taut In with III George p Williams was that b he never allowed his hla fervor tb the sue Ut ten cell of his ethical al t to In with strict business bu and b ho w ta f his hla employers that tat beto before many n y years hail h hi had won his hill wy way to Il a partnership in III tit became Hitch Ik cak William k t Q O In ter 1 than 10 years aft after its foundation the y y It yC ItC C A had bud grown Imn Into an Important I I I much so In ht fact that I Of the day tried to 10 UI use It ItI I as 1 a means or of to lower but Its founder refused to per permit i mit It to bo be utilized In this fashion and the wisdom of his decision wu was proved In att after r years Many attempts we were made b by various parties J to the both loth ally and In other directions but th the personality of Sir George was wa too loo trong tronc to be borne down and he saved Id Uk Y M 1 C A man many tines from and aDd internal failure After Arter capturing London and then tM the nest t of tb the Y 1 At C A IcS idea L was taken up In the United States and in IA 1176 1116 Sir George visited this country and was od odwith with great It wits after afler becoming firmly tod ed In the United Stales that tb the Chris Chretian U tian n II a worldwide movement Nor Ilor hi his work In Uon With this organisation Queen Victoria conferred II a knighthood on rho founder during her Jubilee year |
