Show MINISTERS VS Y AL C A A merry roy row ro y has arisen between the association and the Y M C A of this city the affair it appeared ap peare was wai neat first exploited at the regular monday meeting of the preachers pr eaoben monday the next time serious attention was paid to it was at a meeting of 0 the young MOD mena christian association last night it was wall there that the real trouble commenced As carefully gleaned from reliable sources the story atory of the strife is as follows the annual meeting of the Y M C A will be held bold at the gait bait lake theater april jtb prominent akern both from home and abr abroad oad are oze ex I 1 peeled to be present among the latter are the famous evangelist sankey and george C stabbing the well known gospel goepel hymn writer the list also embraced the name of a mormon elder the ministers association it seems took exceptions except ione violent exceptions to this extraordinary proposition they were so BO shocked that the question formed the main topic of discussion at the meeting referred to and a committee was appointed to wait upon the Y M C A aud and demand the cancellation from the arc gram of the name of the mormon elder that committee consisted of the rev bev B R Q G of the first presbyterian Presbyter iau church W B S hawkes superintendent of the congregational mission and B F clay ot of the central christian church at least this i the personnel of a majority ot of the abe committee it la is positively stated to the NEWS that rev T C ilaff wasal was also soa a member of the committee but that he had bad other business and ana did riot dot appear mit at the meeting with his brother committeemen although a chair was kept for him this delegation lost no time in stating the theobert object of its miss iou loiti they were much grieved to know that a mormon elder had bad been included in the list oi of speakers at the annual meeting and they came to request that it be dropped there was no other alternative in the event that it was not the ministers association would be obliged to withdraw its support from the Y M C A moreover it if the determination to keep the mormon on the program were pei isted stated in they would see that ft sankey was not a speaker the annual meeting this was wan the straw that broke the abe calne camera vs hack back or rather the threat that thai snapped napped the Y M C As aa patience in twain it was accepted as an a challenge iua and oratorical spurting sparring and ol ashing 01 arms soan begun secretary axton 2 frank B stephen Stophen tM M ht jo co i raney baney and dr B R V solver olver la the last three being members or of dr s led the Y M C A forces the ministers association the contest was spirited and protracted mr stephenp it seems though chough a strong church man himself was specially earnest in his bis opposition to ministerial dictation and declared in favor of absolute individual and religious freedom he Hel thought hought that such aboh as bad been abdo were alt alto geib ogeth r out of place go bo tar far as he be knew there was nu no difference in the ultimate aims aim of any of the churches mormon or non mormon their means might be but all stood for an amei iora tion of the condit condition iOD of mankind all were working along the same lines all offered and gave assistance istance aes to young men in the struggle to make their lives bettor better and purer no one church bad a monopoly in the matter of 91 scattering ering the seeds of righteousness and doing good generally there was no reason aby there should be antagonisms between mormon anu and non mormon churches there were many reasons why harmony and rood good feeling should exist the non mor mon churches on special occasions wanted a large assembly ae hall in which to meet he know knew that the mormon tabernacle bad been freely given them mormons cormons and nou noia mormons cormons had bad worshipped wor shipped within its ite walls together he had bad beard dent george Q cannon open by prayer anu ana dr iliff pronounce the benediction he did not think either gentlemen had bad belittled himself by such an act nor did be think the con coc grega tiona were in any way injured localizing his bia remarks more particularly mr stevens is reported to have said that there were more mormon members iu in the Y M C A than the association had bad secured from all the other combined and certainly that alone ought to appeal to the sense ol of justice of the association other members of the board of directors were largely of the same view thirteen Th irleen out of 01 fifteen were present and when the vote was taken to accede to the demands ot of the ministers minister the limp was waa rejected by a mojo majority rity of live five the exact vote was nine to four and one of those thoi e who voted with the minority explained that he was opposed to the principle of yielding and declared that he did so simply on ibe he grounds of expedience to get the problem out of the way it if there was any intention ot of carrying out be threat ot of seeing that mr sankey doi do a not speak at the annual meeting the young mens directors have rather anticipated it immediately alter after the session a telegram was sent to mr sankey bankey which read mad abou t as follone fol folio lowe we would you object to appearing on platform with one of most prominent mormon speakers of state As yet no reply has been received but the Y M C A point to the gentle mans man vis cosmopolitan religious training and believe it to be a sufficient guarantee that be will neither object nor decline the mormon by the way is elder B H roberts |