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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1002, 17 December 1910, Page 7

In welcoming the Y.M.C.A. Convention to-Toronto, :R-alph - V :Connor has penned a- rare tribute to:o the value of the ■ Association movement: "The Young Men's. Christian, Associa-. .- tion has found'its, place and its work -/i in our modern civilisation, Tho com- ,-. mon meeting ground'of the. Protestant. Churches,, it is their effective ..-arenue-->' for Church service among yoring men :-" not immediately, under the influence of a particular congregation in : urban com-' munities, and has developed a peculiar i", ability to impart the tone and'..quality ,\v of a high Christian manhood, to.:,the - physical and mental,life of young .men -a. and boys in every department of'cur.X-'-activities. . . The university man, and-.v the newsboy, tho. clerk and the. navvy, ;-s----the /railroad engineer and the jiigh - school student, alike feel the uplift and v stimulus of tho Young Men's. Christian 'i Association. This institution,has often' redeemed athletic sport from the taint 'f, of professionalism and from the baleful; • patronago of the whiskey ring; it has.;,-K offered the opportunity for education to • /■: tho working boy; it has furnished clean surroundings and warm,..and -friendly .';' association to the stranger in a • great city,' it has opened the. path to high c", church service, and to tho eternal-well-boing of many an outcast. Our •<\ young men aro better equipped to sen e ■ their nation, safer in : their. sports, kind- .'„ lier in their' social relations, more ' manly, clean, noble', becauso .of tho ex- • istcnce ,of the-Young Men's Christian,-' Association. God'bless the institution, * and further its work among young men." . v . The Ksv. E. Cobham, assistant mis- . sioner. of All Saints', Fishponds, Bristol, in a lecture at the Voluntary Labour Hall on his recent travels .in Canada and the U.S.A., stated that he had worked ,■! his passage homo in the stokehold of the stf-amer, having (lionised himself on the other side of the watet, and Lad duly rcccive<t payment for his work.