THE Y.M.C.A.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10130, 2 December 1910, Page 4

THE Y.M.C.A.

No movement of the last half century has more arrested the attention of the people of Anglo-Saxon countries than the wonderful progress of the Young Men's Christian Association. Commenced in 18-14 in London by a young man, George Williams (afterwards knighted by Queen Victoria for' his goodness to young men), it lias; spread to "-10 nations, and now stands as the greatest men's brotherhood in the world. It has secured property worth £15,000,000, winch is increasing at the rate of £1,000,000 a year. On.an average at least one new building a week is-opened •in the United States and ; Canada. These" geneyovjs- ; gifts indicate -the. confidence business men place in the organisation":' Its adaptability in meeting the needs of special groups of men (besides touching professional and. commercial dassos) is most •v.-nTthv of cr. 'JVrc'-ftro

special branches for students, railroadmen, industrial workers, and the navy and army. The Government of the United States recently built and equipped six Y.M.C.A.'s along the Panama zone to care for the young engineers working on that enterprise. The Government not only erected these great club houses, and placed them under the control of the International Committee of the Y.M.C.A., but put the secretaries on the Government pay roll.