Y.M.C.A. NOTES.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 271, 18 January 1918, Page 11

Y.M.C.A. NOTES.

I)r. (J. Campbell Morgan, of Westminster Chapel, the famous London preacher, has been compelled to relinquish his plan of visiting Australia and occupying for twelve months the pulpit of the Collins Street Congregational Church in Melbourne. He has decided, instead, to give his services to the British National Council of the Y.M.C.A. for twelve months to assist in the establishment of their proposed scheme for making Mildmay a centre for Bible training. This new work promises to give full scope to Dr. Morgan’s unrivalled powers and knowledge as a leader of Bible study. An amusing instance of the belief entertained, even by Hermans, in the power of the Y.M.C.A. to do everything, is recounted by a colonel who took part in the attack on Vimy Ridge. When the enemy was coming out of some dug-outs to surrender, one Bosch advanced with his hands upraised, and instead of shouting the usual “Kamerad,” he yelled, “Y.M.C.A.,” and when he found he was safe, he continued in excellent Knglish : “I am Y.M.C.A., and I have 13 more men down there, all Y.M.C.A, too.”