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 The Official Bulletin 
 
 March, 1916 
 
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 Locations at Which the Work of the — a ae 
 Association is Conducted 
 GENERAL OFFICES: 16th Floor, 19 So. La Salle Street. |] 
 GENERAL DEPARTMENTS: ks Sc aet an 
 Central: 19 So. La Salle Street. , aes 
 Division Street: Corner Division Street and Marshfield 
 Avenue. Me Reena nha mw gy Nic ice ae kr 
 West Side: 1513 West Monroe Street. si 
 Wilson Avenue: Corner Hermitage and Wilson Aves. 
 Sears-Roebuck: Corner Kedzie Avenue and Arthington 
 Street. a ah 
 Wabash Avenue: Corner Wabash Avenue and 38th 
 
 Street. ; 
 ’ Hyde Park: Corner 53d Street and Dorchester Avenue. fhe 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 RAILROAD DEPARTMENTS: oy | 
 
 Pennsylvania Lines: (59th Street) 59th and Leavitt Sts. 
 Dearborn Station: Corner So. State and Taylor Sts. 
 Chicago & North-western: 367 North Karlov ‘Avenue. 
 Grand Trunk: Corner 5ist Street and St. Louis Avenue. _ 
 Chicago & Eastern Illinois: South Holland, I ~ 
 Chicago & Alton: Glenn Yards. 
 
 COMMUNITY DEPARTMENTS: ~ 
 North Avenue: 602 North Avenue. 
 Belmont Avenue: 930 Belmont Avenue. 
 South Chicago: 9113 Commercial Avenue. 
 Austin: 506 North Parkside. Avenue, | 
 
 STUDENT DEPARTMENTS: 
 
 Armour Institute of Technology: $324 Armour Avenue, 
 Chicago College of Dental Surgery: Corner ‘Wood ‘and 
 Harrison Streets, pate, hehe 
 Balveuaty of Illinois Professional Schools: 508 Honore 
 treet. : naa 
 Hahnemann Medical College: 2811 Cottage Grove Ave.» 
 Northwestern Professional Schools: Corner Lake and Dear- 
 born Streets, _ 
 The University of Chicago: Midway Plaisance. ee 
 Rush Medical College: Corner Wood and Harrison Streets. 
 McCormick Theological Seminary: 2320 N. Halsted St. - 
 Chicago Theological Seminary: 20.N. Ashland Avenue. ° 
 Chicago College of Osteopathy: 1422 W. Monroe Street. 
 
 FOREIGN WORK: va Aa: 
 Secretaries Supported by Chicago. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 F. H. Brown, Japan ~ W.-M. Hume, India’ See thy hub 
 P. A. Conrad, Uruguay _E.-H. Lockwood, China’ My 
 E. C, Carter, India J. L. McPherson, Hongkong — Py i 
 G. M. Day, Special ; R. L. Creighton, China > =, pe ie 
 
 j . M. Elliott, Amoy, China C. H. McCloy, China 
 
 . J. McConnell, India Don C. Shumaker, India 
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 The Official Bulletin 
 
 of The Young Men’s Christian Association of Chicago 
 
 
 
 Published Monthly excepting August and September 
 Mailed to any address on receipt of 
 Subscription Price, 50c a Year 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 WILLIAM P. SIDLEY, President | 
 JAMES R. CHAPMAN, Treasurer 
 L. WILBUR MESSER, General Secretary 
 W. P. ENGLAND, Managing Editor 
 
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 The Foreign Work Commission of The Young Men’s Christian Asso- 
 ciation of Chicago: 
 
 P. L. Storm. W. S. Agar. Robert Quayle. 
 C. M. Whipple. E. M. Bowman, Lew H. Webb. 
 Chairman. 
 
 Absent from this group: C. F. Congleton. 
 
 
 

 
 EDITORIAL 
 
 AMERICA’S SUPREME OPPORTUNITY 
 
 volume of Sherwood Eddy, “The New Era in Asia.” This 
 
 volume presents an analysis of the political, educational, 
 
 economic, social and religious changes and conditions in Japan, 
 China, Korea, Turkey and the Balkan states. Mr. Eddy shows most con- 
 clusively that these nations of the far and near Orient are facing the 
 supreme crisis in their history, and that the greatest probiem of each is the 
 problem of moral character, as stated by a leading Japanese, who says: 
 “We have accepted a great machine of western civilization, but we have 
 not the moral oil to run it.” 
 
 It is evident that the old religions and the civilizations which they 
 have created and developed through many centuries are rapidly breaking 
 down. It is also clear that these nations are fast accepting the best ideals 
 and methods of western economical, educational, social and political life. 
 Hinduism, Buddhism and Mohammedanism have failed in their fruitage 
 of moral character, political and economic efficiency, or to satisfy the 
 spiritual and eternal longings of the human heart. 
 
 Benjamin Kidd shows in his writings that western civilization at its 
 best has been only the life history of Christianity. Mr. Eddy in his 
 volume statts that the Renaissance of Europe during the fifteenth century 
 resulted in a five-fold transformation of life—political, intellectual, 
 economical, social and religious, and that the greatest Renaissance of the 
 twentieth century in Asia furnishes a striking parallel in each of these 
 phases of human life. The continent. of North America has produced not 
 a perfect but a high type of Christian civilization. 
 
 To America more than to any other country the nations of the 
 East look for a positive faith and power which will meet the need of 
 the world. And this Macedonian call is to the individual as well as to 
 the nation. Men, money,’ methods and high national ideals are needed. 
 And every man may respond, each in his own sphere, and say, “Here am 
 I, Lord; send me.” More men must go to the front as ministers, teach- 
 ers, physicians, Association officers and Christian business men. Others 
 must remain at home to so live the Christian life as to correct the 
 political, social, moral and economic evils of our own Christian nation. 
 And every one, however small may be his station in life, or limited his 
 income, may and must live the sacrificial life, by systematically con- 
 tributing a larger share of his resources for the spread of the gospel to 
 the uttermost parts of the earth. The supreme need of all the world is a 
 satisfying knowledge of the power of God in overcoming personal and 
 national sin. 
 
 The responsibility for meeting this need is upon every person who 
 seeks to know and do the will of God. The men of our Chicago Asso- 
 ciation may accept this challenge for world service in a definite and 
 immediate way by cultivating a virile Christian life; by becoming members 
 of the foreign section of the Association, and by connecting themselves 
 with the missionary interests of their respective churches. 
 
 (Reprinted by request) 
 
 \ K J E COMMEND to all thoughtful men for careful study the recent 
 
 L. WiLsur MESssEr. 
 
 
 
CURRENT NEWS OF FOREIGN LANDS 
 
 HE report of the past year in all 
 iE foreign associations shows 177 
 foreign secretaries and 249 na- 
 tive paid secretaries. The greatest 
 and most significant development is 
 
 in the fact that the native secretaries 
 increased from 181 to 249. 
 
 Ten Bible classes in the Tokyo As- 
 sociation enrolled 150 men. From 
 these classes many men have been 
 baptized and have joined churches. 
 Out of 100 inquirers through special 
 evangelistic services 30 have joined 
 churches. The employment depart- 
 ment placed 800 men in positions. The 
 Imperial Home Department of gov- 
 ernment continues its grant of asso- 
 ciation support. Two hundred men 
 have used the building daily, not in- 
 cluding 127,000 persons using the audi- 
 torium. 
 
 The Educational Department of the 
 Filipino City Association at Manila 
 opened the year with an enrollment 
 of 61 and closed the year with 488. 
 One class of 30 men has been estab- 
 lished in the office of the leading ship- 
 ping firm of the city. The shipping 
 firm gave free rent and light. 
 
 The Foochow Association conduct- 
 ed a membership campaign recently 
 in which 1,300 members were secured. 
 The governor captained a team and 
 has promised to be the chief speaker 
 at the dedication of the new building. 
 In this city 51 men joined churches 
 during a period of two weeks. In 
 a single day 28 men were baptized 
 in one church. 
 
 A government official in Pekin after 
 hearing an address in the association 
 on “China’s Need of the Bible” bought 
 2,000 Bibles at $1 each and presented 
 them to his official friends. 
 
 In Yenping, Fukien, the governor, 
 his main attendant, the mayor and 
 superintendent of prison, together 
 with two bankers, eleven government 
 school teachers and three Buddhist 
 priests, were among the men regis- 
 tered for Bible classes. 
 
 The Osaka, Japan, Association has 
 1,686 men in educational classes. This 
 ranks with the educational department 
 at West Side, New York, Boston and 
 Los Angeles. It is a fixed’ principle 
 in this association that every new edu- 
 cational class means a new Bible class 
 organized. 
 
 The Seoul Association has 16 Bible 
 classes a week, enrolling 750 men. 
 Two hundred and seventy-two of the 
 men made definite decisions to enter 
 the Christian life. 
 
 In Seoul the government -of the 
 Railway Bureau has increased its con- 
 tribution from $2,500 to $4,500 a year 
 and has given almost complete con- 
 trol of the Railway Association to 
 M. Niwa, Japanese secretary. The 
 weekly attendance at Bible classes has 
 reached 1,128. 
 
 The new building in Havana is now 
 complete. Remarkable value has been 
 secured in the $130,000 spent in the 
 building and site. In the list of givers 
 are found the president and _ vice- 
 president of the Republic, five of the 
 eight cabinet officers, the speaker of 
 the House, the president of the Senate 
 and nine other senators, the national 
 chief of police and prominent business 
 men, bankers, lawyers, doctors and 
 professors. 
 
 General Li Yuan Hung, vice-presi- 
 dent of China, said recently: Mission- 
 aries are our friends. I am strongly in 
 
CURRENT NEWS 
 favor of more missionaries coming to 
 China to teach Christianity. We shall 
 do all we can to assist them. The 
 more missionaries who come to China 
 the greater will the Republican Gov- 
 ernment be pleased. China would not 
 be aroused today as it is were it not 
 for the missionaries who ven- 
 tured within the out-of-way parts of 
 the Empire and opened up the coun- 
 Livew 
 
 have 
 
 The Manila membership campaign 
 aimed to secure 425 new members, but 
 secured 1,300; 23 men united with the 
 Union Church on a recent Sunday, 11 
 of them from Association Bible 
 
 OF FOREIGN 
 
 LANDS 
 
 on 
 
 were helped by the Employment De- 
 partment. 
 The year’s survey shows 
 Associations in India and Ceylon, 
 12,000 members, 190 secretaries, in- 
 cluding 95 Indian secretaries, 41 from 
 America. More progress has been 
 made in securing Indian secretaries 
 during the past ten months than in the 
 previous five years. The Associations 
 own 31 buildings and are at work 1 
 24 others. The annual budget has in- 
 from $20,000 to $53,000. At- 
 
 nearly 200 
 
 creased 
 
 tendance of over 80,000. at Bible 
 classes and 70,000 at religious meet- 
 ings. 
 
 
 
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 fee 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Graduating Exercises of the Tientsin Association Day School. 
 
 classes. Ninety per cent of the first 
 educational class students entered vol- 
 untary Bible classes. One 
 ment bureau sent 45 employes for 
 special, corrective physical work. 
 
 govern- 
 
 thee sinste Boys Department in 
 South America is now fully organized 
 in Buenos Aires. A night university 
 of free lectures is very popular and 
 helpful. Six hundred and forty stu- 
 dents from the university attended the 
 special reception; meals in the res- 
 taurant were served to 70,000 men 
 during the year and nearly 1,000 men 
 
 The president of the Technical Col- 
 lege in Hangchow, in opening the col- 
 lege to the Association Bible classes, 
 said to his. students: may 
 wonder why I opened this institute 
 for Bible classes I realize 
 your need of moral help and my in- 
 ability to give it to you, 
 I believe these Christian men teaching 
 the Bible can give you the help you 
 
 “Some 
 
 because 
 
 
 
 and because 
 
 need.” Sixty men in the Provincial 
 Normal College, including every 
 member of the senior class, were en- 
 
 classes and 15 
 of the 
 
 in Bible study 
 and 160 members 
 
 rolled 
 of them 
 
6 THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN 
 
 Association Bible classes have decided 
 for the Christian life. 
 
 S. T. Wen, Commissioner of For- 
 
 eign Affairs in Hangchow, China, 
 said: “I have decided to become a 
 Christian because I wish to be like 
 
 Christian men whom I have observed 
 —a man of pure heart, strong blood, 
 true patriotism and perfect zeal. My 
 first impulse of Christianity was in a 
 Bible class in the ‘Tientsin Union 
 Church. My next impulse grew out 
 
 of my close relationship with Barnett, 
 the Association Secretary, as a result 
 of which I came to realize the claims 
 of Christ on my own life and became 
 
 
 
 
 
 now a teacher in a Government school 
 in Hainan, has led to the Christian 
 life two of his fellow professors and 
 six of the students. 
 
 In no year in the history of the 
 Young Men’s Christian Association in 
 China have the results of religious 
 work been so large. The evangelistic 
 addresses given by Dr. Mott and Mr. 
 Eddy at the opening of 1913 have con- 
 tinued to yield fruitage, until at the 
 time of the last report 1,059 members 
 had been added to the church. This 
 is exclusive of the more than 800 
 added to the churches thru the work 
 of the student Associations. Bible 
 
 
 
 The Association Building in Manila for American and European Young Men. 
 
 at heart a believer. I have been much 
 influenced by the Young Men’s Chris- 
 tian Association. To me it is the em- 
 bodiment of that which is simple, 
 happy and progressive in religion. 
 The conception of Christianity it re- 
 veals prepared me to become a Chris- 
 tian and a church member.” 
 
 A series of monthly lectures in the 
 churches of Canton on public health 
 and home training has been attended 
 by nearly 13,000 people; 184 members 
 of the Bible classes have joined the 
 
 church. One of these new Christians, 
 
 study and social service have multi- 
 plied. 
 
 Twelve of the fourteen officers of 
 the Hangchow Bar Association, in- 
 cluding the president and vice-presi- 
 dent, are members of the Association. 
 Ninety sustaining members include 
 the following: Military Governor, 
 Civil Governor, Chief Justice of Su- 
 
 preme Court, Commissioner of In- 
 terior, Commissioner of Finance, 
 Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, 
 
 Mayor, Brigadier General, and three 
 Regimental Generals. 
 
CHICAGO’S FOREIGN WORK PROGRAM 
 
 N THE annual report of The Young Men’s Christian Association of Chicago 
 | published recently there are some significant facts given as showing the 
 
 growth of the local association during the past five years. In most of the 
 figures given there is shown a gain of from 100 to 200 percent, but remarkable 
 as is this showing, the growth in the interest and support of the association 
 work in foreign fields is even more striking. 
 
 Five years ago $4,000, contributed for the support of two secretaries in 
 Hongkong and a few scattering gifts for the work in other foreign stations, 
 represented the entire foreign work budget of the Chicago Association. Last 
 year the total gifts from the association and its constituency for foreign work 
 and the army work in Europe reached the sum of $74,611.50. Add to this 
 amount $15,200 contributed for buildings in foreign cities and we have a grand 
 total of $89,811.50, an amount considerably larger than that subscribed for the 
 local work. This sum provides the entire support of thirteen secretaries and 
 the partial support of four others. 
 
 lf we inquire into the reasons for this remarkable showing we shall find 
 that there are a number of determining factors. Perhaps the most important 
 may be the tour which General Secretary Messer made of practically all the 
 leading cities in the foreign field two years ago. After his return Mr. Messer 
 said: “It is a solemn thing to travel around the world, for the cry for help 
 spiritual, physical, intellectual, and social is constantly ringing in one’s ears.” 
 It was this “cry” which sent Mr. Messer forth into all sections of Chicago as 
 the strongest advocate of a larger foreign work program. 
 
 Soon after his return there was held a Foreign Work Conference in Chi- 
 cago, attended by representatives of the leading associations in the Middle 
 West, and as a result of its deliberations the following resolutions were passed, 
 calling for a significant advance in the association’s support of foreign work: 
 
 (1) “We recognize and hereby declare that the obligation for the promo- 
 tion of the associations’ foreign work rests primarily upon the local associations 
 of North America, and we, therefore, recommend that each local association 
 be urged to adopt annually, through its Board of Directors, an adequate foreign 
 work program. 
 
 (2) We recommend that the foreign work program of a local association 
 should include: (1) a standing Foreign Work Committee; (2) a Foreign Work 
 Club, composed of contributors with a leading Christian layman as chairman; 
 (3) a member of the employed staff, giving special attention to the foreign 
 work program; (4) an adequate educational program; (5) a program for pro- 
 moting intercession; (6) a definite financial objective which shall be pledged, 
 if possible, before June 1 and be forwarded to the International Committee as 
 early in the year as may be feasible, preferably in monthly or quarterly pay- 
 ments. 
 
 (3) In order to insure immediate action by the associations we further 
 recommend: (1) that the delegates here present at once make an earnest effort 
 towards securing the adoption of this program for foreign work by the associa- 
 tion which they represent; (2) that the various state organizations adopt 
 and promote a state-wide foreign work program which shall make available 
 to all associations the vision, method and motive for participation in the for- 
 eign work; (3) that local associations avail themselves of the experience and 
 
8 THE OFFICIAL -BULLETIN 
 
 
 
 Hy Ga Carter. Howard A. Walter. R. L. Creighton, 
 
 leadership of the International and State committees through co-operative 
 endeavor in educating and securing an adequate financial constituency.” 
 
 The Chicago Association has endeavored to live in the spirit of these reso- 
 lutions. Frequent meetings have been arranged where returned secretaries 
 have told their stories of the great advance in the foreign field. These appeals 
 from men who have been on the “firing line” have brought immediate responses 
 in the way of co-operation and additional gifts. 
 
 Other methods of arousing interest in the foreign work are the circula- 
 tion of reports and letters from secretaries in the foreign field, including 
 “Foreign Mail;” foreign work exhibits in the lobbies of the various buildings 
 of the Chicago Association; foreign work study groups; groups of laymen 
 trained to carry the responsibility of the work to others; definite financial 
 campaigns conducted early each year, when most of the subscriptions for this 
 work are pledged. This year the campaign will be held March 19th to 25th. 
 
 Another strong factor in the development of foreign work in Chicago is a 
 city-wide commission to promote and co-ordinate the foreign work program 
 for the association as a whole. In each department of the association there 
 are also foreign work committees with active chairmen and executive secre- 
 taries, and in some departments there are Twenty-four-Hour-a-Day clubs and 
 other organizations which keep the foreign work message constantly before 
 the membership. 
 
 This year Central Department, West Side and The University of Chicagaq 
 Departments are each undertaking to provide the support of a secretary in 
 foreign fields. As stated elsewhere, Central has chosen J. L. McPherson of 
 Hongkong; West Side has selected the city of Montevideo. The secretary to 
 is be announced later, and The University of Chicago Department has chosen 
 Galen M. Fisher, National secretary of Japan, as its representative. Other de- 
 partments will elect representatives later on. 
 
 During the Foreign Work Week last year 85 different group meetings 
 were held, with an aggregate attendance of 3,000 men. 
 
 The Following Foreign Secretaries Are Supported by Chicago 
 E. ©. Carter, National General Secretary of the associations in India. Mr. 
 
CHICAGO’S FOREIGN WORK PROGRAM 9 
 
 
 
 W. M. Hume. George M. Day. Don C. Shumaker. 
 
 Carter was formerly secretary of the work among the colleges of North 
 America. He has led the work in India with the highest degree of statesman- 
 ship, with a staff of 47 American and European secretaries and a larger staff 
 of trained Indian secretaries. 
 
 Howard A. Walter, Literary Secretary of the National Committee of 
 India. Mr. Walter has a rare gift as a writer of religious literature and in 
 this capacity is meeting a very great need in the student life of India. 
 
 J. J. McConnell, General Secretary of Lahore, India. Mr. McConnell has 
 just returned from the War Zone. 
 
 R. L. Creighton, one of the Building Experts for the National Committee 
 of China. Mr. Creighton is not only a trained contractor of association build- 
 ings, but is an association man and in addition to insuring the association of 
 first-class equipment for the association in China is making a large contribu- 
 tion to the work as an association leader. 
 
 T. M. Elliott, General Secretary of the association at Amoy, China. Mr. 
 Elliott was one of the founders of the work in Hongkong and was transferred 
 to take charge of the work in Amoy, another of the great port cities. 
 
 W. M. Hume, Educational Secretary of the association at Lahore, India. 
 Mr. Hume is carrying on a very successful work in Lahore with government 
 support, where the possibility for expanding the work is great. 
 
 E. H. Lockwood, of Canton, China, studying the language; temporarily 
 located in that greatest city of South China. Mr. Lockwood has had success- 
 ful secretarial experience in the Pittsburgh Association and in Leland Stanford 
 University. 
 
 J. L. McPherson, General Secretary at Hongkong, China. This greatest 
 English port in the East is a city of large influence in China, and Mr. Mc- 
 Pherson’s leadership through the years has been outstanding. 
 
 George M. Day, a representative of the North American associations in 
 the Near East. 
 
 Don C. Shumaker, General Secretary of the association in Karachi, India, 
 the great rival of Bombay on the west coast. 
 
 C. H, McCloy, Physical Director for the National Committee of China. 
 Mr. McCloy is traveling through the leading cities of China, developing the 
 
10 THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN 
 
 
 
 C. H. McCloy. F. H. Brown. T. M. Elliott. 
 
 interest in physical education and helping the leaders of education plan their 
 physical program and train the men to carry it out. 
 
 F. H. Brown, National Physical Director for Japan. Mr. Brown is the 
 only American trained physical director in the association movement in Japan 
 and is having a growing influence in leading the physical life of this very 
 athletic nation. 
 
 P. A. Conard, General Secretary for Montevideo, with continental respon- 
 sibilities, especially in connection with student conferences and the production 
 of association literature. 
 
 Men Toward Whose Support Chicago Makes Substantial Contributions 
 
 C. H. Robertson, one of the National Secretaries of China, leader in the 
 Lecture Department. 
 
 A. M. Guttery, General Secretary of the association in Hankow, popularly 
 known as the Chicago of China. 
 
 W. W. Lockwood, General Secretary of the association at Shanghai, one 
 of the most fruitful associations in Asia, if not in the world. 
 
 Galen M. Fisher, National General Secretary of the associations in Japan. 
 Mr. Fisher has been the only general secretary of the movement in Japan, 
 and much of the solid and splendid work done there is due to his wise 
 leadership. 
 
 
 
 C, H. Robertson. W. W. Lockwood. P. A. Conard 
 
WHY SUPPORT THE FOREIGN WORK OF THE 
 YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ? 
 
 From Walter A. Rogers, President Bates & Rogers Construction Company 
 
 because it seems to me the greatest power operating in the Orient today for 
 
 evangelizing men. The work of the Young Men’s Christian Association in 
 the Far East is handled in such a way as to command the respect of the people 
 with whom it is working. The men in the field have gained the confidence not 
 only of the ordinary citizen of the country, but of the educated ruling classes. 
 China, Japan and India are in a state of change. They are breaking away 
 from the old religions, and the Y. M. C. A. is one of the great forces leading 
 these people to the Christian religion. The Young Men’s Christian Association 
 being inter-denominational is not subiect to the questions which arise in the 
 minds of those of other religions as to why the Christian religion is divided 
 
 BELIEVE in the foreign work of the Young Men’s Christian Association 
 
 into sO many sects. 
 
 
 
 The Canton Boys’ Department in Athletic Carnival. 
 
 Another reason why I believe in the Young Men’s Christian Association 
 work in the foreign field is that this association is teaching the people among 
 whom it works to support their own associations and their own work with their 
 efforts as well as with their money. I am in correspondence with several sec- 
 retaries in China. I notice in the roster of officers that practically all of the 
 officers of the associations are*Chinese, with one or two American employed 
 officers. 
 
 To sum up my answer to the question as to why support the foreign 
 work of the Young Men’s Christian Association my answer is, that I know 
 of no place where a dollar spent towards the evangelization of the world will 
 be put to better use than if spent in the foreign work of the Young Men’s 
 Christian Association. 
 
12 THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN 
 
 From W. A. Douglass, Manager R. G. Dun & Co. 
 
 I. Because of the Urgent Need. 
 Il. The Wonderful Opportunity. 
 III. The Untold Results. 
 
 I. Because of the Urgent Need 
 
 What is it that makes the strongest appeal to the Christian man for 
 his service and his means? Is it not the crying need of those who are unfor- 
 tunate in life and who need opportunity? After the prudent man has recog- 
 nized this need he endeavors to determine the agency through which the largest 
 number of needy people may be reached. From my knowledge of the work 
 of the Young Men’s Christian Association in foreign lands I feel that this 
 organization has studied the conditions and adapted its methods so that it 
 is able to bring the Christian message to the largest number who are in need. 
 To quote from Mr. Eddy’s book, “The Students of Asia,” “Japan at present 
 may be likened to a sea into which a hundred currents of oriental and occi- 
 dental thought have poured and not yet having effected affusion are raging 
 wildly, tossing, warring, roaring.’ Would not this indicate that they need 
 the Christian message? 
 
 II. The Wonderful Opportuinty 
 
 If we are properly informed we are bound to admit that there was never 
 a time when the door of opportunity was wider—the call more urgent or the 
 welcome more hearty in the foreign field. In our own country we see the 
 results of Christian influences exerted by our leading men, but the customs 
 of the people in the Orient cause them in greater degree to be influenced by 
 their superiors. It is a noteworthy fact that the high officials in government, 
 and the leaders in college and university life are accepting and encouraging 
 others to accept the Christian religion. When did we have a greater oppor- 
 tunity to influence the future leaders of the eastern nations? 
 
 III. The Untold Results 
 
 We have never known such results as are being attained, especially 
 among the students in Asia. This work would be impossible were it not for 
 the foundation which the Christian missionaries have been laying for a hun- 
 dred years. Having this foundation securely laid, the Young Men’s Christian 
 Association secretaries by their tact and perseverance have been able to enlist 
 the support of all Christian bodies. The results which we are witnessing in 
 these lands are little short of marvelous. Shall we not feel that it is worth 
 while and that we are blessed of God in that we are privileged to invest in 
 and have a share in this, our Lord’s work? The workers are ready—the in- 
 quirers are many, but there is lack of funds. The question is not, “Why dc 
 I support this work?” but rather, “How can I afford not to support it?” 
 
 . 
 
 From Fred A. Grow, Vice-President J. C. Whitney Co. 
 
 Chairman, Twenty-four-Hour-a-Day Club Central Department 
 During the past dozen years or so, my business has taken me to the 
 primary tea markets of the world. 
 In one of the smaller interior cities of. Japan, I found a Young Men’s 
 Christian Association, organized and managed by Japanese. 
 
WHY SUPPORT FOREIGN WORK 13 
 
 The leader in this Y. M. C. A. wrote me in his Japanese English styie “I 
 am teaching the gospels of John as a side works.” 
 
 On a return voyage across the Pacific I greatly enjoyed the companion- 
 ship of a high class, educated Chinese official, enroute to a London conference 
 on the opium question. 
 
 It developed that he was the president of the Young Men’s Christian As- 
 sociation in one of the important cities of China. 
 
 Space will not permit further examples, but these are typical of the spir- 
 itual uplift that is spreading over the earth. 
 
 These are messages from the trenches, in what Mr. Eddy calls “A con- 
 structive war.” 
 
 But behind the guns and the trenches and the soldiers are great generals, 
 as there must be in every war. 
 
 
 
 
 
 New Building of the Young Men’s Christian Association in Kobe, Japan. 
 
 Would that you could meet them, hear them, and see them in action,— 
 Mott, Brockman, Eddy, Clinton, Robertson,. Gailey, Hibbard, and so on 
 through a long list. They are college trained, consecrated, Christian states- 
 men. 
 
 We cannot go, but better men than we 
 nations, are already on the field as our ambassadors. 
 
 God forbid that we should narrow their plans just now while the nations 
 of the east and of the whole world are in the melting pot, and their greatest 
 need is that they may be cooled by a breath from Heaven, 
 
 
 
 men who can mould and uplift 
 
WHY THEY PREPARE FOR ASSOCIATION WORK 
 From Students of the Y. M. C. A. College 
 
 HY am I preparing for Association work? While 
 \W on the surface it seems easy to answer such a 
 question, one finds difficulty to put in black and 
 white his reason or reasons. I wish I could yield this pen 
 to express my reasons in terms that would at all be ade- 
 quate to match the strength of the feelings within my heart 
 for entering Association work. Unfortunately, the trend 
 of modern thought seems to lie in the line of facts and 
 figures rather than in feelings, and I suppose one must 
 follow the former course if one is to run with the current! 
 Is there a need for the Young Men’s Christian Associa- 
 tion in America? Is there a need for Leadership here? Is 
 agit: there a need for Trained Secretaries? I suppose the answer 
 Runganadhan _ in every case would be “Sure.” If that is so, the need of the 
 above in India is much more imperative—the need of unity 
 among the millions of young men, scattered and separated by barriers of caste 
 and creeds; the need of the thousands, wavering both in mind and body, for sym- 
 pathy and help; the need of sympathetic advice and guidance of these young men 
 who are to be the leaders and the moulders of the destiny of the coming India; 
 into those channels which would help provide them with a foundation strong, firm’ 
 and true; the need of these thousands for a wholesome atmosphere amidst vice, 
 superstition and idolatory; the need of these thousands who are spiritually athirst 
 for a true Saviour, and therefore, the need of Christ, the only hope of India. Yes, 
 it is the need that is evident everywhere in India. One is but modest when he 
 says after years of experience, that there have been few Christian organizations 
 which have been so successful as the Young Men’s Christian Association in India 
 in being able to offer solution for some of the grave problems that are facing the 
 youth of India today. Dare one, whose passion it is to work among young men, 
 ask for a better place for the investment of his life? 
 
 The need of India, the opportunities for service in the Young Men’s Christian 
 Association, the prayers, the hopes and the backing of a dear American friend, 
 and the call of my.Master, are the reasons for my being in the Young Men’s Chris- 
 tian Association, 
 
 
 
 
 
 Pau. D. RUNGANADHAN, 
 Bangalore, India. 
 
 At the age of six years my father sent me to a denominational school (Wm. 
 Nost College), Kinkiang, China, where I received my early education. From that 
 time on, I learned to become a real Christian and enjoyed different religious meet- 
 ings, such meetings as are conducted by the College Y. M. C. A. Gradually I took 
 an active part in this movement and held different offices in the Association during 
 my college days in China. : 
 
 One thing which influenced me to take an interest and be a worker in the 
 Association for China was the Summer Conference held in my college town Kin- 
 kiang, China, 1912. (Mr. Brockman was the leader), and I had the privilege of 
 presiding at most of the meetings and there I found the most concern was about 
 
WHY PREPARE FOR ASSOCIATION WORK 15 
 
 our physical work and the lack of trained physical directors. Therefore from that 
 time on | determined to devote my life to this work, and | expect to return as a 
 leader of physical work in the Chinese Young Men’s Christian Association. 
 
 Physical education was introduced as early as the Chinese dynasty 725 A. D., 
 then it gradually disappeared until now again the people have become interested. 
 
 A few score years ago, physical education was entirely unknown to my people, 
 though we had some enthusiasts for the cause, but they were not desirable. I de- 
 cided to go to school to train myself in order that I might teach my own people. 
 Not alone in physical education, but the religious work as well. 
 
 Let me express my present attitude toward the development of the Association 
 in China. 
 
 What we Christian men need most is an awaking to the true meaning of Chris- 
 tian fellowship and love of God. I congratulate my people that many of them, 
 are brought up in Christian families, and that the gospel story is not a novelty to: 
 
 them. But for this reason there lies great danger among our people—the danger 
 of swallowing the gospel, whole, instead of digesting and assimilating it. We for- 
 
 
 
 
 
 A Group of Gymnasium Leaders in the Shanghai Association. 
 
 get or fail to realize that only as we live like Christ can we manifest to others our 
 love of God. To be a Christian is to endeavor to love all people as our Lord 
 did. 
 
 [ feel that nothing better than a direct and personal contact with some real 
 Christian will do it. If they could only have the opportunity to come into natural 
 contact with some truly Christian families where the love of God reigns supreme, 
 they would most surely see the beauty of the Christian life. 
 
 Christ—Incarnate—life is the greatest power for winning men for Christ and 
 it is the most important thing China needs today. This is what I feel our Associa- 
 not more members, but more of. the actual 
 
 
 
 tion needs today—not more money 
 
 living out of Christ’s love. 
 Frep M. Cuu, 
 
 Kinkiang, China. 
 
16 THE: OFFICIAL BULLETIN 
 
 One of the great problems of Argentine today is the young men, because 
 from them are coming in the next generation, the rulers of the nation, and 
 from them is the vision of hope for the present social reformation, but what 
 will be the expected reformation of tomorrow if we do not help to raise those 
 which are ready to fall into degradation. 
 
 At early ages the young men find the doors open 
 toward the path that looks like roses, which carries 
 them to the thorn. When they are among the thorns 
 they stay because nobody goes to them and fills their 
 minds and hearts with high ideas. The young men 
 do not have many chances to find the way to physical 
 education, spiritual development or toward good, moral, 
 instructive literature, but with many chances to find 
 gambling, horse races and other places to satisfy the 
 desires of the flesh that has been growing from boy- 
 hood. The sensual passion is our great weakness be- 
 cause no one, father, mother or teacher, shows or tries 
 to show the right way, the right manhood, and this 
 
 Josi Amatuzzo negligence cause the debility of spirit and the funda- 
 mental thing, lack of character. 
 
 A great opportunity for this service lies before the Young Men’s Christian 
 Association more than other institutions, because it ministers to his spiritual, 
 his mental and physical needs and, most important, it does not teach creeds 
 or dogmas, but Christianity in the real sense of the word that is in every day 
 life, practice in the action and not the exhibition. The young men of South 
 America are ready to accept this message; they look for it and they know 
 how to appreciate practical Christianity. 
 
 The picture of degradation and the picture of the Bieta brought me here 
 to fit myself through training in character and spiritual power to go back to 
 contribute, even though in a small way, to the realization of this great serv- 
 ice for the sake of my God and my country. Jost AMATUZZO. 
 
 Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 For months I went about my work as physical director of Seoul Y. M. C. 
 A. with my whole heart set upon the determination to come to America to 
 learn more about physical training than the few instructions I was giving 
 to my class. I myself was a graduate of the Y. M. C. A. school, and I was for- 
 tunately or unfortunately, it remains to be proved, later made the physical di- 
 rector of the association. I did not have the necessary qualifications to fill the 
 position to higher degree, but I gave my whole self to the work and for the 
 interest of my department and the association. I was in charge of the work 
 nearly three years, from 1911-1913, until the day before my departure for 
 America. With the loyal co-operation of all leaders of the association, the 
 physical department progressed surprisingly well and was very successful in 
 all branches of sport. 
 
 The determination to come to America became stronger and more deter- 
 mined every day as I took the advanced class, for they were in want of higher 
 instruction, of which I knew no more. Here I was driven to bay and I had 
 to jump in to swim or sink once for all. Any man in my predicament would 
 have the same desire and determination to go to the end of the earth if nec- 
 essary, to.attain the highest knowledge of his chosen work under all circum- 
 
WHY PREPARE FOR ASSOCIATION WORK 17 
 
 stances and by all efforts. With that decision in my mind I worked from right 
 and left for ways and means which would enable me to cross the Pacific ocean 
 some day. 
 
 There was a day of joy and happiness in store for me in Chicago, the day 
 of my entry into the Y. M. C. A. college of physical training as a full fledged 
 student. I must say right here and now that I owe much to Dr. H. F. Kallen- 
 berg, Dr. F. H. Burt, the president of the college, and I. E. Brown, who have 
 such kindly interest in me, and saw to it that I was firmly established to receive 
 my desired education. When I have learned all the college offers me and all 
 other details of association work, I shall be happy to return. to Seoul Y. M. 
 C. A. to devote all of my time to the work and to help to make it as great 
 an association as those I have seen in America. Y. M. C. A. work was just 
 sown in the heart of Korea and the harvest will be a thousand fold for any 
 willing worker. I ask all those who are interested in association foreign fields 
 to come to Korea, for they will render a great service to the association and 
 the people and the success thus attained will be a glorious one. 
 
 Before the conclusion of this article | would like to impart to my brother 
 workers of the Y. M. C. A. of America what the association of Korea has done 
 and is doing for the Koreans under the joint leadership of Messrs. F. M. 
 Brockman and G. A. Gregg. When Y. M. C. A. work was first introduced 
 into Korea by P. L. Gillette, beloved by all, he brought with it a most glorious 
 era into Christian life. The Y..M. C. A. method of preaching the gospel and 
 training the young men according to their chosen work was fittingly accept- 
 able to both old and young people. They at once saw in the association an 
 altogether different method of bringing the people into Christian life than 
 they have been accustomed to see in the conservative way of missionaries. 
 Even the former imperial family were enthusiastic and made a substantial do- 
 nation for the welfare of the association. 
 
 I always have been thankful to John Wanamaker for the gift of the first 
 magnificent association building to Korea, and I take the present opportunity 
 to thank Mr. Messer, to express my gratefulness and that of my countrymen, 
 for his visit to my country. SunGc Herr. Seoul, Korea. 
 
 
 
 Certainly the great messages of Christianity and social justice of America 
 
 would be well received in South America. The messages of a loving and ten- 
 der father, through a new Hosea would be in a proper 
 | place in the new Israel. 
 
 The lack of care or the lack of teachings on sexual 
 questions and the negligence about some confidential 
 talks of a father to his boy or a professor to his pupil 
 leave the young fellow standing before an angle of two 
 roads. The more attractive road is taken. Women, 
 too, enter the great drama of life. Gambling as an en- 
 tertainment at an early age occupies the mind of the 
 young pilgrim along the path of vice to misery. 
 
 With plenty of immoral and obsence literature the 
 lad goes to “manhood.” Not even God exists, they say, 
 but their souls are longing for something higher than 
 material things. 
 
 Francisco M. Albizu ‘Il left Brazil some time ago, coming to this country 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18 THE OFFICIAL; BULLEIAN 
 
 to get the training and education needed and then to return to my home and 
 work for the advancement of my people, trying to give them that old, but al- 
 ways new, message of the prophet Hosea, the love and tender care of our 
 Father. 
 
 The Young Men’s Christian Association is the best agency to get under 
 its roof the youth of South America, and socially, physically and spiritually 
 give a new idea of true manhood and unite that great continent for Universal 
 Brotherhood. FRANCISCO M. ALBIZU, 
 
 SaouPaulow brazil, 
 
 THE PRESENT CRISIS IN ASIA 
 G. Sherwood Eddy 
 
 HE world war, in spite of all its catastrophes and destruction, has thrown 
 7 wide the doors of opportunity before the Young Men’s Christian Asso- 
 
 ciation. No other organization was ready and prepared to throw a 
 force of men with the troops in the field and in the prisons, hospitals and con- 
 centration camps to meet the physical, intellectual, moral and spiritual needs 
 of these men in the war. A force of secretaries was 
 immediately sent to the front with the Indian troops in 
 France, with the army in Mesopotamia and with the 
 forces in Egypt. The British government telegraphed 
 offering to hand over all the canteens in Eastern Africa, 
 and the offer was accepted by the association. The as- 
 sociation has a thousand camps among the British sol- 
 diers in Egypt and in France. Even among the prisons 
 of Russia, Germany and other lands unexpected oppor- 
 tunities have been offered to the association, and great 
 prison camps with ten thousand men in each are ac- 
 cessible to our workers. Thousands of men are re- 
 : sponding to the Christian message and entering the 
 G. Sherwood Eddy = Christian life who had no serious thought of religion 
 
 before the war. 
 
 The war is even opening new doors of opportunity in Asia. We shall con- 
 front a new world situation at the close of this giant struggle, and we must be 
 prepared to meet it. The writer has just returned from several of the great 
 spiritual battlefields of Asia. In twenty years he has never seen such signs of 
 encouragement and evidences of widespread awakening as there are in India 
 today. In work among students and the educated classes from five hundred 
 to one thousand non-Christian students gave close attention to the Christian 
 message, Bible classes were formed for inquirers and some students were bap- 
 tized during the recent trip in India. Still more encuraging was the work among 
 the masses and among the Christians of India. It was decided to launch a three 
 years’ evangelistic campaign among the Christians of South India. In a wonderful 
 way the church responded. More than ten thousand of these men went out as vol- 
 unteer workers during the first special week of evangelism. They carried the 
 Christian message to more than 3,800 villages. More than 300,000 heard the 
 Christian message during the week. Eight thousand gave in their names as 
 inquirers, while five thousand decided to enter the Christian life. Hundreds of 
 these were baptized and received into the churches. 
 
 The writer had the privilege of sharing in the movement to extend this 
 
 
 
 
 
THE-PRESENI CRISIS IN ASIA 19 
 
 evangelistic campaign in the native state of Travancore. Here was the ancient 
 Syrian church, founded in India about the third century or earlier, which has 
 been asleep for more than a thousand years. These Christians gathered in 
 five great Y. M. C. A. conventions, with an average attendance of eight thou- 
 sand in each, or a total of over forty thousand. At Tiruvella the audience rose 
 “until seventeen thousand were gathered together, seated on the grass under 
 great palm leaf pavilions. Some had walked from five to thirty miles to attend 
 these conventions for four days. Some thirty priests of various communities 
 were in attendance. Several of the metropolitan bishops attended the confer- 
 ences or sent ‘greetings. Five or six full time secretaries will now follow up 
 the work in Travancore, organizing the Christians and leading them out in a 
 great forward evangelistic campaign to reach the non-Christians of India. 
 During the last tour in China the student audiences averaged over three 
 thousand a night in thirteen of the great cities of the empire. The president, 
 
 
 
 Boys’ Bible Study Group, Calcutta. 
 
 the vice-president, the governors, the leading officials of China received us and 
 rendered every assistance in the evangelistic campaign. After 4,000 years of 
 preparation and 100 years of missions, the doors are thrown wide open in 
 China for reaching the officials, the educators, the students and the leaders of 
 a nation that numbers one-quarter of the human race. Already there are signs 
 of the beginning of a Confucian revival, which indicates that this opportunity 
 will not be prolonged indefinitely. We must press our advantage immediately 
 in the length and breadth of the Chinese Empire. To call for retreat, retrench- 
 ment, or the closing of work at a time when China is thus open would be dis- 
 astrous beyond computation. Rather, we must advance. Succeeding centuries 
 may not bring back the opportunity of this decade. As the former vice-presi- 
 dent of the senate said after visiting these cities, “Give us a decade and we 
 can have the leaders of China for Christ.” 
 
 Never was there a time in history when so much will be demanded from 
 
20 THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN 
 
 the Christian leadership of North America, Europe, by the end of this war, will 
 lie exhausted. One great nation alone is left, rich in men, in money and in 
 resources. To us is given the opportunity of winning these leaders of Asia 
 and in a peculiar way the largest access to the officials and students is given 
 to the Young Men’s Christian Association. In the whole of North America 
 the Chicago Association has taken the lead in the statesman-like planning and 
 rapid advance of its foreign program. City after city is already following the 
 example of Chicago and endeavoring to bring its gifts abroad up to the meas- 
 ure of its budget for home work. Now is the time for Chicago to lead the way 
 not only in North America, but in the great advance that is called for in this 
 great work abroad in the length and breadth of Asia. 
 
 
 
 CHICAGO CENTRAL’S FOREIGN POST 
 
 ONGKONG, comprising an island and adjacent coast on which is lo- 
 H cated the city of Victoria, is a British possession, with a population of 
 300,000, of which 90% are natives. Hongkong is one of the largest ports 
 
 in the east and is a commercial center for foreign trade with China. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mine ug 
 Res ar ES te 
 
 Board of Directors, Hongkong Young Men’s Christian Association, with Sec- 
 retaries Messer, Brockman, Elliott and McPherson. 
 
 The Young Men’s Christian Association at Hongkong was one of the first 
 associations to be established by American secretaries of the international 
 committee, and its work has been recognized as having had a distinctive part 
 in propagating Christianity among the Chinese, not only of Hongkong, but of 
 the empire as well. 
 
CHICAGO CENTRAL’S FOREIGN POST 21 
 
 Two American secretaries are in charge of the work, J. L. McPherson and 
 F. M. Mohler. A small association is maintained for foreigners (English 
 speaking) but the main work is for the Chinese, with a board of directors com- 
 posed of native business and professional men. Six Chinese secretaries are 
 on the employed staff. The association has occupied rented quarters, but is 
 now erecting a modern type of building, the money for the land and build- 
 ing having been given by Hongkong, supplemented by gifts from America. In 
 addition to the City Association, there are three or more Student Associations 
 in the colleges and schools, also a student hostel (dormitory) is owned and 
 operated by the association. 
 
 The annual report for 1915 exhibits a range and volume of activities in 
 many respects the superior to many home associations. The membership to-' 
 tals 1,012. There are enrolled in Bible classes, 307; enrolled in day and even- 
 ing schools, 184 students; a large volume of physical work with championship 
 records in the far eastern championship games and the International Associa- 
 tion Hexathlon. 
 
 As a result of the Eddy Evangelistic meetings in November, 1914, at 
 which 4,500 attended on two successive evenings, 976 signed cards indicating 
 their desire to study the Bible and at the end of a course of study, 175 indicated 
 that they wished to follow Christ. ‘ 
 
 The budget of $19,025 was entirely met by members’ fees and contributions 
 from the public. The salaries and expenses of the American secretaries, not 
 included in the budget, were provided by The Young Men’s Christian Associa- 
 tion of Chicago in contrtbutions from members in the departments. This plan 
 is followed by other American associations in financing the 183 secretaries 
 sent out by the foreign work department of the international committee. 
 
 Twenty-four-Hour-a-Day Club 
 
 The Twenty-Four-Hour-A-Day Club of Central Department has been or- 
 ganized for the purpose of cultivating an intelligent interest in the foreign 
 work of the Young Men’s Christian Association and in securing the support 
 of one secretary at Hongkong, amounting to $2,000 a year. J. L. McPherson, 
 general secretary, has been assigned for 1916. 
 
 The organization consists of a foreign work com- eee : 
 mittee, of which F. A. Grow is chairman, appointed by 
 the committee of management of Central Department, 
 and which acts as executive committee of the club; a for- 
 eign work council composed of those promoting the 
 club’s activities, and the membership of the club, in- 
 cluding all who contribute to the Hongkong fund. 
 
 The privileges of the club include: 
 
 Foreign work luncheons and other gatherings, at 
 which visiting secretaries speak; printed reports from 
 the foreign field, and study classes in foreign missions. 
 
 “Hongkong Week” is observed each year during 
 March, at which time the club secures cash and pledged F. A. Grow 
 subscriptions from members and friends of Central De- 
 partment. You are invited to have a share in meeting “China’s greatest need” 
 -—the expressed opinion of a prominent Chinese official—‘Christian Men.” 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN SOUTH CHINA 
 
 George E. Lerrigo 
 
 year the event which stands out as the most important of all is without ques- 
 tion the series of lectures and evangelistic meetings held by Prof. Robert- 
 son and Sherwood Eddy. These meetings were made possible by reason of the 
 association staff of secretaries and workers. For months preceding the cam- 
 paign one of the secretaries had given his whole time to 
 the work of preparation. The whole staff made this work 
 its first business. Interviews were held with the civil 
 governor and leading educational officials. Consent was 
 gained not only for the students to attend the scientific 
 lectures, but also for them to attend the meetings to be 
 conducted by Mr. Eddy. A huge matshed capable of seat- 
 ing 3,000 to 4,000 people was erected in the old educational 
 yamen, which is in the very heart of the student center. 
 Arrangements were under way for the initial lecture and 
 address to be given before an audience composed of the 
 leading officials and all of the school teachers. The plans 
 had progressed to this point and the meetings were less 
 than a week away, when a series of bombs were thrown in 
 George E. Lerrigo. :},¢ city and the authorities became so alarmed that they 
 forbade all large public meetings of every kind. ‘They 
 were compelled to ask us to postpone our plans until a more peaceful time. 
 It was impossible at so late a date to make other plans for the use of Messrs. 
 Robertson’s and Eddy’s time, so the committee in charge decided to go on 
 with the plans on a smaller and quieter scale. The officials showed willingness 
 to co-operate with us, although they could not permit the mass meetings which 
 had been originally planned. Through the influence of the governor the teach- 
 ers and edtcational officials sent an invitation to Messrs. Robertson and Eddy 
 to speak at the Higher Normal School. Two meetings were held, one follow- 
 ing immediately after the other. The first meeting was attended by all the 
 teachers of the various government schools of the city. It was evident that 
 Mr. Eddy’s address made a profound impression upon them. Tears rolled 
 down the faces of some of them as China’s great need was presented. At the 
 close of the address many crowded up to present invitations for the same ad- 
 dress to be repeated at their schools. Arrangements were immediately made 
 for similar meetings at the Government Law School, the First Presbyterian 
 Middte Schoo! and the Canton Middle School. 
 
 | N REVIEWING the work of the Young Men’s Christian Association for the 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Schools Open for Christian Message 
 
 The historical importance of this event cannot be over-estimated. This 
 was the first time in the history of Canton that the government schools had 
 been opened for addresses of this nature delivered by representatives of the 
 Christian Church. Prejudice of ancient standing was broken down and a new 
 precedent was established. The lectures in the schools were followed by invi- 
 tations from the Educational Association of Kwangtung Province. The ex- 
 ample of the educators was followed by the editors and the newspaper guild. 
 
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN SOUTH CHINA 
 
 wo 
 
 The result of this new point of contact has been felt all through the work of 
 the year. The teachers and principal of the Higher Normal School of the 
 province have shown an openness to co-operate with the association never 
 before evinced. Asa result of this new relationship an invitation was extended 
 to Mr. Wilbur, the student secretary, asking him to take up the work of 
 training the students in athletics. The meetings in the government schools 
 were supplemented by the meetings held in the church at the Canton Hos- 
 pital. At these later meetings it was possible also to present Christ as the 
 remedy for China’s need, and men were asked to make decision for the Chris- 
 tian life, or for enrollment in a Bible class. The total number of cards signed 
 was 584. The number actually entering Bible classes was 284. Of those 
 enrolled in classes 148 have already united with the church and nineteen 
 others are now preparing to take that step. 
 
 Interesting cases indicating the far-reaching influence of the work often 
 come under our notice. Just as I came to Canton in 1910 association leaders 
 conducted special meetings in connection with the Student Association of the 
 
 
 
 Bible Class in the Hongkong Association 
 
 Canton Christian College. The result was that twelve men of the senior 
 class in the middle school began the Christian life. Two years ago one of 
 these men, Mr. Hau Laap Fu, went to Kiungchow, the prefectural city of the 
 Island of Hainan, to serve as a teacher in the government middle school there. 
 During his period of service he succeeded in winning to Christ two of the 
 most influential teachers of the school and six of the students. One of the 
 teachers was the physical director of the school. He has since taken a deep 
 interest in the development of the Christian life of the school. A change 
 in officials resulted in Mr. Lau’s losing his position last China New Year’s. We 
 have just been visited by Mr. Campbell, the Presbyterian missionary in charge 
 of the work at Kiungchow. Mr. Campbell has reported these facts to us and 
 says that the students are very anxious that Mr. Lau should return and con- 
 tinue his work with them. They wish a Student Association to be organized 
 in the school and would like Mr. Lau to give a portion of his time as a secre- 
 tary for the association. It is possible that by using Mr. Lau as a teacher in 
 
24 THE- OFFICIAL. BULLETIN 
 
 the Presbyterian school at Kiungchow we may be able to arrange a combina- 
 tion which will make it possible for him to continue his work there. Cer- 
 tainly the work of Mr. Lau has created an opening in this important school 
 which should not be neglected. 
 
 Many Added to the Church 
 
 The figures show that 148 men have actually joined the church during 
 the year as a result of the Robertson-Eddy campaign. This work has been 
 tostered all along by the association. P. L. Wu, the religious work secretary 
 of the association, has given his first attention to conserving the results of 
 these meetings. The figures giving the number of men thus entering the 
 church give but little real idea of what this means to Canton. As these men 
 have taken this stand it usually means that other members of the family have 
 taken the same step. In a recent report I referred to Kam Cheuk Hing. 
 When he joined the church his grandmother, his father and mother, his wife 
 and one of the men in his shop all joined with him. Another young man 
 named Mr. Lei, a nephew of Admiral Lei Woh, formerly second in command 
 in the Chinese navy, joined the London Mission Church. He is employed in 
 connection with the construction of the new railway now being built from 
 Canton to Hankow. He is away from the city for long periods of time, but 
 he carries his Christianity with him and conducts services every Sunday for 
 the men who are in his construction camp. ; 
 
 Bible Study and Personal Work 
 
 The Bible study of the association has been intimately associated with 
 the evangelistic campaign to which I have already referred. In preparation 
 for that campaign a normal training class, composed of fifty of the prospective 
 teachers, was conducted for several weeks by S. C. Leung, our Chinese sec- 
 retary. When the Bible classes were organized. for enquirers three normal 
 classes were conducted, one being taught by Mr. Leung, a second by Mr. 
 Fisher of the Presbyterian Mission and a third by myself. On the completion 
 of this course Mr. Leung was asked to continue his work of teacher training, 
 and his class continued without interruption until the breakup for the sum- 
 mer holidays. 
 
 Early in the year the religious work committee decided to make the Sun- 
 day evening meetings more definite in their appeal to men to accept Christ. 
 Influenced by the experience gained in connection with the evangelistic cam- 
 paigns of the past few years they decided to invite men to enter Bible classes 
 for the further study of the gospel. The length of the evening meeting was 
 shortened to one hour, and Bible classes both for Christians and non-Chris- 
 tians were organized to meet immediately at its close. These classes have 
 already resulted in the conversion of a number of men. 
 
 The emphasis laid upon the importance of personal work during the spe- 
 cial meetings of Mr. Eddy has had a great influence on many of the association 
 men. This has recently resulted in the formation of personal work groups 
 within the association. A group of five leaders has been organized,-and each 
 of these men have in turn organized other groups of from three to five. The 
 hope is to stimulate each member of these groups to do personal work him- 
 self and to become a leader of a personal work group. The aim is to spread 
 the movement throughout the association and out into the various churches. 
 
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