Y. M. C. A. NOTES

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 764, 12 March 1910, Page 14

Y. M. C. A. NOTES

(By HIN.H.) > -

He Perth/.X.M.CLA. Is'just preparing to enter, a new building. It is erected cn a splendid'Vsite ;in the middle of the city. - ' " ./'■"••:•■'. The board; of. directors of the Dunedin Association are. going ahead with their new home,'.which is to be one of the •finest structures of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.. /)>;iu s, ; Mr. \V. Mackenzie, of the Scottish' Mission Industries, Poona, has appealed to. the'-Scottish, organisations. for help -for..* the; Y.M.C. A. work "among'' the 2000 British soldiers <ot Poona, amid the manifold, moral dangers of the... East., Prince'.Oscar Bernadotte, who 4een. years. :has' ; -been the president of the -.Alliance of the Swedish T-U.C.A., ■ celebrated his fiftieth birthiday on November 15.

, - The schedule of. the educational 1 classes of the New' York T.M.C.A.; for. the ses: eron 1909-10 includes: between 90''and"100 different 'subjects. ■ ';.• The' YJLCX at Poughkeepsie has received from\ : Mr. .W. W. Smith a new building, admirably furnished, ■ -worthv&O.OOO. .Onthe day of the inauguration the.donor said:'"! was in tlie association, I was one. of; it. I have seen what'it does. I have given the building in order to build -up . the Kingdom of Jesus Christ,• 'to train young men for service." ■ I'gave the building,, because I think God. put it in my heart' to give it."' ' _At the annual dinner'-oi the'interna-; tional oommittee of the American Associations, .which was held in November at the Waldorf-Astoria; Hotel, New York, telling addresses on association work were made by three • men well known in the United States, - President A. C. Brown of 'the New-York Central Railway; Elihu I Boot, United , States Senator, and Hon. Janes E.VGarfield. Short reports were ■presented by ; the various, departmental . secretaries, ;'in which' they gave - bird's-' eye views of the workings of their departments; 'These reports, which made a profound, :impression, showed once ' more the vast; extent and importance of the association. work in North - America. '