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5 THE Y. M. C A. A POWERF UL FORCE By Edgar W. Turlington THE TAR HEEL A man's college days mark a crit ical period in his religious life. Cut loose from home influences and precip itated into the freedom of the campus, the student finds glorious opportuni ties for real development, but at the same time he encounters grave dangers. There comes a tendency to drift, to grow careless with regard to the deep est things in life and to feel no interest in the things of religion except a de tached, impersonal sort of academic interest in them as striking phenomena, to become inactive in religious work to stop growing religiously. At this critical period there is need of some powerful force to steady, to make ac tive and to develop the college man in his religious life. This powerful force the Young Men's Christian Association un dertakes to be. It should be inter esting to see to what extent it succeeds in its great undertak ing. How does the Y. M. C. A. steady a man? First of all, by means of the intangible but no less, consider- able influence which it exerts over him as a con scious unit in its org-anization. In addition, it employs four agencies of a more tangible sort. These are, briefly, its Bible Study Courses, with half the students in the University in voluntary study of the Bible; its Mis' sion Study Courses, with over 300 en rollment; its Religious Meetings, with their inspiriing Tuesday night ad dresses from members of the faculty and the helpful Thursday night pray- services, well attended; and, finally, the Association House itself, large and well fitted, with reading-room, game room, and lobby, the center of the so cial life of the campus, where all may meet in a real and uplifting fellow ship. These agencies the Y. M. C. A. employs to steady the college man in the critical period of his life. The immense deepening of the whole moral tone of the University in recent years has been due quite largely to this steadying work of the Y. M. C. A. The second mission of the Y. M. C. A. is to make the college man active in his religious life. Steadying him is by no means the whole of the battle. He must have work to do, if for no other reason, because it will keep him firm. The Y. M. C. A. puts men into definite .Christian work. It makes them feel that it is their first duty to be of service. It uses them in the work of the Book Exchange, of the Publications, of the countless "little unremembered acts of kindness and of love" for their fellow students. It uses them in getting the freshmen comfortably settled in their new home, and in providing for those who must work their way through college facili ties for helping themselves. It uses many men as leaders of Bible Classes. It sends several out into the country around Chapel Hill to conduct Sunday Schools and thus to extend the en lightening and uplifting influence of the University. Finally, its crowning service is the suppoit of a Y. M. C. A. missionary in China. Much work the Y. M. C. A. does, and all of it through the students, E. W. TURLINGTON. President This work of the Y. M. C. A., fol lowing and cooperating with its steady ing influence, necessarily issues in its third great service, the developmen of the student in his religious life The student who yields himself thus far to the influence of the Y. M. C. A experiences a real growth in his re hgious life. He is developing, furth ermore, into a potential religious lead er in nis community in alter years Again, he has opportunities for actua experience in leadership. The work must have leaders, men of ability to direct its work, to leadv Bible Classes, to look atter finances, to see to all its workings. To . these leaders the Y. M. C. A. gives invaluable training in constructive lead ership. While de veloping all, these men it especially develops. What, it may be asked, is this Young- Men's Christian Associa tion, this orgaui zation that plaj's such a large part in a man s life at this critical pe riod, steadying, making active, and developing him? Is it an or ganization from the outside, beg' ging him to sup port it and be help ed by it? That is just what it is not. It is preemi nently a democratic oaganizatioh, of, by, and for the students. It is the student body expressing itself relig' iously. It is, as has been said, an or ganized, aggressive force for Christian service and clean Christian manhood It is the great aim of the Young Men's Christian Association to have itself felt as an indispensable part of the life of the University, as belonging to all the students, and opposed to the best interests of none. A Working Organization I regard the Young Men's Christian Association as one of the most valu able factors in the organization of the University. Its influence is always for erood. It stands for cleanliness of life, for fidelity to duty. This large body of strong christian young men, banded together for mutual helpful ness in right living and spiritual cul ture means more than I can . well ex press in the life of the University. It is truly a working association. The sum total of christian work done is most noteworthy. A large percent age of the student gathered each Sun day for the study of the Bible, mission classes held, Sunday schools supported, prayer meetings conducted, churches built, besides a number of other activ itiesall of these influence deeply the life both of the University and the community. I rejoice in the prosperity of the Association and am glad -to promote its welfare in any way in my power. F. P. Venable, President of the University. At the recent Christmas meeting of the American bociety ot zoologists (Eastern Branch), held at Cornell Uni versity, Professor H. V. 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