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VOLUME ONE.
NO. EIGHTEEN.
YOUNG WOMAN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
And the Southern Conference of the American Committee. U * .rii.'il > ’
‘ 1 The end and aim of all our planning and effort—
the nerve of all our strivings—is to bring to reign
the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ in the heart
of every young woman in this land, and through her
to the women of the uttermost ends of the earth. ’ ’
HEN it is borne in mind that the above
declaration of purpose is the avowed
object of this far-reaching and powerful
association of women, and that it is a
purpose purely, faithfully and urgently
adhered to, the interest and support of
the thinking public is at once enlisted.
The Young Women’s
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Christian Association of America
is a strong, earnest and influential
body of women, working harmoni
ously together for the spiritual and
physical benefit of women, and giv
ing most special attention to the
amelioration of the working classes,
with a view to increasing their op
portunities for education along
both mental and spiritual lines.
This Association has fully recog
nized the value of allying itself
with the World’s Young Women’s
Christian Association, as well as
with the World’s Student Chris
tian Federation, and although now
a part of the World’s Association,
by being federated with it, it re
tains its individuality under the
title of The American Committee.
This Committee, which conducts
the affairs of the various branches
of the Association in America, was
organized in 1886 as the National
Young Women’s Christian Associa
tion, with the purpose to estab
lish and promote Young Women’s
Christian Associations in the cities
and colleges of the United States.”
This Committee is composed of for
ty-four women who serve as volun-
tary directors. They employ ten office workers and
eleven traveling secretaries, the duty of the latter
being to organize and visit associations, address con
ventions and other meetings and to aid in the train
ing of secretaries for local and state work.
“The distinctive features of the associations af
filiated with the American Committee are: They
carry on a definite four-fold work among young wo
men, are closely identified with the evangelical
church, and their administration, like that of the
Young men’s Christian Association, s n the hands
of volunteer workers and trained professional work
ers known as secretaries.”
The official organ of the American Committee is
the “Evangel,” a monthly publication covering the
work, the events and the plans of the Committee
MISS MABEL CRATTY,
General Secretary of the American Committee.
ATLANTA, GA., JUNE 21, 1906.
for the advancement and assistance of its members.
In order to promote a freer intercourse with the
various organizations in different parts of the coun
try, as well as to enable each branch of the Associa
tion to have the advantage of study and the benefit
of instruction from noted speakers and ministers,
the American Committee has arranged a series of
conferences, whch each year are attended by thou
sands of young women who gain much from the spir
itual inspiration as well as from the discussions of
the methods of work planned. These conferences
are held at Capitola, California; Silver Bay, Lake
George, N. Y.; Lake Geneva, Wis., and Asheville,
N. C. At the latter the Twelfth Session of the
Southern Conference is being held at this time.
While under the general direction and manage
ment of the American Conference, the State Commit
tees of the Virginias, the Carolinas, the Gulf States
and Tennessee and Kentucky combine in this confer
ence, and delegations from each point named are
now’ gathered at Asheville in pursuance of the plans
already outlined.
The theme of the Conference is contained in the
following texts:
“I came that they may have LIFE and may have
it abundantly.”
“And THIS is LIFE eternal, that they should
KNOW thee the only true God and him who thou
didst send, even Jesus Christ.”
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MISS FLORENCE SIMMS,
Secretary City Department American Committee.
“And that LIFE which I now live in the flesh I
live in faith, the faith which is the Son of God.”
No more beautiful spot in all our broad South
ern counry could be chosen for the Conference than
Asheville—“ The Land of the Sky”—for in contem
plation of the glories and wonders of Nature the
soul turns almost instinctively to Nature’s God, and
even the most careless and unthinking among us
feel an uplifting inspiration flowing from the “eter
nal hills.”
Over three hundred young women gathered at the
first meeting of the Conference, which was held on
Saturday morning, June 9th, at Kenilworth Inn,
and which was led by Miss Mabel
in the Epistles. Miss Charlotte A. Porter, formerly
connected with the Training School for Christian
Workers in New York City and at present general
secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Asso
ciation of Detroit, Michigan, will teach a course in
Old Testament Characters.
Early in tfie Conference there is opportunity for
the delegates to meet the members of the Commit
tee, speakers and each other at an informal after
noon reception, given by the Committee of the Caro
linas.
A special feature of the session will be the eight
hours of morning work devoted to the
City Conference.
This branch of the w’ork is under the direction of
Miss Florence Simms and her assistant, Miss Adele
TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.
FIVE CENTS A COPY.
Cratty, General Secretary of the
American Committee. Miss Cratty
has done brilliant work for the
Committee during the past few
years, and she has already become
a power in the Association which
she represents.
The daily program of the Con
ference is as follows:
8:15—9:15. On the eight week
days of the Conference this hour
is devoted to Mission Study and
the awakening and development of
missionary interest. Classes will
be taught by:
Miss Helen Coale in “Protest
ant Missions in South America.”
Miss Inez Kinney in a study of
India.
Miss Emily Huntington in
“Dawn on the Hills of T’ang.”
Miss Ellen Stone, formerly mis
sionary in Bulgaria, and Miss Lau
ra Radford, general secretary at
Calcutta, India, will be present and
will speak.
9:15—10: 15. Two Bible courses
are taught at this hour. Rev. Lin
coln G. Hulley, D. I)., President of
the John B. Stetson University at
De Land, Fla., will teach a course
