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��The Boston Yoinig Mcji s C/iristian Association.

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��the parent Association, and those who formed this, believed in the doctrines of the Universal Church of Christ — in the loss of the soul and its redemption only by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ ; nor could they be satisfied with any work for young men which did not at least aim at conversion.

The chairman of the international

��special or peculiar interest." The tenth annual report thus speaks upon this point : " The tie which binds us to- gether is a common faith. We hold this faith most dearly, and believe it to be essential, and therefore worthy to be protected by every means. We can- not be expected, surely, to do so suicidal a thing as to admit to the right

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��committee thus speaks, in February last : " When any Association sinks the reli- gious element and the religious object which it professes to hold high beneath secular agencies and powers, it ceases to deserve the name of Young Men's Chris- tian Association. It belongs then to a class of societies of which we have many, and in which, as Christian young men looking to the conversion of our fellows as the supreme object, we have no

��of equal voice in the government of our society those who are directly opposed to the very essence of our being."

The benefits of the Association are for all — its management alone is re- stricted.

There are now nearly twenty - five hundred Associations in the world, all upon what is called the evangelical basis, and in the United States and

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