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��The Boston Yoitng Men' s Christian Association.

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��It is certainly to the credit of the Association that up to 1882, when the large subscription of $200,000 was secured, the amount raised through the exertions of the young men and the ladies exceeded by more than $10,000 all moneys subscribed.

The influence of the Boston Associa- tion has not been merely local. Through Mr. L. P. Rowland, long its general

��State committee, a present member of the board, and an ex-president is now chairman of the same. In national matters, also, the Boston Association has responded to every call. In the early days of the war a drill -club was organ- ized by one of its board, and he, as well as a large number of his men, went into service. And at the call of Mr. Stuart, of Philadelphia, the committee

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���secretary, and now the veteran secretary of the United States, in his capacity of corresponding secretary of the inter- national committee, the first State work was done and Associations formed in all parts of Massachusetts. The present Boston building is now the headquarters of the Massachusetts com- mittee, where the State secretary may always be reached. The secretary of the Association is a member of the

��of the Christian Commission was repre- sented by an ex-president and an army committee formed in the Association, which sent the large sum in money of $333,237.49, and immense stores of all kinds to the field.

The same committee acted as almoners at the time of Chicago's great fire, and also when the Western woods fires caused such suffering.

Without boasting, for much more

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