CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP 



ADDRESS BEFORE THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN 



ASSOCIATION, CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK, 



DECEMBER 30, 1900 



IT is a peculiar pleasure to me to come before you 

 to-night to greet you and to bear testimony to 

 the great good that has been done by these Young 

 Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations 

 throughout the United States. More and more we 

 are getting to recognize the law of combination. 

 This is true of many phases in our industrial life, 

 and it is equally true of the world of philanthropic 

 effort. Nowhere is it, or will it ever be, possible to 

 supplant individual effort, individual initiative; but 

 in addition to this there must be work in combina 

 tion. More and more this is recognized as true not 

 only in charitable work proper, but in that best form 

 of philanthropic endeavor where we all do good to 

 ourselves by all joining together to do good to one 

 another. This is exactly what is done in your as 

 sociations. 



It seems to me that there are several reasons why 

 you are entitled to especial recognition from all who 

 are interested in the betterment of our American so- 

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