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other agencies to greater activity, and has leavened all 

 athletic and recreational life with a nobler spirit. All 

 that the city has received through the Association the 

 country requires and deserves. We have already three 

 County Associations in Ontario in Bruce, Huron and 

 Lambton. Fourfold activities are carried on, physical, 

 social, educational, and religious. The finest achieve- 

 ment of the Association is in developing leadership. 

 The secretary is the pastor's strongest reinforcement. 

 The Young Women's Christian Association offers itself 

 as a similar agency among girls and young women. 

 That organization lately approached the Federal Coun- 

 cil of the Churches in the United States with this re- 

 quest : " The Young Women's Christian Association, in 

 its newly developed rural work, has been grateful to 

 recognize its entire allegiance to the church, from which 

 it draws its inspiration, and whose work it constantly 

 seeks to advance. . . . We should be especially 

 glad, therefore, if the Federal Council could make it 

 plain to the churches that the Young Women's Christian 

 Association is an arm of the church, and that it stands 

 ready to do work for them whenever they need help in 

 specialized work for the women in a community." 



A denominational and congregational agency to be 

 availed of is the Men's Brotherhood. Within the con- 

 gregation this organization is fitted to perform the ser- 

 vice which the Association renders for the county. The 

 Brotherhood seems especially adapted to meet the pres- 

 ent situation. It is an organization of men. It is at 

 once intensely spiritual and thoroughly practical in aim. 

 The manliness of Christ is its inspiration; His sym- 

 pathy with men its pattern. Its avowed first object 



