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World Brotherhood in Latin 
America 
We are plodaed to have permission 
from Miss Mary Brooks to print 
here the following extracts from 
paper on this subject read by Miss 
Brooks 
Women’s Auxiliaries of the YMCA’s 
of Mass. and R. I., held at Attleboro 
last week. The paper _ illustrates 
well the need and results of the As- 
sociation work in other lands. 
A young Japanese came into the 
YMCA rooms at Rio de Janeiro 
one day and asked, ‘‘Is this one 
YMCA like him in Tokyo?’’ 
This» then, is the ideal of World 
Brotherhood,—to have in every city 
‘fone Y MC A”’ like that at home. 
Latin America is a_ tremendous 
field,—larger than Protestant Amer- 
ica. Mexico, Central America, the 
West Indies, Panama, these coun- 
tries comprise but a fraction—of- it. 
There is a whole continent yet to be 
mentioned,— our twin continent, 
stretching away to the southeast. 
Other nations are neighboring 
with all parts of this southern con- 
tinent, but one feels the Brotherhood 
of the world most deeply in Argen- 
tina; at least, I did. Every flag but 
ours floats over the crowded doeks 
of Buenos Aires... New Zealanders 
are as common as New Englanders. 
So cosmopolitan is the population of 
Argentina, that, although the Bible 
is a sealed book to the majority of 
the inhabitants yet in one year 38 
different nationalities bought . the 
Scriptures, each in a_ different 
tongue. 
Tn the great city of Buenos Aires 
the YMCA has a well-established 
work, from which come most en- 
couraging reports, but better than 
statisties are such unsolicited trib- 
utes as this: 
To the office of “Tid Prensa,’’ one 
of ~the most famous. newspaper 
plants in the world, there eame a 
complete wreck of manhood, mak- 
ing his last despairing struggle to 
escape from the drink habit, and 
the poor wretch asked to be directed 
to refuge and a friend. 
is any ‘place in Buenos Aires that 
can help you, it is the Young eMn’s 
Christian Association,’? was the re- 
sponse. And at the Association he 
became a man again. 
Tf-a New England mother trém-. 
bles for her son alone in Paris, 
much more should she fear his fate 
in Buenos Aires, unless he identifies 
himself. .with Christian work: there,: 
for Buenos Aires has been charae- 
terised as ‘‘Paris told ‘to look 
alive!’? ~The Argentine’ mother 
thinks it impossible for her son to. 
at the annual conference of. 
‘ean touch these men? 
‘Tf there 
live a pure life, and she does not ex- 
pect him to do it! 
Uruguay, too, appreciates the 
YMCA. At the opening of the As- 
sociation in Montevideo, Senor Mon- 
teverde, the first native secretary in 
the continent, said: 
.It requires no argument to 
show that there does not exist in this 
capital a single rallying place that 
serves as a moral compass for the 
young men.... Fathers of fami- 
hes, put to yourselves the question, 
Where do our young men go to learn 
to live the moral life? . Outside 
the theatres the bull ring, the race 
course, the ‘eafe’ and the sports— 
places and diversions in many cases 
of pernicious influence and doubtful 
morality—a young man has nowhere 
to go where he-may be sure to be in 
an eleyating and wholesome atmos- 
phere. .... The. Young Men’s Chris- 
tian Association: is a real home for 
young, men, satisfying completely 
their legitimate. needs for diversion 
and that without violence to the 
convictions of anyone.’’ 
Native men are hard to reach in 
Latin America. They have little re- 
spect for religion and are becoming 
free-thinkers. What but the YMCA 
Surely, na- 
tive. conversions or even native re- 
eruits mean much. 
Small wonder that government 
officials look with favor upon Asso- 
ciation work in Latin America. 
Gov. Creel of Mexico, is an enthusi- 
astic patron of the work in Chihua- 
hua, and says the Association ‘‘for- 
tifies the young men of Mexico 
against vice.’ 
In Chihuahua, one of the best fea- 
tures of a ten-day fiesta was an ath- 
letic meet; managed, by request, by 
the YMCA. And these clean sports 
were held in the cruel bull-ring! 
What a triumph! 
In Mexico City the corner stone of 
the new Association building was 
laid by the Vice President, and Pres- 
ident Diaz himself opened the- com- 
pleted building, saying, ‘‘Long live 
the Christian young men! It is the 
one institution which has my fullest 
‘sympathy.’”’ 
. Great. are the 
work in Latin lands, but there are 
still greater to be made. The west 
coast, with its many ports and 
strategic centres, is yet to be occu- 
pied. The, beautiful inland city of 
Santiago, the crowded port of Val- 
paraiso, the dreary railroad terminus - 
of Antofagasta, all in Chile; La Paz, 
high in. the mountains of Bolivia; 
and in Peru, conservative Arequipa, 
aristocratic Lima, and the famous 
port of Callao (I saw a liquor saloon 
there named “The Water Wagon’’) 
triumphs of the, 
all these ought to have Association 
work, and that right soon: 
In Iquitos, the eastern _port of 
Peru, on the Amazon River, the gate- 
way to the .‘‘Devil’s .Paradise,’’ as 
an English paper ealls it, what has 
been styled ‘‘Rubber and murder’”’ 
is a common tratfic. There all the 
laws of God and man seem forgotten. 
Men, women and children are sold 
for slaves, and the revolting prac- 
tices of the slave-trading rubber- 
gatherers equal those of the terrible 
Congo. 
Commerce reached Iquitos long, 
long ago, or these atrocities would 
have no reason for: being. But the 
Christian worker has not yet been 
sent. 
Praise God for every Association 
member in the great world fields! 
Praise Him for every building which - 
offers its homelike shelter to strug- 
gling men! But oh, fellow~ Chris- 
tian send more! send more !—From 
the Gloucester Y MC A Bulletin. 
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