The new club-house of the Foreign Young Men's Christian Association was opened by H. B. Consul-General, Byron Brenan, E Friday last with rear success. The Right Rev. F. R, raves, D.D., offered prayer, after which Mr. C. S."Addis, chairman of the mecting, said—In the ab-ence of Mr. J. L. Scott, who is prevented, by a cause we must all regret, from—being present to-night, I have the honour to bid you welcome to the new premises of the Young Men's Association. I frost that this handsome building will long stand as a proof of the growing prosperity of Shanghai. Of that prosperity, at present, there can be no manner of doubt, Shanghai is advancing by leaps and bounds, We must not forget, however, that mere ing prosperity brings increasing respnsibilities in its train. And surely not the least of these is to make adequate provision for the mental and moral, the spiritual and physical needs of the young men with whom the future prosperity of Shanghai is indissolubly bound up. It is hardly too much to say that just in proportion as that respon: bility is wisely and generously met, so the foundations of your prosperity established broad and deep and its perma ence secured. In fine, we believe there is ample economic justification to be found for an enterprise such as this which we have invited you to inaugurate, Consider the If this complex industrial organism of ours is to be kept working at high pressure, there must be flowing year in and year out, to factory and workshop, to office and warehouse, a steady stream of young men. To what conditions do they come? They will have to work hard, harder perhaps than in similar occupations at home, but no one need pity them for that. They will fud compensation inn sense of freedom buoyancy denied to the more scientific division of labour in the home lands. But there is one drawback which goes far to outweigh these advantages, It is the want of
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