and German. Shortly after that convention Mr. Fermand gave up his business and became the general secretary of the world's committee of the Young Men's Christian Associations. He traveled over the whole continent of Europe, visiting the associations, and then came to America to make acquaintance with our plans of work. Now stationed at Geneva, with some resident members of the convention, he keeps up the intercourse of the associations through nine members representing the principal nations. I have spoken of the three languages of the conference. It is a wonderful inspiration to find one's self in a gathering of all nations, brought together by the love of one person, each speaking in his own tongue, praising the one name, so similar in each,—that name alone in each address needing no interpretation.
The conference meets this year, in August, at Berlin, when probably as
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BUILDING OF THE Y.M.C.A. IN NEW YORK.
many as one hundred delegates will be present from the United States.
But inter-association organization has gone much further in this country than elsewhere, and communication is exceedingly close between the nine hundred associations of America.
The first conception of uniting associations came to the Reverend William
