History of the Young Men's Christian Association, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from History of the Young Men's Christian Association, Vol. 2: The Confederation Period, 1855-1861 The history of an organization resembles the biography of an individual. The value of each consists not only in the character and work of the organization or individual, but chiefly in the relation of each to life as a whole. The historian of a movement like the Young Men's Christian Association is confronted with a perplexing multiplicity of events and he must have a principle of selection. I have tried from almost a chaos to select those incidents which begot the future. If I have failed, I must beg the indulgence of my reader, as I have spared neither thought nor industry. Events are like children in a large family. It is only those members who are to render important service to the world in later life whose childhood story is significant, some of them make no contribution, others do not make a stir until late in their careers. For this reason new developments require the rewriting of history. The events and personages are the same, but they had an unsuspected meaning. A revaluation is necessary. Recent progress has made this particularly true of the Young Men's Christian Association. The world has wondered where this unheeded organization came from, where it got its ideals and methods, why it had so much enterprise and such great success with the armies, why it had the limitations it exhibited and made the blunders it did. What is its future and what function has it in the new world order? I am under great obligation to Jacob T. Bowne, librarian of the International Young Men's Christian Association College. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.