“Instruct in domestic arts, dressmaking, millinery, cooking,
    decoration, and, through the Samaritan Hospital, in the art of
    nursing.

    “Furnish statedly instructive entertainments for the young.

    “Develop the various singing services.

    “Specially care for and assist young sisters.

    “Cooeperate in sewing enterprises of all sorts.

    “Aid the Pastors by systematic visitation.

    “Push many branches of City Missions, especially with reference to
    developing young women as workers.

    “Maintain suitable young women as missionaries at home or in
    foreign fields.

    “Carry sunshine to darkened hearts and homes.

    “Be noble, influential Christian women.”

It has a room of its own in the Lower Temple, with circulating library, piano and all the cheerful furnishings of a parlor in the home.  To this bright room comes many a girl from her dreary boarding house to spend the evening in reading and social chat.  It has been the cheery starting point in many a girl’s life to a career of happy usefulness.

The Young Men’s Association follows similar lines and is an equally important factor in the church work.  It plans to: 

    “Help increase the membership and efficiency of the Young Men’s
    Bible Class and other similar organizations.

    “Persistently follow the meetings of these associations and keep
    them in the hands of able, consecrated managers and officers, who
    will lead in the best enterprises of the church.

    “Make the reading-room attractive and helpful.

    “Help sustain the great Sunday morning prayer meeting.

    “Invite passers-by to enter the church, and welcome strangers who
    do enter.

    “Advise seekers after God.

    “Bring back the wandering.

    “Organize relief committees to save the lost young men of the
    city.

    “Look after traveling business men at hotels, and bring them to
    The Temple.

    “Promote temperance, purity, fraternity and spiritual life.

    “Initiate the most important undertakings of the church.

“Surround themselves with strong young men, and inaugurate vigorous, fresh plans and methods for bringing the gospel to the young men of to-day in store, shop, office, school, college, on the streets, and elsewhere.

“Visit sick members, help into lucrative employment, organize religious meetings, make the church life of the young bright, inspiring and noble, plan for sociables, entertainments for closer acquaintance and for raising money for Christian work and to use their pens for Christ among young men whom they know, and also with strangers.”

It has a delightful room in the Lower Temple, carpeted, supplied with books, good light, a piano, comfortable chairs.  It is a real home for young men alone in the city or without family or home ties.