There is even a sample missionary box, to show how such benefactions are constructed.

AN EXHIBITION

OF THE

WORK OF ST. GEORGE'S PARISH

WILL BE HELD AT

ST. GEORGE'S MEMORIAL HOUSE

207 EAST 16TH STREET

ON

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, MARCH 23D AND 24TH
FROM 8 TO 10.30 P.M.

AND ON

THURSDAY, MARCH 24TH, FROM 3.30 TO 6 P.M.

ADMIT ONE

PLEASE PRESENT THIS CARD AT THE

DOOR

NO CHILDREN ADMITTED ON THIS TICKET

GOOD FOR ONE VISIT ONLY

The parish exhibition and the Christmas decoration of the church are the two eminent social events to which the whole parish is invited. On these occasions rich and poor meet together.

At less frequent times, not more often than once in two or three years, a fair is held for some special object. Such sales are never under the charge of any single organization; they are made a general matter. Societies needing money in excess of the amount appropriated by the vestry and received from dues, get the aid of all the other societies: but a strong effort is made to keep all expenditure within the means of the organizations.

VIII

MEN AND WOMEN

I. The Men's Club-II. The Gymnasium-III. The Married Women's Society-IV. The Mothers' Meeting-V. The Happy - hour ClubVI. The Sunday-afternoon Club-VII. The Dramatic and Literary Society.

I. THE MEN'S CLUB

IN planning the Parish House, one entire floor was assigned to the Men's Club. As completed and furnished, these rooms comprise the library, where about five hundred books are on the shelves; the common room, where all the local daily and weekly papers of good standing are to be found, together with the leading monthly magazines, and where there are chess and checker tables and a piano; the billiard-room, and the gymnasium. Smoking is allowed in all these rooms except the gymnasium.

The rooms are open daily from eight o'clock in the morning until eleven at night; on Sundays, from one o'clock in the afternoon until eleven at night. Any attendant at St. George's who is over eighteen years of age is eligible to membership on the payment of three dollars a year, with an added fee of two dollars if he wishes to use the gymnasium.

A person desiring to join the club makes application for membership on a blank form like the following:

The dues are $3 per annum, payable quarterly in advance; $2 per annum additional for gymnasium privileges, payable half-yearly in advance, if use of gymnasium is desired.

This application must be accompanied by one quarter's dues (which will be refunded if the applicant is not admitted), and must be presented by the applicant to a member of the house committee any Monday evening, between 8 and 9 o'clock, at the club-rooms.

RECORD OF MEN'S CLUB

FOR ENTRY IN THE PARISH REGISter of st. GEORGE'S CHURCH

This application having been received, the applicant's name is posted on the bulletin-board of the club for two weeks.

An occasional inspection is made of the parish register to ascertain the names of men who belong to the parish but not to the club, and to these men the Rector sends a card making an appointment to consider the matter.

DEAR SIR:

I would like to call your attention to our St. George's Men's Club, an organization numbering over five hundred members, and having rooms in the Memorial House. The membership I am anxious to increase from the men of our congregation. The expense is only $3 per year for dues, payable annually or quarterly in advance. There is no initiation fee.

Will you not meet me and the house committee in the club and inspect it, on Monday, December 7th, after 8.30 P.M.?

Sincerely yours,

[Signed by the Rector.]

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At the beginning of the organization there were eight committees. The house committee had general oversight of the rooms, except the gymnasium, which was in charge of the gymnasium committee. The committees on membership, finance, and rules drew up the provisions necessary for establishing the club on a sound basis. The committee on hospitality and entertainments received, introduced, and informed the members on public occasions, heard complaints and suggestions, and undertook to amuse the society. The library committee discharged the duties which were appropriate to its name. For twelve years these committees, thus charged with the affairs of the club, were mainly composed of men of more than average education and wealth, accustomed to clublife. They managed the association for the benefit of the great body of members for whom it was intended. But as the boys of the Sunday-school have grown into young men, passed through the trade-school and the battalion, and become eligible for membership in the Men's Club, they have become the life of the society. Their training has cultivated their sense of responsibility. To-day the committees are mostly made up of these

men.

There are now two committees instead of eight: the house committee, governing the club in general, and the athletic committee, governing the gymnasium. Half of the house committee is appointed by the Rector; the club elects the other half at an annual meeting. This committee meets every Monday evening. A superintendent is in charge of the general club-rooms, and a competent instructor is on duty in the gymnasium. A provision is printed at the end of the by-laws, to the effect that any or all of them may be suspended at the will of the Rector.