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Excerpt from Railroad Association Work: History, Principles, and Methods, Prepared Under the Direction of the Railroad Department of the International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations
Young Men's Christian Association. Work was at once begun in other dry-goods establishments; later on a secretary or missionary was employed, and in 1849 a library and reading room was opened. In 1851, W. E. Shipton became the paid secretary of the Association and the work at once assumed a broader scope and more aggressive spirit. One of his early acts was the distribution of evangelistic and Association literature during the great indus trial exposition held in London in 1851, and in' this way the work of the Association became known in other lands.
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