CHAPTEE XIV.
 

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Among those who attended the first business
men's prayer meetings in New York was a young
man not twenty-one years of age. As good had re¬
sulted from these meetings in l>lew York, why might
not equal good be done through their instrumentality
in Philadelphia? Surely it was worth the efibrt.
Some of his fellow members of the Young Men's
Christian Association, with whom he conversed, being
of the same opinion and promising their cooperation
in the matter, he applied to the trustees of the
Methodist Episcopal Union Church, for the use of
their lecture room. The request v/aa promptly com¬
plied with, and the first Koon Prayer Meeting in the
city of Philadelphia was held in the Union Church,
November 28d, A. D. 1857.

For a time the response on the part of the business
men was far from, encouraging; thirty-six being the
highest number present, and the average attendance