Part 16 (1/2)

NOTE.--Once this information is gathered it can be kept up-to-date by arrangement with the moving companies and the water, gas and electric light companies. A monthly report from these companies, or a stock of post-cards kept with them, will do the work. Another method is an annual checking up with the city directory.

(b) Home Visitation for Enlistment. This is best accomplished by personal invitation, letter, attractive advertising, etc. a.s.sign to teen age worker.

_Training Cla.s.ses_

3. A training cla.s.s or training cla.s.ses, central or by districts, should be arranged to specialize for teen age leaders.h.i.+p.

(a) Adolescent Leaders.h.i.+p Course (50 lessons) according to International Standard.

(b) Demonstration Course in physical, social, mental and outdoor activities.

_Service Programs_

4. Practical programs should be prepared and offered to schools and organized cla.s.ses to stimulate the members.h.i.+p of the Crusade.

”For none of us liveth to himself.” ”For unto every one which hath shall be given, and from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away from him.” ”Service” is the magic word around which real life swings. By giving, one gets. The investment of service, as individuals, and as a cla.s.s, will bring big dividends in the development of one's personal life.

_Missions Program_

Promote (a) a course of study of ”live” home and foreign mission material; (b) systematic giving to missions; (c) the study of the foreign population of your city, particularly of your own neighborhood; (d) teaching non-English speaking men and boys to read and write; (e) the investigation, and, when possible, the handling of needy cases in your community. Anything going out from the cla.s.s to the other fellow comes under this head.

_Temperance Program_

Get information along the lines of: (a) bodily self-control; (b) the injury of tobacco on the growing tissue; (c) the inroads of alcohol on the growing and mature body; and (d) the economic, material and moral waste of intemperance of every kind.

_Purity Program_

Hit hard for (a) clean speech, clean thoughts, clean sports; (b) for a single s.e.x standard; (c) chivalry and cleanliness among the s.e.xes; and (d) adequate education on s.e.x matters.

Programs along these three lines will be furnished on application to the State and Provincial Sunday School a.s.sociation offices.

=Preliminary Plans For Crusade=

To get things in motion, two lines of action are suggested: First, plan for a conference of older boys and workers with boys for the community which you desire to cover. The program should aim to lay before the conference the plan of the Organized Secondary Division Cla.s.s; methods of work should be discussed at group conferences; the Crusade Challenge presented at the banquet; and the session should close with a rousing inspirational address. Second, formation of an _Inter-Sunday School Council_, the purpose of which is to plan and promote work for Secondary Division Cla.s.ses in the city.

_Promotion of Conference_

The Secondary Division Committee, headed by the Secondary Division Superintendent of the city, towns.h.i.+p or county, in which the conference is planned, should head the work, and representative men and older boys should be chosen to form a Conference Committee.

First Steps. Call a meeting of the General Conference Committee. State clearly the objective of the Conference and Crusade, then appoint the following sub-committees: Program, Printing and Advertising, Banquet, Registration, Recreation and Promotion.

=Duties Of Committees=

_Program_.--Plan program, secure speakers, organist and leader for singing.

_Printing and Advertising_.--To have charge of all printing, such as Advance Notices of Conference, Registration Cards, Banquet Tickets, Tentative Program, Completed Program, Crusade Folder, Newspaper Articles, Conference Badges or b.u.t.tons.

_Banquet_.--To arrange all the details of the banquet, the place where it will be held, securing dishes and silverware, arrangement of tables, decorations, etc.

_Registration_.--To arrange a simple system of registration, have charge of distribution of programs and badges, tabulate record of registration for report to convention, etc.

_Recreation_.--To plan for a period of organized recreation between the afternoon and evening sessions.

_Promotion_ (perhaps the most important of all committees). The responsibility of securing ”picked” members of teen age cla.s.ses and workers to attend the Conference rests on the shoulders of this committee. All members of the General Committee should share with them this responsibility. The Committee should arrange for a meeting of Sunday school Superintendents and every effort be made to have every school represented, by either the Superintendent or a subst.i.tute appointed by him. At this meeting outline carefully the plan of the Conference and Crusade, enlist their cooperation, secure from each man present a promise to see that delegates are sent from his school; supply these men with literature and registration cards. Be sure to have a record of the name and address of all in attendance at this meeting.