The Boy and the Sunday School Part 16

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.

This is important. Make a special drive on this meeting, the object being to line up a man in every last school who will make himself responsible for that school being represented in the Conference. The Superintendents not present at this meeting should be seen and written to at once, urging upon them the importance of the work, apprising them of the results of the Superintendents' Conference and showing them the necessity of their schools being included in this city-wide campaign for the adolescent boy. Other plans of promotion may be adopted by the Committee, as warranted by local conditions.

_Meetings of General Committee._--The General Conference Committee should arrange to meet at least once a week, for a month prior to the Conference, and all plans of the sub-committees should be submitted to this Committee for their approval before being put into operation.

=The Conference Program=

Conference Theme--Training and Service.

Temporary Chairman--President or Vice-President of Sunday School a.s.sociation, or acceptable subst.i.tute.

2:00 Registration of Delegates.

2:30 Devotional and Music.

3:00 Address, "The Biggest Thing in the World."

3:20 Secondary Division Organization--The Bible Cla.s.s.

4:15 Group Conferences (City divided into districts).

5:45 Recreation.

7:00 Banquet to Delegates.

(a) Music--Orchestra.

(b) Toasts--Two Older Boys.

(1) Our Country.

(2) Our City.

(c) Address, "The Crusade."

8:45 Devotional 9:00 Question Box and Conference.

9:20 Address, "In Training" (Inspirational).

10:00 Adjournment.

=The Banquet Seating Plan=

The delegates from each Sunday school should sit together, and when practicable be also grouped by denominations. At the close of the address on the Crusade _the Inter-Sunday School Council should be formed_.

This shall consist of two older boys and one man from each partic.i.p.ating Sunday school. The Council is subject to the call of the Chairman of the Secondary Division Committee.

_Method of Enrollment_

1. After the presentation of the Crusade, pa.s.s a colored card to each delegation, asking them to confer and to write on the card the names and addresses of the two older boys they may choose to represent their school, the name of school, also the names and addresses of the teachers of the chosen delegates.

_The Adult representative from each school should be selected later by the committee in charge of the Crusade Conference_.