They are standing quietly in the background waiting. Older folks must take the initiative."

Under three heads she developed the class responsibility:

1. We must recognize the young people in the church. She showed by illustration that where this was done the young people began to feel the weight of the present as well as the future church resting upon them and their work.

2. Our young people will have to get the broad conception of what the church stands for. She showed that the great movements of the world were outside the church. "Why doesn't the church get under these?"

3. Give them the vision and they will be ready when you say, "You ought to be trained for your work." You tell them all it means to be a teacher and what preparation it will take and they will answer, "I am ready to do all for Him.”’

She spoke of a pastor who had a special committee of 12 boys whom he called his bodyguard who were ready at his call and more than a hundred boys have gone out from that church as Christians because he was always finding something for the boys of the church to do.

A vote was taken in the morning session as to how many of the church full of interested and working people became followers of Christ before they were 20 years of age, and it was almost unanimous. This showed clearly that if we are to get workers for the church who have a vision of service we must train and equip them before they are out of their teens.

REPORT OF ADULT DIVISION.

BY W. C. PEARCE, SUPT.

The past triennium has been one continuous era of progress in the Adult Bible Class Work. A triumphant note of victory has come from every part of the field. The number of organized classes has constantly and rapidly increased, and the character of the work being done by them has steadily improved. Jehovah hath led the way and caused the work to prosper. To Him we render our heartfelt thanks, to Him be all the glory.

ORGANIZATION.

ADULT DEPARTMENTS.

Every State and Province now has some form of organization for their Adult Department Work. While in some Associations the organization is incomplete, yet in every instance a splendid beginning has been made. Fifty-four Associations have Adult Department Superintendents. Illi

nois, Kansas, Pennsylvania and New York have Superintendents, who are employed to give either part or whole time to the work. Thirty-three State and Provincial Associations report the appointment of 1,017 County Adult Department Superintendents.

FEDERATIONS.

We are yet in the experimental stage in the organization of Adult Bible Class Federations. It has, however, been clearly demonstrated that there are many practical kinds of coöperative work for such organizations. One Federation conducted a "Home Visitation Campaign" as a preliminary step in a coöperative effort to win every man and woman of their field to their Bible classes and to Jesus Christ. Another conducted a series of Sunday afterncon, down-town evangelistic services. Several have materially helped to win signal temperance victories. All of them have found much to do in the work of extending and improving organized Adult Bible Class Work. Fourteen State and Provincial Associations report the organization of thirty-one Federations.

ORGANIZED CLASSES.

The International Standard of Organization is an honest endeavor to define a working plan of organization without requiring absolute uniformity. This standard has become the backbone of the Adult Bible Class Movement. Its universal acceptance attests its practicability and the rapid growth in the number of classes demonstrates its efficiency. During the triennium the standard has been changed at one point, namely: the Devotional Committee is now called "Devotional and Missionary Committee.''

No doubt there are many classes organized according to standard that have not reported. For the sake of accuracy, however, we confine our report to those classes holding International Certificates of Recognition. At Louisville, Kentucky, in 1908, 1,632 classes were reported. During the triennium Certificates of Recognition have been issued to 19,318 classes, making a grand total on March 25, 1911, of 20,950 classes. Between March 25 and June 1, 1911, forty-four Associations reported 2,527 classes, making a grand total of 23,477.

The membership of these 20,950 classes at the time of registration was 544,262, or an average of about twenty-seven members for each class. The present membership of the classes has been included in the regular Sunday School statistics and therefore cannot be given separately or accurately. From the ratio of growth shown by classes after their organization, it is conservative to estimate the present membership of the

20,950 organized classes at 1,088,524. Twenty-six Associations reporting 10,301 classes state the number of men's, women's and mixed classes, and give the membership of each group at the time of registration: 3,830 of them were men's classes, with a membership of 128,698; 3,918 of them were women's classes, with a membership of 96,565; 2,550 of them were mixed classes, with a membership of 74,812. Taking the ratio shown by these twenty-six Associations as a basis of estimate, the 20,950 organized classes would be divided as follows: 7,786 men's classes, with a membership of 443,980; 7,910 women's classes, with a membership of 348,327, and 5,254 mixed classes with a membership of 296,217.

Associations in order of largest number of certificates issued in proportion to the number of Sunday Schools on March 25, 1911; also percentage in 1908:

This shows that there are twelve organized classes for each one hundred Sunday Schools.

PROMOTION.

STEREOPTICON LECTURE.

This lecture consists of a set of one hundred colored slides showing different types of classes and many of their activities. A typewritten