irrigation plan which we have, for it turns the water of life into the young lives which fertilizes the activities and much fruit is the result. The organization brings to the church something she has never had— a trained Christian membership."

Rev. A. L. Phillips, Richmond, Va., Superintendent of the Sundayschool work of the Presbyterian Church, South, presented the subject, "Effective Class Organization."

In part he said: "First, there must be some objective. The forming and settling of habits of service in the church is the objective.

"The second thing is the force you are driving with. This is the teacher. The teacher should be elected by the church and the other officers by the class.

"The third point is the controlling force. The church should be the controlling force in the organized class. There is need of a new kind of office in the class which I wish to call Council of Service. This council is to be made up of three members elected by the class who would sit with the officers of the church in all their meetings and present the needs of the class and to get acquainted with the workings of the church. This committee might suggest to the teacher the line of development of the lesson desired by the class. It might carry to the church for final solution the problems of class management and control.''

Miss Margaret Slattery, of Boston, made one of the most able addresses of the conference. She said in part: "The problem of adolescence is the great opportunity of the church. The modern church is alive to its importance while some of the old-fashioned churches are still asking, 'What is all this fuss about over the young people?'

"Man is saying 'Religion is a man's job,' and I am inclined to use the slang phrase in telling them to get onto their job. I believe if we are to do anything for the adolescent boy we must do it through the young man of the country. He needs a well equipped teacher plus a young man. No one but a man can understand a boy. Our girls need well equipped teachers plus womanhood.

"The church has been trying to give the Intermediate boy a Primary Christ or a Christ of Theology. The Intermediate boy wants a man for a Savior and a freedom to worship Him according to the dictates of his own conscience. The girl wants a Christ who can appreciate it all and who actually cares. Admiration then devotion. The work is not a burden but an opportunity at the church's door.

"Our Christian colleges must educate our young people in Christian

churches for Christian service.

responsibility.

Organization is the distribution of

"The teacher should be a skilled physician who can lay his hand on the right instrument at the right time in order to perform the most difficult operation of youth development.

"The whole passion of the race comes in adolescence. Now is our opportunity and it comes but once.

Temperance work in the Teen age was discussed by Mrs. Zillah Foster Stevens, International Temperance Superintendent. She had a large number of banners and charts with which she showed by object lessons how temperance might be taught. She said in part: "Have an ideal-Jesus at 12 years old is a beautiful one. Many girls are beginning to smoke cigarettes. The cigarette habit is becoming a menace to the growing girlhood of the nation as well as the young manhood. This is an indisputable fact. She also showed that those whom it affects most are among those who should be the representative women of the country. The danger of the cigarette, she claims, lies mostly in its innocent and harmless appearance, but that it is a danger is proved by the disqualification of 246 out of 350 candidates for the Navy at Annapolis because of their inordinate use of nicotine. 300 times as much poison is gotten through a cigarette as through a cigar or a pipe.

"In teaching hunt for facts from history, use cartoons, appeal to the eye, secure the pledge signed, emphasize the fact that doors of business houses are closed to the cigarette smoker. Moreover she urged that the work of teaching temperance by the method of inculcation is preferable to the older form of preaching."

William A. Brown, of Chicago, International Missionary Superintendent, presented the subject "Youth and Missions."' He explained how the heroic side of missionary work presented in youth would attract by the heroism of its nature.

Mr. Brown said: "This is the time when the heroic appeals to the youth, and our difficulty does not lie with the youth. Call for volunteers for some definite work and you will have ten young men for every job. Two great questions must be settled before the youth leaves the Secondary Division, 'What shall I do with Jesus, and what shall I do for Jesus?'

"The spirit of the All-wise has the first chance in the life of every young man. We need men and we need money. Here in youth we can so train that we will get both. Missions fit in so beautifully here." He then proved to us that the height of civilization of the

world today was the fruit of Christian missions. He made and developed these statements:

1. If it had not been for missionary enterprise we would not have a Bible at all.

2. Every writer of the New Testament was a Missionary.

3. Nobody but a Missionary could write a Gospel.

4. Every Apostle but Judas became a Missionary.

Mr. Brown emphasized that the largest gathering on the continent was a missionary gathering. He closed with this question, "Shall Missions become a passion or a pastime?"

Dr. Edgar Blake, Assistant Secretary, Board of Sunday-schools of the M. E. Church, addressed the conference on "Responsibility of Church to Class." He said, "Men are saved by contact with the world; preaching is proclaiming of truth; teaching is the inculcation of that truth into life by doing; no truth becomes a possession until we have made it a part of our lives." He gave a number of illustrations to show how beautifully the youth could be led into service of God and his fellowman if the church realized its responsibility to the class and would undertake to carry that responsibility. We have organized our class and want to do something for somebody, what can we do? comes from the newly organized class. The spirit of Divine heroism is the greatest in the Secondary Division.

Forty per cent. of the Carnegie medals for heroism have been granted to those in the teen age. Dr. Blake told the story of a city that had tried to remove the saloons and had failed and then one man undertook to organize the boys and in companies of 10, the boys under a boy captain, they went out and with pledge cards secured 5000 signatures from the voters to vote the town dry for the sake of the boys. The town was carried against the wets by the boys.

It is hard now for the Government to secure recruits for the army and navy but it was not hard when there was something doing in '61. Start something that the boys and girls will have something to do in the church and there will be no trouble about getting them to take hold.

"There is a great gulf between Young people should be given a emotions in the life around them.

"Responsibility of Class to the Church" was presented by Mrs. A. A. Lamoreaux of Chicago. She said: the church and the young people. chance to express their missionary In order to cement the work of the young people to the work of the church they should be induced to sit in council with their elders and should be urged to take an active part in the affairs of the church.

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.

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