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this work for next year. The most economical, as well as the surest and 

 quickest way, to make of your state a great agricultural as well as a com- 

 mercial state, is through the boys and girls rather than through the adults. 

 These young people with a lifetime ahead of them, all of them in need of 

 vocational guidance early in life, furnish for you and your money un- 

 rivaled opportunities for great service. In addition to investment of 

 money, put into this work some of your personal service. After all, this 

 is our greatest contribution to any line of work. The Good Book says, 

 ''A little child shall lead them." And the truth of this was very ably 

 illustrated by the child-Christ at the age of twelve, when He stood among 

 the learned doctors in the Temple. When He was questioned b> His par- 

 ents why He had lingered behind. His prompt reply was, "Wist ye not that 

 I should be about my Father's business?" In this statemenc. He sounded 

 the serious message for the boys* and girls* club work of today, and He 

 Himself went about doing His Father's business while but a mere boy. 

 In serving as an apprentice in His father's carpenter shop, carrying the 

 water from distant well to his mother's kitchen, hoeing the row in the 

 back yard garden, clearing the rubbish from the dooryard, running the 

 many errands, playing with the neighbor children, and doing the one 

 hundred and one other things common to child life. In and through these 

 activities the Christ-child became the Christ-man, equally trained in 

 head, heart, hands and health. A four-square training to meet the four- 

 square needs of all time. 



[This lecture was illustrated by the use of lantern slides and electric 

 chart. The conference then adjourned until 10 o'clock Saturday morning.] 



