Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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Young [people ' s Christian association. The Young- People ' s Christian Association probably more than any other student organization effects the life and atmosphere of the College, and more than any other receives the support and co-operation of the student body at large. A few facts of the year ' s work will make it evident that the work of the Association deserves such support as well as making good material for reflection. During the spring term of last year arrangements were made bv which the Association would co-ope rate with the Church and Sunday School here in sending a representative to the foreign mission field and support him there. The Association has pledged itself to pay $75 annually to the support of this representative. It was decided that M. C. Lehman should be our representative and that he should be sent to the American Mennonite Mission in India. The interests of the association work were epecially favored in having unusually large delegations at each of the Students ' Summer conferences. Six of our young men were at the annual conference of Western Col- lege men at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin and brought back with them deepened and strengthened Christian lives, useful information, and ardent enthusiasm for the association work. There were also six of our young women at the Young Women ' s Students ' Conference at Lakeside, Ohio. They have brought back a corre- sponding amount of good character, useful knowledge and working power for the association work and the student life. Four y oung women attended the State Y. W. C. A. Convention at Bloomington, Ind. The religious meetings of the association — the Thursday afternoon devotional meetings and the Tuesday noon prayer meetings — have been kept up with a good showing of attendance and interest. The devotional Bible study classes were organized. With one exception the groups have all been lead by student leaders, Prof. Gingerich lead the class in Teachings of Jesus and His Apostles. ' ' Nine groups were organized, six in the Life of Christ, two in Acts and Epistles, and one in The Teachings of Jesus and His Apostles. Three mission classes were organized at the beginning of the year. One in Effective Workers in Needy fields, one in The Evangelization of the World in this Generation, and one in Social Evils of Non-

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V- fl . C. B. Cabinet. Officers. President — A. M. Hess. Vice-President — Elsie Byler. Treasurer — J. F. Ebersole. Chairmen of Standing Committees. Secretary — Mary Ebersole. Religious Meetings-C. B. Blosser. Bible Study — S. E. Zook. Missionary — W. C. Ebersole. Finance -J. F. Ebersole. Social — B. D. Smucker. Membership — C. D. Esch.

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Young people ' s Christian association. Christian Lands. For the last half of the year two classes were organized in Day-Break in the Dark Con- tinent, and in The Burden of the City. The sum of the year ' s budget was three hundred and fifty dol- lars. The receipts over ran the budget. The cabinet appropriated one hundred dollars to the Mennonite Evangelizing and Benevolent Board to be used within three years in !the founding of a mission in South America or return to the Association. Last fall at the suggestion of President Byers the Association started a Sunday School in the East Side school building, in an out-lying district of Goshen, where there are a number of people who would not other- wise go to Sunday school. In nearly all schools the Christian work among the students is done under two seperate organizations, one for the young men and one for the young women. There is evidently some advantage in this method of or- ganization over the method of joint organization, which also has some advantages. With a view of securing some of the advantages of separate organization, the Association, after due consideration, adopted a new con- stitution, which organized the work for young men and young women more separately than before, and while retaining united organization, allows each part all the liberty consistent with the interest of the whole. Under this organization, the president of the Association who shall always be a young man is also president of the men ' s division of the work, and the vice-president, who shall always be a young woman, is also presi- dent of the young women ' s division. Taken as a whole there seems to be some progress evident in the year ' s work, and there is good reason to expect that as the institution continues to grow the Association will grow correspondingly. Whatever may have been done in the past years there remains much more to be done in the future.