When all the plans and methods of work are reduced to a minimum, there is but one.  This finds expression in the gang or club life.  Boys get together in a group, elect their own officers and select a man who is to be their adviser.  Then they go out and do the thing they have organized for in what is to them the simplest and best-known way.  It may be stamp collecting, or star studying, woodcraft, or camping, or the hundred and one other forms of boy activity which are so common today.  Seventy-five per cent. of these clubs are formed solely for the purpose of physical expression in athletics.  Hundreds of such clubs exist today to meet the various needs of the growing boy.  The Knights of King Arthur, the Boy Scouts, the Woodcraft Indians, the Sons of Daniel Boone, the Knights of the Holy Grail, the Knights of St. Paul, and dozens of others have been conceived and born for the purpose of meeting the needs of boys, as the founders of the organizations saw them.

In harmony with all the other boys’ organizations, and yet bigger than all of them put together, is the Sunday school organization for boys—­the Organized Bible Class.  It is purely and simply a church organization, and owes no allegiance to any organization outside of the local church.  It is also a distinct part of the church life and an organic part of the Sunday school, which is large enough to hold the boy’s interest from the cradle roll to the grave.  The other organizations serve their day in the life of the boy and cease to be.  It is difficult, almost an impossibility, to get normal boys, after fifteen years of age, to take much interest in the so-called boys’ organizations, because their lives have outgrown these activities and there is no longer any need of them.  The Organized Bible Class presents a method that can never be outgrown. It also has at its heart Bible study, which is the one essential to permanence in any work with boys.

=Class Organization=

Objective.—­Class organization is of no value unless the class has definite objectives.  The members should be made to feel that there is some great purpose in the organization.  The objectives for a teen age class should be: 

1.  The winning of the class members to personal allegiance to Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord; and

2.  The proper expression of the Christian life in service for others in the name and spirit of the Christ.  Thus one strengthens one’s self and helps others.

Why Organize.—­(a) It is natural for a boy to want to get into an organization of some kind.  Seventy-five per cent. of the boys of a community are, or have been, connected with some sort of organization.  These organizations, rightly controlled, and dominated by strong Christian leadership, can be made a power for good in the community and in the lives of their members.  It matters not what the organization may be connected with, it is the activities that appeal.