Two ways are open for the election of the officers:  by a Nominating Committee and in open conference from the floor. If a Nominating Committee is the method, no man should be present to suggest or dictate. The committee should, however, have the right to consult whomever they please, in order to get the information they may wish. The writer prefers the Open Conference Nominations from the floor.  In over two hundred conferences he has never yet been disappointed in the choice of the boys.

The program should be distinctly a Sunday school one.  The conference is in the interests of the Sunday school.  Keep it to the purpose intended.  Hundreds of good causes might be discussed, but the objective of the conference would be missed.  Below are three different length programs used at different places.  They may prove suggestive to those intending to conduct such meetings.

A. Afternoon and Evening Conference (One Day).

PROGRAM

TORONTO

BOYS’ WORK CONFERENCE

=December= 31, 1912

Conference Theme:—­Training and Service

=St. James’ Square Presbyterian Church=, Gerrard St., between Yonge and Church Sts.

2:00 P.M.  Registration of Delegates.
2:30 Music, in charge of Mr. W.R.  Young,
             Choirmaster of St. John’s Presbyterian
             Church. 
           Devotional—­Rev. E.W.  Halpenny,
             B.D., General Secretary, Ontario
             Sunday School Association.
3:00 The Message of the Galt Conference,
             N.W.  Henderson, Robert Walker,
             Gordon Galloway.
3:20 Address—­“Organized Sunday School
             Work,” by John L. Alexander, Chicago,
             Ill., Superintendent Secondary
             Division, International Sunday School
             Association.
4:15 Group Conferences, led by Taylor Statten,
             Preston G. Orwig and A.W. 
             Forgie.

5:45 Recreation, Seymour Collings, Physical
            Director, Toronto Central Young
            Men’s Christian Association.
7:00 Banquet to Delegates, on floor of Association
            Hall, Central Young Men’s
            Christian Association Building, corner
            Yonge and McGill Streets. 
          Chairman—­John Gilchrist, President
            Toronto Sunday School Association.
          (a) Music.
          (b) Toasts—­The King,—­The Chairman
              “Our Country.”
          (c) Address—­“The Crusade”—­John
              L. Alexander.

=St. James’ Square Presbyterian Church=

9:00 Devotional—­Rev. E.W.  Halpenny.
9:15 Group Conferences.
10:00 Address, “In Training,” John L.
Alexander, Chicago, Ill.
10:45 Report of Group Conference Committees.
11:15 Address, “The Challenge of the New
Year,” Charles W. Bishop, Canadian
National Secretary, Young Men’s
Christian Association.
12:15 Adjournment.