(e) Be sure to have a plain white card, 3x5, and a small sharpened pencil for each one present. This is absolutely necessary for the Forward Step part of the meeting. IV. Letters to be sent out (Publicity Committee): 1. _To Pastor_, _Superintendent_ or _Teacher_: (a) Announcing the conference, its nature, purpose, etc. (b) That it is confined to older boys--15 to 20 years--and one adult leader from each school. (c) From three to five delegates (Christian boys). (d) Ask for name of adult leader. (e) Enclose Postal Card. 2. _To Sunday School Adult Leader_: (a) Send plan of conference and details. (b) Enclose Tentative Program. (c) Ask for names of boy (Christian) delegates, setting time limit and enclosing credentials. (d) Suggest that leader have a meeting of the delegates before the conference to consider what the conference may mean to their own local Sunday school. 3. _To Each Delegate_: (a) Send a brief letter with program. (b) Emphasize the Christian nature of the conference; that it is for training and leadership, and that he has been chosen from his school for this purpose. (c) Suggest daily prayer as preparation. V. Leaders' Meeting: If possible, arrange for a luncheon or dinner conference for the Sunday school adult leaders who are at the conference. Talk over the plans, programs and hopes of the conference. VI. Follow-Up After Conference: 1. A Second Leaders' Meeting. (Details at Conference) 2. Local Delegates' Meeting. (Details at Conference) BIBLIOGRAPHY ON OLDER BOYS' CONFERENCE Dunn.--What the State Boys' Conference Means to the Churches (_American Youth_, April, 1911) (.20). Hinckley.--The Unique Value of Conferences of Older Boys (_American Youth_, April, 1912) (.20). Scott.--Boys' Conference in Community and County (_American Youth_, April, 1911) (.20). Smith.--The Maine Boys' Conference (_American Youth_, April, 1911) (.20). XIV THE SECONDARY DIVISION OR TEEN AGE BOYS' CRUSADE[9] The Older Boys' City-wide Conference is outlined in the previous chapter. It is a good, but intermittent, form of Inter-Sunday school activity for boys. The Secondary Division or Teen Age Boys' Crusade is a permanent form for such activity, and may be launched at the Older Boys' Conference. The idea of the Crusade germinated in the minds of the members of the Toronto Secondary Division Committee in connection with a Sunday school Older Boys' Conference in December, 1912. The objectives around which the idea grew were a campaign for Organized Classes in every school, an effort to reach Toronto's 10,000 non-Sunday school, teen age boys and a training class for adolescent leadership. At the evening banquet, at which the Crusade was presented, 55 Sunday schools registered for the campaign and 187 older boys signed up for training and the effort to reach the boys not in Sunday school. At a later meeting a plan of action was decided upon. _The Objective_