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wonderful,"people"soul."YOUNG PEOPLE'SSECRETARYlung Peoplenegative vote; and adjournment. Minutes are signed by the president as wellas by yourself. That is right.And here is the society's roll revised,right up to date. Your system here isunique but most interesting, having theroll for different years in parallel columns, making it possible to see at aglance the changes in the personnelof the membership as the years go by.Both names and addresses,members groupedand the"active," "associate,"and "honorary." What a help that willbe in sending out notices or circular letters.You are wise to remember that yourduty is simply to make a record of whatis said and done, not to comment onit. If you say that So-and-so did "beautifully,"or such and such was "justyour supplyof adjectiveswill soon become monotonous, and, ifyou comment superlatively on one person's work, someone else may be disappointed if his effort has not pleasedyou equally well.Of course, your President knows theOrder of Business for theBusinessmeeting, but it might save someoneembarrassment, if he should beunexpectedly called to the chair, if youhad it copied in the back of the bookfor reference.Order of Business1. Call the meeting to order. Devotionalservice.2. Reading of the Minutes.3. Corresponding Secretary's report.4. Treasurer's report.5. Report of Standing Committees.6. Unfinished business.7. New business.8. Adjournment.Then you wil have readyfor thePresident a list of special committeesthat should report and all items ofold business to be considered. These, youwill get from the minutes of the lastmeeting. If you do all these thingsfaithfully and well, it may be said ofyou as it was said of Jonathan, David'suncle, that he was "a counsellor, a wiseman (or woman) and a27:32.scribe."I Chron.The Grinnell Convention set "100%A NEW FEATUREeditor of the Goal Post." pit.There are a few societies of Juniorsubscription support of the Goal PostHi Students in the Church and the by the young as an item ofC.Y.P.U. Staff wishes to help and encourage them as much as it can. Onepresbytery, the Midwest, has appointedits Plan of Work. Start the new yearright by sending your society's subscription list to the Goal Post, 1217a Junior Hi Secretary. At our last na Sixth Avenue, Beaver Falls, Penna.tional convention there was a JuniorSubscription cost is $1.50 per year.Hi program.Several requests have come for aTHE C.YJP.U. YEARBOOK FOR 1956list of suggested topics for the Junior The C.P.Y.U. Yearbook for 1956 is inHi Societies, so a list of Suggested the hands of the printers and will beTopics has been prepared for 1956. Itwill appear in the C.Y.P.U. Yearbookready for distribution by the time thisis printed. As before it contains.for 1956, and month by month it willbe published on Echoes Page.At the suggestion of some Junior Hileaders no further helps are to be provided at present, since these leadersbelieve it will be better for the membersto work out their own programs forthe meetings.The January Topics appear below.SUGGESTED JUNIOR HI TOPICSFOR JANUARY, 1956.a Directory of the Y. P. Secretaries.a Directory of the Conference presidents.a blank page for your society officers.The C.Y.P.U. Topics for 1956.suggestions for special meetings.THE JUNIOR HI TOPICS FOR1956.other interesting facts about theJanuary 1. When the World Started.Genesis 1:1-8.Church and its program.8. When Man Started. Gen.The Yearbook is the right size to1:26,27; 2:7,8,21-25.carry in your Bible, and it has the in15. When Sin Started. Gen. 3:1-7.formation you want to help every member be a real part of the C.Y.P.U.22. How Sin Got Worse. Gen. 4:1-13.Cost is 15c per copy. Order now29. How Sin was Punished. Gen. 6:1-3,13; 7:6-12.from Remo I. Robb, D.D., 1217 SixthAve., Beaver Falls, Pa.WHAT THEY SAYAbout the "Goal Post."LIVING WITH A HANDICAPA young person on the Mission FieldThe story of one of the great presi"I have greatly enjoyed receiving thedents of Harvard College, Charles WilGoal Post while I have been in Cyprus,liam Eliot, is worth recalling. Born withand I am looking forward to meetinga serious facial disfigurement, he dismany of the people I have read aboutcovered as a youngin the Goal Post nothingnext summer when myStates."could be done about it, and he must gofamily returns to the Carlenethrough life with this mark. It is relatedHutcheson.that when his mother brought to himA University Student The Goal Post that tragic truth, it was indeed "theis an important link for me with the dark hour of his His mother toldwork of the C.Y.P.U., and provides information and a feeling of unity withChristian young people in His workthroughout the country. Keep 'em rolling."Robert H. Marshall.him, "My son, it is not possible for youto get rid of this handicap. We have consulted the best surgeons, and they saythat nothing can be done. But it is possible for you, with God's help, to growA pastor "Our best wishes to a mind and soul so big that people willMarion McFarland in his new job as forget to look at your face."The PulDecember 28, 1955 425