The Association of Employed Officers

The meeting of the Association of Employed Officers follows the Biennial Convention in Richmond, meeting from April 15-17. An admirable program for the consideration of vital subjects is under preparation. Fuller announcement will be made later. It will be a misfortune for any secretary to be obliged to miss this meeting and we are hoping that a large percentage of the secretarial force throughout the country will be present. Besides the program there is always the advantage of personal acquaintance and fellowship, which is even more essential as our numbers increase.

We wish to remind you that the expense of this program must be met from our own treasury and that the condition of the treasury depends upon the payment of the $2 membership fee which each one who belongs owes. In order that we shall be saved embarrassment, the members of the Association are very earnestly requested to send as soon as possible their $2 membership fee to Miss Ella Schooley, 1701 Bush Street, San Francisco, Cal.

All Associations Watch for

The annual report blanks which will come to your Association by circular post early in February.

Your prompt attention to them will help us to have a good national Association exhibit at Richmond.

If you do not get them by February 20th write to your field committee for duplicates.

An Outstanding Feature of the Biennial

Those who look back to the gymnasium drill at Indianapolis as a stirring picture that outlasts many of the legislative and technical hours in their memories will be interested to know that the success of that splendid demonstration has been used as but a stepping stone to something more complete and more pictorial which will present to the Richmond Convention and the people of that part of the south a rounded picture suggestive of Association work in most of its phases. It is hoped to present a Pageant on the grounds of a private estate in Richmond. At any rate it will be held out of doors if April weather whims permit.

The committee has written the Pageant around the motif, "as every man hath received the gift, even so "The ministering of the gift then will minister the same, one to another." show by means of an opening processional four episodes depicting student, country, city and foreign work and an epilogue, the individual's responsibility for passing on Association gifts making for more abundant life. While the different episodes have been assigned entirely to Atlantic coast Associations, the great opportunity for "direct representation" will come in the opening processional of some nine hundred girls representing every Association affiliated with the National Board.

Further details will be given through correspondence and in the March AsSOCIATION MONTHLY, but the country at large may be assured of an occasion of unforgetable impressions and significance.

HE dates for the summer

Τ course for graduate physical

directors have been fixed for July 1st to August 12th. As previously stated, this is an opportunity for graduates of recognized normal schools, whether experienced in teaching or not, to study the special field of Young Women's Christian Associations and how the elements of physical education may be applied thereto. All lectures will be given at the National Training School in its new building adjacent to the national headquarters. The names of faculty and lecturers include the following:

Dr. Anna L. Brown, Secretary for Hygiene and Physical Education, National Board-Departmental Administration; Sex

Instruction.

Miss Mabelle M. Ford, Director of Gymnasium, Y. W. C. A., Cleveland, OhioPhysical Department Administration; Individual and Group Instruction.

Miss Maud March, Teachers College, Columbia University-Normal Diagnosis. Dr. Angenette Parry, M. D., New York City-Personal and Social Hygiene.

Miss Beulah Kennard, President of Pittsburgh Playground Association-Playgrounds.

Miss Elizabeth Wilson, Executive Secretary, Secretarial Department of National Board-History, Principles and Methods of the Young Women's Christian Association.

Miss Ethel Cutler, Religious Work Director, National Board-Life of Paul.

Miss Anna V. Rice, Hartford Theological Seminary-Normal class-How to teach the Gospel of Mark.

Professor Albert C. Knudson, D. D., School of Theology, Boston University Old Testament Prophecy.

These and other courses in Mission Study, Personal Evangelism, etc., will be open to physical directors who may choose courses aggregating from ten to fifteen hours, according to the previous work they have had. Dr. Jay William Seaver of New Haven, Professor J. F. Williams of Columbia University, Dr. George A. Fisher of the International Committee of Young Men's Christian As

International Institute of Young Women's Christian Association, etc.,

will speak on aspects of physical education, civic co-operation and recreation.

Since the National Training School has been made the headquarters for delegates attending the World's Student Christian Federation Conferference at Lake Mohonk in June, it is expected that certain of the women delegates will enter as students in the Preparatory Training Center course for student secretaries given at the Training School simultaneously with Certhe physical directors' course. tain speakers at the Federation Conference are expected to lecture before the whole body of students.

Every effort is being made in order to insure to the physical directors who attend the Summer Court an opportunity to learn the most effective methods of developing the physical life of the women and girls in the where the communities Young Women's Christian Association is operating. The content of the various courses will prove very rich to experienced physical directors as well as to those who have technical training, but have not as yet become physical directors.

The secretarial department is issuing circulars, which will be sent to all Associations and also mailed upon application to the secretarial department office. The registration fee, which should be paid on or before May 1st, is five dollars. Twenty dollars is the tutition fee, which should be paid upon entrance. Room and full board in the Training School building is eight dollars a week. The program has been arranged so as to afford the maximum of physical comfort, free from nervous strain, and to fit the students to enter upon their work in the fall better prepared in mind, body and spirit.

Further announcements relative to the courses will appear from time to time.

SECRETARIAL CHANGES

The following changes will bring your Directory of Associations published in the Year Book up to date:

NATIONAL

Mabel Everett, formerly office secretary of Student Committee, National Board, New York City, to be office executive of same committee.

Margery J. Moore, formerly executive secretary of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania Field Committee, to be special worker in Arizona for Pacific Coast Committee.

Mary I. Mulford to be house director of the National Training School, New York City.

Helen Salisbury to resume work as student secretary of Pacific Coast Committee.

Lorraine Willits to be special worker in Publication Department, National Board, New York City.

LOCAL

Jessie Alspach to be lunchroom director at Topeka, Kans.

Ethel Baldwin, of the fall 1912 Northeast Training Center class, to be extension secretary at Utica, N. Y.

Miss Banks, formerly extension secretary at Philadelphia, Pa., to hold the same position at Camden, N. J.

Ethel Beane to be student secretary at Alabama Girls' Technical Institute, Montevallo, Ala.

Zella Bigelow to be instructor in sewing at Cleveland, Ohio.

Elva Brakeman, of the fall 1912 South Central Training Center class, to be assistant secretary at Birmingham, Ala.

Hazel Bullock to be instructor in sewing at Cleveland, Ohio.

Emma Dearborn to be director of the commercial department at Cleveland, Ohio. Edith L. Capron to be domestic art director at Cleveland, Ohio.

Faith Elliott to be lunchroom director at Colorado Springs, Colo.

Helen F. Fair, of the fall Central Training Center class. to be extension secretary at Kansas City, Mo.

Clara Hard, of the fall 1912 South Central Training Center class, to be extension and mill village worker at Winston-Salem, N. C.

Essie Hoag. of the fall 1912 Central Training Center class, to be house secretary at St. Paul, Minn.

Alice Kimball, of the fall 1912 Northeast Training Center class, to be membership secretary at the Central Branch, New York City..

Louisa B. Kimball, of the fall 1912 Northeast Training Center class, to be educational director at New Haven, Conn.

Hazel Krantz, of the fall 1912 Northeast Training Center class, to be membership and social secretary at Pittsburgh, Pa.

Josephine Lynch, formerly assistant secretary at New Orleans, La., to be assistant industrial secretary at Pittsburgh, Pa.

Mrs. J. J. McDuffie to be student secretary at the Industrial Institute and College, Columbus, Miss.

Hazel McOmber, of the fall 1912 Central Training Center class, to be extension secretary at Kalamazoo, Mich.

Marie Malley, of the fall 1912 Central Training Center class, to be special worker in lunchroom department at Minneapolis, Minn.

Carolyn March, of the fall 1912 Northeast Training Center class, to be assistant and industrial secretary at Paterson, N. J. Annie Miller to be instructor in the commercial department at Cleveland, Ohio.

Viola Pillsbury to be student secretary at the University of Denver, Denver, Colo. Mildred Pinkerton, of the fall 1912 Central Training Center class, to be office secretary in the educational department at Detroit, Mich.

Eunice Porter to be assistant at Charleston, W. Va.

Rena Richey to be instructor in cooking at Cleveland, Ohio.

Ethel Scribner to be student secretary at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. Elizabeth Scriven, of the fall 1912 Central Training Center class, to be extension and county secretary at Elgin, Ill.

Marion Shepard, formerly general secretary at Chester, Pa., to be acting general secretary at New Bedford, Mass.

Minnie H. Smith to be office secretary at Rest and Recreation Rooms, Denver, Colo. Harriet Thwing, of the fall 1912 Central Training Center class, to be membership secretary at Kansas City, Mo.

Harriet Vaughan, formerly assistant extension secretary at the West Side Branch, New York City, to be branch secretary at the Barre Street Branch, Baltimore, Md.

Elizabeth Wetherell, formerly physical director at Springfield, Mass., to hold the same position at Plainfield, N. J.

Margaret Williamson, of the fall 1912 Northeast Training Center class, to be assistant employment secretary at the Central Branch, New York City.

Mrs. Wilson to be cafeteria director at Indianapolis, Indiana.

Margaret Wilson to be student secretary at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

CHANGES OF ADDRESS.

Young Women's Christian Association of Epworth University, Guthrie, Oklahoma, now at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Young Women's Christian Association, Switzer Women's College, Itasea, Texas, has been discontinued.

Volume VII.

Number 2

IT

T came to pass some thirty centuries and more ago that there dwelt a sojourner in the land of Midian. In the hot impetuosity of his youth he had slain a man for daring to abuse a cringing Hebrew slave, and with the discovery of the deed, he whom the ancient record declares "mighty in words and works" had taken refuge in a foreign land. The impulse deep rooted in his very being to protect the weak in the hour of their need won for him a welcome and a home, and, after many days, the soft dark eyes of his bride taught him that there are other ways of conquest than by the strength of one's own right

arm.

Now it happened as he tended the flocks of his father-in-law by the sacred mount, that the glory of the Lord shone round about him, and in the great wakening light, he saw with sudden clearness that all the longing of his heart to help his countrymen, breaking beneath the cruel bondage of their Egyptian lords, was as nothing before the desire and the determination of the God of their fathers to deliver the needy and the oppressed. He had thought himself quite alone in his persistent yearning for his downtrodden kinsmen, and lo, One there was who had heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters and had come down to deliver them. Now all the world was changed, transformed, aglow with the light of Divine reality. Hesitant, overwhelmed, more than half fearful

lest the vision fade, lest he prove unequal to the task entrusted to him, yet spurred on by a growing faith, Moses returned to the court of Pharaoh to lift the yoke from off his brethren.

It was a stupendous task fraught with difficulties that would have daunted a heart less brave, but when liverance, long delayed, fell on the the spring came on, a night of deland, and each recurring April has witnessed the memorial feast of that great deliverance. To this day there are sojourners in many lands who keep the feast of the Passover because "By strength of hand Jehovah brought his people forth from the house of bondage."

It was long, weary centuries after that first memorial feast ere there arose another prophet in the land like unto Moses whom the Lord knew face to face. But when the Master of men tarried for a little on the earth, he also observed the feast. "Think not," he had said, "that I come to destroy the law or the prophets; I come not to destroy but to fulfil." And on the night that he was betrayed he kept that ancient rite, yet transformed it, made it forever new; commemorating no longer the exodus from Egypt but that "exodus which he was about to accomplish in Jerusalem." Had they not so spoken of his death-Moses and Elias-as they talked with him on the Mount?

As he had made his way toward the capital city he sent two of his friends ahead with careful instructions to follow a serving man with a pitcher of water and ask from the master of that house the lowliest room where they might eat the passover, for he who had been born in a stable asked no worthier place for his meal. There There were few men in the city who did a woman's work of carrying water, so it was an easy task to identify the house, and there they found the upper room already prepared for the honored guest.

All was in readiness and they gathered around the table, Jesus and his twelve trusted friends. There were no guests, for ten might partake of this family meal together. The cup was mixed and the blessing pronounced, "Blessed be he who created the fruit of the vine."

The paschal meal was solemnly set forth; the lamb slain at the altar, the bitter herbs-symbol of the bitter bondage in Egypt-the charosheth, crushed fruits moistened with vinegar -symbol of the clay and the mortar. "Blessed be he who created the fruit of the earth," and they ate the bitter herbs dipped in the charosheth. When the second cup had been prepared the youngest person present asked, "What mean ye by this service?" Was it the beloved disciple who caught up the words of the ancient ritual, and to whom the Master made reply, "This is the Passover which we eat, forasmuch as God passed over the houses of our fathers in Egypt." Lifting the bitter herbs, he continued, "These bitter "These bitter herbs we eat, forasmuch as the Egyptians embittered the lives of our fathers in Egypt," and lifting the unleavened bread, "this unleavened bread we eat, forasmuch as there was no time for the sprinkled flour of our fathers to be leavened ere God revealed himself and redeemed them. Therefore ought we to praise, celebrate, honor, and magnify him who did all these wondrous things for our fathers and for us, and brought you

forth from bondage into liberty, from sorrow into joy, from darkness into great light. Therefore let us say Hallelujah ;" and they sang together the words of the ancient hymn: "Praise ye the Lord, praise, O ye servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forever more." (Ps. 113-114). "Blessed be thou, O Lord God, our Eternal King, for redeeming us and redeeming our fathers from Egypt and bringing us unto this night that we may eat the unleavened bread and the bitter herbs," added the Master reverently as they drank the second cup.

In the solemn hush that followed, the Master took two cakes, broke one, and laid the pieces on the other; "Blessed be he who bringeth forth bread from the earth," wrapped them in the bitter. herbs, dipped all in the charosheth, "Blessed be thou, O Lord God our Eternal King, who has sanctified us by thy commandments and commanded us to eat."

Was it as they ate of the bitter herbs that the spirit of the Master was troubled and he cast a pall of sorrow over the group by his words, “Verily, I say unto you one of you shall betray me, even he that eateth with me." Startled inquiry passed from lip to lip, "Lord, is it I?" and he who sat at our Lord's left in the seat of honor for which he had contended, ere the meal began, asked also, "Rabbi, is it I?" The Master would fain win him by one last appeal to his loyalty and handed him. a special portion from his own plate, but Judas spurned the appeal; what mattered it to his black thoughts that he had eaten with the One whose death he plotted, and he went out into the night.

And as they ate together, he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it and said, "This is my body which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.' And in like manner also the cup after supper (the cup of blessing that closed the paschal feast) saying, "This cup is the new