Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART II, PRACTICAL. CHAPTER VI. TYPES OF CONSTITUTION. In preparing for the organization of a young people's society in any community, one of the first points to be considered will be the question, which one, if any, of the prevailing types of Constitution shall be followed? and with which, if any, of the confederacies of such associations shall the new society be allied? These questions will be decided in part by the purpose in view in the minds of those who are planning the new society. It is most desirable that these should know their own minds on this point with entire distinctness. If the primary and governing purpose is to combine the young people for unselfish service to others "In His Name," this is the distinctive character of the "Ten-Times-One Clubs," "Lend-a-Hand Clubs," and whatever other associations are combined in a loose confederation or correspondence through the Ten Times One Corporation. If any are scrupulous to avoid association in works of charity with those of whose theological views they disapprove, they may find it necessary to avoid affiliation with these clubs, which are quitecareless on this point, and have been known to unite in doing good works in the Name of Christ with people of all kinds of faith, or sometimes of very little faith of any kind. Such scrupulous persons will like better such a society as "The King's Daughters and Sons," which, although inspired by the principles and literature of the "Ten Times One," invites co-operation only on an Evangelical basis, and aims to associate with charitable effort for others, methods of spiritual self-culture and of worship. If now the primary purpose of the Society is the good of its own members, if it is desired to identify it with the church-congregation to which they belong, and es...