Excerpt from The Leaders' Handbook: For the Young Men's Christian Associations of North America We are surely in a gregarious era. Almost every branch and phase of society and commerce has grouped those of like interests in highly specialized and multitudius forms of organization. Constitutions and bylaws of every conceivable nature are today roaring from the presses of our nation to guide and standardize the efforts of both selfishly and altruistically organized bodies. Out of a nation-wide need has grown this first edition of the Leaders' Handbook. The outstanding expression of this need has been the staggering mortality of leaders' clubs. The foundation upon which too many of our clubs are built is the personality of the physical director rather than the dynamic of Christian service and loyalty to our national program. I firmly believe that there is other body of men quite so essential to the success of the Young Men's Christian Associations' four-fold program as are the members of the well-established and properly organized leaders' club. Caught in the centripetal whirl of this formative era, we have likewise become intricately banded together on a national scale in order to fulfil in a larger way our obligation to the community and our desire to promote motives of Christian caliber. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.