Missionary Volunteer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 22, 1915

Missionary Volunteer

Department

M. E. KERN General and N. Am. Div. Secretary C. L. BENSON Assistant Secretary MEADE MACGUIRE N. Am. Div. Field Secretary

Missionary Volunteer Day

(Sabbath, May 1)

Suggestive Program

SONG: “Christ in Song,” No. 480.

SCRIPTURE READING: John 6: 1-14.

PRAYER.

SPECIAL MUSIC.

READING: “Responsibilities of the Church for the Youth,” by G. B. Thompson.

READING: “The Purpose of the Missionary Volunteer Movement,” by C. L. Benson.

SONG: “Christ in Song,” No. 531.

TALK: “The Missionary Volunteer Goal for 1915,” based on article by M. E. Kern.

OFFERING.

SONG: “Christ in Song,” No. 552.

CLOSING PRAYER.

NOTE TO ELDER OR LEADER.— Sabbath, May 1, appointed by the General Conference Committee as Young People’s Day, should bring a great blessing to your church. The work to receive special attention upon this day is an important one, and grows more and more interesting as it spreads over the world, gripping the hearts of thousands and thousands of young people and children and leading them forth in Christian service. The parts on the program should be assigned at once to insure careful preparation.

Time is short. Only a few years remain in which to save our children and young people, whom Satan is working so hard to destroy. Will not you and the fathers and mothers in your church join us in making Sabbath, May 1, a day of fasting and prayer for the salvation of the youth? See Mark 9: 29.

Pray that God will greatly bless this special program to the good of all. In connection with the Scripture reading call attention briefly to the fact that it was a lad’s lunch (small though it was) which the Master used that day to feed the multitude.

Let some one study the article, “The Missionary Volunteer Goal for 1915,” and make a short talk on that subject. It would greatly increase the interest if the 1914 goal and the results obtained, the 1915 goal, and what the $25,000 will accomplish, where placed on large sheets of paper or a blackboard so all could read them.

The offering should be devoted to some phase of the Missionary Volunteer work,—to purchase a young people’s library for your church, to use in home missionary work, or to help the young people of your church reach their goal of $2.50 for every member, outside of Sabbath school offerings. (The Missionary Volunteer goal counts on the Twenty-cent-a-week Fund.)

Decision days often have brought very good results. Then why should not Missionary Volunteer Day be a time when our young people should be invited publicly to give their hearts to the Lord? And would it not be well to invite all the members of your church to pledge themselves upon that day to work as never before for the salvation of the boys and girls, the young men and the young women, in your midst?

We are praying that God may give your church a special blessing upon Young People’s Day.