The “Church Officers’ Gazette” by M. E. Kern

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 14, 1915

The “Church Officers’ Gazette”

By M. E. Kern

THE Church Officers’ Gazette is the open channel of communication direct from the General and North American Division Conferences to the leaders in our churches. It is the missing link,—something we have needed for a long time. The year’s issue has demonstrated its great value to our cause. As its name indicates, its circulation is supposed to be restricted to church officers. And the complete success of the plan demands that it go to the officers in every church.

We have been cheered by the reports from many of our conference Missionary Volunteer secretaries, that all their society leaders are supplied. Now we are striving to bring about this condition in all the societies. Half of this paper is given to fresh material for the Senior and Junior programs, together with instruction on how to make the program and society work succeed. It is absolutely essential that every society have at least one copy. Two or three are better.

The Lord surely has a great ideal to be realized in our Missionary Volunteer movement, and he wants us to move on together for the accomplishment of definite results. We can do this as we study together.

What could be more important than that all our young people enter heartily, during the year 1915, into the studies outlined for our Missionary Volunteer programs—the great doctrines of the Bible and our missions? The subjects are being taken up, we believe, in a new and interesting way.

We appeal to our church elders, parents, and adult members (for it is to them we especially desire to speak in these columns) that they take an interest to see that the officers of the young people’s societies are supplied with the Gazette, and that they all enter upon these important studies. Be sure to get the January number of the Gazette, and begin at the beginning.

Will not our older members, too, encourage the young people to prepare talks where the programs call for them, and never to read what was not meant to be read? One conference secretary writes: “Most gladly will I cooperate with you in the effort to make the programs ‘talks,’ and not readings. We have had good success in some places, and developed talent which surprised the young people themselves.”

Aside from the Missionary Volunteer matter, the Gazette has special articles by the North American Division Conference officers on all phases of church work, and full instructions and programs for the monthly home missionary day.

The price of the Gazette is 50 cents a year; in clubs of two or more, 35 cents. Order from the Review and Herald Publishing Association or from your conference tract society. M. E. KERN.