Suggestive Program for Fourth Sabbath Home Missionary Service
(To Be Held Jan. 28, 1911)
OPENING SONG: “Bring Them In.” “Christ in Song,” No. 561. SECOND SONG: “I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go.” “Christ in Song,” No. 566 (old edition, No. 390). READING: “A Passion for Souls.” SYMPOSIUM: “What Is My Duty?—a Study of the Talents.” See Note 1. CONSECRATION SERVICE. Ten minutes filled with pointed half-minute testimonies based upon reading and symposium. A TALK: “Our Immediate Field,” by the elder or missionary leader. A study of population, territory, number of workers, organization of missionary society, and best methods of accomplishing the work. See Note 2. A TALK: “How We Are Working This Field,” by the missionary secretary (librarian). Proportion of territory worked, unfinished work, reasons for encouragement, etc. See Note 3. SYMPOSIUM: “The Tract League: Some Interesting Experiences.” Let the Missionary Volunteers and children join in reading these experiences. See Note 3. MONTHLY REPORT OF CHURCH WORK: Including statistics received from missionary volunteers and junior society; reading of interesting letters; verbal reports of home workers who have been selling magazines or small books, securing religious liberty signatures, doing Christian Help work, distributing tracts, visiting hospitals, etc. PASSING OF REPORT BLANKS: Encourage the doing and reporting of at least a few items of work suited to the talents of the members. FOURTH-SABBATH COLLECTION for church missionary society. Individual report blanks may be dropped into the basket with collection. PRAYER over collection and reports. PLANS FOR WORK: Aggressive work with tracts; missionary periodicals, and home workers for forty-per-cent books. The sale of two copies of “Ministry of Healing,” and five of Life and Health for each member each year for three years, for the relief of our sanitariums. Read suggestive list of good books on home missionary work. See Note 4. CLOSING SONG: “Master, Hast Thou Work for Me?” “Christ in Song,” No. 571 (old edition, No. 385).