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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 13, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 3.

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Literature on Missionary Volunteer Work

By Milton E. Kern

It is more and more evident that the Young People's Society of Missionary Volunteers is becoming a strong factor in our denominational work. With this larger interest come many requests for information on Missionary Volunteer organization, plans, and methods. The purpose of the Missionary Volunteer Department is to furnish such information, and to foster and unify this work for and by our youth all over the world. It is evident that the foundations were well laid then, for no plan inaugurated at Mount Vernon has been given up; but, on the other hand, the value of these plans in accomplishing the desired results has been demonstrated by experience. The excellent papers and studies given at Mount Vernon have never been published elsewhere, and are good Missionary Volunteer literature today. One article which quotes at length from Sister White, as to how she worked for her young companions when a girl, is worth the price of the pamphlet, which, by the way, is very cheap.—ten cents for 244 pages. This story will ever stand as a testimony to the fundamental value of the prayer band.
This department in the REVIEW is designed to furnish such information to all, especially our conference workers, Missionary Volunteer leaders, parents, and older members of the church. The Youth's Instructor is the organ of the General Conference and North American Division Missionary Volunteer Departments, and often contains articles on live Missionary Volunteer topics, as well as the “Question Box” and the Reading Course outlines.
We have also some literature in permanent form. Our largest and most comprehensive publication is the “Report of the Sabbath School and Young People's Convention Held at Mount Vernon, Ohio.” It was at Mount Vernon that the Missionary Volunteer Department was launched.
Aside from this report we have a series of Missionary Volunteer Leaflets—some for Missionary Volunteer workers, some for church elders and conference workers, others for the young people in general, and a few for use in working for the young people of the world.
Here is the list:—
NO. PRICE
1. Report of the Mount Vernon Convention ................. $.10
2. From Which Fountain? A leaflet on reading, giving a list of more than one hundred books worth reading. .02
3. Early History of the Seventh-Day Adventist Young People's Work. .04
4. Organization ........................................... .03
13. Guiding Principles for the Young, No. 1 ............... .02
14. Read, Think, and Pray ................................ .00½
16. Parents' Meetings. With special reference to camp meetings ................ .03
17. Character Building in the Home ........................ .02
19. Messages to Young People. Testimonies ................ .02
21. Standard of Attainment (revised) ...................... .02
23. The Life Work ......................................... .02
25. Enlisting and Training Raw Recruits ................... .02
27. A Near-By Mission Field ................................ .03
30. Cigarettes and Success ................................ .01
33. Our Influence ......................................... .03
34. The Cooperation Called for in Young People's Work ..... .03
35. Marrying Unbelievers .................................. .03
36. Leadership ............................................ .02
37. Under the Yoke of Service ............................. .03
38. What the Young People's Work Has Done for Me ........... .03
39. How Others Fought to Win the Prize .................... .05
40. The Morning Watch (revised) ........................... .01
41. The King's Pocket League .............................. .02
42. What We Promised Each Other .......................... .00½
43. Camp Meeting Missionary Volunteer Work ................. Free
44. The Marriage Altar .................................... .02
45. A Visit to the Schools in Nyasaland .................... .02
46. With Our Missionaries During the Revolution ............ .02
47. Personal Work .......................................... .02
48. Secretaryship as a Life Work .......................... .04
49. What God Hath Joined .................................. .00½
50. Lives of Great Men ..................................... .01

PLEDGES

1. Pledge against liquor and tobacco (lithograph) .......... .02
2. Pledge against liquor, tobacco, tea, coffee, etc. (lithograph) ........ .02
3. Pledge against liquor only (plain) ..................... .01
4. Senior membership card ................................ .02
5. Junior membership card ................................. .02
6. The King's Pocket League card, per 100 ................ .40
7. Personal worker's camp meeting pledge, per 100 ........ .40

POST CARDS

A series of 16 post cards, containing select quotations, 1 cent each, 10 cents a dozen, or 15 cents a set.

ANNUAL PUBLICATIONS

Morning Watch Calendar. For daily devotion and Bible study ................................ .05
Missionary Volunteer Reading Course Leaflet. Giving careful explanation of current reading courses. Free
These should all be ordered of your tract society or publishing house.
It is our purpose to prepare some literature on the Junior work as soon as possible. We shall be glad for suggestions from our people concerning their needs along this line. M. E. KERN.