Suggestive Program for Fourth Sabbath Home Missionary Service

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Feb 9, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 6.

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Suggestive Program for Fourth Sabbath Home Missionary Service

(To Be Held Feb. 25, 1911)
Opening Song: “The Call for Reapers.” “Christ in Song,” No. 547 (old edition, No. 397).
Responsive Reading: Matt. 25: 13-30.
Prayer.
Second Song: “Toiling On.” “Christ in Song,” No. 576 (old edition, No. 449).
Reading: “To Every Man His Work.”
Bible Study Symposium: “Bible Principles of Missionary Work.” Original work by leader and members. See outline in note 1. Begin preparations early.
Items of Interest: Two or three incidents drawn from personal experiences by the elder or leader and the librarian, or items they may have read in our papers or books or elsewhere. Follow these with a number of pointed, half-minute testimonies or experiences.
Symposium: “How They Became Seventh-day Adventists.” Let the young and the old join in reading these experiences. See note 2. Assign parts at an early date.
Monthly Report of Church Work: By missionary secretary (librarian). Follow by statement of finances of missionary society, etc.
Passing of Report Blanks: Read the opinion of one active conference worker. See note 3.
Fourth-Sabbath Collection for church missionary society. Report blanks may be dropped into the basket with the collection.
Prayer over collection and reports.
Plans for Work: “Organization of Missionary Bands.” See note 4. “Something for Each One to Do;” “What Progress Are We Making?” “A Package of Tracts in Every Home;” “A New List of Missionary Names and Addresses,” etc.
Closing Song: “Working, O Christ, With Thee.” “Christ in Song,” No. 477 (old edition, No. 381).
Benediction.