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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 8, 1910

Missionary Volunteer Programs for 1911

By M. E. K.

WHILE the program is only a small part of the society's work, it is a good index to its success or failure. A good program may be both a result and a cause of successful Christian effort on the part of the members. Every Missionary Volunteer meeting is an opportunity. It may be a source of spiritual, practical, and intellectual advancement, if thorough spiritual, practical, and intellectual preparation is made for it.

Since our young people's work has been organized, an effort has been made to furnish materials for helpful and inspiring society programs. The new plans for 1911 will, we believe, be productive of the best results yet obtained.

There will be, during the year, twelve lessons on “The Way to Christ,” eighteen on “Missionary Volunteer Methods,” and seven on “Mission Studies,” besides several special programs and a few meetings to be arranged for wholly by the local society.

Materials for these programs will be published in the Instructor as usual; but a leaflet has been prepared containing the outlines of all the suggested programs, with references and helps for their preparation. This leaflet will be invaluable to all officers, committees, and active members. With this list of the programs for the year in hand, and with the lessons appearing one week earlier in the Instructor, our Missionary Volunteer societies ought to do the most thorough and aggressive work they have ever done.

Let the youth be encouraged to plan their work ahead, and make thorough preparation. If a young person knows several weeks before that he is to take part in a program on India, he can read the books or other helps suggested in the leaflet, and thus be able to speak more intelligently, and in a more interesting way. And in the meantime he has become interested in one great section of earth's harvest-field. Such definite work is in itself a valuable part of the preparation of young people for usefulness. Let the older and more experienced members of the church encourage the youth to make the most of these valuable opportunities.

All who have responsibilities in the Missionary Volunteer work, and every member as far as possible, should have this leaflet. The price is five cents. Order from your conference Missionary Volunteer secretary, or the Missionary Volunteer Department at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

M. E. K.