Suggestive Program for Fourth Sabbath Home Missionary Service by A. J. S. B.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 10, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 45.

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Suggestive Program for Fourth Sabbath Home Missionary Service

By A. J. S. B.

(To Be Held Nov. 26, 1910)

OPENING SONG: “Harvest Time.” “Hymns and Tunes,” No. 1063; “Christ in Song,” No. 588 (old edition, No. 447).

RESPONSIVE READING: 1 Corinthians 13.

PRAYER.

SECOND SONG: “Why Stand With Rusty Blade?” “Hymns and Tunes,” No. 1053; “Christ in Song,” No. 622 (old edition, No. 510).

FIRST READING: “System in Our Work.”

SECOND READING: “Remember the Poor and Needy.”

REPORTS OF MISSIONARY EXPERIENCES: By those in the audience.

PASSING OF SLIPS OF PAPER FOR INFORMATION: See note below.

SYMPOSIUM OR MUSIC: By Missionary Volunteers and children.

THIRD READING: “How to Write Missionary Letters.”

MONTHLY REPORT OF CHURCH WORK: Including report of Missionary Volunteers and children; reading of interesting letters; etc.

FOURTH SABBATH COLLECTION for church missionary society (preceded by librarian’s explanation of use of the funds, extra needs, etc.). Individual report blanks may be dropped into baskets with collection.

PRAYER over collection and reports.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Plans for weekly missionary meeting; appointment of committees; districting town or vicinity by use of map; assigning territory; etc.

CLOSING SONG: “Here Am I, Send Me.” “Hymns and Tunes,” No. 1069; “Christ in Song,” No. 641 (old edition, No. 512).

BENEDICTION.

To the Elder, or Missionary Leader

(Not to be read publicly)

Passing Slips of Paper

On these slips the members should write: (1) Name and address; (2) name of minister, Bible worker, book, paper, pamphlet, tract, or any other means which was chiefly instrumental in leading them to become Seventh-day Adventists, such as cottage readings, birth, home influences, relatives, tent-meetings, lay members, Sabbath-school, institutions, etc.; (3) whether the reading of the Bible alone was the means of changing their belief. These slips should be gathered up by the missionary secretary (librarian), and compiled into an interesting report, which will be called for during the December 24 home missionary service, one month hence. A copy of this report should also be forwarded at once to your conference tract society secretary.

Complete Your Organization

If, for any reason, your church missionary society and committee are not yet organized, consult the plans outlined in the REVIEW of October 6 and 13, also in Home Missionary Leaflet, No. 3.

Finish Harvest Ingathering Work

Most of the work of collecting funds for missions has doubtless been done. This task completed, turn the attention of all to the best use to be made of your club of the Present Truth Series of the Signs or whatever missionary periodical your society has subscribed for in quantities. Let these papers be sent to individuals regularly, and urge the writing of missionary letters.

Plans for Winter Work

Systematic tract distribution, the reading-racks, Christian Help work, and other departments of work indicated on the individual missionary report blank should also receive immediate attention. Let the motto of your society be “Something for Every One to Do Now.”

A. J. S. B.