For a visiting worker to arrange and hold an interesting missionary service with a church is comparatively easy, but to carry on that work in a church of any size week after week and month after month is a different proposition; and it is from this latter viewpoint only that I write.
I was fortunate enough to be brought up in a missionary church. I was a member of that church for ten years, having been converted in it at the age of fourteen years. I do not believe that a person was ever a member of that little company of believers six months without coming to realize that to carry the gospel to the whole world was a part of his work; and if he had no definite knowledge of mission lands and their needs, he soon absorbed a few facts, or got them in some other way; for the leaders of the church always worked on the plan that “information is the key to intelligent interest.”
This church held missionary meetings weekly,—sometimes on week-days, sometimes on Sabbath afternoons, and sometimes the meeting would be held for months on Friday nights,—all depending on local circumstances,—but it was almost invariably held. The attendance would vary from five to sixty, for the missionary enthusiasm of many of the members, even of this missionary church, ran parallel with the weather; but as the officers were missionary in spirit, nothing completely stopped the work.
Some time ago I was thinking over the friends I knew among that little body of believers, and wondered how many of them had been directly engaged in the Lord’s work. Jotting down the names, I found that during the ten years mentioned, this church sent into the gospel work one conference president, one union conference missionary secretary, two conference secretaries, one principal of an academy, one principal of an intermediate school, one assistant principal, one conference Sabbath-school secretary, one conference missionary secretary, two tract society secretaries, eight ministers, two stenographers (one in General Conference employ), four graduate nurses, one sanitarium manager, six Bible workers, ten church-school teachers, and eight canvassers.
There are others who have gone into the work, but the names I do not recall. I would not say, of course, that all this was the result of the church missionary meetings held; but I do know from my own experience that in these little meetings where old and young met together, talked together, prayed together, and planned together in a very definite and effective way, was the beginning, in many instances, of lifelong consecration to the Master’s service, and a working knowledge of how to put this consecration to practical use.
What little experience I have had with church missionary meetings has taught me that while it is not always true that the church that does not hold them is dead, it is true that such a church is missing a wonderful source of inspiration; and it is invariably true that the church that holds such meetings regularly is alive; for if there was no life, there would be no incentive to hold such a meeting.
Who Should Be in Charge?
It must be evident that no one could be better fitted, or is apt to be at least, to take charge of the missionary meetings of the church, and to plan for their successful conduct, than the officer who is chosen to have the oversight of the local missionary work, the missionary secretary. The missionary meetings are the only occasions when the missionary secretary can get at the church as an organized body for work, and lay before it definite plans for service which local conditions make practicable. These meetings may become the clearing-house for ideas and thoughts on missionary opportunities in the locality, which may be gathered up and classified and turned to practical account by the missionary secretary in the enlistment of every member in active, definite service.
The Fourth Sabbath Service
Owing to widely scattered membership, it is not practicable for some churches to come together for more than one meeting during the week, and that on the Sabbath; and to meet this condition and still provide a meeting of the church where all its membership can be reached with missionary plans, this fourth Sabbath service has been set apart by General Conference recommendation for the consideration of the home missionary work. A collection should be taken to help carry forward this line of work in the church, and the missionary secretary could well have charge of this program also. Suggestive programs are published each month in the REVIEW; and this ought to be a live, energetic meeting in every company of believers.
Weekly Missionary Meetings
“It should be borne in mind that the object of the missionary meeting is specific. There are other services for general religious instruction, for general and special Bible study and prayer; but the missionary meeting should sound the bugle-call to service, high, clear, and unmistakable; it should voice from beginning to end the marching orders of the church. It should send people out with a stronger hold upon God, a more abiding faith in the accomplishment of his work and purpose in the earth, and a deeper consciousness of their personal obligation to do their part. To accomplish this, the meeting must be in the truest sense devotional and educational
in its nature; and prayerful forethought and preparation are necessary. . . .”
“Time should be given for exchange of experiences, consideration of plans for local work, for increasing missionary offerings, and for whatever pertains to keeping the members in action. In small societies there is usually time for this and for study in every meeting; but in large companies it might be best to devote one meeting in each month entirely to the local work.”—Missionary Idea, pages 65-67.
In making our missionary meetings more educational, we suggest that those charged with the responsibility of conducting them give consideration to three things,—definite aims; development of the individuals with whom we deal; and attention to the laws of development.
1. Definite aims. There can be no systematic development unless we follow some intelligent plan. We need something to direct and unify our efforts. It would seem perfectly self-evident that every missionary meeting should have a definite aim; but in actual practise this is by no means the case. Many meetings accomplish nothing because they aim at nothing. They have subjects, but no objects.
In choosing aims, the church must decide what will be practicable under the prevailing local conditions. There are certain results which we have no right to expect from haphazard methods. We should be displeased with our teachers if we found that the children were being given exhortations at irregular intervals, instead of being trained by carefully planned tasks. But because the Spirit of God sometimes works mysteriously, we seem to think that in religious matters the laws of cause and effect may be disregarded, and that we may look for results of the best quality from poorest efforts. Some results ought to follow, of course, from every effort; but systematic development will ordinarily come only from methods that are educational.
The aims we can hope to realize will depend upon the time at our disposal, on the number and frequency of our meetings, on the state of development reached by our people, on the work we can persuade them to undertake, and on the material we find available as subject-matter. In general, we must aim at developing individual insight, sympathy, and activity. We wish to stimulate missionary prayer, and giving, and service, and we shall do well to take up one of these things at a time, and continue it until we get results. We need to develop a self-sustaining interest in our churches.
2. Development of the individuals with whom we deal. Merely having definite aims is not enough; we must note how far our efforts are effectual in reaching these aims with the people, and modify our efforts accordingly.
Our churches are made up of different classes. It is well to confine efforts to one class at a time. For instance, at one meeting aim especially to assist by suggesting ways how farmers can do effective missionary work; at another service, how to help young people; another time, what mothers can do. Then we must devise some means of studying the effects of our work. Let us ask questions as to the results, or get some one to do it for us. Sometimes at the close of a meeting it is astonishing to find how little impression an apparently21interesting and instructive meeting has made on the minds of those present.
3. Attention to the laws of development. One of these laws is that development is in proportion to active response. Not what is done for people, but what they do themselves really helps them. Some meetings incite people themselves to help, other meetings seem to aim at making it unnecessary for them to do anything. Those who do the work will get the profit. It is impossible that development should result in inactivity. Our meetings must set, as their principal aim, the incitement to individual activity of every church-member.
Another law of development is that the amount of the response depends on the kind of stimulus. A meeting that suggests nothing definite is not apt to secure any response. Many persons who merely endure hearing a man talk, would be delighted to be given something to do. It would pay many of us to spend more of our time in thinking of the kinds of service that individuals are best fitted to render, and of the motives that will be strongest in securing this work.
Our church-members may have part in God’s closing work. If the missionary work is already organized in your church, give careful consideration to the possibilities of the weekly missionary meeting, which used to be held in so many of our churches, even if conditions for holding it were not just ideal. If you belong to the little Gideon’s band of churches who now hold such meetings, earnestly endeavor to make them more effective and an increased factor in spreading the gospel message.
There are wonderful and unlimited possibilities in individual missionary work. “The work of God in this earth can never be finished until the men and women comprising our church-membership rally to the work, and unite their efforts with those of ministers and church officers.”—Vol. IX, page 177. The church missionary meeting is one of the most effective agencies in the world for the stimulation and development of this personal activity. “Attempt great things for God; expect great things from God,” and you will not be disappointed.
News and Miscellany
Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
— A typewriter invented in Germany is said to do perfect work, although it is small enough to be carried in a pocket.
— Chicago is now taking 10,000 cubic feet of water per second from the Great Lakes for its sewers. The city desires to take more, but Canada and the American cities on the Lakes protested. The United States and International Commission has decided that the protest is just.
— Like many other inventions, perforated stamps were the result of an accident. A man just about to start on a horseback ride wanted to stamp a letter, but could not find knife or scissors with which to cut a single stamp from the sheet. He suddenly thought of his spur. Running the rowel along, he perforated the edges of the stamp, tore it off, and thus started a new invention.
— An English firm has brought out a new luminous varnish for automobiles, which is said to render a car, without being fitted with lamps, visible for a long distance on a dark night.
— Chile yields to no other country in the extent of her unbroken coast line, which extends from Peru to Cape Horn, a distance of about 4,000 miles. The Chilean government is now engaged in making this great coast safe for mariners by erecting lighthouses, at dangerous points, along its entire length.
— James Bryce, British ambassador to the United States since 1907, has resigned his position. He is seventy-four years of age, and will retire from public life, returning to his home in England within a few months. Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice, now minister at Stockholm, Sweden, has been named as a probable successor.
— The Navy Department will recommend to Congress in December the construction of a one-thousand-foot naval dry dock on the Atlantic coast, probably at New York. A dock of similar size now building at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is about one third finished, and will cost nearly $3,500,000.
— A German surveying vessel has been taking soundings in the Pacific Ocean, and has discovered a depth of over 32,000 feet, or over six miles. It would take the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, with Snowdon on top of it, to reach from the ocean bed to the surface of the water. The greatest depth found in the Atlantic Ocean is 23,250 feet.
— President Taft has issued a proclamation fixing the rates that the foreign shipping of the world shall pay for passage through the Panama Canal. The proclamation, made under authority of the Canal Act passed by Congress in August, establishes a merchant-vessel rate of $1.20 per net ton of actual carrying capacity, with a reduction of forty per cent on ships in ballast.
— It is said that American cedars furnish the only wood known of which good lead-pencils can be made, and in connection with this information we learn that American cedars are becoming scarce. The pencil industry is a big one, and, curiously enough perhaps, it is said to be bigger to-day than it was before the day of typewriters. A factory in Germany turns out annually 300,000,000 lead-pencils made out of the wood of the cedar-tree of America.
— Several years ago a plan to tunnel under Bering Strait and connect the railway systems of North America and Siberia aroused much interest. At the time nothing came of the plan. Now, according to the Electrical World, it has been revived in earnest, with the result that it may some day be possible to travel by train all the way from New York to the capitals of Europe. Both in Alaska and in Siberia long railway lines will have to be built to connect with the tunnel entrances. The tunnel itself will have to be forty miles long. The promoters purpose to sink shafts from islands in the middle of Bering Strait, so that they can begin work at several points at the same time. These shafts would ultimately serve to ventilate the tunnel.
— France has reason for searchings of heart over the great increase in drinking. During five years the consumption of alcoholic drinks generally has increased twenty-two per cent, and of that most deadly of all, absinth, forty per cent; and this although a special tax has been placed on it. Last year 34,500,000 gallons paid duty, and it is estimated that that was only one third of the amount used. Many owners of vineyards and orchards distil liquor.
— According to a special report just issued by the New York custom-house, no city in the world, either ancient or modern, has ever owned such a fabulous collection of gems and works of art as New York can boast of to-day. The total value of registered jewels, privately owned, is estimated at over $250,000,000, while at least $500,000,000 worth of priceless paintings, statuary, and other objets d’art are to be found in the homes of the multimillionaires along Fifth Avenue and Riverside Drive.
— The political campaign is ended. The accounts are being audited. The Democratic party spent $815,052. The Republican party reports expenses amounting to $744,688. The Progressives spent nearly as much as the Democrats. The Socialist and Prohibition parties also had expenses. There were many private expenses of politicians of which there is no record. Much money was lost through betting on the results. It has undoubtedly cost the country in round numbers over $4,000,000 to elect a president.
— The sun will regulate the lights in the acetylene beacons that are to line the Panama Canal, if a regulating device now under consideration meets the requirements of the canal engineers. Each of the new regulators contains a copper cylinder that expands under the influence of sunlight, and thus closes a valve and shuts off the flow of gas to the burners. A small pilot flame only is left burning. At sunset, or when the sun is obscured, the cylinder contracts, a spring opens the valve, and the gas flows to the burner. The apparatus is said to reduce the consumption of gas materially.
— The most remarkable town in the world, in some respects at least, is Ironspot, with 700 inhabitants, in southern Ohio. The Ironspot post-office was closed some months ago because the postmaster had not sold a single stamp in five weeks, nor had he received any incoming or outgoing mail. The people explain that they have no friends to write to, and that they are all too busy anyhow. There has not been an idle man in Ironspot since 1909. The mines are running full time, and every miner owns his own home. Some time ago the police department disbanded, the chief declaring there had been no arrests made within six months, and that it was only a waste of public money to keep salaried policemen. The village records one fire in two years. The damage then amounted to $300. A recent census showed that the population is composed of 637 Irishmen, 11 Welshmen, and 52 Germans. Until October, 1911, there were only eleven men and women in Ironspot who had “no church.” The school-teachers of Ironspot, four in number, declare that Ironspot children are unusually bright, owing to the moral influence of the town.
Obituaries
By W. A. McCUTCHER
JONES.—James Munroe Jones was born in Cass County, Michigan, Nov. 5, 1849. His death occurred June 6, 1912, as the result of injuries received in a runaway, near Stockton, Cal. His companion and four children are left to mourn. The large attendance at the funeral service attested the esteem in which he was held by the community. Funeral sermon by the writer.
D. T. FERO.
NEEDHAM.—Died at Vergennes, Vt., Nov. 5, 1912, Carrie Tupper Needham, wife of Amos P. Needham. She was the treasurer of her home church, and active in many lines of charitable work in the city. A husband, mother, and several brothers and sisters are left to mourn their loss. She was a consistent Christian, and we believe that she sleeps in Jesus. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. Text, Rev. 14:12-14.
F. W. STRAY.
MINNICH.—Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Minnich, née Moore, fell asleep in Jesus at the home of her daughter, in Salyersville, Ky., Nov. 1, 1912. She was born in Lebanon, Va., July 14, 1837, and was married to William F. M. Minnich June 28, 1857. She was the mother of eight children, six of whom survive. Sister Minnich lived a long and useful Christian life, and was loved by all who knew her. She died in the bright hope of a soon-coming Saviour.
F. E. GIBSON.
Death of Elder A. W. Jenson
ANOTHER of our pioneer workers in the Texas conference has fallen in death. On Sabbath, Oct. 26, 1912, in his sixty-ninth year, Elder A. W. Jenson died at Keene, Tex., of a complication of troubles. He was not ill a great while, having been taken with a chill about two or three weeks before his decease, and growing gradually worse until his death. He suffered intensely, especially the last week or so of his illness, but endured it patiently and with great fortitude. His hope seemed to be bright, and his thoughts of God and his work to the last; and even in his semiconscious state, he could be heard talking of the conference and its work. The writer was present with others at a prayer season with him at his request a few days before his death; and he expressed entire submission to whatever God’s will might be. Brother Jenson was born at Skodsborg, Denmark, Feb. 26, 1844, and was therefore 68 years and 8 months old at the time of his death. In 1872 he came to America seeking gold and earthly riches, but here he found Christ, the true riches, instead. After his conversion, he saw the Sabbath truth from reading the Bible, and began its observance without knowing there was another Sabbath-keeper in the world. Later, on learning of our people, he went to Battle Creek, Mich., where he got in closer touch with them and their work. Returning to Texas, whence he had gone to Battle Creek, he started out as a horseback missionary, his saddle-bags filled with literature, trying to do what he could to give the truth to the people of his own nationality and to others. He was soon able to preach the truth acceptably, and later connected with Elder R. M. Kilgore in tent labor, when he was sent by the General Conference to open the work in this State. It was in 1877 that I first became acquainted with Elder Jenson. Later I went with him as tent master for two seasons; this was my first tent-work experience, and marks the beginning of my public labors in this cause. During my associations with Brother Jenson in this capacity, I learned to love him as a dear Christian brother. He was always quick to acknowledge a wrong and humbly beg forgiveness for an offense. He also showed himself apt in teaching the truth, and successful in winning many souls to it. Many of the stanch members of this conference are his converts to the truth, and many of the older brethren and sisters have recollections of his early connection with the work, even before we had a conference here. It was here that he began his work, here he was ordained to the ministry, and here he laid off his armor in death. With the death of Elder Jenson passes the second of the two pioneer ministers of Texas. In the memorial service at our camp-meeting last summer held in memory of Elder R. M. Kilgore, the other pioneer referred to, Elder Jenson spoke very feelingly of Elder Kilgore and his associations with him; now, so soon after, Elder Jenson himself is gone from us. But of each it may truly be said, “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.” Brother Jenson was more or less active in the work up to the time of his last sickness, though impaired health of late years had rendered him unable to do full and regular work. Two daughters survive him, his wife having died a few years ago. The writer, assisted by Prof. C. B. Hughes, conducted the funeral service.
W. A. McCUTCHER.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
By H. N. Sisco
New Nurses' Class
THE Washington Sanitarium will start a new nurses' training-class the first of January, 1913. Young people of deep Christian experience, with a desire to become true medical missionaries, who are of sound body and of sufficient preliminary education, are requested to write the superintendent of the Washington Sanitarium Nurses' Training-school, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. Application blanks will be sent on request.
H. N. Sisco, M. D.
Superintendent.
The “Watchman”
By Editor
We are starting the new year with a splendid issue. The cover design is a beautiful two-color portrait of a little child drawing a curtain aside and bringing to view the new year of 1913 in the form of an hour-glass. This will be a very handsome cover.
The great interest in the “Eastern Question” series by Prof. P. T. Magan, compelled us to run a second edition of the December Watchman. The momentous situation in Europe is stirring the whole world. Now is our time to act. Let us circulate this special series widely while opportunity is at hand. Professor Magan’s offering for the January issue will be “A Nation’s Pledge,” and will be of special interest in view of the acute conditions in Europe regarding the Turk.
There will be an editorial on “A Bright Outlook,” giving a summary of the past year and showing the possibilities wrapped up in the new year.
“The Trend of the Times and Bible Prophecy,” by C. P. Bollman, is an article of tremendous import in view of the events that are taking place with lightning-like rapidity in the world. We are living in the grandest and most solemn period of human history. The great threefold message, which has warned our hearts for so many years, should be given as never before. The Watchman is making a special effort to “give the trumpet a certain sound.”
“God’s Message for To-Day,” by R. W. Parmele, will deal with the essentials necessary for a Christian, and will make his message clear to all lovers of the truth.
Elder I. H. Evans, who is in charge of our Asiatic missions, is contributing a splendid article on “Buddhism.” He will show the fundamental falsehood concealed under the service of false works and worship in this vast system of error, with which Satan is darkening the minds of millions.
“The Jew and the Christian Religion,” by Elder F. C. Gilbert, will be the first of five special articles appearing in the next five issues of the Watchman. Elder Gilbert is a converted Hebrew, who was born and educated under the old orthodox Jewish law, and was trained in all matters pertaining to the traditions and ceremonies of that peculiar people. These articles will make the Bible as a whole, and the New Testament in particular, more lucid because of the flood of light that can be thrown upon it only by one versed in Mosaic law and custom.
Altogether, the January Watchman will present some strong features, and should be widely circulated by those desiring to have a part in the closing work.
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Business Notices
WANTED.—A man for general work on farm, and in city with team; must be strong, have good health, be a good milker, and good with team. State wages desired. Address R. M. Carroll, Orlando, Fla.
WANTED.—Woman thirty to sixty years of age, to do general housework, cooking, and plain sewing. Permanent work for the right one. Hygienic living. J. S. Comins, R. F. D. 6, Box 64, Battle Creek, Mich.
Publications Wanted
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Mrs. Tillie Long, 1511 York Ave., Spokane, Wash., tracts and papers in the Finnish language.
Mrs. R. L. Wandall, R. F. D. 5, Box 38, Susquehanna, Pa., tracts and denominational papers.
Mrs. Mary L. Brock, Lake City, Fla., tracts on the Sabbath and the coming of the Lord, also tract “Sufferings of Christ.”
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Some Day You Will Be Asked
to give a reason for your religious liberty faith; then why not fortify yourself with facts and arguments NOW?
The current issue on “Catholic Federation” and “Sunday Mails” number of “Liberty” magazine is a most excellent text-book for you to study. In its pages you will find—
1001 Questions Answered
over which you may have been puzzled for months and even years. Such questions as, “Can God's Kingdom Be Established by Law?” “Does the United States Government Have the Right Not to Deliver Your Mail to You on Sunday?” “Why Am I Opposed to the Roman Catholic View of Religious Liberty?” “What Is There Wrong in the Principles of the National Reformer?” “What Is the Bible View of Religious Liberty?” and “What Will Be the Final Outcome of the Christian's Struggle for Religious Freedom?” are but a few of the many others discussed in this and other numbers of “Liberty.”
Entrance to White House
A Few Features
By Editor
Frontispiece: Photograph of Senate Report on Sunday Mails, printed upon silk, and displayed in office of Postmaster-General.
Atrocities in Peru—Shall the United States help to support papal missions there?
Latest Religious Liberty Move From All Countries
Inside Facts Concerning the Recent Convention of the American Federation of Catholic Societies. Report by the Editor, who was present.
Putting the Church Over the State—How Rome rules in Colombia.
God's Example of Religious Liberty
Are Catholic Voters Instructed?—Photographic proofs.
Rome's Victory Over the Prohibition Party
Religious Liberty in China
Absurdity of Proposed California Sunday Law
The Sunday Closing of Post-Offices
Divine Prophecy and Human History
Sunday Laws From the Standpoint of Citizenship
This Magazine in the Public Eye
In its issue of October 19, the Jesuit weekly magazine “America,” devotes its first editorial (1½ columns) to an attack upon the first-page article in a recent issue of “Liberty” magazine, the article itself being quoted from at length.
“Current Literature” and other prominent magazines as well as religious weeklies have referred to “Liberty” in their editorials as one of the strong factors in the contest now being waged between Protestantism and Catholicism in America.
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Books With A Message
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History of the Sabbath.—800 pages. Cloth, $1.50; flexible leather, $2.50.
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Conflict Between Capital and Labor.—208 pages. Price, 75 cents.
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Sabbath-School Offerings for South America
By Editor
WE call especial attention to the article entitled “A Special Message to the Sabbath-Schools,” on page 12. The article was received too late to appear in the Thirteenth Sabbath leaflet setting forth the training-schools in Argentina and Chile as the object of the Sabbath-school offerings to be given December 28. Superintendents should make use of this article, as well as the leaflet, in setting before the schools the call for help from this needy field.
Word from Europe states that Brethren L. R. Conradi and Guy Dail had just visited the Abyssinian mission, and were leaving Aden November 23 on their way across into Africa to the German mission stations. They report the work in Egypt as beginning to make progress.
Training Nurses at Washington Sanitarium
AN opportunity is afforded several earnest young men and women to train for nurses in the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium. Read the call made by Dr. H. N. Sisco, the medical superintendent, on page 22.
Sister Magno Skogs to Jerusalem
SISTER MAGNO SKOGS, from the Skodsborg Sanatorium, Denmark, left Hamburg October 14 to connect with our treatment-rooms in Jerusalem, where a good work is being carried forward in medical missionary work.
