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THE CHURCH 
 MISS I O N A R Y 
 COMMITTEE 
 
 A Manual of Suggestions on a 
 Unified Program of Mission¬ 
 ary Education and Giving 
 in the Local Church 
 
 Price, 5 Cents 
 
 Autliorized by tlie Annual Conference of 
 Forei}<n Misj^ion Boards, tlie Home Missions 
 Council, the Laymen’s Missionary Movement 
 and the Missionary Education Movement of 
 the United States and Canada, and prepared 
 and published under the direction of a com¬ 
 mission of twelve members appointed by 
 these four bodies. 
 
Copyright, 1911, 
 
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 IMissioxary Edfcatiox Moyemext of the 
 U xiTEi) States axd Caxada 
 
Foreword 
 
 The reasons for issnin" this manual are 
 to magnify the unity of the local church in 
 its missionary instruction, praying, giving, 
 and service, and to present a comprehensive 
 scheme of organization capable of being 
 adopted in full, or as fully as local condi¬ 
 tions at present permit. The purpose of the 
 manual is to suggest a method by which all 
 flepartments of the church, with their va¬ 
 ried activities and interests, may cooperate 
 in developing the highest missionary effi¬ 
 ciency of the Church as a whole, while re¬ 
 taining their separate character and service. 
 That there is need of such unification of ef¬ 
 fort is clearly demonstrated in common ex¬ 
 perience. The suggestions contained in this 
 manual are all based on actual experience 
 and a wide consensus of judgment as to the 
 methods best designed to bring largest s]n‘r- 
 itual, educational, and financial results. The 
 manual will be revised from time to time, 
 as further experience may make desirable. 
 Tt is sent forth by the Commission with the 
 earnest hope that candid consideration mav 
 be given to its suggestions and that multi¬ 
 tudes of churches and workers may be as¬ 
 sisted in their effort to hasten the extension 
 of Christ’s kingdom. 
 
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 A Plan for the Organization and Work 
 of the Church Missionary Committee 
 
 FIELDS OF WORK 
 
 PHASES OF WORK 
 
General Outline 
 
 I. The Church Missionary Committee 
 
 PAGE 
 
 1. JJliat It Is . 7 
 
 2 . Uliy Needed . 8 
 
 3. How Organised . 9 
 
 II. Fields of Work of the Church 
 Missionary Committee 
 
 1. Congregational Activities . 11 
 
 2. The Sunday School . 12 
 
 3. The Young People’s Society . 14 
 
 4. Men’s Organizations . 15 
 
 5. IP’omen’s Societies . 16 
 
 III. Phases of Work of the Church 
 Missionary Committee 
 
 1. A Program of Education .17-26 
 
 (1) Public Presentation of the Sub¬ 
 
 ject of Missions. 18 
 
 (2) The Monthly Missionary ^Meetings 18 
 
 (3) Mission Study Classes. 21 
 
 (4) Graded Missionary Instruction.... 22 
 
 (5) The Use of Literature, Charts, and 
 
 Other Accessories. 24 
 
 (6) Correspondence .. 26 
 
 5 
 
General Outline —Contuiued 
 
 PAGE 
 
 2. A Program of Prayer . 26-30 
 
 (1) Public Instruction on Prayer and 
 
 Missions ... 27 
 
 (2) Monthly or Other ]\lissionary 
 
 Prayer Meetings. 29 
 
 (3) The Enlistment of Individuals... 29 
 
 3. A Program of Finance ..............30-37 
 
 (1) The Individual Subscription..... 30 
 
 (2) The Annual Every-Member Can¬ 
 
 vass . 31 
 
 (3) The Weekly Envelope. 32 
 
 (4) The Specific Object. 34 
 
 (5) Christian Stewardship.... 34 
 
 (6) A Standard. 35 
 
 (7) Correlation of Giving Plans. 35 
 
 4. A Program of Service ...37-38 
 
 (1) The Enlistment and Training of 
 
 Workers .. 37 
 
 (2) A Survey of the Community and 
 
 the Enrolment for Personal Ser¬ 
 vice . 38 
 
 (3) Christian Service as a Life-Work.. 38 
 
 (4) The Christian’s Vocation and Ser¬ 
 
 vice . 38 
 
 IV. Bibliography...38-40 
 
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THE CHURCH 
 MISSIONARY COMMITTEE 
 
 Unified Program of Education 
 and Giving in the 
 Local Church 
 
 I. The Church Missionary Committee 
 
 Since it is the mission of the whole 
 Church to give the gospel to the whole 
 world, the work of the Missionary Com¬ 
 mittee is central in the life of the Church. 
 Hence, it becomes increasingly necessary to 
 bring this Committee to its highest effi¬ 
 ciency. 
 
 I. JVhat It Is 
 
 It is a permanent church committee ex¬ 
 ercising a general supervision of the entire 
 home and foreign missionary activities of 
 the local church. 
 
 It is officially appointed or elected by the 
 church at the opening of each church year. 
 In order to guarantee continuity of policies 
 and progression in work, it is desirable that 
 
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provision be made for a majority of the 
 Committee to hold over, each year. 
 
 It is representative of all departments of 
 the church, namely, the congregation 
 through the official boards, the men's or¬ 
 ganizations, the women’s societies, the 
 Sunday-school, and the young people’s so¬ 
 ciety. The pastor should always be e.r- 
 ofticio a member of the Committee. He 
 should keep constantly behind the commit¬ 
 tee, ever putting others forward, inspiring, 
 counseling, and guiding. Ordinarily it is 
 advisable that a layman be chairman. 
 
 In the case of churches whose Church 
 Missionary Committee is composed entirely 
 of men, not representing the several depart¬ 
 ments, unified action should be sought by 
 arranging several conferences each year be¬ 
 tween the Committee and the representa¬ 
 tives of the different departments. 
 
 In small churches the Committee usually 
 consists of from five to seven members. 
 For the larger churches, with many depart¬ 
 ments, it may be well to increase the num¬ 
 ber by the addition of several members at 
 large. Only those should be appointed 
 whose hearts are in the work, who command 
 confidence, and are prayerful, energetic, 
 tactful, and persistent. So far as possible, 
 those appointed should be relieved of other 
 work. Hence the Committee should not be 
 confined to church officers. 
 
 2. Why Needed 
 
 (i) Fecause the Church, being primarily 
 a missionary society, requires efficient lead- 
 
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crship, in order to realize and fulfil its great 
 mission to the world. 
 
 •(2) Because, to secure a maximum of 
 efficiency with a minimum of machinery, 
 the Missionary Committee has proved the 
 simplest and most effective type of organi¬ 
 zation. 
 
 (3) Because it distributes and locates re¬ 
 sponsibility, sets many at work, and lightens 
 the pastor's responsibility. 
 
 (4) Because it unifies the activities of 
 men, women, and young people, and coordi¬ 
 nates the several departments around the 
 central purpose of the Church. 
 
 (5) Because it puts the aggressive mis¬ 
 sionary work of the Church on as stable a 
 financial basis as the maintenance of the 
 Church. 
 
 ( 6 ) Because it supplies a missing link 
 between the local congregation and the mis¬ 
 sionary agencies of the Church at large, and 
 affords a connection with the interdenomi¬ 
 national forces. 
 
 3. Hozi/ Organized 
 
 The Committee, as soon as appointed, 
 should organize, electing a chairman and 
 secretary. Regular meetings should be held, 
 ordinarily once every month, at a time fixed 
 in advance so that the members can ar¬ 
 range to be present. 
 
 Each member should he assigned some 
 definite part of the work for which he is 
 best qualified. At the regular meeting re¬ 
 ports from each department should be pre¬ 
 sented and each phase of the work re- 
 
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viewed. Part of the time should be devoted 
 to united study, with careful previous prep¬ 
 aration, covering a course specially adapted 
 to promote the efficiency of the Committee ; 
 part of the time should also be spent in 
 definite and united prayer. 
 
 Since the Committee federates the vari¬ 
 ous missionary departments and activities of 
 the church, its members have a dual super¬ 
 visory responsibility. The first is to pro¬ 
 mote the missionary plans of the congrega¬ 
 tion as a whole, designated in the chart on 
 “Fields of Work” by the phrase “Congre¬ 
 gational Activities.” The second is to fos¬ 
 ter the missionary activities of the different 
 departments and organizations represented 
 on the Church Missionary Committee, by 
 reviewing their policies, methods, and plans, 
 articulating their efforts, and aiding their 
 committees in the performance of their 
 duties. 
 
 A chief purpose of the Church Committee 
 will thus be to aid the dififerent departments 
 and committees in developing the fullest 
 missionary strength possible, especially by 
 helping at the weakest points, by making 
 far-sighted provision for the training of 
 leaders, and by the frequent review of all 
 the missionary activities of the Church, pre¬ 
 venting unintentional overlapping or dupli¬ 
 cation of effort, thus unifying the entire 
 system of missionary cultivation. 
 
 In carrying out the duty assigned to each 
 member of the Committee, liberty should be 
 given to enlist the service of such associates 
 as may seem advisalfiie. 
 
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II. Fields of Work of the Church 
 Missionary Committee 
 
 I.. Congregational Activities 
 
 It is probably a fair statement that nine 
 tenths of the money for foreign missions is 
 given by one tenth of the church-members. 
 Not many would question that in the aver¬ 
 age church fully three fourths of the money 
 for both home and foreign missions is still 
 given by not over one fourth of the mem¬ 
 bers. Aloreover, the organizations of the 
 young people and the women and children 
 are frequently far in advance of the con¬ 
 gregation in giving, as well as in missionary 
 organization, mission study, and general 
 missionary intelligence. 
 
 These facts illustrate the general failure 
 to plan intelligently for the missionary ac¬ 
 tivities of the congregation as a whole. 
 Wherever the pastor has recognized and 
 faithfully used his prerogative as the divine¬ 
 ly appointed leader, teacher, and example in 
 prayer, education, and giving, for missions, 
 and when, through a well-selected and rep¬ 
 resentative Church Missionary Committee, 
 the monthly missionary prayer-meeting, the 
 every-member canvass, the weekly offering, 
 and other forms of missionary method have 
 been thoroughly applied, a marked increase 
 in giving and general missionary efficiency 
 of the congregation has resulted. 
 
 The chief duties of the Committee in re¬ 
 lation to the congregation will be to assist 
 
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the pastor in conducting the monthly mis¬ 
 sionary survey and prayer service, to pro¬ 
 mote mission study among the members of 
 the congregation, in harmony with other 
 mission study plans, to foster the circulation 
 of the denominational missionary magazine 
 and other periodicals, book and pamphlet 
 literature, to supervise the every-member 
 canvass, and to promote missionary prayer, 
 education, giving, and service in other ways 
 most suited to the congregational life. 
 
 Since the congregational activities thus 
 outlined are peculiarly suited to men, the 
 membership of the Church Missionary Com¬ 
 mittee should include a large proportion of 
 laymen. 
 
 2. The Sunday School 
 
 The Sunday-school is acknowledged to 
 be one of the strongest educational institu¬ 
 tions in the church, and it reaches the 
 largest number of impressionable persons. 
 Missionary education has a place in the 
 Sunday-school both for the sake of the 
 Church of the future and for immediate re¬ 
 sults. The Sunday-school missionary com¬ 
 mittee, on whom rests the primary respon¬ 
 sibility of introducing and maintaining mis¬ 
 sionary instruction in the Sunday-school, 
 thus has an opportunity scarcely less im¬ 
 portant than that of the congregation. This 
 committee should be elected or appointed to 
 represent all of the departments of the 
 school, and its chairman should be a mem¬ 
 ber of the Church ]\Iissionary Committee. 
 
 It should endeavor to make the entire 
 
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school missionary in spirit, knowledge, and 
 service. It should study the needs of the 
 various grades and seek to discover the best 
 study material and methods which the 
 teachers themselves may use with profit. 
 The superintendent and officers may be 
 helped by the provision of missionary open¬ 
 ing and closing exercises. Good missionary 
 books should be provided for the Sunday- 
 school library, and no effort should be 
 spared to get them widely circulated and 
 read. Missionary material for both class 
 and platform instruction may be secured 
 from the denominational mission boards. 
 
 A missionary atmosphere may be created 
 in the entire school by the use of framed 
 photographs of great missionaries and mis¬ 
 sionary events, the bulletin-board, mottoes, 
 maps, charts, and the Christian flag. The 
 expression of the Christian life in personal 
 service should be studied by the Sunday- 
 school missionary committee in order that 
 methods adapted to the various grades may 
 be discovered and utilized. A financial 
 policy for the missionary offerings of the 
 school should be worked out in harmony 
 with that of the church. 
 
 The Sunday-school missionary committee 
 should provide itself with the best books 
 of methods, missionary magazines, and 
 catalogues, in order to keep in touch 
 with the best and newest methods and 
 material. 
 
 Through the Church Missionary Com¬ 
 mittee the missionary policy of the Sunday- 
 school will need to be correlated with that 
 
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of other departments in the local church. 
 The children may be members of several 
 juvenile organizations; the young people 
 will have separate organizations ; and the 
 Adult Bible Class members will be inter¬ 
 ested in the various Men’s and Women’s 
 Societies. Only through the Church Mis¬ 
 sionary Committee can a program of mis¬ 
 sionary education and giving be outlined 
 which will avoid duplication of effort and 
 produce the highest possible efficiency. 
 
 Most of the phases of work outlined in 
 this manual are applicable to the Sunday- 
 school. The section of special significance 
 is that on Graded Missionary Instruction. 
 
 3. The Young People's Society 
 
 The most successful methods of mission¬ 
 ary organization and service in the young 
 people’s society are the mission study class, 
 the monthly missionary meeting, the circula¬ 
 tion of missionary literature for reading 
 purposes, the organization and conduct of a 
 missionary exhibit, the organization and 
 promotion of giving, and practical forms of 
 personal service within the community. The 
 society should cooperate with the pastor 
 and the Church Missionary Committee in 
 harmonizing its plans with those of other 
 departments of the church, and in carrying 
 out the plans of the Church Missionary 
 Committee by contributing workers when¬ 
 ever and wherever possible. The Church 
 Missionary Committee should recognize that 
 the principle of work for young people by 
 
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young people is fundamental in the most 
 successful schemes of religious education 
 for the ages from fifteen to twenty. By 
 representation in the Church [Missionary 
 Committee, these activities can be harmon¬ 
 ized with the comprehensive plan of edu¬ 
 cation and giving of the church as a whole. 
 Literature for young people’s societies 
 should be ordered from the Home or For¬ 
 eign Mission Boards. 
 
 4. Men's Organizations 
 
 The [Men’s Club or Brotherhood, the or¬ 
 ganized Bible classes of young or adult men, 
 and other organized societies of men may 
 be utilized in carrying out a comprehensive 
 plan of missionary activity in the local 
 church. All plans should be harmonized 
 through the Church [Missionary Committee 
 with similar plans in other departments, and 
 especially with the congregational mission¬ 
 ary activities. The promotion of the mis¬ 
 sionary life of the members of men’s organ¬ 
 izations can be carried on best by prayer 
 for missions and missionaries in each week¬ 
 ly meeting, the frequent presentation of 
 current missionary topics in regular meet¬ 
 ings, participation in the monthly mission¬ 
 ary meeting of the church, the organization 
 of mission study classes of men, lectures 
 and addresses on missionary subjects 
 (sometimes with stereopticon views), the 
 enlistment of men as regular contributors 
 to missions, and cooperation in the every- 
 member canvass. 
 
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5 - Women's Societies 
 
 In many churches one missionary society 
 of women comprehends both home and for¬ 
 eign missionary interests. In other churches 
 separate societies exist side by side. But 
 in either case the missionary society or so¬ 
 cieties should be represented on the Church 
 Missionary Committee. The chief methods 
 employed by missionary societies of women 
 through which the interest of their mem¬ 
 bers and friends is aroused and maintained 
 are regular meetings for prayer, the study 
 of missions by use of text-books and 
 through lectures, the circulation of a va¬ 
 riety of leaflet, pamphlet, and periodical lit¬ 
 erature, the collection of funds, practical 
 personal service among and for the needy 
 of the community and for distant mission 
 stations, at home and abroad, and the spe¬ 
 cial training and instruction in missions of 
 young women and children. 
 
 Because of the great variety of these ac¬ 
 tivities there is increasing need of correla¬ 
 tion of plans between the women’s societies 
 and the other organizations of the church. 
 The aim of this effort to unify should not 
 be to destroy independent initiative, but by 
 conference and joint planning to avoid un¬ 
 due multiplication of appeals for gifts, pre¬ 
 vent overlapping in educational and finan¬ 
 cial plans, and create a consciousness of the 
 unity of the church as a whole. 
 
 Two series of mission study text-books 
 for women are being published, one on for¬ 
 eign missions by the Central Committee on 
 
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the United Study of Missions of the wo¬ 
 men’s foreign missionary societies, and the 
 other on home missions by the Council of 
 Women for Home Missions. Orders for 
 these books should be sent to the denomina¬ 
 tional Women’s Societies. 
 
 III. Phases of Work of the Church 
 Missionary Committee 
 
 I. A Program of Education 
 
 The important duty of planning and exe¬ 
 cuting a comprehensive scheme of mission¬ 
 ary education for the entire church falls to 
 the Church Missionary Committee. The 
 methods to be employed vary widely in 
 character in the different departments of 
 the church. For this reason and because 
 usually each department plans its mission¬ 
 ary educational activities independently of 
 the others, unity is lacking, many members 
 of the congregation receive no instruction at 
 all, and the results are far below the stand¬ 
 ard possible when a representative commit¬ 
 tee plans and works for the church as a 
 whole. The general educational ideal should 
 be tO' give some missionary instruction to 
 every member of the congregation with all 
 educational activities harmonized and uni¬ 
 fied. In providing the necessary education¬ 
 al material some expense is inevitably in¬ 
 curred, and funds should be appropriated 
 for this purpose through the church budget 
 as for the expense of any other church com¬ 
 mittee. If this is not done, the Committee 
 
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will be obliged to secure the funds in some 
 other way. 
 
 (1) Public Presentation of the Subject 
 
 of Missions 
 
 The human voice, as heard from the pul¬ 
 pit, will reach a larger number of people 
 than any other agency. Missionary ser¬ 
 mons by the pastor or others, platform 
 meetings conducted by the men of the 
 church or by invited speakers, missionary 
 programs rendered by the Sunday-school 
 or other organizations, are indispensable in 
 a comprehensive plan of education. Some 
 pastors never preach a “missionary sermon” 
 because all their public messages abound in 
 illustrations, incidents, information, and ap¬ 
 plications drawn from past and current mis¬ 
 sionary history. This method is ideal, de¬ 
 manding in the pastor large sympathies, 
 constant and wide reading, discriminating 
 observation and judgment of world events, 
 and recognition of the universal mission of 
 Christianity, but it should not supersede the 
 occasional special missionary message. It 
 is especially important that missionary ser¬ 
 mons or addresses be delivered when there 
 is to be no special missionary offering. 
 Heretofore missionary sermons have not 
 been popular because of the certain knowl¬ 
 edge that an offering was to be taken. The 
 introduction of sermons and addresses for 
 their educational and spiritual value is high¬ 
 ly desirable and will prove most effective. 
 
 (2) The Monthly Missionary Meetings 
 
 The church missionary prayer-meeting 
 
 will be alluded to under “A Program of 
 
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Prayer,” since the meeting should ordina¬ 
 rily take the place of the regular mid¬ 
 week prayer-meeting. It should, however, 
 never be forgotten that the monthly meeting 
 constitutes an educational opportunity of the 
 first order. Similar missionary meetings 
 should also be held at regular intervals in 
 connection with the established meetings of 
 the young people’s society and other organ¬ 
 izations of the church. 
 
 Among the many satisfactory plans for 
 such a meeting, the following is suggested: 
 
 Have a swift survey conducted by eight 
 persons, appointed for a year, who are to 
 be on the alert to discover fresh items of 
 current events afifecting the Kingdom, each 
 for his own particular arc of the world 
 horizon. These men should serve as re¬ 
 porters, not speakers. They should give 
 each month, in concise and graphic terms, 
 such concrete item or items as can be pre¬ 
 sented within tzvo mimites. These facts 
 should be chosen with special reference to 
 stimulating prayer and should be followed 
 by or interspersed with brief prayer or 
 praise, as the chairman may direct. 
 
 Some such division of the world field as 
 the following is suggested: a. The Home 
 Field; b. Latin America; c. Japan-Korea; 
 d. China ; e. India and adjacent countries ; 
 f. The Moslem World; g. Africa, and h. 
 The Island World. 
 
 The main topic of the meeting should be 
 planned weeks in advance, with a view both 
 to variety and cumulative impression. While 
 the swift survey is intended to give the 
 
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extensive view, the main feature should be 
 intensive. 
 
 A series might be arranged on The De¬ 
 cisive Hour of Christian Missions, follow¬ 
 ing the chapters of the text-book of that 
 name, and drawing upon the reports of the 
 Commissions of the World Missionary Con¬ 
 ference for additional material. A similar 
 series might be based on a home mission 
 text-book, such as Aliens or Americansf 
 using reference volumes and magazine arti¬ 
 cles for collateral reading. Still another 
 series might consist of “Personally Con¬ 
 ducted Tours of Inspection of Our Work 
 at Home and Abroad,” covering The Immi¬ 
 grants, The Frontier, The Indian, The 
 Negro in America, The Problem of the 
 City, The Country Church, The Church in 
 Relation to Labor, M'edical Work (typical 
 hospitals and dispensaries). Educational 
 (schools and colleges). Industrial (shops, 
 farms, etc.). Literary (translation, pub¬ 
 lishing houses, etc.), Philanthropic (asy¬ 
 lum, homes and schools for lepers, blind 
 deaf, insane, widows and orphans). Evan¬ 
 gelistic (churches, Sunday-schools, etc.), 
 WomanN Work (incidents showing con¬ 
 trasts in conditions). 
 
 In some of these the lantern may be used 
 to advantage, not to furnish entertainment, 
 but to visualize the work more strikingly. 
 Programs should be planned so as to enlist 
 the cooperation of many people in the 
 course of a season. The several depart¬ 
 ments and missionary societies of the 
 church should take charge of a program 
 
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from time to time. Throughout the meet¬ 
 ing there should rim a current of prayer, 
 with specific requests put on the black¬ 
 board. 
 
 (3) Mission Study Classes 
 
 The mission study class is one of the best 
 agencies yet discovered to spread definite 
 and adequate missionary information. A 
 mission study class is an informal group of 
 from six to twelve people who come to¬ 
 gether at regular intervals, preferably 
 weekly, for a short study of some definite 
 missionary problem or mission field. The 
 average text-book can be completed in eight 
 or nine sessions, so that this form of edu¬ 
 cational work occupies comparatively little 
 time. Such abundant helps have been pro¬ 
 vided that the problem of leadership is not 
 more difficult than that of teaching a Sun¬ 
 day-school class well. 
 
 An excellent series of mission study text¬ 
 books has been published and widely used. 
 They are adapted to various classes and 
 ages. Special books of biographies are pre¬ 
 pared for boys and girls and young men 
 and women. Classes for these younger peo¬ 
 ple will usually be organized under the 
 auspices of the Sunday-school or junior 
 organizations. 
 
 Further reference is made to this under 
 “Graded Missionary Instruction.” Every 
 church should aim to have at least one 
 class each year. Most churches should 
 form several groups annually for the study 
 of these books. An abundance of material 
 on this subject, including announcement of 
 
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courses, manuals and sug’gestions for or¬ 
 ganizers and leaders, and special helps to 
 accompany each volume sent free to lead¬ 
 ers, is at the disposal of missionary com¬ 
 mittees by applying to the Mission Boards. 
 
 (4) Graded Missionary Instruction 
 
 An adequate program of missionary ed¬ 
 ucation for the local church will include 
 work for every person in the congregation 
 —children, boys and girls, young men and 
 women, and adults. The material and 
 methods adopted must, therefore, be adapt¬ 
 ed to the needs, interests, and capabilities of 
 the different ages. Broadly speaking, there 
 are two periods of life-development up to 
 maturity, namely : (i) that which precedes 
 
 adolescence, and (2) from adolescence to 
 adult life. 
 
 The period under thirteen years is com¬ 
 monly divided, for purposes of religious 
 education, into three grades, as follows: 
 Infancy, from birth to 6 years ; childhood, 
 6 to 8 years : boyhood and girlhood, 9 to 12 
 years. The period after twelve years is 
 similarlv divided into three grades, as fol¬ 
 lows : Earlv adolescence, 13 to 16 years; 
 middle adolescence, 17 to 20 years; later 
 adolescence, 21 to 25 years. The section 
 of this manual on Adult Study contains sug¬ 
 gestions for the period above 21 years of 
 age. 
 
 In order to plan broadly and wisely for 
 the missionary education of the above- 
 mentioned ages or grades, the Church Mis¬ 
 sionary Committee will need to consider the 
 following suggestions: 
 
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a. In so far as the congreg^ation is repre¬ 
 sented in the Sunday-school, there is no 
 better method of reaching all its members 
 than by the adoption in the Sunday-school 
 of a study curriculum which makes pro¬ 
 vision for missionary instruction as an es¬ 
 sential part of the course. The new Inter¬ 
 national Graded Lessons, now issued by 
 many denominations, contain missionary 
 lessons for the primary, junior, intermedi¬ 
 ate, and senior grades. The completely 
 graded series of the Bible Study L^nion 
 (Blakeslee Lessons) contain admirable mis¬ 
 sionary courses for the intermediate and 
 senior grades. 
 
 By the adoption of such a curriculum, the 
 Sunday-school may have, not only a satis¬ 
 factory system of religious education, but 
 also a scheme of missionary instruction 
 conceived as an essential part of the child’s 
 religious training. 
 
 b. In case the Sunday-school does not 
 adopt a curriculum like that referred to 
 above, the Church Missionary Committee, 
 through its Sunday-school representative, 
 should urge the teachers of the different 
 classes to provide mission study as a part 
 of their year’s work. The classes mav meet 
 with their regular teacher at some designat¬ 
 ed hour through the week, or the study mav 
 be made supplemental to the regular studv 
 course or may even supplant it for a short 
 period of weeks. Material, such as object- 
 lessons for children, stories for boys and 
 girls, biogranhies for adolescents, and va¬ 
 rious topical studies for young people, has 
 
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been prepared and is available through the 
 Mission Boards for immediate use. 
 
 c. For organizations outside the Sunday- 
 school, such as juvenile and young people’s 
 societies, mission bands and boys’ and girls’ 
 clubs, it is suggested that the educational 
 program be outlined in connection with the 
 Sunday-school. 
 
 Unless these groups contain large num¬ 
 bers of persons not in the Sunday-school, 
 the policy of the latter should determine 
 the work pursued by the former. For in¬ 
 stance, if the Sunday-school has adopted 
 the International Graded Lessons and the 
 children of ten and twelve years are study¬ 
 ing stories of great missionary heroes, and 
 if these same children are members of a 
 juvenile society, which meets during the 
 week, the study should not duplicate but 
 rather supplement the Sunday-school work. 
 This whole matter of the correlation of the 
 educational policies of these various organi¬ 
 zations should be considered seriously by 
 every Church iMissionarv Committee. 
 
 (5) The Use of Literature, Charts, and 
 Other Accessories 
 
 a. The Church Missionary Committee 
 should select short and attractive leaflets 
 for circulation. Once a month such a piece 
 of printed matter may be handed to each 
 member of the congregation as the people 
 pass out of the church. The pastor can 
 assist the Committee by announcing the 
 proposed distribution, and reference to it 
 should be made in the printed bulletin. 
 
 b. For those who are ready to read more 
 
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extensively, selected pamphlets should be 
 used. These should be distributed person¬ 
 ally, with a word of recommendation. Prac¬ 
 tically all Home and Foreign Mission 
 Boards publish or otherwise furnish such 
 literature, some for free distribution, and 
 some at a nominal price. Whatever outlay 
 is necessary in order to do this more thor¬ 
 oughly should be provided. 
 
 c. The best books on missions should be 
 secured and circulated. Members of the 
 Committee should themselves own books, so 
 as to be able to recommend them to others. 
 Each church should have its own library of 
 missionary books, selected with reference to 
 the different ages, grades, and uses to be 
 made of it. Children should be guided into 
 missionary reading by parents in the home 
 as well as by teachers and officers of the 
 Sunday-school, by personal recommenda¬ 
 tion, during the devotional exercises and 
 class sessions. New books should be added 
 each year. Many churches find it desirable 
 to have a special library of missionary books 
 and pamphlets, with maps, charts, curios, 
 and other accessories, constantly available. 
 The Mission Boards have available special 
 sets or libraries of the best books, at great¬ 
 ly reduced prices. Other volumes can be 
 ordered of the regular publishers. 
 
 d. Special effort should be made each 
 vear to secure subscriptions to tbe denom¬ 
 inational missionary magazines. No other 
 literature can serve as a substitute, for 
 through these magazines come monthly 
 reports of the work and workers which are 
 
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supported by prayer and contributions. 
 Other missionary periodicals listed in the 
 bibliography will be found helpful to some 
 of the workers and most interested mem¬ 
 bers of the church. 
 
 e. Accessories, such as maps, pictures, 
 charts, mottoes, curios, etc., through the use 
 of which the missionary activities of the 
 Church of Christ are made more real, 
 should be collected by the Church Mission¬ 
 ary Committee from all available sources. A 
 missionary atmosphere is created by them, 
 if attractively displayed and wisely used. 
 
 (6) Correspondence 
 
 It will be found helpful to have points of 
 contact with the work which a church or 
 society is helping to support, according to 
 “The Station Plan” or “The Parish at 
 Home and Abroad,” in use by several of 
 the Home and Foreign Mission Boards. 
 This arrangement provides for a missionary 
 to serve as the correspondent, keeping the 
 supporting constituency in touch by a let¬ 
 ter as often as quarterly. 
 
 The letters, when received, will be read 
 or paraphrased in the missionary meeting, 
 and from the pulpit, wholly or in part; ex¬ 
 tracts be published in the church bulletins 
 and in local newspapers, and copies be cir¬ 
 culated among the shut-ins and absentees. 
 Photographs and other objects of interest 
 may be obtained from the field for the bul¬ 
 letin-board in the home church. 
 
 2. A Program of Prayer 
 
 The Church ^lissionary Committee 
 
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should seek to bring to the membership of 
 the local church a sense of the reality of 
 prayer and the responsibility and privilege 
 of every Christian to utilize this primary 
 missionary force. All department commit¬ 
 tees should join in following out a practical 
 plan for the whole church adopted by the 
 Church Missionary Committee. The fol¬ 
 lowing methods are suggested: 
 
 (I) Public Instruction on Prayer and 
 Missions 
 
 The example of the pastor in praying for 
 missions in the public and private services 
 of worship is a most potent factor in the 
 promotion of prayer. He should pray spe¬ 
 cifically for the work or workers in which 
 the local church has particular interest. The 
 use by each pastor of the prayer calendar 
 adopted or approved by the Mission Boards 
 of his denomination is urged. The signifi¬ 
 cant events of current history, vitally af¬ 
 fecting the progress of Christianity in the 
 world, should call forth public prayer. From 
 the pulpit and in the mid-week church 
 prayer-meeting, the pastor has a rare oppor¬ 
 tunity to suggest missionary topics for 
 prayer and to encourage the members of 
 the congregation to practise the habit of 
 prayer for missions in the home. 
 
 The opportunity of the general superin¬ 
 tendent of the Sunday-school and the de¬ 
 partment superintendents to instruct the 
 young concerning prayer and missions is 
 second in importance only to that of the 
 pastor in the pulpit and of the parents in 
 the home. The example of the Sunday- 
 
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school officers in praying for missions dur¬ 
 ing the opening and closing exercises is a 
 mighty factor. In like manner, teachers of 
 classes can give definite instruction to their 
 scholars, especially in connection with those 
 lessons that are missionary in character. 
 
 Missionaries and many laymen and 
 women are very glad to give addresses or 
 testimony concerning the place and power 
 of prayer in missions if asked to do so. 
 
 Use should be made of bulletin or black¬ 
 boards in public rooms used for the Sunday 
 services of the congregation, the meetings 
 of the Sunday-school, young people’s so¬ 
 ciety and the men’s and women’s organiza¬ 
 tions. By this means attention can be di¬ 
 rected to striking quotations on prayer and 
 missions, to literature on the subject, and 
 to definite subjects for prayer, such as mis¬ 
 sionaries, institutions, important confer¬ 
 ences or conventions, special needs or crises 
 on the home and foreign fields or in the 
 administration of missions by the Societies. 
 
 The Church Missionary Committee 
 should display and explain the helps to 
 prayer, such as the denominational year¬ 
 books of prayer and prayer cycles, and 
 should enlist as many as possible in their 
 use. The Committee may also print mis¬ 
 sionary facts and needs, with requests for 
 praver, on the church calendar. Literature 
 on prayer and missions should also be 
 circulated for private reading. Topics for 
 prayer can be printed on the back of envel¬ 
 opes containing the church offering. 
 
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(2) Monthly or Other Missionary Prayer 
 
 Meetings 
 
 A definite missionary character should be 
 given to one or more of the regular mid¬ 
 week prayer-meetings or Sunday services 
 each month, under the auspices of the 
 Church Missionary Committee, assisted by 
 the department committees. Considerable 
 time should be given to missionary interces¬ 
 sion in the regular meetings of the young 
 people’s society and the societies of men and 
 women. It should be kept in mind that the 
 primary purpose of the Monthl\ Missionary 
 Meetings are for Prayer. The monthly con¬ 
 cert was originated as a service of prayer 
 for missions. Information is indispensable, 
 but it should be presented with the express 
 object of stimulating and giving point to 
 prayer. This applies with equal force to 
 the monthly meeting of the young people’s 
 society. 
 
 The educational features of the monthly 
 missionary meeting are more fully set forth 
 under ‘'A Program of Education.” 
 
 (3) The Enlistment of Individuals 
 
 Individuals should be enlisted to pray 
 
 definitely for special missionaries and mis¬ 
 sion stations or institutions at home and in 
 foreign fields. Special occasions for prayer, 
 due to emergencies involved in new or diffi¬ 
 cult undertakings or opportunities, should 
 be brought to the attention of all who are 
 thus enlisted. A daily prayer cycle should 
 be used. Heads of families should be en¬ 
 listed to pray for missions regularly in fam¬ 
 ily devotions. 
 
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The report of the Commission on the 
 Home Base, of the World Missionary Con¬ 
 ference, sums up this section in these not¬ 
 able words : ''When the Church sets itself 
 to pray with the same seriousness and 
 strength of purpose that it has devoted to 
 other forms of Christian effort, it will see 
 the kingdom of God come with power.” 
 
 3. A Program of Finance 
 
 (I) The Individual Subscription 
 
 There is no longer any need to prove that 
 the occasional collection is an utterly inade¬ 
 quate and obsolete way of providing for 
 either the maintenance of the church or for 
 the fulfilment of its mission. Beyond all 
 question the best plan is that presented in 
 I Cor. xvi. 2: "Let each one of you (indi¬ 
 vidually) lay by him in store, upon the first 
 day of the week (systematically), as he may 
 prosper (proportionately), that no collec¬ 
 tions be made when I come.” 
 
 There follows a form of subscription 
 which is widely used: 
 
 MISSIONS 
 
 AT HOME 
 
 Pe. 
 
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 46 
 
 
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 26 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
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 »mAl)rg llic 
 
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 MISSIONS 
 
 • Upea f.r»i dar d the (STSTtMATICAUI) 
 
 Le* f^ery one ol yoM ilWDlVlDUALLY) 
 
 Ur by hsQ A itofr aa God Had) prcap«r4^<i hus ' < PROPORTION ATSLTT. 
 
 “I C« J6 2 
 
 Fo* tHc ext©nsK>n ol ihe Kingdom AT HOME and 
 ABROAD. I wish to give on the WEEKLY* b«ai9. un¬ 
 til revoked, the imounts checked on the mergma. 
 
 I prefer to make my paymenl* 
 
 (Stale whether weekly, monthly, or if annually, when> 
 
 NAME__ 
 
 ADDRESS 
 
 *Ail auUcripitoni are edcuUled qa WEEKLY baMs. altKcH.igh 
 payerais mar br made aa desirvd. it no praiermce u espmaad. pax- 
 meet wiil b« undr-rucsd tp bar 
 
 MISSIONS 
 
 ABROAD 
 
 Pe. \ 
 
 
 14 
 
 .— 
 
 S3 
 
 
 S2 
 
 
 SI 
 
 
 60 
 
 
 .26 
 
 
 .10 
 
 
 
 
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 Urgai iKao or 
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 »a blank «>acea 
 
 T An /ar* of €erJ /orni$k«J only o» iprrte/ re^utit 'DUPLE X‘‘‘Tii(hmond, I'#. 
 
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The weekly offering- plan is best, because ; 
 
 a. It is zcorshipfiil. It provides for the 
 exercise of the grace of giving as an inte¬ 
 gral part of the services of the Lord’s Day, 
 thus uniting it with prayer. 
 
 b. It is educational It keeps the Church’s 
 mission before the people habitually. 
 
 c. It is effectual It enlists more givers 
 and enables them to give more. 
 
 d. It is econouiical Furnishing funds 
 regularly, it saves interest and prevents 
 indebtedness. 
 
 e. It is equable and helpf'ul to all interests. 
 Ly tapping fresh springs, it swells the 
 stream of contributions for current ex¬ 
 penses and for all causes. 
 
 (2) The Annual Every-Member Canvass 
 
 The best way to secure the individual 
 subscription is by a personal canvass of the 
 entire congregation. Experience suggests 
 the following way of launching and carry¬ 
 ing out this canvass. 
 
 a. Elave a conference at a supper, with 
 tickets purchased in advance. 
 
 b. Display the facts, showing the number 
 of givers and what the church has given, 
 both in the aggregate and per capita, for: 
 
 fa) Current expenses. 
 
 fb) Missionary causes in America. 
 
 fc) Missions abroad. 
 
 c. After full discussion, set a definite 
 financial goal for missions for the ensuing 
 vear, resolving by rising vote to cooperate 
 in reaching it. 
 
 d. Ask for no subscriptions at the supjier. 
 
 e. Appoint canvassers (an every-nieniber 
 
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canvass committee), including representa¬ 
 tives of all the cooperating departments. 
 Instruct them carefully in the methods of 
 the canvass and in the work of the mis¬ 
 sions to be supported by the church. 
 
 f. Divide the canvassers into teams of 
 two each. 
 
 g. Assign the entire congregation to these 
 teams to canvass for an offering on the 
 weekly basis. 
 
 h. Prepare the way by use of literature 
 and special preparation from the pulpit by 
 the pastor and by lay speakers, and through 
 all the cooperating organizations. This pe¬ 
 riod of preparation should cover not less 
 than three weeks. 
 
 i. Permeate the entire canvass with 
 prayer as a spiritual service rendered to the 
 Master. 
 
 j. Set a limit—not exceeding two weeks 
 —within which the canvass shall be com¬ 
 pleted. 
 
 Giving, like prayer, is a Christian grace. 
 The father cannot exercise this grace for 
 his child nor the wife and mother for her 
 husband and family. The church owes it 
 to its membership to give each member a 
 share in the missionary work of the church. 
 No Christian life is complete which does 
 not have part in the world-wide work of the 
 Kingdom. 
 
 (3) The Weekly Envelope 
 
 The best collecting device yet discovered 
 is a double envelope, providing in one 
 pocket for the maintenance of the church 
 locally, and in the other for the whole mis- 
 
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sion of the church, in the homeland and 
 abroad. 
 
 Such an envelope as this is widely used : 
 
 240 OCT 22 1911 
 
 OCT 22 1911 240 
 
 ‘Xet every one of you {Individually) lay 
 
 ‘‘Bring an offering and come into His 
 
 by him in store on the first day of the week 
 {SystemaHciUy) as God hath prosperoi 
 
 courts.”—Psa, 96 :8. 
 
 iPr-jportumatcly) Cor. 16: 2. 
 
 BENEVOLENCES 
 
 CURRENT EXPENSES 
 
 -FOR- 
 
 FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE 
 
 Cbc €xteti$loii Of tnc HingaoiD 
 
 Central CI)urcI) 
 
 At Home $. 
 
 OF NEW YORK 
 
 Abroad $ 
 
 $_ 
 
 P«T PENOiNO 
 
 This plan 
 
 a. Promotes regular, systematic and lib¬ 
 eral giving. 
 
 b. Promotes this for both current ex¬ 
 penses and missionary offerings. 
 
 c. Enables the contributor to give the 
 largest possible amount with the least pos¬ 
 sible strain. 
 
 d. Puts the mission of the church anrl 
 its maintenance side by side, and calls for 
 a sense of proportion between these claims. 
 
 e. Obviates the multiplication of envel¬ 
 opes for special causes. 
 
 f. Makes it ]:)ossible either to have a 
 separate treasurer for the benevolences, 
 which is usually advisable, or to have but 
 one for the two funds. 
 
 g. kfay have requests for prayer for 
 every month printed on the back, thus link- 
 
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ing' the grace of giving with the ministry 
 of intercession. 
 
 (4) The Specific Object 
 Concrete and specific appeals are more 
 stimulating to the imagination than those 
 which are general and abstract. Hence, 
 some mission boards, both home and for¬ 
 eign, have found it helpful to reduce the 
 broad generalization of Missions to the 
 more concrete terms of what is known as 
 the Station Plan, or the Parish at Home 
 and the Parish Abroad. By this is meant 
 so much of the work in some particular 
 station (in its entirety and all its rich va¬ 
 riety of evangelistic, medical, educational, 
 industrial, and Christian literature work) as 
 the subscriptions of the members of any 
 church for this purpose may cover. Care 
 should be taken to ascertain by correspond¬ 
 ence with the denominational missionary 
 societies whether either of these plans are 
 in use, and, if not, by what methods defi¬ 
 nite contact with the work on the fields, at 
 home and abroad, may be established and 
 maintained. Most Boards do not approve 
 of the old plan of assigning a native worker 
 for support, and therefore the Station Plan 
 and the plan of the Parish at home and 
 abroad have been provided. 
 
 (5) Christian Stewardship 
 
 The Committee should seek by every 
 means within its power to promote higher 
 ideals of Christian Stewardship. The great 
 need of the hour is for a vital conception of 
 the Christian use of monev and the enlist¬ 
 ment of every Christian as a contributor 
 
 34 
 
and an adequate supporter of the work of 
 the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. 
 
 (6) A Standard 
 
 An increasing number of churches be¬ 
 lieve that they should give not less for the 
 extension of the Kingdom through all the 
 world than they expend upon their own 
 maintenance. Manv should give verv much 
 more. This standard is recommended as 
 an objective for every church. 
 
 (7) Correlation of Giving Plans 
 
 The chief difficulty in laying out and ex¬ 
 ecuting a unified plan of missionary activi¬ 
 ties in the local church centers in the adop¬ 
 tion of the missionary budget, the securing 
 of subscriptions, the collection of the 
 money, and the disbursement of the funds. 
 This difficulty must be recognized, and 
 faced with patience, resolution, and wisdom. 
 Traditional methods can and should be ad¬ 
 justed, or even abandoned, if thereby the 
 cooperation of the entire church can be en¬ 
 listed in a concerted effort. The following 
 suggestions deal with the details of the 
 problem of harmonizing and uniting the 
 several financial plans and activities of the 
 average parish : 
 
 a. A financial objective or budget for the 
 entire church, including all departments and 
 all objects approved by tbe church, should 
 be adopted. 
 
 b. The every-member canvass is unques¬ 
 tionably the best method of securing sub¬ 
 scriptions, and the weekly offering the best 
 basis of subscription and collection. These 
 
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two methods are suited to all ages and de¬ 
 partments of the church. 
 
 c. In the actual execution of these plans 
 it will usually be found that heretofore the 
 congregation, the women’s societies, the 
 young people’s society, the men’s organiza¬ 
 tion, and various other groups or classes in 
 the church, have had independent budgets, 
 treasurers, and methods of collecting and 
 disbursing funds. In some cases difficulty 
 has arisen over the asserted right of this 
 or that organization to the exclusive finan¬ 
 cial cultivation of a certain group. Dupli¬ 
 cation of financial appeal has been common. 
 The advocates of the plan of unifying the 
 schemes of education and giving believe 
 that far larger results will be obtained if 
 the church as a whole adopts a comprehen¬ 
 sive budget. 
 
 The commission of twelve which has pre¬ 
 pared this manual recognizes the difficulty 
 of the task of bringing about at once a 
 complete unifying of financial effort. It 
 has concluded that this special subject re¬ 
 quires more careful study, and consultation 
 with a large number of leaders, represent¬ 
 ing the various societies and organizations 
 to which the various departments of the 
 local church owe allegiance. It has, there¬ 
 fore, recommended to the four organiza¬ 
 tions by which the joint commission was 
 appointed that provision be made for this 
 further study, in the hope that shortly a 
 complete and authoritative statement on the 
 subject may be included in a later edition 
 of this manual. 
 
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For the present it is strongly recommend¬ 
 ed that the every-member canvass be car¬ 
 ried out to the last member of the church 
 and congregation; that the subscriptions 
 should be returned, as far as possible, in 
 duplex envelopes, through the congrega¬ 
 tional offerings ; and that the separate gifts 
 of the several departments of the church, 
 including the Sunday-school, the men’s and 
 women’s organizations, and the young peo¬ 
 ple’s society or societies should be over and 
 above the adopted missionary budget of the 
 church, or else that a definite apportionment 
 of parts of the missionary budget be made 
 to them. 
 
 4. A Program of Service 
 
 The early Christian Church was a wit¬ 
 ness-bearing Church, and its marvelous suc¬ 
 cess is largely accounted for by the fact 
 that every Christian was a missionary. The 
 Church of to-day calls loudly for personal 
 Christian service in the communitv anfl the 
 dedication of life to the various forms of 
 Christian work at home and abroad. This 
 may be realized by: 
 
 (i) The enlistment and training of lead¬ 
 ers and workers for all the departments and 
 committees of the local church. Such serv¬ 
 ice will be a means of developing a sense of 
 responsibility for others, which lies at the 
 foundation of all missionarv endeavor. Spe¬ 
 cial attention should be given by the Church 
 Missionary Committee to the multiplication 
 of opportunities for definite Christian ac¬ 
 tivity. 
 
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(2) A scientific survey of the church in 
 relation to its community, and an enrolment 
 of volunteer workers in the activities of the 
 various charitable, social, and religious in¬ 
 stitutions. 
 
 (3) The presentation to young people of 
 the call to Christian service as a life-work, 
 emphasizing the ministry and the work of 
 missions both in the homeland and in for¬ 
 eign mission fields. 
 
 (4) The presentation of the duty and 
 privilege of every Christian to view his vo¬ 
 cation as an opportunity to serve the king¬ 
 dom of God. 
 
 IV. Bibliography 
 
 The literature and supplies listed in this Bibli¬ 
 ography should be ordered of the Home or For¬ 
 eign Board of one’s own denomination. 
 
 T. The Church Missionary Coniinittee and 
 
 Its JVork 
 
 The Church ^Missionary Committee, Its Fields and 
 Functions. Intended for free distribution. 
 A four-page leaflet containing in briefest out¬ 
 line the contents of this IManual. 
 
 Suggestions to Leaders in the Every-Member 
 Canvass. Laymen’s Missionary ^Movement, 
 Xew York. Price, 5 cents. 
 
 A pamphlet giving instructions to the can¬ 
 vassing committee for carrying on their work 
 with lasting results. 
 
 They Did It. Laymen’s ^Missionary ^Movement, 
 New York. Price. 5 cents. 
 
 A pamphlet exhibiting the record and testi¬ 
 mony of churches in which the every-member 
 canvass and the weekly offering have been 
 used. 
 
 Community Study, by W. H. Wilson. Mis¬ 
 sionary Education IMovement, New York. 
 Price, 35 cents. 
 
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A practical scheme for the investigation 
 of the problems of the large town or city 
 ward. 
 
 It W on’t W ork Wdth Us. Laymen's ^Missionary 
 Movement of the Alethodist Episcopal 
 Church, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York. Price, 
 5 cents. 
 
 t-A pamphlet answering the stock objections 
 to the hnancial plans advocated in this i\Ian- 
 
 ual. 
 
 Subscription cards and envelopes for use in the 
 every-member canvass should be obtained 
 from the denominational Mission Boards. 
 
 A catalogue of Mission Study literature, with a 
 presentation of methods that have succeeded. 
 Free on application to the ^Missionary Educa¬ 
 tion Alovement. 
 
 Mission Study Class Manual, by B. C. Millikin. 
 Missionary Education klovement. New York. 
 Price, 5 cents. 
 
 A Cycle of Prayer for the World, hy Wk E. 
 Doughty. Laymen’s Missionary Movement 
 and Missionary Education Movement, New 
 York. Price, 10 cents. 
 
 Missionary Map of the WYrld, on muslin, in col¬ 
 ors, 5 x 9I4 feet. Missionary Education Move¬ 
 ment, New York. Price, $3.00, postpaid. 
 
 2. The Pastor 
 
 The Pastor and Modern Missions: A Plea for 
 Leadership in World Ifvangelization, Ijy John 
 R. Mott. 1904. Student Volunteer Move¬ 
 ment, New York. Price, $1.00. 
 
 A discussion of the pastor as an educa¬ 
 tional, a financial, a recruiting, and a spiritual 
 force in the world’s evangelization. 
 
 3. The Sunday School 
 
 A catalogue of Sunday School literature and sup¬ 
 plies, together with a missionary policy for 
 the Sunday School. Free on a])plication to 
 the Boards or the Missionary Education 
 Movement, New York. 
 
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Fifty-eight Varieties: One Better, by Joseph 
 Clark. Missionary Education Movement, 
 Xew York. Price 5 cents. 
 
 A parnphlet with a list of fifty-eight varieties of 
 missionary activities for adult Bible classes. 
 
 ^Missionary iMethods for Sunday School Workers, 
 hy George H. Trull. Revised edition, 1910. 
 Board Covers. Missionary Education Move¬ 
 ment, New York. Price, 50 cents; postage, 7 
 cents extra. 
 
 The Adult Bible Class and Missions. A four- 
 page leaflet giving a missionary policy for the 
 adult Bible class. Missionary Education 
 Movement, New York. 
 
 List of Courses on the Suggested Themes for 
 Missionary Instruction in adult Bible classes. 
 A four-page leaflet. Missionary Education 
 Movement, New York. 
 
 4. Missionary Magazines 
 
 The denominational missionary magazine. It is of 
 first importance that each missionary worker 
 should subscribe for his denominational 
 magazine. 
 
 The Missionary Review of the World. Eunk & 
 Wagnalls, New York. Price, $2.50. 
 
 An illustrated monthly magazine of mis¬ 
 sionary methods, problems, biography, and 
 history. 
 
 The International Review of ^Missions, klission- 
 arv Education Movement, Xiew York. Price, 
 $ 2 . 00 . 
 
 A quarterly for advanced readers. 
 
 ]\Ien and Missions. Laymen’s Missionary iMove- 
 ment, 1 Madison Avenue, New York. Month¬ 
 ly. Price, 50 cents. 
 
 The iMoslem World. Fleming H. Revell Co., 
 New York, American Agent. Price, $1.00. 
 
 A quarterly review of current events, litera¬ 
 ture. and thought among lilohammedans, and 
 the progress of Christian Missions in ^Moslem 
 lands. 
 
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