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THE AMERICAN LEAGUE OF 
 THE GRAND ARMY OF 
 THE CROSS. 
 
 A NEW REFORMATION REQUIRED. 
 
THE AMERICAN LEAGUE OF THE 
 GRAND ARMY OF THE CROSS. 
 
 HE writer has long been impressed by the too 
 
 evident spiritual lethargy of the rank and file 
 of the Christian Church. He has long been con¬ 
 vinced of the imperative necessity for a new ref¬ 
 ormation that shall break down present barriers of 
 deadly formalism and chilling conventionality; that 
 shall arouse the Church of Christ to active pioneer 
 efforts, in reaching the vast majority of the people, 
 who are to-day unreached by the saving influence 
 of the proclaimed Gospel of Jesus Christ. Care¬ 
 fully compiled statistics reveal a state of spiritual 
 and evangelistic torpor in the Church, that all true 
 disciples of Him “who spake as never man spake,” 
 must view with alarm. Eminent authorities quite 
 generally agree that a net annual increase of only 
 about five per cent, is now being added to the 
 Evangelical Church of Christ in America! 
 
 Four hundred churches in a New England State 
 report but four hundred additions the year 
 past; and this the leading denomination in the 
 State! Rev. Wm. De Witt Hyde, President of 
 Bowdoin College in Maine, stated in an article pub¬ 
 lished in the Forum some months since, entitled 
 “ Impending Paganism in New England,” that “in 
 one county in Maine, out of 6,987 families, 4,850 do 
 not attend church, and in the combined statistics 
 of fifteen (15) counties containing 133,445 families, 
 67,842 are non-churchgoers. This shows a pro¬ 
 portion of over 50 per cent, who never attend 
 religious worship.” It also shows a state of 
 evangelistic inefficiency in the Churches that is a 
 disgrace to the cause of Christ. Rev. Dr. Josiah 
 
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Strong, General Secretary of the Evangelical 
 Alliance, states in his great book “The New Era,” 
 that “ during the year 1891, in a large and influential 
 denomination, it took, on the average, fourteen 
 church members to win a single convert from the 
 world; in another it took seventeen and in another 
 twenty-two. 
 
 “ These three denominations aggregate four and 
 a half millions of members; and, striking the 
 average of all, it took about twenty (19.S) of these 
 Christians twelve months to make one convert! ” 
 Rev. Dr. Arthur T. Pierson states in his grand book 
 on “Evangelistic Work,” that “those who have 
 made a study of the matter, taking a survey of the 
 whole era of Protestant and Evangelical Christen¬ 
 dom, and the average accessions by conversion for 
 the half century past, tell us that the increase is 
 about seven converts yearly to every one hundred 
 Church members. If this be true—and it tallies 
 with such conclusions as we have been able to 
 make from a tolerably broad induction from facts— 
 we are making such slow progress toward the 
 world’s evangelization (then allowing for the three 
 per cent, annual loss in membership by death) that 
 we are gaining from the world only about four new 
 converts a year for every one hundred professed 
 disciples ! 
 
 “ At such a rate, even had we unlimited time for 
 the work, it would take half a millenium (500) of 
 years for the thirty millions of Protestant Christians 
 to reach the half of the race now without the 
 gospel. The melancholy fact is that the population 
 of the world is more rapid in its increase and dis¬ 
 placement than the Church is in its evangelizing 
 march ! ” 
 
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Evidences of the evangelistic inefficiency of the 
 Christian Church are to be found on every hand. 
 Over 50 per cent, of the country’s population is non¬ 
 churchgoing, and no organized effective effort is 
 now being made to reach it. This enormous sea 
 of humanity is daily drifting down to eternal de¬ 
 struction, and the greater number of professing 
 Christians let the drift go on, and content them¬ 
 selves with a selfish, cold type of Christian life that 
 works on the “every man for himself” plan, and 
 that passes the sinner by “ on the other side.” 
 True Christianity is essentially non-selfish, while the 
 prevalent religion of most Christians to-day is largely 
 one of complacent conservatism, of almost pure 
 selfishness, and as sure as God’s Word is “sure and 
 steadfast ” such religion is of man alone ; it is not 
 of Christ! The spiritual lethargy of the times is 
 beyond all calculation. If there ever was need for 
 a mighty reformation in the Church of God, such a 
 need exists now. The first bugle blast to be blown 
 must be on the common priesthood of all 
 
 BELIEVERS ! 
 
 The average Christian believes, and has been 
 largely taught to believe, that there has been granted 
 a special dispensation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ 
 to ordained ministers only, and therefore be¬ 
 lieves the subject does not concern him at all. 
 Nothing could be more foreign to the spirit and 
 teachings of the New Testament than such a belief. 
 “The Spirit and the Bride say come, and let Him 
 that heareth say come,” are the very words of 
 the inspired record, and they mean just what they 
 say, and they say that every believer has a 
 right to proclaim the Gospel of Christ; and to 
 offer his testimony to the saving power of Jesus 
 
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Christ; and such service is not only A RIGHT, BUT 
 a God-commanded duty, and “to him that 
 knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is 
 sin.” The greatest sin of the Christian world to¬ 
 day is disobedience and neglect of this very com¬ 
 mand. These statements are not made with any 
 intention of lowering the dignity or importance of 
 the grand office of the Ordained Christian Ministry ; 
 but if they are heeded, and the suggestions con¬ 
 tained in this paper are acted upon, the Ordained 
 Christian Ministry will multiply its influence many 
 fold ; for with the active personal co-operation of 
 their members in evangelistic work, the pastors of 
 our Churches will have greater occasion for rejoic¬ 
 ing and thanksgiving than for any other reason. 
 
 As previously suggested, no organized effective 
 effort is now being made by the Christian Church to 
 reach the unchurched millions for Christ. The 
 Word of God has “ been made of non-effect” through 
 and by sheer neglect of one of its greatest teachings ; 
 and we feel well assured that all true Christians will 
 join with us when we say the hour has come 
 WHEN THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE CHURCH MUST 
 AWAKE TO ITS HIGH RESPONSIBILITIES IN CHRIST 
 Jesus! “ God wills it! ” The heroic efforts of a 
 comparatively few of “ God’s own,” in every com¬ 
 munity, have been and are now being constantly 
 directed along the lines laid down by Christ; but 
 nothing will answer for nor take the place of a 
 universal proclamation of God’s blessed Gos¬ 
 pel by the universal Church of God, in its indi¬ 
 vidual members. If the Church expects the world 
 is coming to her, for salvation, she is bound to be 
 fearfully disappointed. If Christ could have saved 
 the world without coming down to earth, “to seek 
 
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and to save the lost ” and to die on Calvary, He prob¬ 
 ably would have accomplished the work the easier 
 w r ay. He who commanded all His disciples to “ go 
 ye into all the w'orld and preach the Gospel to every 
 creature,” practiced what he preached ; as the his¬ 
 tory of His constant journeyings, sufferings and 
 labors throughout the land of Palestine clearly show r s. 
 The curse of evangelistic drought that afflicts the 
 Church to-day is the direct and legitimate result of 
 ignoring Christ’s last and greatest commandment. 
 The Gospel of Jesus Christ must be proclaimed to 
 all who are in sin, by all who believe, and when that 
 is UNIVERSALLY DONE, AND THEN ONLY, WILL THE 
 
 Church fulfill her God-cOxMmanded mission ! 
 Then instead of a miserly five per cent, annual 
 increase in a dead membership, an increase of at 
 least thirty fold or three thousand per cent, will be 
 realized in a Church ablaze with pentecostal fire ; as 
 on the day of Pentecost, when the whole Church 
 proclaimed the Gospel and'the Divine promise of 
 phenomenal results w r as fully realized. A trumpet 
 blast from beyond the skies vibrates throughout the 
 w 7 orld to-day, calling the universal church of God to 
 such a mighty forward evangelistic movement as 
 only God’s hosts can accomplish when they are fully 
 true to their high calling in Christ Jesus! Will 
 YOU, oh Christian believer, fail to respond, or will 
 you join the triumphant army of God’s redeemed 
 that is now about to inaugurate the grandest, greatest 
 and most glorious campaign for God the world has 
 ever seen? Will you continue to have a name to 
 live, but still be dead to Heaven’s high call, or wall 
 you join that great company whom no man can 
 number, and whose chief calling in life is to 
 spread the Gospel proclamation to a dying world, 
 
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and finally share in their glorious reward, when at 
 last with “ palms of victory and crowns of glory ” 
 they shall meet their Imperial Master, whom they 
 have so nobly served, and from His lovely lips hear 
 that promised welcome, “Come ye, blessed of my 
 Father, and inherit the Kingdom prepared for you 
 from the foundation of the world,” which has been 
 promised only to those who do His will. 
 
 “ We are living, we are dwelling, 
 
 In a grand and awful time; 
 
 In an age on ages telling; 
 
 To be living is sublime ! 
 
 Oh, let all the soul within you, 
 
 For the truth’s sake go abroad; 
 
 Oh, let every nerve and sinew, 
 
 Tell on ages, tell for God 1 ” 
 
 That the present time is suggestive and propitious 
 for a widespread, universal revival of spiritual 
 interest and general evangelistic activity in the 
 Christian Church is very evident to close and thought¬ 
 ful observers, and yet no broad, comprehensive plan 
 or movement has been proposed for arousing the 
 dormant energies, the enthusiasm and evangelistic 
 activities of the great mass of evangelical Church 
 members. A careful survey of the field, a thorough 
 consideration of the objects to be attained, and of 
 the work to be accomplished, has led to the proposal 
 of the plan that is involved in the organization and 
 proposed work of the American League of the 
 Grand Army of the Cross. Any movement that 
 involved the military idea has from time immemorial 
 immediately and instinctively commanded the ad¬ 
 miration, enthusiasm and intense interest of men, 
 women and children. That God Himself fully 
 appreciates and approves of this fact is clearly shown 
 
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in many passages of Scripture, where the militant 
 feature appears. The Christian believer is repeat¬ 
 edly referred to as a soldier. Christ stated shortly 
 before His crucifixion, that it was within His power 
 to summon more than twelve legions of angels 
 to His assistance. Thus, in using the Roman 
 military term “ legion,” Christ indicated the fact 
 that the hosts of Heaven were considered as a great 
 army of celestial soldiers. Indeed it would 
 seem hardly necessary to refer further to the 
 Scriptures to support the proposition. The recent 
 extraordinary development and wonderful multipli¬ 
 cation of semi-military patriotic societies is also 
 corroborative of the instinctive character of that 
 natural admiration of things warlike and military 
 that dwells in every human heart to a greater or less 
 degree, and proves the power and influence of the 
 fact upon the minds of men. 
 
 There are several very good reasons for the 
 existence of this spirit of interest in military affairs ; 
 it represents that power, that, by the blessing of 
 Heaven, brought independence to our glorious 
 country; preserved the Union and freed the slave. 
 It represents the greatest life work of many of our 
 illustrious ancestors in this and foreign lands. It 
 appeals to every patriotic sentiment and to every 
 holy emotion of patriotic interest. It represents the 
 very highest idea of complete organization and 
 organized efficiency, and the very highest ideal of 
 human power. 
 
 In view of the foregoing facts, it will doubtless be 
 conceded that if the military idea can be practically 
 utilized in the Church of Christ for the advancement 
 of the Redeemer’s Kingdom, it can be made to exert 
 a tremendous and incalculable influence for good. 
 
The application of the idea in the organization and 
 work of the Salvation Army, while crude and 
 objectionable to many on account of its arbitrary 
 discipline, has effected a perfect revolution in the 
 field of labor, outside the Churches, which the 
 Army occupies. 
 
 The following description of the proposed plan and 
 work of the American League of the Grand 
 Army of the Cross is suggestive of the possibilities 
 of the application of the semi-military idea in regu¬ 
 lar church work, and as it has been arranged with 
 special consideration of the objections offered to 
 organizations in the Church, and with a view of 
 filling an almost entirely unoccupied field, the writer 
 trusts it may receive some favorable consideration 
 from thoughtful and earnest brethren in the Lord. 
 
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THE AMERICAN LEAGUE OF THE 
 GRAND ARMY OF THE 
 CROSS. 
 
 PLAN OF ORGANIZATION. 
 
 TT is proposed to effect such an organization as 
 will most completely meet the requirements of 
 the case; in order to thoroughly cover the ground, 
 the following is presented for the consideration of 
 the reader: 
 
 A League Company of either men or women, or 
 both, as may be desired, to be organized in each 
 Evangelical Church; each League Company to be 
 directed in its work by a President-Captain—pref¬ 
 erably the pastor of the Church, or some one 
 nominated by him—assisted by an Executive Staff 
 consisting of a First and Second Vice-President- 
 Lieutenant, a Secretary and a Treasurer. 
 
 Each two, and not more than ten, Companies, may 
 form a Regiment; each Regiment to be directed in 
 its work by a President-Colonel, assisted by an 
 Executive Staff consisting of a Vice-President- 
 Major and the President-Captains of all the League 
 Companies, together with a Secretary and a Treas- 
 • urer. 
 
 It shall be the duty of each Regiment to plan 
 and generally direct all work that may be done out¬ 
 side of the Church, and to engage in and direct 
 such interdenominational work in the Churches as 
 may be deemed expedient and desirable. 
 
 The organization, equipment and training of a 
 sufficient number of members to form a brass band 
 in each Regiment is earnestly advised. 
 
The Regiments of each division or State to form 
 a Brigade; each Brigade to be directed in its work 
 by a President-General, assisted by an Executive 
 Staff consisting of a Vice-President-Adjutant-Gen¬ 
 eral, the President-Colonels of all the Regiments, 
 and a Secretary and Treasurer. It shall be the 
 duty of the Brigade, through its executive officers, 
 to generally enterprise and promote the work of the 
 League throughout the division or State, and gen¬ 
 erally to assist the National League in its larger work 
 of organizing and directing the entire movement. 
 The Brigades of all divisions and States to be 
 members of the National American League of the 
 Grand Army of the Cross. 
 
 The National League to be directed in its work 
 of generally organizing, promoting and supervising 
 the organization by a President-Commander-in- 
 Chief, assisted by an Executive Staff consisting of 
 a Vice-President-Chief-of-Staff, the President-Gen¬ 
 erals of all the Brigades, a Secretary-General, a 
 Treasurer-General, and such other officers as the 
 exigencies of the work may require. 
 
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THE AMERICAN LEAGUE OF THE 
 GRAND ARMY OF THE 
 CROSS. 
 
 CONSTITUTION. 
 
 ARTICLE I.—NAME. 
 
 HIS organization shall be called “ The American 
 
 League of the Grand Army of the Cross,” 
 in league with all Local, State, National and other 
 Leagues of the Grand Army of the Cross. 
 
 article II.—object. 
 
 The object of the League shall be to promote a 
 revival of the spirit, work and general evangelistic 
 enterprise of primitive Christianity. The League 
 shall aim to arouse the dormant energies and to res¬ 
 urrect the buried talents of the great number of 
 professing Christians who are now practically dead 
 unto good works; and it shall engage in all reforms 
 which are vital in the development of the ideal 
 manliness which is typified in the life and saving 
 power of Jesus Christ. It shall carry on its work in 
 accord with the following platform of principles: 
 
 We believe in the old Bible—the Sword of the 
 Spirit—from cover to cover, and we will always and 
 everywhere discountenance any attack upon, or dis¬ 
 respect for, its text or teachings. 
 
 We believe all Christian believers are required, 
 according to the . Scriptures (Revelations 22:17; 
 Mark 16:15 an d Acts 1 j8), to engage in active per¬ 
 sonal work with the unsaved. 
 
 Therefore, we believe we are called of God to go 
 into all the world and preach (or 'proclaim) the 
 Gospel to every creature. 
 
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We believe that only by concerted, systematic, 
 organized effort along certain definite lines can the 
 Christian world be definitely and generally aroused 
 on the subjects of interest to this League. 
 
 Therefore, with a sincere, heartfelt and prayerful 
 desire to take part in the great work of arousing 
 the Church and the world to a due sense of their 
 responsibilities, opportunities and privileges in 
 Jesus Christ, we 
 
 Do hereby associate ourselves together in 
 a League Company of the American League of the 
 Grand Army of the Cross for the purposes outlined 
 in this platform of principles, and the prosecu¬ 
 tion of such other work as may be enterprised by 
 the organization. 
 
 article III.—membership. 
 
 The membership of this League Company is 
 purely voluntary, but a thorough adherence to its 
 Rules and Regulations is expected and required of 
 its members while they continue as such. Any 
 Christian believer who is in good and regular stand¬ 
 ing in any Evangelical Church, and who will cheer¬ 
 fully subscribe to our Declaration of Principles, 
 sign our Constitution and Pledge, and agree to be 
 bound and governed thereby, may become a mem¬ 
 ber of this League Company by enlisting as a 
 soldier in the Grand Army of the Cross. 
 
 Persons converted in the work of the League 
 may become members of the organization, but they 
 must in every case join some Evangelical Church 
 
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 of their choice within two months thereafter. 
 
 Each member must be furnished with an enlist¬ 
 ment certificate signed by the Secretary and counter¬ 
 signed by the President-Captain, and a correct list 
 
of the members and their addresses must be for¬ 
 warded monthly by the League Company Secretary 
 to the Secretary-General of the National League. 
 
 ARTICLE IV.—OFFICERS. 
 
 The officers of this League Company shall be a 
 President-Captain, a First Vice-President-Lieuten¬ 
 ant, a Second Vice-President-Lieutenant, a Secretary 
 and a Treasurer, and such other officers as may be 
 required to meet the demands of the work. 
 
 ARTICLE V.—DIRECTION OF THE WORK. 
 
 The officers and members of the League Com¬ 
 pany shall be governed and directed in the regular 
 work of the organization by the President-Captain, 
 and in his absence by the First or Second Vice- 
 President-Lieutenants, or whoever they may depute 
 to represent them when they are absent. 
 
 ARTICLE VI.—PLEDGE. 
 
 The pledge or agreement of this League 
 Company of the Grand Army of the Cross, shall 
 be as follows: 
 
 Realizing the imperative need of an organized 
 effort on the part of all Christians to be active and 
 efficient “ Soldiers of the Cross,” in the work of 
 arousing the Church to a due sense of the im¬ 
 portance of her neglected responsibilities to a dying 
 world, and in reaching and leading the unsaved 
 to the “great Captain of our Salvation,” 
 
 I, the undersigned, sincerely believing I am 
 called of God to engage in such an effort, do 
 HEREBY ENLIST AS AN ACTIVE AND OBEDIENT 
 
 soldier of Jesus Christ in this League Company 
 of the Grand Army of the Cross; and in the 
 presence and with the help of Almighty God and 
 
my comrades, do hereby bind myself and agree to 
 discharge to the best of my ability, under the 
 direction of the proper officers of this League 
 Company, the following duties : 
 
 I will devote such portion of my time as may be 
 consistent with other duties to the direct work 
 of witnessing for my great Captain Jesus Christ, 
 wherever I go, and especially by public testimony 
 for Him, in every meeting I may attend, when 
 opportunity is afforded; and I will constantly seek 
 to secure recruits for the Grand Army of the Cross, 
 both in the Church and in the world. 
 
 I will pray each day “ evening, morning and at 
 noon,” for the highest possible success of this 
 League, and for the arousement of the whole 
 Church of God to more efficient and enthusiastic 
 service. 
 
 I will earnestly support, proclaim, defend and 
 daily read the text and study the teachings of the 
 Holy Bible, the Sword of the Spirit,” the very 
 Word of God, and I will endeavor to constantly 
 keep in my personal possession at least a copy of 
 the New Testament. 
 
 I will constantly strive to realize the highest 
 standard of Christian experience as taught by the 
 Son of God. 
 
 I will always endeavor to promote, encourage 
 and actively engage in all the work enterprised by 
 this League, and my Church, and give according to 
 my ability to advance the work of Christ. 
 
 I will in no event allow my work in connection 
 with this League Company to seriously interfere 
 with my duties and responsibilities to my Church, 
 but I will endeavor to be more useful and efficient 
 in my Church than ever before. 
 
ARTICLE VII.—BADGE. 
 
 Each member of the]League shall wear at all times 
 the “red, white and blue” cross of the American 
 League of the Grand Army of the Cross. 
 
 This badge is copyrighted and furnished only by 
 the National League. No other badge or charm 
 representing the order shall be worn by members. 
 
 RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 ARTICLE 1.—PRESIDENT-CAPTAIN. 
 
 The President-Captain, or in his absence, one of 
 the Vice-President-Lieutenants, shall preside at all 
 meetings of the League Company. 
 
 ARTICLE II.—SECRETARY. 
 
 The Secretary shall keep The roll call, and the 
 record of all meetings. He shall give notice of 
 meetings and report quarterly all new officers and 
 members to the Secretary-General of the National 
 League. 
 
 ARTICLE III.—TREASURER. 
 
 The Treasurer shall have charge of the funds of 
 the League Company, subject to the direction of 
 the President-Captain. He shall report to the 
 League Company at its business councils, and to 
 any member of the League Company when so 
 requested. 
 
 ARTICLE IV.—EXECUTIVE STAFF. 
 
 The Executive Staff shall advise with the Presi¬ 
 dent-Captain, and shall carry into effect such plans 
 as may be adopted ; shall recommend such plans 
 or modifications of plans as their own study and 
 experience may suggest, and shall assist the Presi¬ 
 dent-Captain in the prosecution of the work in 
 every way. 
 
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ARTICLE V.—COUNCIL. 
 
 There shall be an annual Council for the election 
 of officers on the second Monday in the month of 
 May. 
 
 ARTICLE VI.—DETACHMENTS OR COMMITTEES. 
 
 Such detachments or committees as may be 
 necessary for the prosecution of special work shall 
 be appointed by the President-Captain. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 These Rules and Regulations may be amended 
 by a two-thirds vote at any duly called Council of 
 the League Company, but no amendment may be 
 effected that is not first submitted to and does not 
 meet with the approval of the National League. 
 
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THE NATIONAL AMERICAN LEAGUE 
 OF THE GRAND ARMY OF 
 THE CROSS. 
 
 PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. 
 
 GENERAL EXPLANATION. 
 
 T T is proposed that ail the evangelical pastors and 
 leading Christian laymen of a given place be 
 consulted in regard to the organization, objects and 
 work of the League, and if, after a complete expla¬ 
 nation has been given, two or more (preferably all 
 the evangelical Churches in a place should unite 
 in the movement) pastors and laymen agree to 
 invite the inauguration of the League and its work, 
 the National organization will detail a corps of 
 officers to visit the place, and assist in the organiza¬ 
 tion of the League Companies and Regiment; and 
 they will carry on a vigorous campaign for a week 
 or ten days, in the evangelization of the community, 
 under the plans and system adopted by the National 
 League for the successful prosecution of the work. 
 
 DETAILED EXPLANATION. 
 
 When the evangelical pastors of any given place 
 invite the National League to inaugurate the move¬ 
 ment in their Churches and community, a compre¬ 
 hensive system of meetings should be appointed to 
 enable the National officers to first reach the 
 Church members in their respective Churches, or at 
 a central point, and to explain to them the charac¬ 
 ter of the organization, and the plan of work 
 proposed to be accomplished. League Companies 
 and a League Regiment can then be immediately 
 organized, and the work commenced. 
 
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The town, city, village or borough should then 
 be divided into districts of such size as to facilitate 
 the work of house to house visitation, to be done 
 by detachments or committees of two members 
 each (of the League Regiment). Each canvassing 
 detachment should be furnished with the National 
 League’s Standard Enrollment Book. These books 
 provide for the entry of names, addresses, reported 
 religious condition, and Church preference of the 
 persons visited. 
 
 When it is deemed wise and expedient a few 
 words of prayer may be offered at the houses 
 visited, and in all cases a hearty invitation to the 
 meetings of the League should be given. 
 
 After the League Companies and Regiment have 
 been organized, public meetings should then be held 
 to reach and evangelize the unsaved. These meet¬ 
 ings should be extensively advertised, both in the 
 Churches and local newspapers, and public interest 
 should be excited and sustained by the daily or 
 weekly publication of accounts of the meetings 
 held, including names of speakers, the addresses 
 made, and the results accomplished. The Secre¬ 
 tary of the League Regiment should attend 
 to this work. 
 
 The meetings will be conducted in accordance 
 with the plans of the League, in an enthusiastic, 
 spiritual and zealous manner. The use of a properly 
 constituted, well trained and well-conducted brass 
 band or orchestra is especially recommended. 
 
 The military idea will be largely availed of in 
 these meetings. The unsaved will be earnestly and 
 lovingly entreated and invited to give their hearts 
 to God, and to enlist in the League of the Grand 
 Army of the Cross. The taking up the Cross of 
 
Christ for Christian life and warfare will be strik¬ 
 ingly symbolized in the presentation of the Cross 
 Badge to each of those who enlist in the Grand 
 Army of the Cross at the close of each service. 
 
 One of the most desirable and valuable features 
 of the movement will be the detailing of each new 
 soldier for immediate service in and out of the 
 meetings. 
 
 A collection of Battle Hymns of the Grand 
 Army of the Cross will be used in all the meetings. 
 
 A thorough enrollment of all persons who are 
 reached in the work will be made by the Secre¬ 
 taries of the League Companies under direction 
 of the Secretary of the League Regiment. 
 
 Volley testimony, Army prayer and battle 
 hymn meetings, and other meetings of an interest¬ 
 ing, novel and profitable character will be carried on 
 as a part of the campaign. 
 
 It will be the aim and endeavor of the National 
 League to encourage and sustain the prosecution of 
 an annual campaign of from one week to ten days 
 in each place where the movement may be estab¬ 
 lished. Thus a new evangelistic force and organi¬ 
 zation will be introduced and sustained in all places 
 where the League gains a foothold, that will un¬ 
 doubtedly lead to the salvation of a vast multitude 
 of precious souls; the radical awakening of the 
 rank and file of the Church to a due sense of their 
 responsibilities and duties as “Soldiers of the Cross,” 
 and their active participation in the great work of 
 the world’s salvation; and to such an extraordinary 
 accession to Church membership as the spirit and 
 work of the League will ensure. Other plans are 
 now being made for the successful introduction and 
 operation of the American League of the Grand 
 
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Army of the Cross in localities and Churches re¬ 
 quiring different arrangements than those suggested. 
 More complete and detailed information will be 
 cheerfully furnished to all who may be interested. 
 
 All correspondence relating to "the American 
 League of the Grand Army of the Cross may be 
 addressed to 
 
 WILLIAM P. HALL, 
 
 Greenwich, Conn. 
 
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