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Show I MODERN-DAY PLAN Simple and Effective Methods for Maintaining Men and Stations in Field. H : HAS PROVED SUCCESSFUL WITHOUT SINGLE FAILURE Advances in Collections Have I Been Threefold, and Somc-times Somc-times Much Greater. BBB . BBB ( i 1. Have a nicotine of all the BBB -; men In each congregation to con- BBB 1 4' slilor a worthy missionary policy Tor BBB 4- the congregation y BBB ! 2. At a supper BBB 4 3. "With tickets purchased in ad- y BBBJ t vanco BBJ r 4. With figures displayed show- BBI 4- Ing what the church has given 4 BBI (a) to current expenses of all 4 BBI 4- kinds; BBI v (h) to nil forms of missionary and 4- BBB v educational work In America; r BBB 4 (c) t0 foreign missions. 4- BBB 4 5. After full discussion, set a- 4 BBB 4 definite financial goal for missions -i BBJ 4 for the congregation, and rcsolvo BBI 4 by rising vote to raise tho amount- y BBI G. Do not ask for subscriptions 4 BBI 4 at this supper, but appoint a small 4 BBI 4 "evcry-membcr canvass" committee, 4 BBI 4- with power to add to the number. BBB 4- T- Have tho commlttco divide the BBB membership Into groups and organ- v BBJ 4 Ize a canvass of tho entire mem- 4 BBJ borshlp. going two by two 4 BBJ 4 S. Tor a weekly missionary of- 4 BBJ ;- ferlng. BBJ 4 0. Adopt somo simple device, as 4 BBI 4- the duplex envelope. ' 4 BJ 444 444 I-: I I-4-4-4-:H-4-4-4-4-4-4-H-4- B In concise form, the points in the new H plan for making effectlec the world-wide missionary plan of the Laymen's Mls-slonary Mls-slonary movement, are contained In the foregoing suggestions, In a general way, these rules arc applicable to all churches. BBJ In a particular way. they may bo slightly BBJ modified to meet peculiar local condl- BBJ BBJ At aiiv rntc. the new plan as proposed BBJj Tuesday afternoon at the convention of BBJI tho Laymen's Missionary movement cm- BBJ linices substantially the features out- BBJI lined. It Is the testimony of visiting mls- BBJj Fiona ry workers that this plan has been BBJ tried with rcmarkablo success. In near- BBl ly every Instance, It was set forth, the BBI advance In collections for missionary work BBJj has been threefold. Under the new plan (1 every member of the congregation gives BBJ something but all give. Under the old BBJ plan a few gave a little and the most BBJ of thom gave nothing at all. BBJ S. Earl Taylor of New York, who pro- BBJ sided at the conference, explained the PH i system. He declared that the present BBJ system Is no system at all with refer- PpHL once to missionaries and benevolences. BBJ The blind pool is not business, nor Is tho BJ annual offering plan business. The every- BBJi man canvass, with giving on a weekly BBJ I basis meets with the Indorsement of ev- BBJ cry leader and has been found to be tho BBJ only method thus far discovered that BBJ Is effective. BBJ i In speaking of the dinner or supper at BBJ which the men of the church are gathered. BBJ , .j Mr Taylor declared that the dinner table BBJ1 was the business men's "get together" BBJ place. This was the rule in modern busl- BJ ness life and It Is time that the churches IIB adopted modern buelness methods. - Oyster Suppor Doomed. "The day of the oyster supper as a financial proposition Is past," he declared. Ppi This sentiment was met with cries of PH "Hear, hear!" PH I "When the men arc gotten together, and PH after the meal and the addresses, there PH should be a rising vote as to how much PH should be pledged. Then a committee PH appointed: at first only five, say. to be PH enlarged as necessity appears. But every PH one must he sen and every one must be PPH made to feel that he Is responsible. PH The weekly contribution system thut PH I finds much favor is the duplex envelope PPH referred to. This envelope contains two PH 1 pockets, the coin placed in one lo go to PH I the current expense fund and the coin in PH tho other to the missionary fund. PH Mr. Taylor said that weekly contrlbu- PH I tlons were not noticed, for It Is much PH I easier to give 10 cents a week than lo PH give S5 a year. One trip on a street car PH or two, one cigar less a week was all this PH meant. Keeps Interest Alive. In addition to the advance In the 'sum collected, the weekly payment system also .( stimulates Interest and serves to hold it, for every Sunday the communicant is rc-minded rc-minded of the fact that there are millions upon millions crying in the wilderness for the light of Christ's gospel. Dr. John F. Goucher of Baltimore ro- lated his experiences with complex finan- clal difficulties as they beset the churches. He declared that the church of today, generally speaking, "Is organized poverty. We do not attempt to get the last dollar, but wc do attempt to get the last num." he said. Dr. C. E. Brad I of Chicago added a I word about the world's need. He told of the millions of unenlightened, and do-clnrcd do-clnrcd that "it Is our business to bring salvation to them." |