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Show USED 'PHONE TO BRING THEM. Minister's Successful Method of Gathering Gath-ering Congregation. Ono of tho most dlRlcult propositions proposi-tions that a now pastor has to faco, when ho takes chargo of a church that has tallon oft In nttondnuco nnd generally gen-erally gono to seed, Is to fill tbo pews nnd build up tho membership anew. Not long ago this problom was solved In a Brooklyn church. Iloforo taking hold tho now pastor hnd planned n schcmo which ho thought would work moderately well, but which, In tho ond, far exceeded his hopes In Its results. A fow days beforo tho eventful first Sundny ho called upon a dozen of tho "pillars of tho church" nnd asked them each to call up on tho telophono early on Sunday morning a half dozen at least of their friends, and not only ask them especially to como to church that morning, but also to telophono tho same request to as many of their own friends as they could. They all promised to do so, and whon tho clergyman cler-gyman reached his church that Sunday Sun-day ho found It packed. Ho had pro-pared pro-pared a rousing sermon and every ono went away well satlstlcd. This method of gottlng a congregation congrega-tion was continued along practically tho samo lines for months. As a result re-sult of tho "drumming up" by telophono telo-phono tho slzo of tho congregation Increased In-creased enormously nnd tho membership member-ship Is greater than It ever was bo-foro. bo-foro. As thero Is not room for' more In tho old church they now nro talk ing of building a new ono, and tho pastor's pas-tor's salary Is 2,000 a year bigger than It was when ho took hold. |