Ogden Daily Standard | 1908-11-02 | Page 11 | Used 'Phone to Bring Them

USED PHONE TO BRING THEM ministers method of gathering congregation ono one of the most moat difficult propositions that a new pastor has hag to face when he takes charge of a church that has fallen off in attendance and generally gone to seed Is to fill 1111 the pews and build up the membership anew not long ago this problem was solved in a brooklyn church before taking hold the new pastor had planned a scheme which he thought Y auld work moderately well but which in the end far exceeded his hopes in ltd its results A few days before the eventful first sunday he called upon a dozen of the pillars of the church and askea aske them each to call up on the telephone hOnO early on sunday morning ahall a half dozen at least of their friends and not only ask them especially to come to church that morning but also to telephone the same request to as many or of their own friends as they could they all promised to do so and when the clergyman reached his church that sunday he found it packed ife he had prepared a rousing sermon and every 0 one nt went away awa well satisfied this method of getting a congregation was continued along practically the same lines for months As a re sult suit of the drumming up by telephone the size aizo of the congregation increased enormously and the member mamber ship to Is greater than it ever was he be fore As there Is not room tor for more in tho the old church they now aro are talking of building a new one and thae t ie pastors salary Is 2000 a acar bigger than it was when hol hola i