As you prepare to leave, hand them a recent Sunday school paper, and graciously invite them to come along with their child next Sunday. Appeal from the standpoint that they will benefit from attending and that their child will be proud to have them come. Earnestly pray that the Holy Spir it will motivate them to come. Be sure that you don’t stop visiting them. Don’t write them off if they don’t appear the first Sunday after your visit. Make another friendly call within two weeks. A superintendent in Minneapolis was known to have visited a family 28 times before the parents finally came to Sunday school! I f you don't succeed after the second call — call again, always using a prayerful, “ soft-sell” approach. Eventually you will be adding two people to your adult department! Q. What are some of the main ob jectives in having special day pro grams ? A. Here are several reasons fo r these special efforts: 1. To build 'enrollment — so we may reach more souls for Christ. New ones should be invited to these special programs. 2. To build thé regular attendance. This will give the group a greater enthusiasm, interest, and influ ence. 3. To sêt and achieve a goal or pur pose. An attendance goal fo r a Rally Day, when achieved can be a real “ shot in the arm” fo r a Sunday school that has lost some of its zing! 4. To provide for a change of pace. “ Variety is the spice of life” the saying goes. We will add, variety is the key to a successful Sunday school program. Special Days help bring variety to its program! “Water — water — please someone give me water!” Joseph yelled wildly in fever and deliri um. “ Dear God, help me!” he prayed. He didn’t know how long he slept. At last he struggled to his feet and went on. Too weak to cut the underbrush, he pushed himself through it. Bleeding bad ly — he fell — just as he came to a clearing! To be continued A RUNAWAY NATIVE Cant, from Page 12
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A LADY with a very fine voice to k les sonsfor years from oneof the coun try's outstanding teachers. While she sang with tonal perfection, sheneverseemed to move her audience. There was always some thing coldandmechanical aboutherpresen tation. One day her teacher spoke very frankly to her:“My dear," he said,“I have taught you all I know; yet you lackone thing which I cannot supply. Something wil have to comeinto your lifethat will break your heart and make you sufer — only then will you be able to sing with the necessary feeling and understanding!” So, too, in our Christianexperience: suffering and sanctification frequently go hand in hand. Sir Malcolm Sargent wasan outstanding musican. His famous recording of Handel’s “The Messiah” has received wide acclaim. To lo k at him— a manwith a light step and ready smile — one might think that he wasa person whomlifehadtreatedwell. Suchan as umption, however, would be wide of the mark. Just whenhis careerseemed off to a sucessful start, he collapsed with
tuberculosis, and battled for his lifewhile facing financial ruin. Finally, upon returning to the world of music, Pamela,his beloved thirteen-year-old daughter, was stricken with polio.Desperately he searched for medical help, but there waslit lethe doctors could do. Onenight, just as he was about to begin a performance of "The Mesiah” he was hande a note which struck inconsolable grief to his heart. It read,“Your daughter Pamelais dying!” With tears in his eyes he walked to theplatform and directedthe orchestraand choir through such tender passages as “Comfort ye, comfort ye my people.” Yet out of his sorrows camea deepersympathy. Sir Malcolm Sargent found the strength to liveandto endure suffering in the music of God's Word. Lifehas many hardandbitter experiences for us, to ; yet the trial of our faithshould purify us and makeus better Christians. Suffering, if rightly received, can become "the key to perfection!” THOT: God brings us to high spiritual des tinies by way of the lowlands of trial.
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