The King’s Business
Voi. 4
NOVEMBER, 1913
No. 11
THE WINTER’S WORK M OST of our pastors are now at the beginning of their winter’s work, can make this the best winter that our churches have ever known. The people are back from their vacations. If we begin at once, we The world, including worldly professors of religion, is preparing for its winter’s pleasures. It is mapping out its receptions, card parties, dances, concerts, operas, church bazaars and other church frolics. It is time for us to be just as diligent in the work of the Lord as they are in the service of the world. Indeed, we ought to anticipate them. There are at least three lines along which we should prepare for aggressive effort to win the unsaved to Christ. The First Line is that of Prayer Let us organize in each of our churches a concert of prayer for revival. Let us push the prayer meeting to the front and make it a real prayer meeting. But in addition to the regular prayer meeting of the church, let ^us organize neighborhood circles of prayer. We cannot get the' people to praying as they ought by simply giving out invitations from the pulpit and urging the people from the pulpit to attend. We must deal with individuals and set before them very patiently and persistently the duty and need of prayer, and give them something definite to do along the line of prayer. We should get our people to make prayer lists, explain to them how to do it and see that they really are faithful in prayer for the people on their lists. The Second Line is that of Personal Work It is generally agreed by successful soul winners that as a means of winning men to Christ, Personal Work is far more effective than preaching. £ The ideal is to get eyery member of our churches to doing personal work. It is not likely that any of us will attain perfectly to that ideal, but we should keep it before us and keep persistently working for the realization of our ideal. It is not enough to urge our membership to do personal work ; we should show them how to do it. T'o this end, it is wise to organize classes for training in personal work. It is best as a rule to have one class for men and another for women and still another'for our Endeavorers or other young people. Having trained them to do personal work, we should see to it that they actually do it. In fact, the best training of all is in the actual doing of the work. One of the most efficient pastors in the, Presbyterian Church takes the men qf his church with him when he goes out to do personal work, oftentimes men- who have never done personal work in their lives, nor dreamed of doing such a thing, the first they know he has them actually engaged in the work. This is one of the greatest secrets of his almost unparalleled success. His church was, at the time he took it, one of the most unlikely of any in the country to be interested in personal work. Many thought it impossible to get the members of that church to do anything directly and personally aggressive, but this pastor has accomplished it, and others can accomplish the same.
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