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A fter vacation wkat? Most ministers and Christian Workeris in these days take a vacation, and, if they have worked as hard as they ought for eleven months in the year, they need to, and if they have used their vacation as they ought, they will be better and more efficient workers because of their vacation, and do better work, and accomplish more, in eleven months’ work than they would do in twelve months without a vacation. But with most of us vacation is ended. What next ?; Let us take up our work not only with new physicàl strength and increased spiritual power because of the physical and spiritual refreshment that wé have received during thèse vacation days, but let us take it up more intelligently, with more system. Let us lay more definite and carefully thought out plans as to what we purpose to accomplish the coming Autumn and Winter, and as to just how we are going to accomplish it. The average minister and mission worker does not give enough time to planning his work, and so he wastes a tremendous amount of time and energy. System and planning count immensely every where, hut there is no place where they count more than in God’s work. Set some morning or afternoon apart and get alone by yourself and give that morning or after noon up to prayerfully planning your season’s campaign. Write down what you wish to accomplish the coming church year, and then write down just how you are going to accomplish it. Among other things plan for some systematic Bible teaching in your church or mission. Plan for a class for the training of personal workers. Plan for a very definite soul winning cam paign in your community. Plan for the most Systematic and most effective visitation of your parish that you have ever had. Plan for getting your people to give for the home work and for Foreign Mission work as they have never given before. Plan for your pulpit work, that you may give your people orderly, coherent and well balanced instruction in your pulpit minis trations. Don’t preach to your people from Sunday to Sunday on any chance text or subject that may come to your mind, but have a plan and a purpose for the whole year: then you will get somewhere and you will have a, growing church, growing in more senses than one.
THE GREAT NEED of Our Church Bible Schools Is there a really intelligent course of Bible Study for our Sunday Schools covering a period, say, of seven to ten years, proceeding from that
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