12 THE CHURCH OFFICERS’ GAZETTE
Junior Missionary Yolunteer
Meetings
Good Times
( Program for Week Ending June 6)
BY AIRS. MABEL A, ELLIOTT
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NoTEs To JUNIOR SUPERINTENDENTS: The purpose of this
week’s meeting is the same as that of the Senior society for
thig week, Let us help our children and youth to eee and to
geek for the true values in recreation. Much of the sucgess of
this program will depend on the superintendent’s leadership of
the discussion, “What You Would Like Most to Do When Yon
Have Nothing to Do.”
Reading: “Wise Means of Recreation.” (See p. 8.
should follow the introductory talk.)
This
Talk: Introducing the Topic
“mul me how he spends his leisure time,” sald a wise man,
“and I will tell you what he will become.”
Thomas Edison was once a newsboy selling papers on the
Grand Trunk Railroad. ‘When he had nothing to do, he fitted
up a laboratory in a baggage car, where he eould experiment
between stations.
Henry Clay, when a poor boy, committed to memory speeches,
and recited them aloud in the cornfields, woods, or in the barn,
with a horse and an ox for his audience,
Ole Bull, at ten years of age, spent hours wandering in the
flelds playing his violin.
James Watt, when only six or seven years old, would ie for
hours on the hearth, drawing geometrical figures with chalk.
Michael Angelo as a boy in charge of his nurse, would draw
and paint pictures. He loved to watch artists at their work.—
Adapted.
Symposium: “A Swarm of Bees for a Chris-
tian’s Play”
(Before meeting, hand numbered slips containing quotations from
these here given, to the children.) ,
Be kind,
Be helpful,
Be considerate of the feelings, convietions, and opinions of
others,
Be fair.
Be unselfish, Consider others. Don’t insist on playing the
most prominent part in the game. Don’t be a “‘grand-stand”
player.
Be courageous. Play hard, Fight to the last.
Be a good loser. Don’t make a false excuse for your defeat,
Be a generous winner, Don't gloat over your victory.
Be courteous. ZXHven when you get a partner you don’t want,
be eourteous,
Re cheerful, Keep all your “gleoms” fo yourself.
Be open-minded. You ean’t know everything,
Be co-operative,
Be irue to your own best self. If you stand firmly for the
things that ave vight, it will help some one else to be true to
his convietions, The crowd always has high regard for the
youth who has Dig ideals and sticks fo them, especially if he
does it without hypoerisy or ostentation. It is when he assumes
a “holier-than-thou” attitude that he gets into trouble,
“When the one great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He will not writs that you lost or won,
But how you played the game,”
— Christian Endeavor World,
Study: Benefits of Recreation
{Three short talks or readings by the children)
1, How may the body be given rest and strength in ammse-
ments or recreation? “Messages to Young People,” p. 379, par.
2; p. 380, par, 4,
2. How may the mind be developed through recreation?
“Tegtimonies,” Vol, IV, p. 581, pars. 1 and 2.
3. Does our recreation draw us nearer to or remove us farther
from Christ?
A helpful rule for testing any amusement ie fo think of
Christ as standing near, watching us, Tf we can feel sure that
He would approve, we know that the amusement is all right.
Read also “bessages to Young People,” p. 386, pax. 3.
Mrs. M. A, E.
Keep to the Right
THERE is always such a comfort, matters not how dim the light,
Nor how dark may be the pathway, if you know that you are
right,
Though your dearest friends forsake you, and the battle’s hard
to fight,
You can still go on rejoicing if you know that you are right.
When the world looks down upon you, if can ne'er your soul
affright,
Fay your fear is gone forever if you know that you are right.
Would you know the sweetest pleasure which no power on earth
can blight?
Then remember, you may have it just by knowing you are right,
Tite must surely be worth living, though no hope may be in
sight
If you know beyond a question that you have been living right.
When the day is fast declining, round you are the shades of
night,
You can rest with sweet assurance if you know that you are
right.
—W. L. Moore.
General Discussion: “What Would You Like Most to
Do When You Have Nothing That You Must Do?”
Ler the teacher or superintendent take the Icad and encour-
age the children to give answers to this question. Such things
as hike, skate, play tennis, vead, play ball, travel, ride horse-
back, play the piano, swim, just dream, take an auto ride, take
pictures, draw, ete, may be given. Write these suggestions on
a paper or blackboard as they are given. Then discuss them
with the children, Check with a bookkeeper’s check the pieas-
ures secured by paying money. Mark those that the children
can create for themselves without expense with an “X.” Put
a double “X* alongside those that yield greatest benefit and yet
cost little in money or time. This will be an excellent way of
ascertaining how you can best help the children in the amuse-
ment problem, and if carried out sympathetically and tactfully,
it will draw the hearts of the Juniors near to you,
Mrs, M, A, E.
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The hands of time on the great prophetic clock have reached the
hour when soul winning must be the chief concern of every Missionary
Volunteer. Des the halfway mark of 1931 find you making the most
of your summer in active missionary work? in your own daily Chris-
n living:
Do you own a Junior Handbook? You ought fo,