Vol. 37, No. 4
April 22
NEW HORIZONS FOR.
MASTER COMRADES
ORDER OF SERVICE
SoNG: “Living for Jesus,” No, 32 in M.V.
Songs,
SCRIPTURE,
PRAYER.
COFFERTORY.
SYF REPORTS.
SECRETARY'S REPORT,
DUET OR QUARTET: “Others,” No. 64 in
Gospel in Song.
TALK: “God's Challenge to You.”
TALK: “Wanted—JXeaders!”
POEM: “Needed—A Big Brother.”
DIALOGUE: “Common Excuses.”
REPEAT IN UNISON: M.V. Pledge.
ORGANIZATION ©F MASTER COMRADE
CLUB.
SONG: “Do Your Bit,” No. 84 in MV,
Songs
Notes to Leaders
The discussion of this topic today should
arouse an interest in your society to continue
or to organize (1) a Master Comrade club,
(2) M.V. Honor classes, (3) J.M.V. clubs,
(4) branch Missionary Volunteer societies,
and (5) Junior Camp counselors. No
Master Comrade should be satisfied to sit
back and do nothing. His training and this
program should be an inspiration to do
great things for God, out church, and our
young people. It is suggested that you in.
clude present and prospective Master Com-
rades in vour plans.
Perhaps some who are studying and
working toward Master Comradeship need
an impetus to complete the course. Perhaps
others need to be inspired to begin to pre-
pare themselves for leadership among our
Juniors, There are many new horizons for
out Master Comrades.
Before this meeting, write to your con-
ference MLV. sectetary for information rela-
tive to Master Comrade clubs. Obtain from
your Book and Bible House copies of MV.
Leaflet 14 “Be a Master Comrade,” the
Masser Comrade Manual, Master Comrade
Record cards (M.V. Record blank 25.8),
and the M.V. Achievement chart, Lay defi-
nite plans for a group to be organized at
the close of this meeting, Use your best
leadership possible. Arrange for MV, Honor
clubs, which will appeal to your youth. Of
the 107 honors there will be many your
group will wish to complete. Present them to
the club later through talks, displays of
collections, or finished objects. Enthusiasti-
cally begin another MLV. Honor class as
soon as one is over.
Much will be accomplished when the
youth realize their tesponsibility for the
development of their lives for larger service
and for giving the work of their Master
Comrade club priority in their plans and
energies. Give to cach member a copy of
M.V, Leaflet 10 “40,000 Boys and Girls
Deserve Leadership”; study with them the
expanded JM. V. activity program outlined
here; and decide on the expanded program
for your church and society.
SLOGAN FOR YOUR SOCIETY: Every
Senior MLV, a Master Comrade!
THE CHURCH OFFICERS’ GAZETTE
God’s Challenge to You
(‘To be given by the one who could lead
out in the Master Comrade project.)
“To know our Juniors is our first respon.
sibility as young men and young women
and oldér members of God's family. It is
the work that lies nearest to us as church
members.
“In childhood the heart is like wax in
receptiveness to impressions, but like bronze
in retentiveness, Statistics show the Junior
age to be the harvesttime of souls; the
majority of conversions occur during that
age.”
Therefore, “shall we not recognize the
necessity of doing strong, intelligent work
to win the boys and girls for Christ, and
the importance of receiving that training
which will qualify us to work for them in
the most effective way?”
Needed—A Big Brother
There is many a lad who is willing to go
And youth who are anxious to do,
But where is the big brother who knows the
way
That will help them their task to pursue?
There are many young hearts that are full
of God’s love
And are anxious to serve Him today,
They are waiting for someone 0 say, “Fol-
low me.”
They want someone to show them the
way.
There must be hard tasks that you need to
have done.
Young hearts are just waiting to help
you.
Come, my friend, you be captain and tell
them the plan.
They will work till the job is all through.
There would be many workers in ranks of
our youth
If someone were willing to lead.
Who will earnestly give of his strength and’
his time
And answer this call, this great need?
—NOLA B, SKINNER.
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“The Junior age is foursquare-—physical,
sacial, mental, and spiritual. The Juniors
live seven days a week, twenty-four hours
a day, not merely an hour or so on Sabbath,
Their spiritual impulses are received and
expressed in the physical, social, and mental
activities in which they are engaged during
the week. Any work attempted for boys
and girls which ignotes this fourfold life,
cannot be a success.”
“If our Juniors are to pattern their lives
after the divine example, they must—
physically, socially, mentally, and religiously
—find the best and build it into their lives.”
Adolescence is the age of hero worship,
and whether the Junior's hero is an athlete,
a pirate, a Christian doctor, a missionary for
God, or you—a Senior Missionary Volunteer
right in his own home church—depends
largely on the influences that surround the
Junior in his early teens and upon the
influence yo have over that Junior,
“One of the greatest needs of the church
today is the need for consecrated young
men and young women who will enter
the lives of our Juniors and lead them to
become acquainted with the Christ; and
at the same time so direct them in all their
activities, that they may make a symmetrical,
well-balanced growth.
“Such leadership must be trained. To
furnish this training the Master Comrade
Class has been provided.” Will you help
save out Juniors?
(At this point the leader will inwoduce
definite, specific plans already laid by the
executive committee for the first group
meeting of those who desire to study to be-
come Master Comrades. Also at this time
the yellow Master Comrade Record card,
MV, Record blank 23-8, listing the re-
quirements, should be distributed, so that
the members of the society can acquaint
themselves with the outline of requirements
to be covered.)
[The above quotations are taken from
pages 3-5 of the Master Comrade Manual
and are offered only as a suggestion for
attaining the purpose of this meeting. The
one chosen to sponsor the Master Comrade
class will vary the appeal to suit the needs
of his particular society.}
— JEAN CRAGER PLEASANTS,
Wanted—Leaders!
Never was there such a shortage of
leaders among Seventh-day Adventist young
people as there is today, Fifty thousand
members in the Missionary Volunteer ranks
here in North America could greatly in-
crease their influence in the thousands of
communities throughout the land if leaders
of vision and courage could be recruited.
Many groups are immobile which should
be activated to accomplish worth-while ob-
jectives through the enthusiasm of the right