THE CHURCH OFFICERS’ GAZETTE 13
Funior Missionary Polunteer
Meeting
Suggestion Corner for Junior
Superintendents
A good program is proof of thorough preparation. You are
especially anxious for a good program for the last week of
this month. Study and plan for it now.
A wide-awake society also depends upon the fact that every
boy and girl counts the society his own. We value a thing by
the price that we pay for-it. No society will mean all that it
ean to a hoy or a girl until it taxes his effort. This is true in
the matter of taking part on the programs; it is also true in the
getting to work of the hand in gervice. Boys and girls are
not looking for soft snaps. Give them something worthy of an
effort.
‘While it is well to take reports of the missionary work that
is done by the Juniors in their liomes and communities, it is
also important to have some lines of missionary work in which
all may engage as a band. Perhaps you may be drilling on a
program that the society is preparing to give at some institu-
tion, such as the old folks’ home. Have a short meeting once
in a while, and turn the whole society into a correspondence
band by having some write @ number of missionary letters,
others write to families to whom the Signs ov Present Truéh is
being sent. Others may write to missionaries in foreign fields,
still others to soms isolated shut-ims. This will take planning,
but it will add greatly to the spirit and interest of your meet-
ings, Try to work along with the programs.
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Busy for Jesus During Vacation
(For Week Ending June 4) -
Suggestive Program
Opening Song: Ne. 574 in * Christ in Song.”
Scripture Story. (Tell in your own words the parable of Matthew 20:
1-10, Read Mark 13: 84. Every person has a work, even the boys
and girls, and their reward will be the same as that of the tried
older workers.)
Special Song: * Beacon Lighis,” No. 1 of * Sunshine Songs for Boys
and Girls”
Superintendent's Talk: “ Making Time Count for Yesus”
Recitation: “ Carey's Shoes.”
Talk: *.& Troe Missionary.”” (After the brief introduction suggested in
the notes, the incidents given should be read by different Juniors.)
Exercise: “ Introducing the Paper.”
Superintendent‘s Plans and Response,
Close with Prayer that coeh Junior may be blessed in bringing the iight
to some one else during the summer. FE
Notes for Leaders
In many places our boys and girls are spending some of their
vacation time — how? Yes, there are the swimming and the
hiking and the camping and lots of other niee things that come
along with vacation, but a number of our boys and girls are
also remembering Jesus and His great command to give the
gospel to others, along with their good times; in faet, there
are Doris and Loren and Catherine and Earl and Judson and
Edward and Stanley and many others whose names I do not
know, who seem to be having a real good time while they ave
seattering seeds of truth and earning money besides. 'This
program is to be devoted to some very practical plans, and it
will have to have a practical preparation.
Study it all through, and decide how many copies of Cur
Little Friend your boys and girls will be able to use. Do not
put the number too low. Children can dispose of more than
we think. Have them on hand. This ig important, Be sure
to have the canvass spoken of under the “ Exercise ” carefully
prepared. The superintendent should give some time to plan-
ning a field day. An hour or two spent with four girls or boys
out in house-to-house work will give an experience which will
inspire enthusiasm. If possible, take a few of the older
Juniors out before this meeting, and then let them speak from
experience. The superintendent should be the inspiration and
courage for such a trip. Getting started is always the hardest,
but with prayer in the heart and a courteous canvass on the
lips, and the confidence which comes of knowing that their
leader is watching them and praying for them, the children
are bound to succeed.
For a poster, cut out the accompanying picture and put
under it the words, “ These Juniors Did It. Come and Learn
More About It.”
Superintendent’s Talk: * Making Time Count
for Jesus”
Figure up the days and hours of vacation. How many are
we going to use for ourselves? How many for Jesus? The
gospel of the kingdom is to go to all the world. Matt. 24: 14.
That is the husiness of every Christian. How many hours will
you be willing to put in in the King’s business? (Emphasize
this point by felling how wonderfully God is working among
all people to bring the truth te them, and how He is using the
humble instruments, such as a tract or a hook. Bring in some
ingident from mission lande told in a recent Review. Put the
question to the children as to whether they have ever brought
some one else into the light of the truth.) Is it not worth
trying?
It is not hard to give out a paper, and many times
souls are won to God, Copies of Our Little Friend were sent
to some children whose father was an infidel. Now the chil:
dren have said that they wish to be Seventh-day Adventists,
and the father believes that there is a God. Is there any Junior
too small to give out such a papert In every instance when
God has wanted something done, He has called upon those who
were already busy. He wanted a leader to lead the children of
Israel to Canaan, and he called upon Moses, who was busy with
flocks of sheep. When He wamted a king to rule over Israel,
He called upon David, who was caring for his father’s sheep.
‘When he wanted a missionary to go to India, He called Carey,
who was busy cobbling shoes.
Jesus will never send to a lazy Junior an invitation to help
in closing the work.
Carey’s Shoes
“ MY business is preaching the gospel,”
Baid Carey the Cobbler one day;
“And I mend shoes to pay the expenses,
The needful expenses to pay.”
- Bo the shoes of Carey the Cobbler
Were sturdily fivst to set forth
On the path that leads eastward and westward,
To the south and the ultimate north.
Do you wear them — the shoes that he cobbled?
They will carry you firmly afar
From ‘the Land of the Miser and Glutton,
Where splendor and luxury are.
And their soles are none of the smoothest, i
Ang their patehes are coming apart,
But they lead by the pathway of service
To the Father's home and His heart!
—- Amos BR. Wells,-
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