Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-10
The B. Y. P. U in the Church.
d. Nixon DoRS.


ing ground for its young members.
An organization for the develop
tment of its new material. A meet
ing that seeks to bring out the cap
abilities of their members, and
teaches them to put these capabili-
ties into practice, for their own good
and more especially for the good of
those around them.
Some one has said: Leaders are
born, not made" But if there are
BON leaders amongst us, there must
be some place of development for
these leaders, so that they will be
efficient and capable to lead.
It is said that Armour, the meat
king" had his son to start at the
lowest position in his great meat es-
tablishment in Chicago, and gradu-
ally work bis way through every de
tail in the meat packing business.
By mastering, every detail in the
work, he is prepared to be an eff
cient and capable leader i'll his heri-
tage.
Just so with the young church
member, if he is ever to be wide-a-
wake, working member. he must be
trained, and in touch with the min
utest details of church work.
Such. place we claim the B. Y.
P. U. is, if properly conducted and
carried on. Not only a place to
show you, what to do, but how to
do.
The church is really composed of
people of hidden possibilities. Per-
haps naturally capable to do great
deal towards furthering the work of
the church. How are they to be
gotten into the work? We have
had preachers for ages. We must
have men to carry on the work,
where are they to be had? How
can they be gotten! The answer is,
Train the young church member to
do the work. Without this train
ing, we not only lose the work
which they may do and the help to
others, but soon we lose the young
member himself and perhaps he is
never again to be. reached. They
must be trained in such a. way that
they will meet the requirements of
the church work of today. Can't
the B. Y. p. u. do this work? Is
The church must have something
of the character of the'B. Y. p.
u. in order to have leaders and
workers for the future. The S. S.
needs workers. The prayer meet
ing is carried on by the faithful few.
The Mission work needs helpers.
Can't B. Y. P. q help to fur
nish these? What use have Church
es for eloquent and well.educated
preachers? The members are not
competent to listen. The Superin-
tendent of the Sunday School must
have help or else he can't carry on
his work. The present Missionaries
and Missionary workers cannot for
ever carry on their present labors.
The Church of the coming genera
ton will have to be step backward
unless it work gets, recruits from
somewhere.
A pastor of new Church in the
upper part of our State, a city church
tells his members that all have
work to do in the Church and must
be at it, if he is to be their pastor.
When Church gets grown, it will
soon be on the decline, for the work
must either go forward or it will 60
backward of itself.
The Sunday School is where the
Bible is taught. The B. Y. P. q.
is where you are trained to use this
Bible. Every part of b. Y. P..U.
work is essentially What is to be
done, how is it TO be done?
The Christian culture course in
the B. Y. P. U. gives its members
instructions in Baptist doctrine,
church usages, mission and evangel-
ical work.
The Sunday School furnishes the
majority of the converts for the
churches, this is the aim of the Sun
day School. The B. Y. P. q. instructs
these new members along the lines
of Christian activity and the use of
whatever efforts they control in the
efficient extension of the kingdom of
Christ.
Why does the B. Y. P. U. exceed
the Prayer Meeting in the training
Of the young church member? My
observation is, in the first place,
you can't get them to attend the pray
5er meeting, there is nothing for
them to do. To have person in
terested in any kind of work he
must have some part of it to do.
The B. Y. P. q. is carried on by
the young church members them
selves. They havea regular course
of study. These studies are Of
course based on the Bible, church
doctrine, missionary and evangelical
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