The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-07-15
MANKATO FREE PRESS

it, and third, ask them to give it in
their own words whenever possible"
The Big Brother Movement.
Mr.. Lehman suggested as good
way to encourage beginners, the Big
| Brother Movement. which has been SO
! successfully used in New York. Some
| older, more experienced member hunts
| up a new, weak member and asks him
| to take some part. First it may be
only a verse, then two minute paper
| prepared at home and finally some
! thing original which has not been pre-
pared before hand. Another means
which has proven successful is the de-
| bate method. Many times 4 member
WHO could not be encouraged to speak
| ordinarily would take an interest in a
debate and in this way get a start
A great problem which all societies
| must meet is that of getting the
younger or newer members to offer
prayer in the meetings.
Rev. c. II. Hubbel offered as means
| of accomplishing this that the Prayer
meeting and lookout committees should
first meet together where each one
would offer a sentence PRAYER From
this to Il prayer in. open meeting is
| only short, easy step. He further
suggested that the members begin by
offering Bible prayers first and branch
ing from these to original ones.
H,rrolI e
varying the meetings in some way and
in this way breaking the monotony
which kills the societies. "A most
important part of the meeting is the
music. Whenever it is possible there
should be some special sacred music
which bears on the topic Then the
hymns should always be chosen by a
member of the music committee and
should always be appropriate. The
order of the meetings should be
changed; the hour of meeting should
be changed and in many cases even
the day may be changed.
Don't get in rut
Many Kinds of Meetings.
There are many kinds of special
meetings which may be had Some of
these are:
An absent member meeting. Several
weeks before this letters should be sent
to all the absent members of the So
ciety asking them to send messages to
the meeting. Then the meeting is de,
voted to the reading of these messages.
A telegram meeting may be carried out
along the same lines using kilograms
instead of letters. A memory meet
ing is often very helpful. At these
everything given must be given from
memory. At a reporters meeting, the
reporters. who have been sent in the
morning to visit the various churches
of the town, report the best of what
they heard at these services. A most
important thing about a meeting is to
quit when you are done. Don't drag
it out.
Fred w. Davis, missionary to the
mining and lumber camps of the north,
spoke for few minutes of his eX-
perienoe in the camp. Mr.. Davis went
into this region when he was very
Young, and has come to know the lum-
Der Jacks well. He, said "The lum
berjacks are not brutes and beasts as
so often represented, but are as kind
and generous men as can be found any
place. They are rough; they drink
and they fight but at heart they are
not bad. In all my experience | have
never found one man who did not be-
lieve in a compassionate God. They
live rough lives because they have
nothing else to do. What they need
is Il chance and they will prove them
selves men,"
The devotional exercises were con-
Quoted by Rev. Snyder of Woodstock,
who took the place of w. A. Koon of
Minneapolis.
The mission study class WAS conduct
ed by r. b. Stevens, superintendent of
missionary extension, and the junior
methods class by Mildreth Haggard of
Minneapolis. junior superintendent.
Appointed the Committees.
President Jayne appointed the fol-
lowing committees:
Resolutions-Rev c.. McKibbin, Miss
!htkins. Miss Cameron. Mrs. Leavitt,
Mr. Stilwell and Mr.. Hush.
Auditing-Mr. Stephenson and Mr..
Odds
Business Mr. Howell, Mr.. Colwell and
Mr.. Jefferson.