Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1911-03-11
1.-THE KINGS BUSINESS. :"
A Plea for Better Prayer
Meetings.

to the welfare OF the CHRISTIAN is
apparent to all. and that the Chris
tan may have a healthy prayer life,
several things are necessary; one of
which is regular attendance at the
time honored mid-week prayer SER
vice, held by practically all Christian
churches.
A plea for better mid-week ser
vices IN the churches of Fitzgerald
is the purpose of this article. If, as
most people admit, the prayer meet
ing is the spiritual pulse of the
church, it is highly desirable that
the pulse beat strong and true. 1t
must be sadly admitted that the
per cent of attendance at the mid
week service in all of the churches
is astonishingIy small.
Various reasons are given why
the prayer services of the churches
are not attended as they used to be.
Perhaps the reason most frequently
given is the multiplicity of engage
ments. Modern society has such a
superabundance of organizations
that ones time is so divided as to
make it practically impossible to
attend the appointed services of the
churches as formerly.
Will you permit few suggestions
which, if adopted, should be mutu-
ally helpful both to the mid-week
services of the churches, and their
membership; and to the various
other organizations and functions
bid for portion, of our time.
In the first place; Let all of the
churchs hold their services on the
same evening of the week, We'd
nesday evening seems like the
logical evening for the mid-week
service. Now should all of the
churches hold their service on that
evening, the people might soon come
to regard the evening as prayer
meeting evening and plan their en-
gagements accordingly. The church
by divine appointment, and by
common consent has the Lords
Day for religious service. Shall she
not, by the same consent, have
Wednesday evening for her prayer
service?
Secondly-In Difference to the
above, would it not be possible, and
mutually profitable for all other
organizations, fraternal, social and
otherwise to arrange their meetings
on the other five evenings OF the
week? 1t is a matter of fact that
these organizations are largely COM
posed of the various churches. If
by some such mutual agreement
Wednesday evening might be given
to the prayer services of the
churches, then no member need be
absent from his place in the church,
and members and officers in the
various organizations need not be
absent from their places in such
ORGANIZATIONS. This should prove
mutually beneficial to all concerned.
Finally:-If the churches unite on
Wednesday evening for their mid
week service, then all lectures,
concerts etc. in which the people
Generally are interested could be
brought here on other nights OF the
week, thus giving all an opportunity
to attend such meetings of general
interest.
This paper is both plea and an
inquiry. A plea for larger and better
mid-week services at the churches,
and inquiry whether it would not
be possible and mutually profitable
to sort of pre-empt Wednesday
evening for these services, giving
right of way to all other meetings
and organizations on the other five
evenings of the week?
By action of the Fitzgerald Min
isterial Alliance.
J. L. LEIcHLnER, Committee.
DR.. and Mrs. j. C. Russell, of FitZ-