Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-01-30
ENLISTMENT DRIVE
OF THE NJ. Il. CHURCH

The enlistment drive which the
Pullman Methodist church is to put
on beginning February is made
necessary by the mighty demand for
trained leaders. The church can
now offer the most fertile opportuni-
ties and of the most diversified char
acter.
1. Limitless fields for special
work in foreign lands.
The preacher lays the foundations
| of a new moral and social order he
heals souls and transforms society;
the physician teaches sanitation and
| hygiene, controls plaques, and heals
! the wounds of helpless millions; the
educator reduces languages to writ
| ing, lays the foundations of school
systems, stops famine by better ag
riCulture and teaches all the crafts
and trades. No man means as much
for world peace as the missionary.
2. Limitless special work at
home. Country preachers with vi
sion to organize country life, men
to organize great downtown city
centers. powerful men to handle
community churches, religious edu-
Gators, secretaries, deaconesses,
nurses, lecturers. great preachers,
administrators.
8. Limitless opportunities rs
church members.
a. Religious education Special
lists as teachers of children, of high
school age, of adults, as leaders of.
young peoples societies. There are
three reasons why this is the best of
all fields for volunteer teaching.
The text is the matchless teaching
of Christ, the lessons are burning
with religious fervor, and most of
the teaching is to the receptive mind
of childhood.
b. Christian recreation. Recrea
ton should be furnished in an at
mosphere that will make it helpful
and conductive to a Christian Amer
lea There is limitless opportunity
for boys and girls club work, or for
leadership of young people or adults.
The time has come to quit criticising
the church in this matter. For long
the church has wished to do great
things but could not because people
engrossed in pleasure and profit
would not do the work.
C. Church management. Leader
ship in correct financial manage
ment, church and community sing
ing, great financial and missionary
drives, in personal evangelism. in
visiting, church publicity, charity,
organization.
d. Civic betterment. Leading the
passion of the church in efforts for
industrial betterment, for better
housing, for community centers, lee
ture courses, play supervision, So
cial purity, moral uplift,-the list
is endless
e. There are great fields of serv-
ice not connected with the church
for which a spiritual preparation is
necessary.
The aims of the enlistment drive
are twofold.
The first and greatest is the spir-
itual-to secure through fellowship
= with Christ and loyalty to his King
dom a dominant love and zeal for
service. The fellowship of the
Cross-a great dedication in spirit
is our needed foundation for the
new world
And, second, that every young per
son, as he prepares for vocational or
professional leadership, shall also
definitely prepare along some Of
these lines; so that he can go out,
not as a mOney-maker and society
leader only, but as a trained leader
for the church, for society, and for
the Kingdom of God
The local Methodist church is
striving to voice and to make real
the highest and best aspirations of
the time in the enlistment drive of
February s.
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