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The Presbyterian Progressive Program
The General Assembly's Steward
ship Committee, in accordance with
the instructions of the Assembly, has
prepared a new statement of the Pres
byterian Progressive Program. It
will be seen that the departments havp
been reduced from eight to five, but
the specifications under each depart
ment have been increased.
If every church will make a faith
ful effort to put this program into op
eration, as far as it can be adapted
to local conditions, there will be a
wonderful progress made advancing
the work of the Church. This is the
program:
I.
DEPARTMENT OF SPIRITUAL
LIFE.
To Nourish tlie> Spiritual Life of the
Church Membership.
1. Through Prayer.
a. Private Prayer and Personal
Bible Study.
b. Erection of Family Altars.
c. Public Prayer.
2. By Teaching the Bible and the
Catechisms.
a. In the Home.
b. In the Sunday School.
c. In Daily Vacation Bible
Schools.
d. In Week-Day Church Schools.
3. Through Church Loyalty, ex
pressed in ?
a. Church Attendance.
b. Enlarging the Sunday School
Enrolment.
c. Readiness for Real Service.
4. By Sabbath Observance.
II.
DEPARTMENT OF EVANGELISM
AND MISSIONS.
A. To Adopt Christ's Program of
World Evangelization and
World Welfare.
1. Through Evangelism.
a. In the Home Land.
(1) Evangelistic Cam
paigns. (a) by Min
isters; (b) by Lay
men.
(2) Evangelistic Preaching
by Pastors.
(3) Individual Personal
Work.
(4) Care of New Converts.
(5) Supply of Vacant
Churches by Lay
men.
b. In our Foreign Field.
2. Through Educational Missions.
a. Mission Schools in the Homa
Land.
b. Educational Work on the
Foreign Field.
?,. Through Medical Missions.
a. Hospitals and Medical Work
In the Home Land.
b. On the Foreign Field.
4. Through Industrial Missions.
a. In the Home Land.
b. On the Foreign Field.
It. To Educate the Church to Meet
Our Part of Christ's Pro
gram for the World.
1. By Religious Literature.
2. By Missionary Education.
a. Through Mission Study.
(1) Organizing Study
Classes.
(2) Training Leaders for
Classes.
b. By Providing Missionary Pro
grams.
c. By Securing Missionary Li
braries and Literature.
d. By Displays of .Missionary
Maps, Charts and Exhibits.
DEPARTMENT OP CHRISTIAN
TRAINING.
III.
A. To Extend and Perfect the Work
of tlio Church In Christian
Education.
1. By Awakening Parents to the Im
portance of Christian Edu
cation.
2. By Directing Young People to
our Church Schools and Col
leges.
3. In Educational Institutions.
a. Denominational.
(1) Securing Equipment.
(2) Enlarging, Endow
ments.
b. State and other Public
Schools.
( 1 ) Through Bible Study
Courses.
(2) By placing College
Pastors, etc.
It. To Enlist and Train for the
Kind's Service.
1. By Securing fit Delegations for
Young People's Conferences.
2. By Enlisting for Definite Full
time Service.
a. Students for the Ministry.
b. Candidates for Mission Ser
vice.
c. Other Christian Workers.
3. By Following up Life Decisions.
4. By Training for Special Scrvice.
F?. By Training the Church in the
History, Standards and Doc
trines of the Church.
IV.
DEPARTMENT OF STEWARDSHIP
OF POSSESSIONS.
To Adopt n Scriptural System of Giv
ing and a Scriptural Stand
ard of Giving.
1. By Teaching the Stewardship of
Possessions.
a. In Study Classes.
b. In Church Papers and Other
Literature.
c. By Pulpil Instruction.
d. By Organizing a Tithers*
League to Promote Larger
Giving.
2. By Acquainting the Church with
the Nature and Needs of Every
Cause to which it is asked to
give.
3. By Calling for Adequate Support
of Every Benevolent Cause of
the Church.
4. By Providing Just Salaries for
Ministers, Missionaries and
other Workers.
5. By Carying out a Thorough
Every-Member Canvass in
Every Church.
a. By careful preparation in
Study and Prayer.
b. By co-ordinating the Budgets
of all the Church's Organi
zations.
c. In Visiting Every Member.
d. By Following up the Canvass
thoroughly.
V.
DEPARTMENT OF FELLOWSHIP.
To Promote tlie Social Ministries of
the Church.
1. By Ministering to the Sick and
Needy.
a. In Hospitals.
b. In "Homes" and other Insti
tutions.
c. In Orphanages.
d. In Personal Ministrations to
Individuals.
2. By co-operating with other Re
ligious and Welfare Bodies for
Community Betterment.
3. By Encouraging a Friendly
Church Spirit.
a. Social Visits by Teams of
Visitors.
1). Church Social Gatherings.
4. By Providing Recreational Acti
vities.
a. Wholesome Church Enter
tainments.
Athletics and Contests.
c. Boy Scout and Camp Fire
Girls, etc.
5. Publicity.
a. Church News in the Press.
b. Display Advertising, etc.
c. Weekly Church Bulletins.
d. Distributing Literature on
Church Work.
GOALS.
A. l)?'|?nr< ment of Spiritual Life.
1. At least one Prayer Band in each
Congregation.
2. At least one Bible Study Clas3 in
each Congregation.
3. A Family Altar in Every Home.
4. A 15 per cont Increase in Sunday
School Enrolment.
5. A 25 per cent Increase in Church
Attendance.
6. Awakening the Church to Hallow
and Defend the Sabbath Day.
It. Department of Evangelism and
Missions.
1. In each Church a Specially Or
ganized Effort each Year to
win others to Christ.
2. A Personal Workers' Class in each
Church.
3. At least one person added to the
Church on Profession for every
10 members.
4. At least one Home and one For
eign Mission Study Class in
each Congregation.
5. At leart one new Mission Sunday
School established by each
Congregation.
C. The "Missionary Survey" and a
Weekly Church Paper in every
Home.
C. Department of Christian Training.
1. At least one Young Person from
each Congregation attending
some Presbyterial School.
2. Co-operation in securing some
plan of Bible Study in connec
tion with the Public Schools
of each Community.
3. Every Church represented at the
Synod's Young People's Confer
ence.
4. At least one life in each Congre
gation enlisted for Definite
Full-time Service for the
Church.
5. Definite effort by Pastors and
Sessions to Secure Recruits for
the Gospel Ministry.
D. Department of Stewardship of
PofMesslons.
1. At least one Stewardship Study
Class in each Congregation.
2. A "Tithers' League" in each
Church.
3. A thorough Annual Every-Mem
ber-Canvass in each Church.
4. Every Member a Subscriber to the
Whole Work of the Church ?
Local and Benevolent.
5. Each Church subscribing In full
its apportionment of the
$4,750,000 for Benevolences
and giving its part of the
$500,000 for the Equipment
Fund this year.
K. Department of Fellowship.
The carryng out of the purposes of
this Department, in meeting local
conditions, will furnish suggestions
for local goals.
CHURCH NEWS.
(Continued from page 12.)
tian Endeavor and lots of young peo
ple to work with, but no minister has
ever lived in that town during its his
tory. Several of the young people
have dedicated themselves to the Mas
ter's service as He shall lead. ?
At Rerugio we are having additions
to our population through the possi
bility of natural gas and oil. A large
glass factory is being built and this
enlarges our field here in this Roman
Catholic town. We have the only
Protestant church building in town,
a beautiful cement block bunding
and the work is growing. We are
building a beautiful five-room manse,
modern in every way. As we have a
membership of only about 40, this
shows the faith and love of the peo
ple for God's House. This will also
be the first manse that the pastor has
lived in since entering the ministry.
It will seem strange not to pay rent.
The house will be ready to be occu
pied about August 15.
There are several other points
i:ear us that ought to be reached that
are very poorly supplied with ser
vices of any kind. The pastor tries by
afternoon services and fifth Sundays
to meet this need.
We have a home department wTHi
six families on it that live from nim?
to twenty miles Trom the nearest
church. I try to be pastor to all the
people in the county I can reach. We
have about 100 members in the
county.
E.. W. M.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Keyser: The congregation of this
church entered their new building in
April last. The structure is modern
in every respect; Sabbath school
rooms for twenty classes, large audi
torium, kitchen and large dining hall.
The Sabbath school addition alone
will seat seven hundred people. Elder
William MacDonald is superintendent
of our school, and within the past
year the enrollment has onore than
doubled.
Recently, Mr. C. L. Everhart was
ordained and installed as elder, and
Mr. C. G. Scribner and Mr. John
Johnston were made deacons. Our
official bodies have been greatly
strengthened by the addition of these
men.
This church had three representa
tives at the Massanetta Springs
Young People's Conference, Misses
Jean Emily Frost and Helen John
son representing our Christian En
deavor Society, and Mr. Herman N.
Waggoner representing the Sabbath
school.
All organizations of this church
have continued their work actively
during the summer months and at
tendance upon all services has been
exceptionally good. The pastor und
congregation of Keyser Presbyterian
church believe in the efficiency of an
all-the-year-round church. We have
had no special meeting of any kind,
but during the last eighteen 'months
about one hundred and fifty people
have united with this church, bring
Jng its membership up to 440.
During the summer months, Mr.
Joseph Duckwall, a recent graduate
of Hampden Sidney College, is as
sisting the pastor, and is doing a, line
work In our chapel, which is located
in West Keyser, about one mile from
fhe heart of the city. On last Sunday
evening Communion services were
held in the chapel and twelve mem
bers were received into the church.
CHANGE OF ADDRESS.
R?* S. Waters McGill, from 825
Douglas Avenue, Nashville, Tenn., to
100 Bast Broadway, Louisville, Ky.
Ilev. W. W. Evans, D. D., from
Oakland, Calif., to Overton, Ky.