Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1916 — CHURCH HAS WORK FOR ALL [ARTICLE]

CHURCH HAS WORK FOR ALL

Conscientious and Interested Members Can Do Wonders in the Service of God. Report comes from a church in lowa of how its men and women broke into church work, Incited by Mr. Innes’ article in the Ladies’ Home Journal. The Methodist pastor at Milo, at the close of the Sabbath morning service, asked every man who wanted something to do to meet him after the benediction. Almost every man remained, and the pastor was ready with a “job” for each one. That afternoon automobiles were out making house-to-house calls, inviting men to church, and that Sabbath evening the church was packed with men. The women caught the fever and met and made the same request of the pastor, and he was ready for them, too. They were sent out during the week to make social and church calls, with the result that every member of the church has been brought into active fellowship and service. There is no patent on this plan, and every pastor and congregation can put it into operation, and it will yield immediate results everywhere. As Colonel Conwell shows in his lecture on “Acres of Diamonds” that bushels of these stones are lying around us in every place, so in every church and community there is religious and church work to be done that will give everyone employment. —The Presbyterian Banner.