Excerpt from Evangelistic Services: Suggestions as to Plans, Methods, Etc., By the General Assembly's Committee on Evangelistic Work

The General Assembly's Committee on Evangelistic Work does not advocate any special method of conduct ing Evangelistic Services. The Committee was ap pointed to stimulate the churches in Evangelistic work, and not to push any special theory or method. But so many pastors and Presbyterial committees have written for suggestions as to methods of organization and plans of work that this little book has been prepared. It is an answer to a demand. Methods of work will differ in different localities. The conditions of the work to be done, the circumstances in which the work is to be done and the temperament of the people who are to do the work will determine the method. If Saul is to slay the Philistine, he had better put on his full armor and select his truest sword; but if David is to battle wlth the giant, the simple sling and the smooth stones will be better for him. No one should be bound by another's method. The work is fixed the method is flexible. If one method fails to ac complish the end desired, another should be tried. The result is everything. Bishop Aldheim, of the seventh century, finding that the people did not come to his church, took his harp and standing on the corner played so sweetly that the crowd gathered to hear him, and then he preached to them the sweeter message of grace. I do not urge the use of the harp, but I plead for the spirit that was back of the harp, the Pauline spirit that will cry out: I am made all things to all, that I might by all means save some. And this I do for the Gospels sake. Our business is to reach the people, and to accomplish that we must be ready to em ploy any means as auxiliary and supplemental to the regular church service. The methods which are out lined in this book are methods which have been used suc cessfully. They can be adopted in auv church or com munity, of course with such modifications as the church or community would demand.

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