99. Missionary Libraries.—Some of the choice, bright, interesting missionary books which are now very abundant should be in every Sunday-school library. If selections are properly made, the books will be sought for and eagerly read by the boys and girls. There should also be in the teachers' library some special missionary books dealing with methods (see [Appendix]), and the teachers should be urged to read them.
100. Missionary Equipment.—Splendid missionary maps, charts, pictures, and curios are now abundant and inexpensive. They may be secured from denominational publishing houses. Every school should have a supply, and they should be in the care of the Missionary Secretary. Large charts and maps may be made by the scholars under the direction of the Missionary Committee. Secure, if possible, a missionary map of the world, and a map showing the missionary activities of the denomination. Charts showing the relative strength and growth of the Christian religion as compared with other religions in all parts of the world are effective. A cabinet of missionary curios is most desirable.
101. Mission Study Class.—There should be at least one mission study class in every school. It is usually possible. Such classes need not continue all the year. Ten meetings of one hour each, for ten successive weeks, will enable any class that applies itself to the work to complete one of the elementary text-books relating to missions. The meetings should be held on a week-night, and they should not be obliged to divide the evening with any other meeting. The available time in the Sunday-school session is not long enough unless double the number of lessons are used, and this is not always practicable. The class should be composed only of those young people who are deeply interested, or want to become interested, in missions. Five to ten members are enough for a good class. The leader should be an enthusiast who is not afraid to work. Such a class maintained for a few years will create a missionary interest in any school that will reveal itself in larger offerings, and probably in volunteers for the missionary field.
102. Missionary Room.—If there is an available room in the church, it would be well to set it apart as the Missionary Room. Here will be found the missionary library, periodicals, maps, charts, and curios, properly displayed and cared for. It may be a class-room, if no other room is to be had. The Missionary Secretary will have a table or desk here, and it will serve as his office. It will furnish a good place for the mission study class, and will be the center of all the missionary activities of the school.
103. Missionary Sunday.—Missionary instruction should be given in connection with every lesson that will permit of it. Once a month, however, there should be special missionary exercises, whether the particular lesson lends itself to missionary treatment or not. Five or ten minutes' time during the opening or closing exercises can be profitably arranged for by the Missionary Secretary with appropriate music, missionary selections, recent items from the field, map drill, and display of charts and curios. Or, some of the elementary outlines of missionary study now available may be taught from the platform or taken up in the classes.
104. Missionary Concerts.—A properly arranged missionary concert is interesting and instructive. Usually it is best to confine each concert to a given missionary field. Display a map of the field. Have participants dressed to represent the natives. Appropriate music, recitations, facts from the field, and a short missionary address by the pastor or by a returned missionary will make an excellent program. Secure from your denominational publishing house leaflets giving facts about the field under consideration, and distribute them to the audience. Once a quarter is none too often for a missionary concert.
105. Denominational Boards.—Every Sunday-school should contribute regularly and generously to its own denominational benevolences. Contribute to one benevolence at a time, and let this one be definitely explained, so that the giving may be intelligent. Every school ought to be familiar with the great missionary movements of the world, and especially of its own denomination.
106. Specific Objects.—More interest can be created and more money raised for a specific than for a general object, and done more quickly. Denominational boards, recognizing this, have provided to meet it by enabling churches, schools, and individuals to contribute to a specific purpose, under the general direction of a given board. Shares to the extent of the donor's contribution are assigned in a particular station, the donor thus having a share in the entire work of the station. This is known as the "Station Plan" of giving.
107. Reflex Influence.—No church, school, nor Christian can honor the Master by endeavoring to carry out his last command without receiving a great blessing. The power and effectiveness of a local school in its own work are usually in proportion to its interest in the world-wide Kingdom. If it will "make a little cake" for others first, it will have all it needs at home. This rule is without exception.