1. Bring your own Bible; every work man prefers his own tools.
  2. Bring the topic—in your memory, not on the card.
  3. Bring some matured thought on the theme—from your Bible study.
  4. Bring the best illustration or application of the theme you have found in your reading or other research.
  5. Bring some wish, aspiration, sense of need—sated appetites are the hardest to cater to.
  6. Bring your attention: a wandering mind never wanders to God.
  7. Bring your sympathies; give more than you expect to get, and you will get more than you expect.
  8. Bring your smiles and cheerful looks and emphasize the beauty of holiness.
  9. Bring your friend, or a stranger. How easy to increase the attendance by a few personal invitations!
  10. Bring a large expectation, and God will fill it.

[Ridicule and Persecution.
My friends will LAUGH at me.]

The person who would ridicule you for being a Christian, is not your friend.

WHOSOEVER therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

Mark 8:38.

FOR whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.

Mark 8:35.

BLESSED are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

Matthew 5:10-12.

IF ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.