adopted, let every body be thoroughly in earnest to make the meeting success- Enthusiasm. ful. Pour enthusiasm into it. Be almost fanatically zealous for it. "Ordinarily," said a hoosier, "I weigh two hundred pounds; when I am mad I weigh a ton." Zeal should supplement ability until each " weighs a ton" in this all-important work. If "all do with their might what their hands find to do" God will give great victories for his cause. 9 XI. ENTERTAINMENT, CORRESPONDENCE, AND FINANCE. THE department of entertainment must provide music for all meetings and select a chorister if desired. There should Church music. be a constant endeavor to train the members of the league in good choral music, and thus fit them for their part in the congregational singing of public worship. To this end hymns should be freely interspersed in the programmes of the weekly meetings. A league chorus or glee club can often be organized, trained, and employed to great A league cho- advantage both to the league and rus. the members of such chorus. A competent leader may be secured usually at small expense, and thus the best voices will be selected and developed for valuable service in the regular meetings of the league and the various services of the church. The great evangelists in recent years have demonstrated the power of sacred song in conjunction with the preaching of the word, and the tactful pastor accomplishes a twofold purpose when in revivals he rallies nightly fifty or a hundred young people as a chorus for an opening service of sacred song. The Epworth League worker should be a singing Christian, making melody with his lips, as well as in his heart, unto the Lord. With joy in his heart, with victory in his face, with sublimity in his life, he must learn to sing his way triumphantly through many a day of temptation and many a night of trial. He should catch the nightingale spirit of the blind poet and "Sing when the heart is troubled, meetings. Music will prove an important factor in the league meetings, and here the glee club or chorus may enliven the literary Music in league programme with with glees, college songs, and patriotic airs. Instrumental music will, of course, be employed for the same purpose, but in this care should be had to secure variety by the use of violin, cornet, banjo, guitar, and mandolin, as well as piano and organ. Work of depart ment of enter meetings. Since the department of entertainment is responsible for music, its members have a part, and an important part, in every tainment in all meeting. If they do their work with wisdom and fidelity they will add incalculably to the genuine pleasure and success of the league meetings. If they fail, the lack can hardly be supplied, for in young people's meetings there is no reliable substitute for good, soul-stirring music. Excursions and picnics. plimentary lect Excursions and picnics are assigned to this department, but public entertainments, also, as concerts and lectures, are probably contemplated. These should be conducted, if practicable, for purposes of entertainment and instruction rather than with. a view to financial profit. Courses or series Courses of com- almost entirely complimentary may be managed as follows, namely: Let there be five entertainments; one of these a concert by local talent, the remaining four to be lectures; one of them by some prominent citizen whose services will be rendered gratuitously for the general good, and the other three by speakers who are regularly in the lecture field. Let there be no charge of ures. admission except to one of the entertainments, the proceeds from which will usually defray the expense of the entire course. But the other entertainments must not be announced as "free." Admission to these is to be had only by cards of invitation, which may be distributed by the members of the league among the families of the congregation and such families in the community outside the congregation as would likely be interested. This generosity will be remembered when the "paid" lecture is given. In this way some of the chief orators in Methodism may be brought before the community, a commendable churchly spirit may be stimulated, and deligthful and instructive entertainment provided for young and old alike. pulpit and the To this department is further assigned the delicate and beautiful task of furnishing flowers for the pulpit and for the sick. Flowers for the Flowers, which, Mr. Beecher said, sick. are "the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into," and which Wilberforce called "the smiles of God's goodness," best fulfill their high and holy offices in the temple of God and in the chamber of his |