SUPERINTENDENTS' LETTERS.

White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 264, 18 June 1917, Page 2

SUPERINTENDENTS' LETTERS.

EVANGELISTIC. Dear Sisters,-—For some time we have felt that our Evangelistic Department is not the force in the country which it should be. A numbei of I'nions appear to think they have don* all that is required in this matter when they have held prayer meetings amongst their own members. But the Evangel is the Gospel—the Good 'lews of Salvation for lost sinnersand this department fails in its object unless it is making a d« finite effort to bring them to Jesus. All around us are souls hungry for the Bread of Life, and, perhaps, more to-day than ever. We come in contact with them in the home, the business, the street. Said a prominent minister: “There are thousands of people in New Zealand who are just beginning to awake to their own spiritual interests because of what has happened during the war.” Some of them are waiting and longing for us to speak, and if we keep silent, individually we are guilty. Then may I suggest (if you have not already done so) that you try earnestly to organise cottage meetings, or a house to house visitation, to urge them to attend church or some place of worship. Some Unions, I know, have been very successful in holding cottage meetings, and have reported that souls have been won for the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. \\ ill you individually pray earnestly in your homes and in your meetings, and, it need be, call a special meeting, that God will show you, and all oui l nions throughout this Dominion, how to reach those in yours and other districts who never enter a church, and, apparently, pay no heed to the claims of the Saviour Who died for them ? Will you please have this open letter read in your Union?—Yours for service, and in the White Ribbon bonds, M. A. JOHNSON W RIGHT, Evangelistic Superintendent. 10, Seddon Terrace, Wellington South.