A juicy temperance meeting

[Though the chapter is out-dated, its principles would apply to a meeting about any social problem.]

J.F. Cowan:

1. Informing rather than inflaming.

2. Moreover, these facts should be pertinent to the topic - on some definite phase of the problem - and not vague and unrelated.

3. Where may the average Christian get such fresh facts? New sources, pamphlets, books.

4. What is the best way to present these facts, bearing on the topic, so that they shall make the strongest impression? Blackboard.

5. How to get practical results out of a meeting. "It is not only useless to make people feel if you do not intend them to do: it is criminal."

(1) Personal or neighborhood work.

(2) Write letters to State and National legislators.

6. One thing must not be overlooked - the great influence of the prayers of a prayer-meeting about a social problem.

By John F. Cowan, New York, 1906

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New Life in the Old Prayer Meeting

By John F. Cowan, New York, 1906

• Introduction
  
• 1. Shall the prayer-meeting be hybridized?
  
• 2. Shall the minister always lead?
  
• 3. When the minister leads
  
• 4. The motive for lay reading
  
• 5. Hiding behind the message
  
• 6. Dummy leaders, and real leaders
  
• 7. On being fit to lead
  
• 8. The prayer-meeting leader and his bible
  
• 9. More bible and less topic
  
• 10.Harnessing the hymn-book to the prayer-meeting
  
• 11.More prayer in the prayer-meeting
  
• 12.The blackboard and object-lessons in the prayer-meeting
  
• 13.How to avoid monotonous meetings
  
• 14.Getting mute mouths open
  
• 15.Littles that make or mar a meeting
  
• 16.Prayer-meetings that sag
  
• 17.A cure for self-centered prayer-meetings
  
• 18.A juicy temperance prayer-meeting
  
• 19.Missionary meetings that thrill
  
• 20.Suggestive plans for prayer-meetings
  
• 21.Plans for special days
  
• 22.Open-air, and special prayer-meetings
  
• Appendix.Suggested prayer-meeting topics for a year.

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