A church has the right to expect its pastor to "lead." As with the head of any enterprise, whatever of information, direction, system-everything that will guide and develop those interested or who should be interested in the largest success of the matter committed to them-the church may reasonably expect these things from the pastor. In a volunteer army-and the church is not a conscription-the captain of a company or the colonel of a regiment fails of reasonable expectation unless he informs and drills and deploys his men in a way to make their service intelligent and eager, bringing them to realize that what they do is contributory to the objective committed to the whole army, of which they are related parts; to properly police the camp simply for their own comfort, or to satisfy themselves with some restricted task, will not answer. This cannot be done without the leader keeping himself thoroughly equipped to lead. Faulty leadership soon reveals itself.

The pastor must see to it, as a prime necessity, that his own church is made and kept thoroughly efficient. This is his first duty. Unless the units are fit the whole organization is weakened. But this efficient fitness is impossible unless each church is led upward and onward out of itself into world-vision and world-service.

The pastor should give to his church continuous information regarding the whole scope of the world campaign, local, home and foreign, and this in a stimulating, inspiring and challenging way. He is the teacher, the educator of his people. It is not wise either to stuff or to starve.

The pastor must see that the best available system of finance is installed and operated in his church. Everything done may be rendered measurably useless unless the pastor's oversight is continued until the financial result is expressed with completeness. The church has a reasonable right to expect that the pastor will lead them not only into the knowledge which brings vision and feeds faith, but to a worthy financial expression of their loyalty. The laity of the church is much more likely to be depressed by the smallness than staggered by the largeness of an appeal. There is little question about this in the mind of

any one who knows the laity in a large way. They are responsive to a worthwhile demand.

The pastor must give leadership in the prayer life of his people. The enrichment and effectiveness of the prayer life of individual members and of the entire church largely depend upon the pastor's helpful guidance.

Knowledge, vision, a definite and challenging program of service and of giving, with constant aid to the enlargement of spiritual life-these a church has the right to expect from its pastor's leadership.

WHAT MAY REASONABLY BE EXPECTED OF

A PASTOR IN THE WAY OF MISSIONARY
LEADERSHIP IN HIS OWN CHURCH?

BY REV. ROCKWELL HARMON POTTER, D.D.,
Hartford, Conn.

THE one thing which the pastor must give in the way of missionary leadership in his own church is inspirational information; that is, the pastor must show to his people that the missionary impulse and the missionary enterprise grow out of the heart of the gospel. He must so preach the gospel that every man who hears him shall recognize the outreach of Christian service as an essential part of that message; he must so preach the gospel that every man who hears him shall recognize the missionary enterprise as vitally related both to the local church and its parish and to the church of the world and its task.

The pastor will do this most effectively not by occasional sermons on missions, though such sermons will have their place in his plan and program. He will do this most effectively by relating his sermons continuously and constantly to this great enterprise of the Christian people of our own time. Not that every sermon must have in it reference to the mission field, but that every sermon must have in it the spirit of the mission fields and that frequent sermons will have in them explicit reference,

to the mission enterprise as showing practically the working of the gospel spirit in the world.

The pastor may reasonably be expected to do his part in the organization and education of the church which he serves for its part in the missionary enterprise. Just how much his share is will depend upon the resources available in the membership of the church. It is safe to say he never ought to do any part of this work for which a member of the church can be secured. It will be his privilege to be in counsel with all missionary committees, and to encourage them in the making of their plans; in many instances it may be necessary for him to teach mission-study classes and to take leadership in plans for securing the gifts of the people. If there is no one else to do this, then he must do it; but his best way of doing it always is to secure somebody else to do it.

If the minister is awake and alive to the riches of the gospel on the one hand, and to the world's need on the other hand, he will be a means of the communication to his people of the impulse to serve and of the opportunity for service. He will be loyal to the accredited agencies of his own Christian fellowship, and he will be alert for new opportunities of service which are born out of new needs. He will be careful that his own energies and those of his people be not so widely diffused as to be without effect anywhere, and he will be careful also lest the work of missions become so stereotyped and formal as to lose its appeal to the enthusiasm of the Christian heart.

For the pastor who is thus related to the gospel and to the world the distinctions between the various mission fields will disappear. The Christian care for the children of his own church, the effort to reach the indifferent of his own community, the development of rescue and remedial and reform agencies in his own town, the planting of the church and the sustaining of relief and reform institutions throughout his own state and country and the sending of preachers and teachers and helpers to far-off peoples that the church may be planted among them and that it may there bear its proper fruitage in the things of the kingdom of God-all these will be felt by him to be one

enterprise, will be shown by him to his people as one mighty task. He will inspire each one of his people to desire to fulfil his part in this great work, and it will be his joy to show to each one how whatever he does for one part of the task has its value for all, how each one who honestly seeks it may find his own part in God's great plan and fulfilling his own task there may have a share by faith in the great consummation.

WHAT ASPECTS OF FOREIGN MISSIONS SHOULD BE EMPHASIZED BY PASTORS AT THE PRESENT TIME?

BY ROBERT E. SPEER, D.D.

THERE never was a day when the principles of the foreign missionary enterprise were as pertinent and relevant as today. Its message is a word straight to the whole world's central need. Pastors will find in it just the truths which men are feeling after in the situation of our time. What are some of the aspects of foreign missions which specially call for emphasis today?

1. The fact that foreign missions are the direct antithesis of the world conditions which men most deplore and the purest expression of the principles which underlie the world order for which men are longing. Foreign missions represent international friendship and good will. The missionary goes out to help and serve. He bridges the gulf between his own nation and the nation to which he goes. He is not seeking to exploit or to take advantage or to make gain. He is seeking only to befriend and to aid. And his aim and spirit are internationally unifying.

The missionaries succeed in surmounting all the hindrances of nationality and language and in binding different peoples together in good will. Furthermore, they are demonstrating the possibility of the existence of strong nationalistic spirit side by side with human brotherhood and international unity.

They are seeking to develop in each nation a national church embodying and inspiring and consecrating to God the genius and destiny of each nation. But they are doing this because these are the elements of a yet larger unity, the unity of mankind. The first is not contradictory to the second; it is essential to it, as the perfection of the state requires the perfection of the family unit, and the family demands and does not exclude the richest individualism. It is out of her perfect ministry to the life of each nation that the church is to be prepared to minister to the life of all humanity, and to achieve its unity.

2. The embodiment in the missionary enterprise of right racial feeling. Our present world miseries are due chiefly to race selfishness and hatreds. One people claims a place on the earth which it denies to others. It proposes to seek its advantage at any cost to others. What a great professor of history said of his own nation some years ago represents the attitude and policy of many others:

"In every part of the world where

's interests are

at stake, I am in favor of advancing and upholding those interests, even at the cost of annexation and at the risk of war. The only qualification I admit, is that the country we desire to annex or take under our protection, the claims we choose to assert, and the cause we decide to espouse, should be calculated to confer a tangible advantage upon the nation."

To this attitude of mind one's own race is always right and the other races always wrong. But foreign missions are the contradiction of all such racial bigotry and isolation. They proclaim the principle of Christ that all humanity is to be one flock under one shepherd. "Other sheep I have, not of this fold. Them also I must bring that there may be one flock." Our great need to-day is the acceptance of the principle of humanity and the practise of the principle of fairness and equality in racial judgments and relationships.

3. The need and opportunity for the direct preaching of the gospel to men. In every land the supreme call to-day is for the unhesitating straightforward preaching of Christ as the Savior