“Endeavor each day to think, speak, act and pray like the Savior.

“Endeavor and present plans for effective work.  Build up a standard of noble living in the Church.

“Send comforting messages to members of the Church in sorrow, send flowers to the sick, or for the funeral, look after the orphans, visit the widows and the fatherless, write letters of advice, invitation, condolence, establish missions for new churches in growing parts of the city, and hold by kindness at least one thousand personal friends at The Baptist Temple.

“Select one leading duty, and follow it without waiting to be asked.

“Make yourself a master of some special line of Christian effort.

“Save some one!”

Five of these societies some years ago started a mission at Logan, a suburb of Philadelphia, and so successful was their work that the mission soon grew into a flourishing church.

The Ushers’ Association is one of the strongest and most helpful organizations in furthering the church work.  The ushers number twenty-four, and are banded together in a businesslike association for mutual pleasure and good fellowship, and also to better conduct their work and the church interests they have in hand.  They are under the leadership of a chief usher who is president of the Association.  The spirit of hospitality that pervades The Temple finds its happiest expression in the courteous welcome and ready attention accorded visitors by the ushers.

All members of the church who are willing to give up their seats to strangers on special occasions send their names to the chief usher.  And it is no unusual thing to see a member cheerfully relinquish his seat after a whispered consultation with an usher in favor of some stranger who is standing.

In addition to their work in seating the crowd that throng to The Temple either for Sunday services or the many entertainments that fill the church during the week, the Ushers’ Association itself during the winter gives a series of fine entertainments.  Its object is to offer amusement of the very highest class, so that people will come to the church rather than go elsewhere in their leisure hours and thus be surrounded by influences of the best character and by an atmosphere that is elevating and refining.  They have also undertaken to pay off the balance of the church debt.

Missionary interests at Grace Church are well looked after.  The church has educated and supported a number of missionaries in home and foreign fields, as well as contributed money and clothing to the cause.  The Missionary Circle combines in one organization all those interested in missionary work.  One afternoon a month the members meet in the Lower Temple to sew, have supper together, and afterward hold religious services.  The members are advised in the church hand-book to—­

“Suggest plans for raising money; arrange for a series of addresses; organize children’s societies; distribute missionary literature; maintain a circulating library of missionary books; correspond with missionaries; solicit and work for the ‘missionary barrels’; send out ‘comfort bags’; advocate missions in the prayer meetings and socials; encourage those members who are preparing for or are going into foreign fields, and maintain special missionary prayer meetings.”