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committee has not done anything, and keep on in that way, 

 requiring them to bring in reports, and after a few years of this 

 kind of work you will find the great value of these reports. 

 They ought to be filed away and kept. The committee is mak- 

 ing history, the church is making history, and get these reports 

 out once in a while after a period of five years and note the 

 progress that has been made and the new enterprises that have 

 been undertaken and how often a failure has been turned into 

 success through persistence and through thorough work in 

 bringing about efficiency, and I trust that above all else this 

 conference may desire for our rural people, it will be to inspire 

 them to greater efficiency and administration of church business. 

 I thank you now very much for your kind attention. 



THE LADDONIA PLAN AND ITS PURPOSE. 



(Rev. J. L. Watson, Laddonia, Mo.) 



By way of introduction let me say that in the summer of 



1912 I visited Locust Grove Baptist 

 Church in Boone county, Missouri, and 

 preached to the people. Since that 

 time I have been going there once a 

 month, or sending a good man to con- 

 duct divine worship. During the pe- 

 riod we have had thirty-six additions, 

 organized a ladies' aid society, which 

 has done more aiding than any other 

 rural society I know anything about, 

 started a Baptist Young People's 

 Union, which meets each Sunday even- 

 ing, repaired and beautified the house 

 in many ways. New pulpit chairs, a 

 new carpet, a modern lighting plant, practically new seats, and 

 an iron fence in front of the property are some of the recent im- 

 provements. Money is now in the treasury with which to buy 

 paint to paint the house. We now have worship twice a month, 

 both morning and evening, by the help of consecrated laymen 

 who are willing to give of their time and talent at least one 

 Sunday each month. The people appreciate these meetings 

 conducted by laymen, and to my mind their generous use in 

 this way by the churches and pastors will contribute in no small 



Rev. J. L. Watson. 



