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meet at intervals and counsel together concerning the general features
of the ,#i work; to enunciate principles and purposes,to hear reports fresh
from theAfield, to impart and receive information, inspiration and encour-
agement,* and to send to the constituency, in every nook and corner, the
good news of the progress of the work. The work of the mission board is
to arrange matters of detail and carry forward the work planned and
projected by the general body. The general body cannot meet very often,
nor can it remain in session very long. But the work must^go on all the
time, and there must be some agency in tact to have oversight of the work.
Hence the necessity of the mission board. But even the mission board cannot
meet very often, nor can it, as a board, conduct correspondence and arrangs
with missionaries on the field for the minute features of the v/ork. Some
individual must do this. He must also receive, disburse and account for
all money used in the work. This makes necessary a corresponding secretary
and superintendent of missions.
Now, this plan of mission work is called the co-operative plan. That the
co-operative plan is the best, I shall undertake to show.
This plan is the best because non-co-operation is death. If
either the digestive organs, the heart, the lungs or the nerve stimulus
in the human system should cease to co-operate with the others death would
surely follow. What is sickness? It is defective co-operation. A suffic^ht
supply of healthy blood, co-operating with normal assimilation, respira-
tion and circulation, would cure any case of turberculosis in the would.
When all co-operation in the human body ceases death ensues and decay
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begins, Jt is even so in church life. The churches that will not co-oper-
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ate death and decay begin^ when co-operation
This is tremendously true in mission work, some things must move
together or else die in the very attempt to exist.
Two armies are drawn up in line of battle. The commanding officer on re-
side orders a charge. One soldier makes a dash toward the enemy whose
concentrated fire lays him low in the dust. Another soldier, making a
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Baten, A. E. Christian Cooperation 2, text, August 24, 1905; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1402002/m1/4/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Howard Payne University Library.