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RESOLUTIONS AND FINDINGS 179will also be found in inspirational results. By dealingdirectly with the special difficulties encountered by eachgroup, they can greatly encourage the individual leaders.3. Supervision. It has been found to be very important that there should be careful supervision of the work inthe Bible study classes for enquirers, with records of the attendance and of the work of the class. It also seems advisablethat these classes should meet at the same time in onecentral place, rather than in isolated shops or other buildings, where they do not get the mutual stimulus of eachother s success and are therefore more easily discouragedand easily discontinue their meetings. This also makessupervision easier and more effective.4. Ministers. This experience also seems to show thattheological colleges and Bible schools should include in theirregular curricula a more adequate provision for instructionin Bible class methods, with practical training in suchclasses. It also seems desirable that conferences should beplanned for those who are already ministers and preachersin the churches, in which they also may be given some helpalong these lines and in methods of training their churchmembersto do this work^nChurch Life^ie P ast ^eW y ears m ^ie ar er l cities,experience has shown that much of thedifficulty of holding the interest of enquirers is to beexplained by the low state of spiritual life in the churches,and their lack of evangelistic zeal. The churches do notseem ready to receive and care for the large numbers ofnew enquirers and Christians. This experience alsosuggests the following methods of dealing with this veryserious difficulty.1. Evangelistic Committee. A carefully chosen committee can be of great service in keeping before the membership of the church the opportunities and duty of evangelisticefforts and in making plans for aggressive work. Wheredifferent denominations, or more than one congregation ofthe same denomination, are at work in one city, and theydesire to unite in the prosecution of a forward evangelisticmovement, such a union committee has been found to bevery helpful. Such committees in the larger cities have