At times they will want to know what they must do to be a Christian. The answer to this letter should always contain an invitation for them to come and see you personally and talk it over with you. You must, however, fix the time, or many of them will not act quickly. This is the best method to use in bringing children to Jesus. If in the open you ask them, "All of you who want to be saved and live a Christian life, come forward to the platform," after the first two or three respond they will often come forward with a rush. Of course, they do not want to be lost, but many of them have no real thought of what that act means, and so before their names are taken for church-membership they should each be dealt with personally. Just putting the name on a card declaring they desire to be a Christian is entirely insufficient and should never be regarded as final. Each one should be dealt with personally and alone. After Decision Day or revival season their names should be secured and written to, and an announcement should be made that there are letters in the Junior Post-office for them, which should contain a request for a personal interview with them, at which time you can make plain the way of life. This Junior Post-office method will be a new way of approach to their inner life and will enable you, as their pastor, to give counsel that will linger with them for all time. They will also find that you are their good friend and belong to the company of juniors as well as the congregation of elders. This, of course, will take the pastor's time. Well, so let it be; it is time well spent. And what if the work is hard at times? It is first-place work and pays the most in the work of the kingdom. Jesus said to Peter, "Feed my lambs," before he said, "Feed my sheep." He put first things first. Go thou and do likewise. =55 THE BLACK BAG OBJECT: A Plain Black Bag= When I was a boy in my early teens I had a Sunday-school teacher who was surely fifty years ahead of her times. She knew nothing of a teacher-training course or child psychology. She never talked in public on the Art of Teaching a Sunday School Class. She knew but very little of those well-chosen words which the public speaker commands. She knew nothing of the science of public instruction. But she did _know boys_ and was a master of the self-learned art of interesting and instructing a class of early teen-age boys. We boys noticed that often she would bring with her a black bag and would say to us, "Now boys, give me your attention, and after the lesson I will show you something I have brought with me to the class, and which I have in my little black bag."