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The Rule of "Not Too Much." more if they are not interested in it at all, nothing will in* duce them to consider it except something to* eat or drink. This is the rationale of the banquet. When matters oi great importance require discussion and they are not such as will make a difference in a man's home comforts or bank account within a week the only way to get him to consider it, even by listening to the opinions of others, is to invite him to a banquet at which it is to be discussed. If the dis- cussion took place in a hall no one would think of attending it. This means of placating human nature is constantly re- sorted to in different kinds of business. Most of us have heard of people being encouraged to buy drinks by offering them without cost a mouthful of appetizing food. No real estate dealer would take a party of people out of town to sell them a tract of land without feeding them on the way, and even auctioneers find that people bid more freely when some sort of free lunch is offered them. Is this appeal ever used to advantage in religious affairs? Yes, indeed, and oftener perhaps than in business. The mod- ern church must have its kitchen and pantry and the meetings for sociable intercourse would be a dead failure without a supper. Where religious services are held all day, as they are in some churches in Chicago on Saturdays, there is always some sort of luncheon provided for those who remain over