The Christian Student Volume 13-15 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ... of a higher education and were largely directed in their thinking by the teacher. I do not need to tell you to what school they were directed. What this Presbyterian College has done any other denomination may do by working in the right way. The solution of the rural education problem in the South means the solution of all our educational problems. The greatest contribution to be made to our Southern educational problem is in some way to supplement the common school so that no school shall be shorter than nine months and no school of any grade shall have less than two teachers. Prophets in the Making By Rev. William Nesbitt Brewster, D.D., Acting Lecturer On Missions, Boston University School Of Theology We are gradually learning that fundamental truth, which we should have known from the beginning, that this gospel of the Kingdom is to the whole man and to the whole of mankind. The Kingdom is the world. Nothing less is big enough for the King; nothing else can satisfy the King's subjects. It is passing strange that the schools for training the leaders of this great campaign have been so slow in recognizing the relative importance of a department of instruction that would open the eyes of the student to the worldwideness of their task and prepare them to meet it. Yet departments of missions are few and of very recent origin in the theological schools of Methodism, and of the other churches as well. The Home Base Commission of the Edinburgh Conference reported that "out of one hundred and fifteen theological seminaries in America that answered their inquiries, thirty-eight, or one third of the whole number, reported that they did not include the study of missions in their curricula, either in the form of elective or required courses.... Fiftyeight, or ...