by Christian ministers in the inter est of education, but especially reli gious education, in order that there might be an adequate supply of Christian ministers. For the first century no less than 40% of Yale’s graduates became ministers of the Gospel.” Thinking of those impres sive figures, it is hard to conceive of the fact that today Yale Univer sity, through its press, publishes books which deny the very existence of God. Lectures by professors both on the staff and those who are in vited in, show broad contempt for the things of Christ. Professor Wil liam Montague of Columbia Univer sity is quoted as boldly declaring at Yale, “Zeus and his cousin of old Judaea [that is, Jesus] never were at all except in the nightmare dreams and minds of their worshippers.” Sophia Smith was the godly wo man who, under the Lord’s leading, was led to establish Smith College for women. As to her reasons, she boldly testified, “Sensible of what the Christian religion has done for my self, and believing that all education should be for the glory of God and the good of man, I direct that the Holy Scripture be daily and syste matically read and studied in Smith College, and that all of the discipline shall be pervaded by the spirit of evangelical C h r is tia n ity .” Today, however, things there are vastly dif ferent. Professor Barnes, chairman of the History and Sociology Depart ment, shows his contempt for Chris tianity by calling for the students, as well as the entire school person nel, to surrender three things: First of all, belief in the reality and the deity of a Biblical God; second, faith in the uniqueness and divinity of Jesus Christ; and third, the belief in immortality. Fourteen years after Smith Col lege was started, Dr. Joseph Taylor was led of the Lord to establish an other women’s school known as Byrn Mawr. In a biographical report con
cerning the founder, it was written, “His was the prayer that Byrn Mawr should become, in the highest and most blessed sense, a school of Christ in which the students- should learn of Him, under the training and gra cious discipline of His Holy Spirit, the lessons of truth and love.” Today, one of the faculty members who has been on the staff for over 40. years, an eminent psychologist, Dr. Lewba, is an example of what has gone on there in liberal thinking. He actual ly wrote a book based on the erron eous premise that man is even supe rior to God. As a matter of fact, the title of the volume is “God or Man.” One of the chapters of this edition is taken up, as expressed in the dubious title, with “The Evils Done by Christianity.” Columbia University originally be gan in the mid 18th century as King’s College. Interestingly enough, in the Neiv York Gazette an ad of that tiiqe stated, “The chief thing that is aimed at in the college is to teach and engage the student to know God and Jesus Christ, and to love and serve Him in all sobriety, godli ness and righteousness of life with a perfect heart and a willing mind.” Today, unfortunately Columbia Uni versity contains one of the greatest concentrations of anti-supematural- ists that any university could possi bly muster. In past years educational leaders such as William Montague, Will Durant, and John Dewey have been on the faculty. The latter wrote, “God is the work of human nature, imagination and will.” One of the most interesting of the earliest colleges is Dartmouth, found ed by a minister, Eleazar Wheelock. His purpose was to establish a school in New England for the training of Indian converts in the gospel. A later president declared, “Dartmouth Col lege was conceived in the fervor of piety, born in the throes of a great missionary zeal, dedicated at birth to Christ, cradled the first year in 15
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