55 commodius, buildings cannot make a Bible Institute, nor even constitute its chief assets. The great, and commercially unappraisable, assets of our Institute are its organization, its teachers, its students;·~~=it'~~--~-· . evangelists, its Bible Women, its Fishermen boys, its Lyceum girls, its missions, its Bible classes, and its faithful praying constituency. These constitute the nuclei from which the Institute, under the continuec blessing of our loving Lord, it is to grow; and these buildings will sim- ply house these agencies for service as to promote their growth and de- velopment, and thereby increase their efficiency. We trust to see the workers in them so greatly multiplying that this entire coast shall feel their beneficient and uplifting influence. It should be understood that these buildings are not to be a mon- ument to any man, nor to any set of men, but are to forever stand solely for the promulgation of the eternal truths of God's holy Word. Over its portals, and running across the front of this central building, will stand the inspired declaration, "For ever, 0 Lord, They Word is settled in Heaven.'' This divinely inspired Word will ever be the source of truth which will inspire all of the Institute's activities, furnish- ing from its exhaustless resources, the instruction which is to enable the Institute to send forth Christian workers "furnished completely unto every good work." • For the teaching of the truth for which the Institute stands, its doors are to be open every day in the year, and all people, without ref- erence to race, color, class, creed, or previous condition will ever be welcome to its privileges. Like the great Apostle to the Gentiles, the Institute in its propaganda will have but one theme, "Jesus Christ, and Him crucified." its teaching, therefore, from the standpoint of this world's wisdom, will be narrow. It will also be intolerent of error, but will have a love for the souls of men as wide as the world.
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