Memoirs by Dr. Samuel H. Sutherland (1987)

MEMOIRS BY DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT EMERITUS

June 20, 1986 Page 7 - Tape 2

Biola graduates could not do that. Therefore, our graduates realized that they had a real handicap in this regard. In addition to this, some of the natives took secular work at the schools and universities and then came back and began to teach a false doctrine known to us at that time as modernism. Our graduates tried to show them the evils of modernism, but since our graduates had not gone through a school of higher learning like their own young people had attended. Therefore, our graduates did not know as much as their graduates did, which was a real handicap in their ministry. Dr. Talbot returned from missionary tours satisfied that we would have to go ahead with collegiate work and offer degrees. He felt that if we could hold the school true to the faith, he was no longer against improving the academics and would go along with our desire to bring the school into a full collegiate standing. When Dr. Talbot went to India on a tour, he was greeted by some of the Biola

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