S.M.U. OPPIC[RS
ldolla St.hon 1 11 Viee-Pn,r.
Mari<>Eitzc.>n Corros. J'c.tc.
Adelina Morrill llc,c.Spe.
Sowell Land rum l"n>as"rel"'
l!vol)".! l1ill Adv. Se~retary
FINISHED ARROWS FROM ROUGH WOOD BY ROBERT D c n ARRY, l'IELD I·:CRETARY, FREKCH B113LE 1I1ss rox RO Cl.i RE me wood. and I shall suppl y you ll'ith a r rows ,' ' wrote Jean Cail·i n to the Protestant ch u r ches of !' ranee whe. n he began to t r ain thei r min ist e r s in what has been cal led h is " Seminary of 'd artyr s.'' :\11 unforgettabl e fortn ight at the l,os .'\ngc lcs B ib le Inst it u te ha s enab led t he w r iter to observe . with no litt le wonde r. an up-lo-elate process o f s im ila r tran s fo r mation . T he 11111/ai/fl used by t he Los f\ 11 gclcs spi r itual fac to ry is. thanks to t he careful se lect ion of the s tud ent body. of t he most dependable kind . Tn mixing rat her intimately wi th t hat fin e youthful co 111pa ny. we have huncl a11 un11 s ual s tandard o f inte l lio·cnt co11scc r ation. ".\ [en arc God's met hod." and fr om such as the lnstitutc takes in hand . no mean clcY clo p111 ent can be expected . Th e f>/011/ ha s . by its s iz e. locat ion and excepti onal adaptation, exceeded our 111ost fanciful anticipations. as a n id ea l in s t r ument for it s contemplated encl. The st"ff compares Ycry fayorably. in nu111be r s and in quality, "·ith th e faculty of any of the Bible schoo ls \\'hich \\'C hayc had opportunil\· to st udy in yar ious parts of the \\' Oriel. The 111<'ihods st rike o ne as theoretically a nd pract ically sound. To procur e a better training in a sho rt er time seems hardly possible any\\'hcrc. The spirit regnant in the Bibl e In st itute could be fairly de sc ribed by th e a ll-co111prchcn s i,· e apostolic formula: "Follmring the Truth in Lo,c .' ' Th e f>r od11cl. as we ha,·e seen it 0 11 the plant. and wherever the ' 'a r rows" have been ex ported, is of the quality 111ost in cle111a11d: al l rou11d men and women . usually spec ia lized i11 110 line . but eas ily adaptable to 111ost hr a11chcs of th e Lord ' s ser vice. Arrows straight in Christian Character. s111oo th ccl with the poli sh of Christian Char ity . pointed with th e penet rating power of Chri st ian Truth. feathered with a Chri st ian Faith ,rhich in sures the r ec titude of their flight. rn,! Christian arro\\'S ! The by-f>rod11c!s a r c the same as in th e time o f the Reformer. when the Gcnc,·a Seminary ,,·as the main s tay and helper o f th e .\ I other church of Protestantism. The bec-hi,·c o i the Open Door community. the Correspondence Schoo l family . the in11umcrabl c out s ide acti,·itics of staff and s tudent s . and. last but not leas t. th e spi r itual uplift of visitors. make 011c \\'Onclcr if. as in certain wcll-managccl indu st r ies, th e by-products haYe not c,·en more Yalue than the staple article itscl f. . .. . . .
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