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Our College
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given up all thought of preaching. This is entirely wrong. We have
not many years in which to work, and teachers and principal should
be imbued with the Spirit of God, and work in harmony with His
revealed will, instead of carrying out their own plans. We are losing
much every year because we do not heed what God has said upon
these points.
Our college is designed of God to meet the advancing wants
for this time of peril and demoralization. The study of books only
cannot give students the discipline they need. A broader foundation
must be laid. The college was not brought into existence to bear
the stamp of any one man’s mind. Teachers and principal should
work together as brethren. They should consult together, and also
counsel with ministers and responsible men, and, above all else,
seek wisdom from above, that all their decisions in reference to the
school may be such as will be approved of God....
A more comprehensive education is needed—an education
which will demand from teachers and principal such thought and
effort as mere instruction in the sciences does not require. The
character must receive proper discipline for its fullest and noblest
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development. The students should receive at college such training as
will enable them to maintain a respectable, honest, virtuous standing
in society, against the demoralizing influences which are corrupting
the youth.
It would be well could there be connected with our college,
land for cultivation, and also workshops, under the charge of men
competent to instruct the students in the various departments of
physical labor. Much is lost by a neglect to unite physical with
mental taxation. The leisure hours of the students are often occupied
with frivolous pleasures, which weaken physical, mental, and moral
powers. Under the debasing power of sensual indulgence, or the
untimely excitement of courtship and marriage, many students fail to
reach that height of mental development which they might otherwise
have attained....
Bible Study
If morality and religion are to live in a school, it must be through
a knowledge of God’s word. Some may urge that if religious teaching