Washington Training College
Extract From the Annual Announcement
A LARGE measure of the strength of the institution will be devoted to the work of building up a strong Biblical department, in which it is hoped many of our younger ministers, now in the field, may find features of advantage sufficient to warrant their connecting with the school for a period of study, to prepare themselves better for the service in which they are engaged. Those who were acquainted with our denominational work of an earlier day will remember the time when the younger ministers were brought together to receive a special course of instruction and training; and the leaders of our denominational work of to-day are largely men who were privileged to have this special training. Opportunities for actual evangelical work will be offered, and will constitute one of the most important features of the training received by the students at this institution. At the same time, very careful, thorough, and systematic technical work will be undertaken in the class room, thus holding a high standard for this feature of the preparation for life's duties, but not neglecting the advantage which arises from actual experience in the presentation of the truths of the gospel, whether from the desk, in the home circle, or in placing literature in the hands of individuals who may be interested in the same. This department of the Washington Training College will receive more careful and earnest consideration than any other department, as the school exists for the one purpose of preparing men and women for gospel work. The circumstances surrounding the school are most favorable for carrying forward such a line of practical work, and the very best instructors are promised, and have signified their willingness to co-operate with the college in making this feature of its work a success. Special instruction will be given in the public presentation of the Scriptural truths; and to make this feature very practical, drill classes will be formed in the school, where preliminary efforts may be put forth, and later in the year opportunity will be presented for occupying the desk in our various churches about the College by such as may so desire, and whose qualifications seem to warrant efforts in this direction. There is unlimited opportunity for carrying forward this line of study, and it is hoped that through this means many of our young men may develop an ability for public labor in the cause of Christ.