Training Workers for God by R. B. Thurber

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 31, 1916

Training Workers for God

By R. B. Thurber

Emmanuel Missionary College is advancing into the fulness of its work this year as never before. True to its name, it is coming more and more to be an institution of learning in which God dwells, and which trains for service at home and abroad. This year there is being established a ministerial department, which aims to correlate closely class and field work in evangelical lines. The writer well remembers the time some years ago when the faculty of one of our training schools very seriously questioned the advisability of permitting the formation of bands by students for the purpose of learning to preach by preaching, while yet in school. That situation we meet no more, and we have reached a point in our progress where we consider the field work of great importance in a ministerial course. Heretofore this laboratory work in the science of soul saving has been carried on in a more or less disorganized way, yet with considerable success.

EMMANUEL MISSIONARY COLLEGE, BERRIEN SPRINGS, MICH.

During the last two years hundreds of people in the vicinity of the college have heard the witness of this truth, several have joined our ranks, and the institution has grown much in favor with its neighbors,—all through the consecrated efforts of student activities in schoolhouses and homes.

Now it is planned to thoroughly organize and carefully direct this work, correlating the class work in Bible, history, and public speaking with the public efforts of student bands. Credits to apply on the ministerial and Bible workers' courses will be given to students who do acceptable field work. There are exceptional opportunities in the country near-by to conduct series of meetings. In classroom and field a member of the faculty will have special supervision of this work.

Already well represented by its former students in all parts and departments of the home work, and having gone far in supplying recruits for the foreign fields, Emmanuel Missionary College will this year give more attention to the inspiration and training of those who have distant lands in view. R. B. THURBER.