Six Months' Course for City Workers
By M. H. Serns
OUR ministers and physicians of Chicago engaged last season in a profitable series of tent-meetings. These were well attended, and a deep interest was manifested to the last. As one result of our tent and hall efforts, twenty-six persons were baptized. Others were reclaimed and brought back to the fold. At present our hands are full, following up the interest. Dr. Paulson gave us valuable assistance, taking part of a service three times a week; this gave him an excellent opportunity to give a clear exposition of health principles from a Bible standpoint. At the close of the tent-meetings, a city missionary training-school was started in connection with our public efforts. Thus far we have enrolled seventeen students. In the short course of six months the Bible class receives instruction only in those lines which are considered the most essential to establish souls in present truth. The medical workers are endeavoring to give in the same time the most essential features of a regular nurses' training-course. The students have ample opportunity to put into practise the instruction they receive in this course. The class make out semimonthly reports of their work, and have definite territory in which to labor. In this territory they search out the interested ones, following them with reading-matter, and, if possible with Bible readings. When they have found all the interested ones in their district, they move on to new territory, and thus add to their number of Bible readers. The expenses of the students are mostly met by the sale of magazines and books. This is an excellent opportunity for a short training-course for Bible working nurses, with an actual daily experience, especially for those who can not take the longer courses provided in our academies, colleges, and sanitariums. We want only those in our course who have a burden to assist in warning the world of its impending judgments and of the soon coming of Christ. Action on your part must be prompt in writing to us, because we want every student to be with us from the very first. The next term will begin April 2. In writing for information and circulars, address the writer at 528 Thirty-third Place, Chicago, Ill., or Dr. David Paulson, Hinsdale, Ill. M. H. SERNS.