The German and Scandinavian Bible Schools at Union College
By C. C. Lewis
As these are the only schools of the kind in the United States, it would seem desirable that our people in general should become better acquainted with their work. Accordingly, I give below the course of study pursued in the German, Danish-Norwegian, and Swedish languages:—
First Year.—Beginning grammar, 1, 2, 3; history I, 1, 2, 3; Old Testament history, 1; New Testament history, 2, 3; Eighth grade arithmetic (English), 1, 2, 3; penmanship, 1, 2, 3.
Second Year.—Advanced grammar and language, 1, 2, 3; history II, 1, 2, 3; Bible doctrines, 1, 2; history of missions, 3; English grammar, eighth grade, 1, 2, 3; singing, 1, 2, 3.
Third Year.—Rhetoric and literature, 1, 2, 3; Daniel and Revelation, 1, 2, 3; physiology and hydrotherapy, 1, 2, 3; bookkeeping, 1; epistles, 2, 3. Public speaking and ministers’ training class, 1, 2, 3.
A fourth year is offered to those who feel the need of more thorough preparation, during which time a practical training for the ministry will be offered in public speaking, Testimony study, church-school pedagogy, history of missions, New Testament Greek, and Old Testament Hebrew. These studies will be pursued in conjunction with the English-speaking classes that pursue the same studies.
The teachers employed for the coming year are as follows:—
In the German Department, Prof. August Kunze, translator of several of our standard denominational books, once editor of our German paper, and perhaps the oldest teacher in the denomination; also Prof. G. A. Grauer, formerly a minister in the Wisconsin Conference. If needed, another teacher will be secured.
In the Danish-Norwegian Department, Prof. Peter E. Berthelsen, who has labored so long and faithfully at the head of the department, will continue his work, assisted by Elder Christian A. Thorp, editor of the Evangeliets Sendebud og Sandhedens Tidende.
The Swedish Department will have as teachers, Elder August Anderson, formerly a student of the Swedish Department of Union College, recently from ministerial work in New York City, and A. Swedberg, now editor of the Sions Vaktare och Sanningens Härold, also editor and teacher in the denomination for nearly twenty-five years.
With this corps of experienced instructors, the Union College Bible Schools in the German and Scandinavian languages afford the best opportunity in this country for the preparation of ministers and missionary workers to engage in the work of the third angel’s message among these nationalities.
We would cordially invite our brethren and sisters everywhere who speak these languages to work for the Union College Bible Schools. Call the attention of promising men and women to the advantages offered. Encourage young men and women to prepare themselves to engage in some branch of the Lord’s work. Send for copies of the new Year Book, which gives a full description of these Bible Schools. Send us addresses of interested persons, to whom the Year Book may be sent. Aid with your means worthy students who are not able to attend the college; it will be treasure laid up in heaven. Above all, pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon our college the coming year, that sound instruction from the Word of God may be given, that pride and worldliness may be subdued, and that from its walls may go forth an army of Christian warriors to meet the enemy in the closing conflict.