A Ministers’ School

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 9, 1902

A Ministers’ School

Jan. 7 to March 17, 1903

During the winter term Emmanuel Missionary College will conduct a school for ministers, Bible workers, canvassers, and colporteurs.

“The great crisis is just before us. . . . Many more workers ought to be in the field. There should be one hundred where now there is only one. Many who have not been ordained or licensed may work in their own neighborhoods and in the regions about them.”

“In every school that God has established, there will be, as never before, a demand for Bible instruction. Our students are to be educated to become Bible workers.”

“It should be the aim of our school to provide the best instruction and training for Bible workers. . . . The churches have a part to act. They should see that those who ought to receive its benefit attend the school. They should assist worthy persons who have not the means to obtain an education.”

SHORT COURSE FOR MEN AND WOMEN

“If our churches were awake, they would multiply their resources; they would send men and women to our schools, not to go through a long course of study, but to learn quickly and go out into the field.”

“Let workers enter the field without going through many preliminaries. Teach them to begin labor just where they see it is needed. Thus our working force may be greatly increased.”

These quotations call for a short course, a practical course,—a course not for youth, but for men and women. It is such a school that Emmanuel Missionary College will conduct during the winter months. Young men and women who wish to begin active service as ministers, canvassers, or Bible workers will receive special training. Berrien Springs and neighboring towns are asking for the gospel. The classes will have practical field work under the direction of their instructors. Arrangements have been made for the ministers’ class to spend some time with a teacher in Chicago.

The winter school bears the same relation to ministerial work that the summer school sustains to the church-school movement. The life and inspiration of the educational reform is the result of a vigorous effort to improve the teachers. The same expenditure of energy in behalf of the work to be studied in the winter school will be felt throughout the denomination.

Do you feel the need of it? Do you know of young men and women who would make valuable workers if they had some training? Only mature students are accepted in Emmanuel Missionary College. Consequently every student should arrange for admittance before starting for Berrien Springs. The quarters are limited, and only those who make previous arrangements can find accommodations. Full particulars will be freely given by addressing E. A. Sutherland, Berrien Springs, Mich.