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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 22, 1906

Special Course in the South Lancaster Academy

By Frederick Griggs

The board of managers of the South Lancaster Academy have voted to conduct a special course for gospel workers in the spring of 1907. It is the purpose to make this course a thoroughly practical one. It will be adapted to those only whose education and age are sufficiently advanced to enable them to do gospel work. It will be adapted particularly to ministers and Bible workers, although the instruction will be of such a nature as to enable those who are not directly engaged in gospel work to receive much benefit from it. It will be particularly helpful for all our brethren and sisters in church work, and church elders will find it a source of great benefit. Such subjects as the following will be considered:—

Systematic Study of the Message.
Examination of Obscure Texts and Difficult Questions.
Sequence and Logic of Subjects.
Reading and Elocution.
Arrangement of the Points of a Discourse with Special Reference to Beginning and Ending.
How to Conduct Services so as to Interest and Bring People to a Decision.
A Brief Survey of Denominational Histories and Creeds.
Literary History of the Bible.
Seventh-day Adventist Organization.
The Ethics of Gospel Work.
Consecration and Spiritual Fitness for Service.

In addition to members of the regular faculty, the instructors will be chosen from our most experienced ministers and Bible workers. We believe that this course of instruction will be a great benefit not only to the workers in our conferences who can arrange to attend, but to our students in the school.

We are anxious to see a great forward movement in the Atlantic Union Conference in the interest of securing a large company of gospel workers, and we believe that this special course will be an important means to this end.

FREDERICK GRIGGS, Principal.