Academic Training and the Study of Man
THE Interior observes that “the absence of academic training was a positive advantage to Moody. It shut him up to the study of man and the Bible. He understood the meaning of Scripture because he knew intimately the conditions which it was given to meet, and, conversely, he understood man because he saw him in spiritual light, the penetrating rays of which are not obstructed.” Now if only the theological schools would make their academic training to be just this which Moody found, then it would be of some value in the development of Christian workers. The absence of academic training is a positive advantage to any man when it results in shutting him up to the study of man and the Bible, as is here indicated.