MINISTERS’ AND BIBLE WORKERS’ DEPARTMENT AT KEENE ACADEMY.
The sole aim of this department is to prepare men to “preach the word,” and practise it, and to go forth as true servants of Jesus Christ,—men who hate iniquity and know how to reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine; men who can meet difficulties and surmount them in the name of the Lord, and who are sound in the faith. No one can receive a standing from this department unless he is firm as a rock upon every part of the Third Angel’s Message. It strives to train men to weigh Scripture evidences and meet wickedness and error with wisdom and patience,—men of deep piety, yet properly balanced; not men who will rush first into the fire and then into the water, nor men who can simply raise an excitement. There is need of men who know how to pray, how to work with their hands, and how to hang on in a difficult field. If ever there was a time when the cause of God needed men who can be relied upon in a crisis, it is now. The following is an outline of the two-years’ course of this department. It constitutes grades nine and ten in the course offered by Keene Academy, and presupposes a knowledge of the common branches as taught in the preceding grades, or else sufficient maturity and experience to insure successful pursuit of the studies named. It is open to men who believe they are called of God to the ministry, and also to women who believe they are called to the work of reading the Bible in the homes of the people, as the preparatory study for both kinds of work is largely the same. FIRST YEAR.—“Desire of Ages,” Rhetoric and Public Speaking, General History, Bible Nature Study and Science, Testimony Study. SECOND YEAR.—“Daniel and the Revelation,” and “Great Controversy,” Topical and Doctrinal Bible Study, Physiology and Nursing, Methods of Gospel Work and Study, Voice Culture and Public Speaking. For a full description of this and other departments of study in the Keene Industrial Academy, write to C. O. Lewis, Keene, Tex., for a copy of the annual calendar.