THE BIBLICAL INSTITUTE.
By James White
GENERAL RALLY OF YOUNG MINISTERS, AND THOSE WHO HAVE THE MINISTRY IN VIEW, IS EXPECTED.
In last week's Review we suggested that the term of the Biblical Institute would commence with the second term of the current College year, and might extend to the close of that term of nearly nine weeks. A preliminary meeting will be held the evening of the 22d inst., and addresses will be given on each evening following; but the regular, organized work of the term may not commence till Monday evening, the 27th. This will give time for all to reach Battle Creek who design to avail themselves of the great advantages of this special course. And here we would state that the time of its continuance can better be determined at the close of the General Conference. It is suggested that one hour each day be devoted to penmanship, one hour to English grammar, and one hour to rhetoric. One lecture each day will be given on one of the following subjects, by J. H. Kellogg, M. D., of the Sanitarium, all of which will receive attention during the course:— The principles of health reform; Digestion, its anatomy, physiology, and hygiene; The physiology and hygiene of respiration, including the principles of ventilation; The brain and nerves, including the nature of mind and thought, and the relation of mind and matter, together with mental hygiene; Temperance, including alcohol, tobacco, tea and coffee, opium and other narcotics and stimulants; Logic, or correct methods of thought and reasoning; The general principles of science; Science and the Bible, and the relation of science to Adventism. The lectures upon the subjects of health and temperance will be prepared expressly for the purpose of presenting in a concise form the scientific arguments on those subjects, and will be profusely illustrated by charts, models, black-board sketches and experiments. It is also designed that there shall be a class in elocution, under the instruction of a competent teacher. During and immediately following the Conference, lectures will be given on the methods of labor in the various branches of our work, such as the distribution of reading matter in connection with tent and camp meetings, how to advertise tent-meetings, how to sell books, and how to conduct a course of lectures; also, instruction will be given on how to organize temperance and T. and M. societies, Sabbath-schools, etc., on church organization and church business, including how to keep church, T. and M., Sabbath-school, and temperance records and accounts. The above, with one Bible lecture each day, on live subjects not fully dwelt upon in previous Biblical Institutes, will give abundance of work for the most ambitious, and will fully employ the time of every student for at least the first four weeks of the course. The General Conference committee become responsible for the expenses of special teachers, and lights; therefore no tuition fees will be required for the special course. J. W.