Biblical Institute by Uriah Smith

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 14, 1875

Biblical Institute.

By Uriah Smith

FROM the editorial columns of the Review, published Dec. 22, we quote concerning the important Biblical Institute then in session at Battle Creek, Mich.:

The lectures of the Biblical Institute course are proving deeply interesting and profitable to a class of about 150. The meetings on the Sabbath were of special interest. After a social meeting, wherein many spirited testimonies were given, Bro. White, in the forenoon, gave a discourse from a large painted chart of the "Way of Life," showing the harmony of the two Testaments, and pointing out the presence of Christ in all the Bible, and that his work is not confined to the present dispensation.

In the afternoon sister White gave one of her most powerful appeals, directed especially to the ministers and those who expect to engage in the ministry, but applicable to all. At the close there was a call made to come forward for prayers, but it was in vain to carry out the design of giving place to those who desired to seek a closer walk with God. The whole house was moved. It was a solemn time. Most of the ministers felt, as they never felt before, the sacredness and the magnitude of the work, and the necessity of purity of heart and life to engage in this work, and be prepared to stand before the Judge. . . . It is the intention to continue to make it a season of revival interest to the close.

Still later.—In the Review of Jan.1, we read: The Biblical Institute, is drawing to a close. Many young men and some men of age, all strong in faith, and most of them strong in body, have spent the time in an earnest review of the evidences of our position. And with the study of the theory has gone a spirit of devotion, and a desire for more spirituality and the power of the truth. This must be a characteristic of that work which is to fit up a people for translation to Heaven. We expect soon to hear from these earnest soldiers, from all parts of the field.

And the end is near. Soon the rest will repay all the weary toil. The warfare is almost over. A little longer the jeers and scoffs of an unbelieving world may fall upon our heads; but soon, in the crown of God's everlasting approbation, they will all be lost and all forgotten.

U. S.