Biblical Literature

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 20, 1882

Biblical Literature.

In an address on "Biblical Literature in Colleges and Universities," published in the Sabbath Recorder, Dr. T. R. Williams speaks as follows of the incentives to, and opportunities for, the spread of religious literature in this country:—

"But there is another reason why this claim of Biblical literature should be granted. The interests of Christianity demand it. There are tens of thousands of communities in our own country which have no one to teach the word of life. More than one-half of the population of the globe groping in pagan darkness, with not one teacher for a million souls. Now, when we reflect that all these millions must be saved or lost during the years of this one generation, the demands for more laborers become intensely imperative. Where shall the world look for these laborers, unless it may look to our colleges and seminaries of learning? But how shall these institutions which exclude the Bible from their studies, prepare young men and young women to lead lost souls into the light of the gospel? If this study was wisely encouraged, many young people would be found with hearts and talents for eminent usefulness, who are now left to waste their lives on vain hopes and fruitless efforts.

"Never did a grander possibility open before any people on earth than opens before us as a people in this country. History has no record like that which is being made in our land at the present time. The stirring, independent spirits of all the nations are flocking to our country for homes."