Anderson University - Echoes Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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i is Q .1 The Presidents Message John A. Morrison For eight years it has been my happy privilege to serve God and his church through my relationship to Anderson Seminary. During these years I have been in a position and in a mood to observe with absorbing interest the fortunes and failings of our beloved institution. One source of joy to all of us is the fact that Anderson in her struggle with the financial, intellectual, and spiritual problems of ten yea1's, has not struggled away from the simplicity that is in Christ. In an age that is vauntingly irreligious we may announce with humble and pardonable p1'ide that Anderson is a religious school that is still religious. Her anchor holds. Anderson Seminary is a bit unique among institutions of learning. Asked if we are a Bible School, the teclmical answer would be no. Is Anderson a Seminary? The technical answer is also negative. But in a broader sense the School qualifies both as a Bible School and as a Theological Seminary. In the planning and development of our curriculmn we have stepped' aside a bit frofm the beaten path. VVe did this not just to be unique, but to- be more practical and useful. Our method has been eclectic. We have not felt obliged to cater to the technique of any program of theological education, but have drawn from all sources any idea which appealed to us as being workable in the task to which we have laid our hands, namely, that of producing a trained, practical, spirit-filled, New Testament ministry. Being young is not a disadvantage in every respect. Anderson Seminary is young enough to be unshaekled by some traditional subjects that have been accused of lacking practical value in the curricula of' some seminaries. Such subjects as Christian ethics, sociology, psychology of religion, religious education, and philosophy have been pressed into our curriculum. These sub- jects found small place a. generation ago in the curricula of the older semi- naries. If the Whole scheme of theological education were due a revision along practical lines of ministerial usefulness, as suggested by Dr. Luther A. Weigle of Yale Divinity School, then Anderson would suffer less from the operation than some others because she has been developed with the practical end in view. I find no difficulty in believing that this institution has the whole-hearted support of its entire Alumni. I tliink, too, that the excellent group of men and women who are going out this spring will be found true to the Seminary and the high spiritual ideals which she seeks to advance. s ssl. i l ff' -f l' .. - 11 --fl' PAGE ELEVEN

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