Andrews University - Cardinal Yearbook (Berrien Springs, MI)

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f Department of Theology HRISTIANITY is a warfare. Every individual who bears the title of a Christian must serve either as a combatant in the front lines or as an aide stationed behind the lines to render material and moral support. From a worldly standpoint, the fight against entrenched evil is a hopeless one, but the Divine Commander who said, UGO! also said: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. The members of the Ministerial Department are preparing in a special sense for this warfare. The classes in homiletics deal with the theoretic and constructive side of sermon building as well as effective public delivery. Helpful lectures are given in class by acknowledged authorities on the conduct of a successful evangelistic campaign, obscure texts, and difficult Bible passages, The Ministerial Department of E. M. C. offers practical training for the students under the auspices of the Field Wforkers' Training class. A number of these young men have taken charge of churches in the vicinity of the College, and a few of them have already been ordained as local elders. Several symposiums such as The Milestones of lVorld Progress, The Sacred Mountains of the Bible, The Life of Christ, and The Vtlinning of a Soul, have been given in the larger centers. The ideals of service laid down by the Christ of Galilee and cherished by His servants through past centuries are the ideals which the Ministerial Department of E. M. C. wishes to demonstrate. lPage Forty-ninel

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Department of Bible HE Bible is the foundation upon which Christianity rests. It is God's revelation to man concerning matters which are of supreme importance in relation to human destinyg and it is the only reliable source of information in this respect. This is why Emmanuel Missionary College gives the Bible first place in its curriculum. Besides the three years' work in Bible given in the Preparatory Depart- ment, the College offers ten courses in Bible study. The study of the wonder- ful prophecies of the books of Daniel and Revelation, which set forth with such vivid coloring the rise and fall of the world's great empires and reveal the work of God's church in its relation to these world powers as well as to the future everlasting kingdom of Christ, covers one year's work. Another year is given to the study of the New Testament Epistles. stress- ing especially such books as Romans and Hebrews, which reveal Gods great plan of salvation through faith in Christ and the relation Christianity sustains to the Old Testament revelationsg Paul's two letters to Timothy which are replete with instruction to the young ministerg and the two letters to the Thes- salonians, which cheer the heart of the Christian with the blessed hope of the second coming of Christ and the resurrection of the dead. In the course in Advanced Bible Doctrines the student is made familiar with the fundamental doctrines of Christianity and the special truths of the third angel's message. The course in Bible Ancestry informs the student how we got our Bible -a very interesting and important subject. lPage Fort y-eightl

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Department of Expression HE Expression Department is qualified to serve every college student. It is one of the cultural clinics of the institution. Here individual needs are considered, and personal correction is prescribed. The students who are preparing to teach, those who are interested in art and music, those with scientific bent, those who are preparing for the nice work of the ministry,-all these and others are aided by this department. Here dictionary presentation is supplanted by artistic delivery, manner- isms are lost in the natural outilow of thought, and self is forgotten in the soul's outpouring of truth. The speaking voice is developed, manners are rehned, and all the expressive powers of the body are so harmoniously de- veloped that the student may present his specific message to the world in a forceful and pleasing manner. ' Expression is the revelation of truth. the window of the soul, the only approach of mind to mind. Of the two molds into which expression may be fashioned, written and spoken language. the spoken expression is the more transient and Heetingg yet when it is artistically presented it is the more commanding. lVe may have knowledge, but unless we know how to use the voice correctly, our work will be a failure. Students who expect to become workers in the cause of God should be trained to speak in a clear, straightforward manner ..... The truth must not be marred bv beinfr COl'lllHLll11lC'1fCd through . -5 C b detective utterance. Il':nge lfiflyl