Northwestern Bible School - Scroll Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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PERSONAL WORK By Assistant Superintendent I!. U. Q. Phillfotts OT every one can be a great preacher, but every one can be a great soul win¬ ner, and ordinarily it is better to reach an individual for Christ by personal work than to attempt to reach the great multitude even by the most eloquent preaching. As a general rule, the intensity of appeal is in inverse proportion to the area covered; in other words, the greater your audience, the less probability of your appeal reaching the individual Sermons that count in these days arc those that are preached to the individual, and this is the kind of preaching we sadly need at home as well as on the foreign field. In looking for examples we arc apt to remember too much about Peter ' s sermon and his three thousand converts, while we forget the rest of the disciples who were doing personal work. This ingathering was not primarily the work of Peter. John the Baptist had a part in it; John ' s disciples had a part in it; all of Christ ' s disciples had a part in it, for they had spread the Gospel news all over the country, and doubtless thousands had believed in their hearts before Peter preached, and it only remained for them to confess with the mouth. It was the one by one process that led up to this great ingathering, and this method of revival holds good today. It is a deplorable present-day fact that many preachers who are eloquent before a large audience arc dumb before an individual; and is this condition not largely tbc result of defective training? Let the churches, schools, and seminaries place the personal work class in the heart of their activities and this condition will not long maintain. It is an inspiring thing to know that every great soul-winning evangelist has also been a great soul winner. Moody and Spurgeon thought more about the inquiry room than the pulpit, and were always eager to get to the more important work, that of dealing with the individual. It is the seed sown one by one in the individual hearts, and not that thrown broadcast, that brings forth fruit. Let us have then for our supreme object not to stand behind a pulpit barricade but to go out constantly into the open field and engage in hand-to-hand struggle with the individual. It requires more faith and courage to say a word to an individual than to rebuke a thousand, but we are rewarded in the fact that the one will remember while the thousand may forget. Unquestionably personal evangelism is the imperative duty pressed on every Christian, and in this day and generation it is the only hopeful method of evangelism.

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Rev, !L B. o. Rhillpotts ASS! ST ANT Su PE R1NTENDENT T HERE are many connected with the Northwestern Bible School to whom we as a class are indebted, but there is no one to whom we owe more than to Mr. Phillpotts, our Assistant Superintendent, He was the first person to give us a welcome when we entered the School as Freshmen, and during the entire three years he has worked for our host interests, lie has toiled early and late, and has spent many nights in prayer and in making plans for us. The students of the School conic second only to the members of his own family, and he has certainly demonstrated his love in manifold ways. He has secured the very best teachers and organized the course in such a way as to make it of the greatest practical and spiritual value to us; lie has been interested in our physical welfare, and bis cheery smile and words of encourage¬ ment have spurred us on when we have been disheartened. We have not only learned to know him in an official way, but we have had the joy of working with him in the class room. In the Personal Work classes which he teaches, his own passion for souls has instilled within us a real longing to win others, and he has instructed us so that we have been able to present the Gospel to the lost We shall not forget to continue to thank God for Mr, Phillpotts when we arc on our fields of service, and we shall pray ihat he may for years to conic be an inspiration to the young people who are guided to the Northwestern Bible School.

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Miss Marie Acomb Head of English Department T? OUR years ago Miss Acomb came to the Northwestern Bible School to take J charge of the English Department. Each succeeding year has witnessed in¬ creased labor on her part in behalf of the School This work she has carried in addition to her daily vocation as instructor in one of the city high schools and her weekly service in a large Bible class. Miss Acomb has had a large part in raising the standard of the school, and docs all in her power to encourage the students to better fit themselves for the Master ' s service. As adviser of our class and teacher of Senior English, Miss Acomb has meant more to the class of twenty-two than any member, perhaps, is able to com¬ prehend Back of all her ceaseless efforts there is but one motive, love for her Lord, To observe Miss Acomb is to admire her; to know her is to love her. We can never repay her for what she has done for us. but when the Chief Shepherd shall appear she will receive a crown of glory. 10