Phillips Bible Institute - PBI Yearbook (Canton, OH)

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trance requirementsg while still others are beyond the College age. Fourth, there are those who have had courses in other Colleges, but who have no ideas of procedure in Chris- tian service. They will here find opportuni- ties for the practical side of preparation. It is as important for the Christian to know how to get results with people as it is to know books. There is no school among us that offers such privileges. Fifth, there are those who have completed the high school course, who wish to devote all their time to the studies that will directly equip them for their life's work. At the present writing, the courses for the future are being greatly strengthened. More members will be added to the Faculty. and the curriculum is being strengthened ac- cording to the growing need of the Institute. As the word was received throughout the Brotherhood that this great Institution was to be set on foot, calls came from all over the land for its location. Brother Phillips con- sidered them all, and many others, wisely and judiciouslyg and finally, he with the aid of others, decided that Canton, Ohio, was the city best suited for the Institute. It gives the student the benefit of actual working exper- ience in the First Christian Church. This Church has a membership of about -l,000, and a Bible School with an enrollment of over 5,000. The Church is the largest in our Brotherhood, and the Bible School is the larg- est in the world. The average attendance for 1914 was above 2,000 The Church is so large that the student body does not appreciably modify the services, and they may be studied in their natural working order by the students. The Institute is closely allied to the Church, since its pastor is Presi- dent of the Institute, four of the members of the Church Official Board are Trustees in the Institute, and three members of the Faculty are Elders in the Church. Canton is a cosmopolitan city of 60,000 in- habitants, thrifty and industrious: it furnishes a great deal of work for the students by means of which they earn the pecuniary funds that enable them to climb the ladder of success. In spite of the manner in which we have been handicapped by having no building of our own, the growth of the Institute has been phenomenal. This, the third year, draws to its close with a total enrollment of 156 resi- dent studentsg and of correspondent stu- 'Page Eleven dents, 540. In no Institution of its kind has such a record ever been equaled. This summer we expect to begin the erection of our new building. Until its completion, ar- rangements have been made whereby we will occupy the fourth fioor of the new Y. M. C. A. building. I-Xlso, we have the use of the Chapel on the third fioor. The men students have access to all the privileges of the gym- nasium and swimming pool and all other con- veniences, provided for the members of the Y. M. C. A. The ladies will have a rest room and reading room for their private use. This means a great step forward, but is not to be compared with the accommodations that will be ours in the new building, a cut of which you will see in the fore part of the .-Xnnual. lliords fail to express our heartfelt grati- tude to the First Christian Church for the use of their building during these three years of rapid growth. May they be copiously reward- ed by the One who overlooks not even the sparrowg but who rewards all according to their works. There is one thing that rejoices our hearts above all that we must not fail to mention. Through the efforts of the members of this year's graduating class, over three hundred souls have been born into the Kingdom of our Lord: a record that stands unequaled by any school, so far as we may ascertain. Many others have been won for Christ by those of the other classes that are not here recorded. Surely, the good work of the Institute is be- ing proven by the visible fruit, and doubtless much seed has been sown that will be har- vested by others at a future day. This brief paper will give you a faint glimpse of what is being done in F. B. I. May your praper to God be that we may stand by the Good Old Book and its teachings regard- less of the whims of Satan and his hosts, so, that in the glorious awakening, all we that have been connected with the Institute and its history, may hear the voice of the Savior in accents sweet and tender: Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger and ye took me in: naked and ye clothed me: I was sick and ye visited me: I was in prison and ye came unto me.

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iiaistorp nt billipz ibihle Ifnstitute H. K. Schondelmayer. All authority hath been given unto me in Heaven and on earth. Co ye, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, .and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I have com- manded you.'i As we peruse the annals of the centuries since the day when our blessed Lord uttered the above words to His faithful few, our hearts bleed and our souls cry out because of the miserable progress that God's people have made in the fulfillment of this, the greatest commission of all ages. VVere jesus to come into the world in bodily form as in former days, we have reason to believe that He would arraign many cities of this Christian land with exceedingly more bitter invectives than did He the cities of Chorazin, Bethsaida, Tyre and Sidon, because of their infidelity and in- difference to the fact that God is in His Heav- en, a loving and faithful Father, but neverthe- less one who demands respect from His chil- dren. Many men, in this day, flaunt in the face of God their own philosophy. and with it at- tempt to discredit much of the truth of the Bible that is so dear to the hearts of God's faithful. They say, Jesus was a good man, but not Divine g they try to explain away the miraculous part of God's lVord: they claim that His crucifixion and resurrection are myths, and many other diabolical things that lead men to perdition rather than to God. The danger of these teachings would be so great. were it not for the fact that these smooth tongued servants of Satan are garbed as an- gels of light, while their oily oracles creep into the hearts of the unguarded as a ven- omous reptile creeps through the grasses and pushes its fangs into the cheek of the inno- cent child at play. But thanks be to God, He will not-always permit His cause thus to suf- fer. Every great crisis has its man who rises to take his place at the helm. The children of Israel had their Moses: Carthage had her Hannibal: Greece had her Alexander the Great: Rome had her Augusta: the Reform- ation had its Lutherg Methodism had its Wesley: the Restoration Movement had its Campbell. VVe need not stop here, for, in our day, we came to a great crisis in the religious educa- tion of our young men and women. lVhere are the young to obtain an unadulterated. workable knowledge of the Holy lVord of God? Those who have been deprived of their rights to an education, where shall they re- ceive instruction? Now, the man for this crisis was the loved and venerated Thomas VV. Phillips, Sr. In 1898, he expressed a sincere desire to see some Institution of learning wherein those who de-- sired to prepare for work in the Masters Vineyard along some definite line, might find the much longed for haven. During the last three years of his life, he put forth all pos- sible efforts to launch such an Institution. He heard the call from the cities and villages for ministers and religious leaders. He heard the call of ilesus, to Go into all the world, and not only to a favorite few. Ministers, business men, lawyers and educators conferred with Brother Phillips ere the Institution came into existence. It will readily be seen that it was not of a mushroom growth, but prayer- fully and carefully, while the indifferent slept, this great man of God, by the help of others, launched what promises to be the greatest Institution of its kind the world has ever seen. As in days of old. Aaron and Hur upheld the arms of Moses, so has our great Brotherhood arisen as a man. to uphold this most worthy Institution: and so shall it continue to be until all shall know that all authority has been given to Jesus, and that He demands to be rec- ognized as the Divine Savior of the human race. The Institute is intended to reach five dis- tinct classes of students. First, elders, dea- cons and Bible school workers who feel the need of additional equipment to fit them for efficient work in their local Churches. Many Bible School teachers and superintendents are now calling for such instruction as we purpose to offer. Second, there are many ministers among us who were unable, while in College, to get such courses as we offer, especially those dealing with the history of our Move- ment and those setting forth our literature and plea. Third, there are scores of our young people, both boys and girls, who wish to dedicate themselves to Christian service, but are unable to take the regular College course. Some have not the money: some are needed at home to help support the familyg others are debarred by present College en- Page Ten

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