The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-16
new METHODS IN BIBLE STUDY.
NATIONAL MOVEMENT STARTED
by COUNCIL OF 20.
Con, cntion TO lie Held In Chicago Next
sprin.-Prcsent Methods OF Instruction
Of the Young Considered Inadequate

bVFlUk-ITtNtIt Vttuous Oi IUstTuctIon
Of the Young Considered Inadequate.
The Council of Seventy, a body of Bible
teachers ia educational institutions OF this
country. has issued call for a convention
to effect a national organization for the
improvement Of religious and moral educa-
ton through Sunday schools and other
agencies. The convention will be held
In Chicago In February or March of next
rear. IL will be made UP of members
essi associate members of the Council Of
Seventy, invited teachers, ministers and
editors, invited pastors oi churches and
superintendents of Sunday schools.
The origin OF the Council of Seventy
dates back to 1879. In that year DR.. William
H. Harper. then professor Of Hebrew in the
Baptist Theological Seminary at Morgan
Park. H., and now president of the Uni
versity Of Chicago prepared a series of text
books for the study of Hebrew and New
Testament Greek.
In February. 1851 he organized a CORE
spondence school under the kame of the
Institute of Hebrew. Starting with twenty
members the institute grew rapidly. III
1890, a reorganization was effected and
the society took the name of tho America
Institute of Sacred Literature. In 1891
the headquarters of the institute was re-
moved from New Haven to chi ago. II
was felt that the | .sti'ute should he a
medium through which Bile scht lars ell
gagged In teaching in universities and sem
inaries might come into contact with the
people But Of this situation grew the
Council of Seventy, and under its general
charge was placed the American Institute
of Sacred Literature Its officers are
prof F,ank X Sanders dean az yal.
n;..i,.,. So IT., ,r.,iJan.. w;,isn
r. Harper, princip-l Clyde W votaw.
.o,,ra.r, .nd IIarhar, 7, villa, ,raasrr.r
Ioo'ue' ain iio'o"'' - ''''''' treasurer
In speakingo Of the rlan 10 form hat ional
oreanization.,heI b zeal World of November
says edhorial'y
1t has become Increasingly clear that the
obstruction Of the yours in reiisoP and nor
to the present reed and is, not Wholly in &C.
gradual retirement of the Bible from on
common schools mas deer, a,ed tie amoqlt
while in general il has pro grcssad in It's ideal.
It's methods, and is eficlency. is in sss.nti4l
ahd of ehGrs arc re
nr srEnE and iseals one trsatng rsiiSion
As an ISOLATED and optional element in indi-
,iduaI dn,olopn art ,losirp their
sw.s 70 incrsssirg knowiedge Wv -
eye 70 I'm nnc psst tsenty.ive wears there AS
han GROWING RECOGNITION of I . unsatis-
,,n, tnn,gbt and srort ave- bssn aSnendad
Nv ndividuais and organizations upon IN.
tw1nrnramant ~ reiigious and moral educa-
I'm, o' as sone for mnitad aSor,
20 ciarifv develop and promulgate . great
IDEAS 40 Worked out and 10 CON bira I, . la bors
G.ai ~ suhstsn and M. nod in relisiotis "a 4
i me4a pI sstractoe anu '' " anu
TIA worL 70 he undertaken bv such an
, mVs nav We he ingicssed soyoewSa, s as
.Ghnws "'' ~ '''~ "' "'
IL Il may endeavor to define the true re.
n,bcr IRA, q 90 Of instr,ction indicatinr n :
part vi ich religion should perform in the
Ge,y Oh 'ne 'ho'''du"i anu oi So
GtsS' =, NAV seek IN show how 70 correlats
,e,iS,onus "a and moral in struc,ion With The
nh,ained IN ~ a puhlic schools 'N NV
81 il may present and apply the estsb-
taS>to r..lioious and moral Tea chincs
Wl Il may indicate the propsr place o,
the Bible in religious and moral instruction
and s.t forth - General and specifc m. thods
OF using TIE Bible for 4 is purpose ~ ''''>
o, grad u OF ruriIs tss in gpbic .Ghoo
according to age ca IN city and attainment
struotion where both material and manner o,
instruction viii be ada pted 10 the stace OF
physical. mental moral and spiritual de.
al II may indicate row this new, hiche,
Ideal can be worked out in the churches the
Sund Nv school tho dav clool and tho homo
also In younr nsople's socioties Young Mn ;.
and Young Womsn's Christian aseociations
clubs FOR Pble study societie, for genera
culture: and the hke, 49,, pu,,.o,.o
rGrgand ' curricninm Which viii ombody N,
iorr.r nh tan"e AID rho bot er MOI sod Of re-
ir'oli- and moral education tn. I. in accord
snce with tho present status OF b bNcal theo
logical ethical. psychological, pedagogico
anr ~ciTnt'hc knowedg" A. .,.
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