Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-01-19

quite as important as the matter,
and every ambassador for Christ
should be first Of all a Christian gem
tleman. The Institute cannot furnish
common sense of course, but it aims
to develop and train the gifts of each
student, and it is doubtful if any
school can show a greater contrast
between its raw material and its fin
ished product.
The institute has often been call
ed the "West Point" of Christian
work. Certainly many Christian war
riors have received their training /
here and have gone out to fight val
iantly in the army of the Lord.
But it is also a great spiritual
power house. This is shown in sew
eral ways. In the first place, the DAY
starts with the Quiet Hour. Then
comes public devotions after break
fast and a general prayer-meeting
after supper Furthermore, every
lecture, faculty gathering, or busi-
ness meeting is opened with prayer.
Again. on Monday mornings spe
cial prayer is made for all the donors
of the institute, and on Friday ey-
enings for all former students, AMI
on the first Tuesday in each month
a whole hour is set apart for prayer
by faculty and students.
To this should be added the week
" hall-meetings on each floor, and
the half-dozen or more weekly band
meetings composed of those who are
going to various mission fields, and
the group meetings which spring up
spontaneously at all hours and sea-
sons
In view of all this, and much more
known only to God, are we not JUS
titled in designating it as above?
The number of students is con-
stantly increasing, and we never had
so many applications as at present.
All over the world God is calling men
from the farm and factory, the office
and store, and in some cases from
the legal and medical professions,
and is filling them with such a pas
sion for souls that secular work no
longer satisfies them. Many of our
students have made great sacrifices
to come here. One student walked
eighty miles to reach the institute
and arrived here with fifty cents In
his pocket. He graduated as president
of his class. A young girl came all
alone from Bulgaria, worked her
way through Oberlin College, and
then came here for training in the
English Bible and Music. While here
she worked up an interest among
Bulgarians of this city so that she
had an attendance of over two hun
dred men each sunday.
Last year the enrolment was six
hundred and fifty-one, of whom about
four hundred were men and two hun
bred and fifty were women. These
came from twenty-five foreign coun.
tries, represented forty denominations
and we could send men out to con.
duct services in seventeen different
languages. Ninty-two of our men hat
received college or theological train
ing.
What of the Future-that Deepen i.
upon two things. First the world.
need and second, our ability of sup
ply the need. If we read the signs o.
the times Alright the greatest nee.
of the world is consecrated men an,
women, who can present of Gospe
in the power of the Holy Ghost an,
exemplify it in their life.
Dies the Moody Bible Institute turf
out that kind of workers? That i
for others to say. One thing how
ever. is sure, and that is that tn
three things we stand for are tn
individual study of the English Ri
, BILE. Individual Responsibility 70
soul Winning and Worldwide Evan
gelization. These are the ideals tina
are kept before our students constant
ly, and the response is so eager, S
hearty, and so general that it is oil
ten hard to keep them here unit
they have finished their course c
study If then. our judgment of tn
worlds need is carrect. and if W
supply the kind of workers that
needed. may we not reasonably e,
!. pect to see. within few years on
thousand students in residence ,
the Moody Bible Institute.
The object of this anniversar
week is not simply to mark off anotl
er milestone of the history of the il
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