The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1911-01-28
THE MOODY BIBLE SCHOOL.

standing in a vacant lot in the
rear of the Moody church with
his head bowed in prayer, and
being asked what he was pray
ing for, said that it was for
money with which to erect a
building for a Bible Training
School. This prayer was an
swered in part by the erection of
the present mems building, Con-
tinued answer was given in the
purchase of buildings on LaSalle
avenue for women's dormitories,
and still further in the mems
new building dedicated February
5, 1910, and the women's new
dormitory which is in course of
construction.
These buildings born of prayer,
and built by prayer, have been
consecrated by the prayers of
nearly 5000 students, who have
here learned the deep things of
God, and especially THE eX-
ceeding greatness,of His power
to usward who believe. "
Someone has said that a boy
without a fortune is a fortunate
boy. However this may be, it is
certainly fortunate for many
young people that Dwight l..
Moody was born poor, for it led
him to sympathize heartily with
every other young mon who like
himself had small means and
large aspirations.
He early recognized that a con-
siderable part of our religious
work must be done by lay work
ers. He also saw that there
were thousands of young men
and women to whom college
education was impossible but
who with a year or two of train
ing in the English Bible, per-
sonal work and music might be
able to fill many positions of use
fulness which their gifts and
calling might indicate.
This led him to found the
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago,
which affords perhaps the most
remarkable combination of study
and practical work that the world
has ever seen. 1t is in no sense
a theological seminary or rival
of the seminaries. 1t does not
teach Hebrew or Greek, but it
has five different methods of
teaching the English Bible. The
training is so practical. and the
religious atmosphere so in
spring, that hundreds of minis
ters and theological students
come here to supplement their
seminary course. Some Mis-
sionary Boards also advise all
their candidates for the foreign
field to spend a few months at
the Institute.
1t is hoped that thousands of
young men inspired by the ex-
ample of the great founder of
the Institute. d. l.. Moody, and
encouraged by the success which
God bestowed upon a humble, !
consecrated layman, may be led |
to devote their lives to some form |
of Christian service.
Every mission field in the world
is crying for trained workers,
and there are ten calls for every |
man that can be supplied.
If Christian young men and
women knew these facts and re-
allied the urgency of the need,
and the richness of the reward |
which every faithful worker may |
hope to gain, it is believed that
many of them would choose this
form of lifework.
Furthermore, pastors can rend-
er no better service to their
churches then to send young
Christians here for short time,
even if they have no intention
of devoting their lives to Christ
ian work
A single term has often re-
suited in giving one such a work
ing knowledge of the Bible, such
a deepening of spiritual life, and
such discovery of his own spirit
ual gifts, that he has returned to
his home church a dozen times
more valuable than when he left.
1t is a great thing for one to
ascertain his spiritual gifts, and
TO find his own proper place of
service in the kingdom of God,
and the Moody Bible Institute is
we'll calculated to render that
service.