The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-08-17
Zion Educational
Institutions
(By Apostle Willis F. Jordan)

The third year Of the Zion Schools will open,
God willing, on Monday, September 16, 1918.
Such was the announcement by the General
Overseer on last Wednesday night and on Lord S
Day afternoon.
To all real Zion parents and pupils that was
glad announcement. How it should make us
all pray and work daily to make the coming
year great one indeed!
AS it will take thousands Of dollars to carry
on the year work, we ought all to pray God
daily to enable us, each and every one in Zion,
to help all we possibly can financially. 1t ought
to be great joy to each Zion man and woman
to pray, to pay, to work and to talk for Zion
Schools. May God help us to do SO joyfully the
coming year.
The following are some Of the reasons why
the writer believes in, and will daily pray for
and support ZION'S EDUCATIONAL IlSTI-
TUTIONS
l. THEY ARE OF GOD He alone could
have given the vision Of their conception. Have
you not heard our beloved leader say that the
inspiration to reopen them came to him sudden
ly while he was delivering an addressg
2 They recognize God and make Him first
In everything. On the opening day. Septem.
Der 16, In the procession, you will see various
banners carried along One will read. ''In the
Beginning God;' another, "Make God First; -
another, Remember Now Thy Creator;'' etc.
While Zion believes in Women and children
hrst BE sure you are right, and then 90
ahead she believes in "God first in every
thing, and in her Educational Institutions this
principle is put into daily operation.
3. They have large place in the conception
prayer, plan and purposes Of Gods leader in
Zion. Loyalty to God to His leader and to Zion
lmperatlvey demands our utmost affection
prayer and support, that ZION'S EDUCATION
AL INSTITUTIONS may be brought up to their
best possible estate for God and Zion
4 They recognize and make large use of the
Bible. banner carried in procession will read
:" The Bible Is Our Principal Text Book" And
so 1t is. All pupils are instructed daily in the
Bible. They are required to pass an examina-
ton IN the Bible, and to commit portions of it to
memory.
they are taught the meaning of Corinthians
1882: that part Of the Bible relates to the
Jews or Israel, a part to the Gentiles and part
to the Church Of God
They are taught that the Bible must not onlv
be known, but it must be properly divided. as in
III Timothy 2 is
Study to show thyself approved unto God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly
dividing the word of truth
Ii HioIl anu III nef schools 1T is shown how
the Bible must be divided - geographically
historically, doctrlnaly, enthusiastically and dis
pensationally
The distinction between Moses and Christ
Law and Grace, Israel and the Church. the King.
dom and the Church, Christ and Antichrist. the
Flood and the Great Tribulation. is recoonized
and explained
DANIEL S Seventleth Week, the Dispersion and
Regathering of Israel and the Times of the Cen
tiles are explained taught and can be under
stood in Zion.
In outside schools these things are never heard
OF; the Bible, God, Christ and the GOSPEL are
never mentioned. In all such schools the Bible
is tabooed on the ground = they v that it
IS sectarlan book and would thus be unaccept
able to Mohammedans, Roman Catholics Chris
uan Scientists, Jews, Unitarians and infidels
VINO are taxpayers in the schools.
In Zion this problem never bothers rs. for wo
are all taught the same thing, all believe the
same thing and all speak the same thing. as we
are so advised to do in [ Corinthians l 10 =
Now beseech you, brethren, by the Name :, our
LORD Jesus Christ, that We all speak the same thing
and that there be no divisions among you but that
ye De perfectly Joined together in the same mind
ana In the same judgment.
5. IN ZION EDUCATIONAL INsTIT11-
IlONS the Saddusaical soul-sleeping, material
lstlc, splrltuallzed, demonzed, bewhiskered. mil
oeWed, mosslhzed, fossilized, evolutionary
monkeyized, tadpole protoplasm theory of man s
rise, progress and ultimate BE as God, . has alb
solutely no recognition or place, thank God
g. IN ZION SCHOOLS, PRAYER TO GOD
THE FATHER IN THE NAME OF JESUS THE
CHRlST, BY THE POWER, OR HELP, OF
The HOLY SPIRIT has large recognition and
place.
Every davis session of Zion Scbools ;s ono,oa