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God showed me the time has come to establish an educational
institution based on TRUTH, on God's REVELATION OF TRUTH,
supplemented with those facts of natural and exact sciences which
man has been able, himself, to discover---and all BASED ON, and
explained by, and in harmony with, THE BIBLE.
This is not to be a theological seminary. Not a Bible
college. Not a college for future ministers alone, but a GENERAL
college, giving a general and full education based on TRUTH, for
any and all who want to know HOW TO LIVE, how to train and educate
their minds, and to be started off on the life-long PROCESS of
right education---of developing the mind, without neglecting the
HEART, and the SOUL! Now out of it we hope, and believe thru faith
in God, will come a FEW whom we shall see GOD HAS CALLED to His
ministry. And they will come out TRAINED, educated, fitted, for
the great mission. But too often men think God has called them to
the ministry when He has not! There will be no promise of "a job"
in the ministry to graduates. If God has called one to the
ministry, this call will be SHOWN "by the fruits."
However, EVERY student who comes will take the BIBLE course,
which will be the basic course of the school. God willing, I plan
myself to teach all Bible classes. There will be many other
courses available, mostly selective,---such as English, foreign
languages, history, mathematics, certain of the EXACT sciences,
etc. All girl students will be required to take the domestic
science course. And we shall not graduate girls, like some
domestic science courses, who can cook dainty pastries and deserts
but couldn't cook a wholesome meal to save their lives and who do
not know how to be a good wife and mother. We shall teach girls to
cook wholesome meals that build health, how to be a true wife
fulfilling GOD'S PURPOSE, how to be a good, intelligent, efficient
mother and HOME-MAKER. Some of our graduates will be fitted to
become school teachers in the public schools---teaching rightly,
and INSTILLING CHARACTER in those they teach. This school, God has
shown me, must be a CHARACTER-TRAINING INSTITUTION. It must be
utterly DIFFERENT from any school or college in the world today!
While it will not be designed along orthodox worldly lines,
yet we expect to receive full "accreditation" as a recognized,
accredited college, and our standards in every way will be as high,
or higher, than those of the top ranking state universities. Only
the ablest, best-qualified professors and instructors will compose
the faculty---and only those in sympathy with our ideals and basic
purpose. Already I have selected the man to be principle, or head
of this school---a man eminently qualified, a life-long educator,
who in his own educational work has for years successfully employed
the "character training" principle in connection with academic
teaching in the schools of which he has been head. He BELIEVES God
has revealed to us the TRUTH and is in full harmony and sympathy
with this undertaking. I have the counsel and assistance of
eminent educators who also are Christians and believe in the kind
of school we are planning.
This Week a MIRACLE Happened!
For several months, I have been planning this school ON
FAITH. The main unsolved problem was WHERE TO HOUSE IT. I have