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Show 82 NORTH CHINA MISSION Theol.CoIlege high grade theological Seminary for all China to be taught in English. These demands may be met with modifications by a Bible Training School on the one hand and by the Union University of the future on the other, but it is manifestly impossible for the present force of teachers with the present body of students to spread itself over the whole region comprehended between the two diverse ideals suggested above. The principles of Biblical interpretation must be taught and the student helped over the hard places; the history of the Church must be lived over that its mistakes may not be repeated, its vital power may be realized; the candidate for the ministry must be brought into close touch with the personal Christ through studv of the historic Christ both in his visible ministry on earth and in the acts and words of his apostles; the absolute oneness of God's revelation in Creation, in Providence, in Conscience, in Scripture, in Christ, and in all indisputable results of scientific knowledge and research, must be proclaimed and demonstrated from the attitude of a faith which fears no truth, which dreads no failure; and the whole heart, and soul and body and mind must be trained for and enlisted in the practical application of all that is acquired to the salvation of the sinner, the service of society, the support of the state and the spread of the Saviour's kingdom. This is the high aim of the College, imperfectly attained as is evinced in some of the items of the year's record. We heartily welcome all constructive criticism as an aid to more perfect attainment; and meanwhile pray for a speedy settlement of the question of the larger union, that with a larger force of teachers, and a larger body of students we may provide a much broader and fuller course of preparation for the ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Compiled by Mr. Wilder from the report by Dr. Fenn |