People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — TO TEACH SOUL SAVING. [ARTICLE]

TO TEACH SOUL SAVING.

Religious Societies Form a Bible Training School. An international Bible training school for the instruction of Christian lay workers is in process of organization in Washington under the auspices of the American Society of Religions Education, the National Gospel Mission onion and the Central Union mission. The school is being organized according to plans recommended by a joint committfse of these three organizations, whioh provides that the school shall be incorporated under the laws of the District of Colombia and open to students from all parts of the country, that the curriculum of the school provide two courses, one for the training of Christian lay workers for mission and evangelistic services and one for the training of new converts, and that the government of the school be under a board of 15 directors, sos whom shall be chosen from each of the three societies mentioned. These three societies are pledged to become the perpetual patrons and supporters of the new institution, and the National Gospel Mission union is to arrange for the employment of graduates of the sohool in Christian work, thus forming a permanent interdenominational and national evangelical movement by trained workers, always in sympathy with the chnrohes.—Washington Post.