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shewbread of early memory. Their religious life was fed rather by fresh, vital experience, by actual contact with conditions, and this is the food which is "meat indeed." One of the members of the group exprest the value of his study by saying: "We find that Jesus' principles work."

This is the social gospel of the Bible. And it is a gospel as applicable to the life of today as it was applicable seven or eight centuries before Christ, when Micah exprest it:

"Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? He hath showed

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thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?"

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However often we may change our minds regarding theology, we shall never render our belief in the serviceable application of the principles of the Bible to everyday life.

APPENDIX

APPENDIX

For the purpose of concrete suggestion as to programs of Bible-class sessions, constitutions and conference ideas, and bibliography, I append certain literature in use by some of the most effective organized Bible work for men.

I-Bible Institute

PROGRAM AT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
Friday Evening

7:30-Rally Meeting for the Visiting Delegates and for the College Men and Women of Tennessee Institutions.

Address.

Saturday Morning

9:00- Devotional Service.

9:30-Sectional Conferences.

(A) For the University Men.

Theme-Forces Making for Effective Bible Study.

1. Systematic and Continuous Enrolment.

2. A Vitalized Leader.

3. The Normal Group.
(B) For the Preparatory School Men.
Theme-Leadership.

1. Securing and Training Leaders.
2. High Ideals of a Leader.

3. How to Improve the Class-hour.

11:00-Joint Conference.

Privileges and Opportunities of a Group Leader.

11:30-Address.

Saturday Afternoon

2:30 Session for Fraternity Men.

1. The Significance to the Fraternity of Having a Bible Study Group in the Chapter House.

2. Jesus as a Fraternity Man.

3. College Fraternity Bible Study Movements.

Saturday Evening

7:30—Sectional Conferences.

(A) Faculty Session.

1. Bible Study, a Constructive Force in College

Life.

2. Faculty Cooperation, a Factor in the Growth of Bible Study.

(B) Preparatory School Session.

1. A Bible Study Policy.

2. Enrolling the Men.

3. Creating and Maintaining Interest.

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