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college Young Men's Christian Association. In addition there were held large public assemblies where the modern movement for Bible study was brought before the entire student body. Many of these Bible Institutes were attended by delegates from the principal institutions of learning in a State or section, thus affording an excellent opportunity to exchange experiences in both the dynamic and the technical branches of Bible propaganda. The following subjects of a recent Bible Institute, held at Iowa State College, will be found suggestive:

Place and Function of Bible Study in College Life. Essential Relations of the Bible-study Leader: (1) The Leader in Relation to the Truth. (2) The Leader in Relation to the Book. (3) The Leader in Relation to the Student.

A Specimen Class Hour-Group 1: Life of Paul. Group 2: Life of Christ. Group 3: Social Significance of Jesus' Teachings. Group 4: The Will of God.

Why Fraternity Men Should Study the Bible.

What Bible Study Has Meant to Our Fraternity. (A Testimony.)

Fraternity Bible Study from the Standpoint of an Engineer. (By a Dean of Division of Engineering.)

Why Our Fraternity is Planning to Study the Bible. (A Testimony.)

Ways and Means of Promoting Bible Study Among Fraternity Men.

Relation of the Student to the Church Bible Class.

Duty of the Church to Provide Constructive Bible Study Work for the Student.

Ways and Means of Promoting Church Bible Classes for Students.

Some Fundamental Objectives of Bible Study.

Evangelism, One Great Objective of Bible Study. The Place of Habitual Bible Study in the Development of the Strongest Character.

Bible Study, a Constructive Factor in College Life. What Can the Faculty Member Do to Promote Bible Study?

Bible Study the World Around.

It is of critical importance to the church to know how wide-spread is this Bible interest among all classes of North American institutions. The State institutions which possess little opportunity to impress moral or religious truth directly through the curriculum, are among the leaders in this voluntary Bible-study uprising.

The list given herewith of twenty-five institutions of widely varying types, is striking

evidence of the fact that the college man is truly aroused to the value and to the modern means of Bible study:

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Furthermore, this movement has been

largely guided by the best undergraduate

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HARVARD

A FEW OF THE STUDENTS AT A NORTHFIELD SUMMER CONFERENCE

During this annual ten-day conference hundreds of representative college men of the East are trained for Bible-class leadership in their respective institutions.

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