Excerpt from The Biblical World, Vol. 32: July-December, 1908Does this mean, then, the elimination of the Christian Association from the field of Bible-study in the colleges? Far from it. Their work there has been invaluable in the past and is indispensable in the present. In the first place, they have still a mission in doing as well as they can, what the colleges ought to do well but are not doing at all. And in the second place they will always be needed, not only in the promotion of religious life on its devotional side, and of reli gions activity, but in the promotion of Bible-study. There are Obvious reasons why the professor of biblical literature and Christian history cannot systematically solicit students to enter his classes, and desirable as it is that students should take these courses, it is doubtful whether the college should as a rule make them required.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.