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Pres. R. W. McGranahan
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A Ten Days· Bible School
Rev. Ralph W. ,McGranahan, D.D.
President of Knoxvil,le College. Knoxville. Tenn.
At Clifton Conf.rence, Augult 19. 1908
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I N our school the Bible ;s taught five days in the week, with
emphasis on Sunday-s,chool work. Our work i the arne as
others are doing, b\}~ there is one feature which, I think, is
unique, because of its b~aring on one phase of that work.
Mr. Hartshorn made a statement
about a desire to reach out farther
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than the student and farther than
the school. For fifteen years after
the school vear, we have held a ten •
days' Bible school on our campus,
beginning the next day after commencement.
Very many of the students
stay to it and we have studied
wavs and means.
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The Board of Con t l' 0 I
pays the expen es, and the
boarding and other expenses
while the students are there;
they pay about one half of the room expenses; the result
has been that about three-fourths of those engaged
in the work who have graduated from the school and
from other preparatory schools, stay for about ten
day' ession, and J don't believe there are ten day
in the year when more is accompli~hed in effective
training.
Would it not be a good plan if the man who is to be
employed by the Assoeiation should come to the schools
and conduct the ten days' school of method and
Sabbath-school work? and there might be a great deal
accomplished and something done to reach the Sunday-
school. I don't believe it i going to accomplish
much to simply get the pastor together, but a good
deal might be done to have tho e directly connected
with the Sunda r-school get together and tudy ways
and means.
I am glad that so much has been said about the importance
of procuring the sympathy of the Southern white man.
I do think that that is ab olutely fundameutal, and I have
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wonder d what i going to b done along that lin. I don't
know what the committ icon idering. It make no matter,
if the omrnitt e endor e him we hall have a wid open door
in Knoxville Collcg without an~' re triction.. We will welcome
him. But J have been wondering if ill their ecuring
the men, the committee would not be able to lay their •
hand on .orne outhern white m n, - men conse rated to
tbat work, who w uld come to it <rladlv, and with all inceritv • •
and earne'tnes~, and in addition to thi be able to put tbi
great object which i. 0 much on our IU'art before the pupil
in a better way becau e of their sympathy and the fact that
they want to help our outhern negroes.
I did not intend to peak so long, but I do believe that our
dear friend, :Mr. and Mrs. Hartshorn, through thi Conference,
are doing more, perhap, to see that this work is properly
sta:rted and that the white man of the South and the black man
are brought together, than anything else that has come in the
course of a great many years.
KNOXVILLE COLLEGE, FACULTY
The catalogue of Knox\'ille ollege states that the purpo e
of the college i. to provide the most thorough literary. cia sical,
and cientific training. together with instruelion in the most
u eful of manual art.
