OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY GERALD B. SMITH AND THEODORE G. SOARES AN OUTLINE BIBLE-STUDY COURSE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ANDOVER-HARVARD THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY 146,647 COPYRIGHT 1918 BY All Rights Reserved Published September 1918 Composed and Printed By To the American Institute of Sacred Literature The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.: I desire to be enrolled as a member of the Institute, and to receive the question sheets to be returned for a certificate on the course on The Realities of the Christian Religion. Name. Address. If in class, name of leader. Date. REMARKS FOREWORD TO THE STUDENT The following studies are arranged in accordance with the method of other studies in the same series; namely, the assignment of a daily portion to be read and considered from various points of view. Unlike most of the courses of THE INSTITUTE, this course draws its material from Christian experience in all ages and of many sorts. Selections other than Biblical writings are printed in full unless easily accessible to all. In order to carry on such a course as outlined in this book, it is not absolutely necessary that the daily study arrangement shall be followed. For the completion of the course by such an arrangement, an expenditure of fifteen minutes a day ought to be sufficient. It may in many cases be more convenient to spend more time than this upon the work and at longer intervals. Those who desire, therefore, to ignore the division into daily portions may combine the selections into weekly tasks or such divisions as are most convenient to them. In any case read each day's portion carefully, and if possible think it through until you can satisfactorily consider the questions which the instructor raises. The ability to think clearly will be one of the most valuable results of this study. If you should find a question which puzzles or disturbs you, and it is not easy to satisfy yourself concerning it on the day on which you find it, pass on to the next day's work without anxiety. It is very possible that the question will answer itself through your later study. If you are satisfied after some time that the question is still unanswered, refer it to THE INSTITUTE headquarters and help will be given you by correspondence. All persons using this book may be counted as members of the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF SACRED LITERATURE if they so wish. The price which is paid for the book, fifty cents, whether paid to a local book dealer, to the publishing agents (The University of Chicago Press), or to the headquarters of the AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF SACRED LITERATURE, directly or through the leader of a club, is the only prerequisite. Anyone possessing the book and following the course is entitled, having paid this fee, to apply for question sheets which will enable him to send to the headquarters of THE I |