Foreword
The Students' Volunteer Band, studying fields of missionary activity in the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute, had the privilege of attending a series of studies given by Dr. E. A. Sutherland, president of the institution, revealing the fact that the great Protestant denominations failed to give the first angel's message in its fullness because they did not free themselves from the papal system of education. Clinging to this system in the end brought them into confusion.
The Seventh-day Adventist denomination came into existence because of this failure, and it must succeed where the others failed. Their birthright as a denomination is a great reform movement, the greatest the world has ever known. The Lord has been telling our people that, as individuals, we are in a positive danger of suffering the same defeat as they suffered, because we still cling to worldly methods of education. They failed to give the midnight cry because of their wrong system of education. We are soon to enter the period of the latter rain. We trust the following pages may be earnestly and prayerfully read.
References
Acts — Acts of the Apostles, Mrs. E. G. White
C. E. — Christian Education, Mrs. E. G. White
Boone — Education in the United States
ED — Education, Mrs. E. G. White
Ga. — Education in Georgia, Charles E. James
G. C. — Great Controversy, Mrs. E. G. White
Von Ranke —History of the Popes
Painter — History of Education Tenn. —
Higher Education in Tennessee, Merriam
Miller — Life of William Miller, White
Melanchthon — Life of Melanchthon;
Mann — Life and Works of Horace Mann
M. B. — Macaulay's Bacon
M. R. — Macauley's Von Ranke
Madison School — Testimony, Series B, No. 11
Fairchild — Oberlin, The Colony and the College
Rosencrans — Philosophy of Education
Laurie — Rise and Constitution of Universities
R. & H. — Review and Herald
T. E. — Special Testimonies on Education
Oberlin — Story of Oberlin, Leonard
T. — Testimonies for the Church
Jefferson — Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia, (Adams)
U. T. — Unpublished Testimonies
