. The life and work of Dwight L. Moody, presented to the Christian world as a tribute to the memory of the greatest apostle of the age. tical lines in the City of and buildings near the church were purchased, and theorganization was effected in October, 1889, when the Instituteopened for regular work. The Beginning At the beginning something like eighty students were enrolled,fifty of them being men and thirty women. Three houses hadbeen already purchased by the Institution, and another brick struc-ture was at once begun, which was finished the following year. Theattendance duri
. The life and work of Dwight L. Moody, presented to the Christian world as a tribute to the memory of the greatest apostle of the age. tical lines in the City of and buildings near the church were purchased, and theorganization was effected in October, 1889, when the Instituteopened for regular work. The Beginning At the beginning something like eighty students were enrolled,fifty of them being men and thirty women. Three houses hadbeen already purchased by the Institution, and another brick struc-ture was at once begun, which was finished the following year. Theattendance during this year was three times as great as the firstyear. The students came from all parts of the world. They heldreligious opinions of every type, and they came to the Institute withdifferent objects. Some of them intended to continue their studiesafter leaving the Institute ; others expected to enter immediatelyupon active work when they left. Indeed, there were many pastorsof churches, who came there in order that they might increase theirknowledge of practical ways of working In their own churches. , . •>** w *>^^ ■^^. V •* T* ^ ■•12! . .t»- rl::t. THE CHICAGO BIBLE INSTITUTE 233 Perhaps in no institution of the country would there be manifest amore intense zeal for work than would be found there. The mainobject of the institution was both practical and simple ; it was togive all the students a thorough working knowledge of the Scrip-tures, in order that they might be equipped for personal Christianwork, and at the same time have their own spiritual lives are, in all, accommodations for about three hundredstudents. The two departments are kept separate except at thetime of lectures, when all come together in the lecture hall of the main building. The Object in View One is not a guest at the Institute for any great length oftime without discovering the object which the Institute has in will see here 200 or 300 bright and earnest Christ
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