Christian Century . aff chosen! Then the Edinburghrecommendations were taken as a chart and the faculty was appointed with specific reference to the task. Godhad the men and women ready to do the work. Without hesitation it was made a graduate school, with all its energies devoted exclusively to the prepara-tion of missionaries. It refuses to duplicate ordinary college work. If there is an academic language, scienceor Bible course which the student needs it is provided by Butler College across the street. When the Men and Millions Movement, another providential leading of the Disciples, was in
Christian Century . aff chosen! Then the Edinburghrecommendations were taken as a chart and the faculty was appointed with specific reference to the task. Godhad the men and women ready to do the work. Without hesitation it was made a graduate school, with all its energies devoted exclusively to the prepara-tion of missionaries. It refuses to duplicate ordinary college work. If there is an academic language, scienceor Bible course which the student needs it is provided by Butler College across the street. When the Men and Millions Movement, another providential leading of the Disciples, was incorporated,there was no question as to requiring that each one of its thousand new missionaries should have at least oneyear of graduate study in the College of Missions or some equivalent institution. Now the success of themovement will provide $150,000 toward perpetual endowment for the work which its triumphant recruiting ismultiplying upon the College. Men and Millions Movement, 222 W. Fourth St., CINCINNATI, stian Century CHABLES CLAYTON MOBEISOS, EDITOR. HERBERT L. WILLETT, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR. Volume XXXIV MAY 24. 1917 Number 21 Remembering Our Dead OUR DEAD MAY LIVE AGAIN IN US. Though Christians would not be entirely satisfiedwith an immortality of influence such as that set forthDy George Eliot in The Choir Invisible, we may notdisregard the place held in our life by those who havepassed out of the earthly existence. We are accustomed to speak of the evil influenceof those who lived before us. The social student com-plains of the dead hand of the past which controlsour institutions. There is, of course, a kind of rever-ence for leaders of other ages which has proved to bea reactionary influence. It is equally true that the memory and influenceof the dead have served to sadden many lives. Athousand weary pilgrimages to the cemetery to placethe futile offering of flowers upon a grave takes theyouth out of a womans heart, or robs a lover of hischance of life. Once we
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