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Religious Influences
"While the Seminary is under the control of the Methodist Episcopal Church it is not sectarian. Students from Christian homes of any denomination are welcomed and made to feel at home. "The religious life is looked upon as something to be developed as much as the physical and intellectual life. "It is a definite purpose of the faculty to make the impression upon each pupil that "Godliness is profitable unto all things," and to make the religious life seem the only normal life. "The English Bible is not taught for sectarian propagandism but for moral uplift. "Every student is expected to attend Sunday School and preaching services at the church of his choice and such religious exercises may from time to time be held at the Seminary building." - Twelfth Annual Catalog of Baxter Seminary, Baxter, TN 1922 - From Baxter Seminary Yearbooks 1934-1960
"The religious life of Baxter Seminary is constantly kept at a high level, Under student direction, but with faculty supervision, the students conduct many of the regular daily chapel services, hold prayer meetings in the dormitories, carry on Young Women's Christian Association and the Young Men's Christian Association in both day and evening groups, and the Methodist Youth Fellowship which has as its president a junior girl, also the chairman of evangelism for the district. "Daily Bible reading is under the direction of the director of Bible and Religious Education Classes, and the presence upon the faculty of returned missionaries who served in Africa and India has aroused a great deal of interest in missionary work. Often students have regular charges and a number plan to study for the ministry, while fifteen graduates within recent years have entered the ministry. Some girls are preparing for the missionary service and other girls are seeking to be nurses and to engage in other forms of Christian service." (November 15, 1958 - The Leaf Chronicle, Clarksville, TN)
Continue on to see Discipline for students. - Twelfth Annual Catalog of Baxter Seminary, Baxter, TN 1922 - Taken from Baxter Seminary Yearbooks 1934-1960 ajlambert.com
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