ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION - League of Evangelical Students - February 20th Through 23rd

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Eleventh Annual Convention program text invites students to Chicago for February 20th through 23rd, presenting a lineup of prominent evangelical leaders and specifying meeting locations at the Moody Bible Institute with free lodging for delegates. The document includes an editorial urging evangelicals to move from awareness to action, warning that denominational colleges and seminaries have been influenced by naturalism and modernism. It outlines duties for Christian parents and students: withdraw financial support, refuse institutions that do not uphold Scripture, and pursue constitutional reform, while continuing outreach and support for students on secular campuses.

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EDITORIAL

EVANGELICALS, ARISE!

THE CERTAINTY OF SALVATION

# ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE # League of Evangelical Students AT CHICAGO—February 20th Through 23rd Students Everywhere Invited # Foremost Evangelical Leaders of AmericanProtestantism Will Speak! SPEAKERS J.GRESHAM MACHEN,D.D.,LIT.D.—Westminster Theological Seminary.JAMES OLIVER BUSWELL,D.D.—Wheaton College.HENRY ScHULTZ,TH.D.—Calvin Theological Seminary.MARTIN C.LEHMAN,PH.D.—Goshen College.THOMAS E.WELLMERS,M.A.—Hope College. R.B.KUIPER,M.A.,B.D.—Westminster Theological Seminary.WALLACE L.EMERSON,PH.D.—Wheaton College.WILL H.HoUGHTON,D.D.—Moody Bible Institute. F.D.WHITESELL,TH.D.—Northern Baptist Theological Seminary.P.B.FITZWATER,D.D.—Moody Bible Institute.ALBERT B.DoDD,D.D.—Missionary to China.MELVIN A.STUCKEY,TH.M.--Ashland Theological Seminary. 一一 Meetings will be held in the auditoriums of the Moody Bible Institute—830 N.La Salle St.,Chicago,Illinois. Lodging will be provided free to all delegates whether League members or not.Send all registrations and reservations for rooms to Miss Ida MeMillen,830 N.La Salle St.,Chicago,Ill.,at least ten days before the Convention.Please statewhether you plan to attend the Banquet on Saturday evening—price fifty cents Volume XI Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,January,1936No.1 ## EDITORIAL EVANGELICALS,ARISE! A few years ago there could have been no more timely subject for an editorialthan“Evangelicals,Awake!”Christians were then unaware of the sweepingconquests that naturalism(unbelief)had made in America's denominationalcolleges and seminaries.God’s people needed to be awakened to the fact thatthe Christian colleges and seminaries founded by evangelical Christians for thepurpose of propagating the Christian Faith had come to be dominated andcontrolled,but for a few noble exceptions,by forces hostile to supernatural re-demptive Christianity. Today,informed evangelicals are fully aware that the average denominationalinstitution—be it Methodist,Presbyterian,or Baptist—is promulgating theorieswhich strike at the very heart of the Christian religion.The crying need of thehour is not for information;it is for action.Mere words will not suffice in themodern crisis.Christians must arise and do something and do it expeditiously!The student world is perishing today not because Christians are ignorant ofconditions on the denominational campus.The student world is perishing becauseevangelicals have been content with talking about modernism in colleges andseminaries and have usually done nothing about it."The Lord is a God ofknowledge and by Him actions are weighed.” What is the duty of the Christian parent and the Christian student whenconfronted with the apostate condition of denominational institutions?The firstduty of the Christian is to withold his financial support from those denomi-national boards and agencies which contribute toward the maintenance ofmodernistic colleges and seminaries.The various denominational boards oragencies for the promotion of Christian education are pouring funds into denomi-national institutions and into the work of the student pastors in State Univer-sities dominantly modernistic.To support these boards or agencies,howeverevangelical they may be in other respects,is to aid in the dissemination of anti-Christian teaching.A second duty is for Christian parents to refuse to send andfor Christian students to refuse to attend any institution that does not standfour square for the Word of God.To attend a modernistic or indifferentist insti-tution is to deprive the student of a Christian education,to clutter the mind withever-changing theories,to have the spiritual life blighted,and to cast ourfinancial support together with our influence on the side of modernism.A thirdduty is to seek in accordance with the appointed constitutional procedure of theparticular denomination to reform these institutions and the agencies that sup-port them,and in the event of probable failure—due to the dominance of modern-ism in the larger Protestant de

FAQs

Who is invited to the Eleventh Annual Convention, and where is it held?

Students everywhere are invited. Meetings are held in the auditoriums of the Moody Bible Institute at 830 N. La Salle St., Chicago, Illinois.

What does the editorial argue evangelicals should do instead of only talking?

It calls for urgent action: evangelicals must arise, do something expeditiously, and move beyond complaining about modernism by praying for and faithfully supporting the League of Evangelical Students.

What duties does the editorial assign to Christian parents and students regarding denominational institutions?

It urges withholding financial support from agencies funding modernistic colleges and refusing to send or attend institutions that do not stand for the Word of God, while also seeking constitutional reform where possible.

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