 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECOND PERIOD—1774-1800 Ch.4—Mr. Otterbein called to Baltimore Ch.5—The Otterbein Church in Baltimore Ch.6—The Movement Toward a Separate Church Organization Ch.7—The First and Second Conferences THIRD PERIOD—1800-1815 Ch.10—The Conferences of 1801-1814 Ch.12—The Departure of the Leaders FOURTH PERIOD—1815-1837 Ch.13—The First General Conference—1815 Ch.14—The General Conferences of 1817-1833 FIFTH PERIOD—1837-1885 Ch.15—The General Conferences of 1837 and 1841 Ch.16—The General Conferences of 1845 and 1849 Ch.17—The General Conferences of 1853-1861 Ch.18—The General Conferences of 1865-1881 SIXTH PERIOD—1885-1897 Ch.19—The Nineteenth General Conference—1885 Ch.21—The Twentieth General Conference—1889 Ch.23—The Twenty-First General Conference—1893
PART II DEPARTMENTS OF CHURCH WORK Ch.1—The United Brethren Publishing House Ch.2—The Home, Frontier, and Foreign Missionary Society and Its Work Ch.3—The Church-Erection Society Ch.4—The Woman's Missionary Association Ch.9—The Young People's Christian Union Ch.10—The Board of Trustees of the Church
PART III THE ANNUAL CONFERENCES Ch.1—A Group of Early Conferences Ch.2—Other Conferences Organized from 1835 to 1853 Ch.3—Conferences Organized Since 1853
PART IV HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL TABLES Appendices Index
NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION Work originally published in 1897. Scanned, proofed and minor spelling corrections by the United Brethren Historical Center. Electronic edition ©2006 United Brethren Historical Center Suggested Citation:
|
History of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ by Daniel Berger |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
CHAPTER VII THE BOARD OF EDUCATION p.531 The General Conference of 1869, which took the initiatory steps toward founding a theological seminary, gave further proof of its progressive spirit by creating for the Church a general Board of Education. The need of a central advisory board which should have a general oversight over the educational work, began to be emphasized by several considerations, among them that of the tendency a too rapid multiplication of colleges. The reader has already seen that when once the educational wave was started it swept with great force through the Church. Under this impulse more colleges were in process of forming than the church membership justified, or than could possibly be financially supported, and it required no profound foresight to perceive that unless the movement could be placed under restraint not many years would pass before the Church would have a number of deeply embarrassed colleges. But a further purpose in the organization of the Board of Education was to secure homogeneity in the work of the several colleges of the Church. It was apparent that institutions geographically widely separated would soon differ widely in character unless some common bond of union to hold them in closer relation to each other could be devised. It was also provided that reports on the condition of the various colleges and other educational institutions of the Church should be made quadrennially to the General Conference, with such recommendations as p.532 the board might see proper to offer. It was not deemed necessary to place extended financial responsibility with the board, since the boards of trustees of the various institutions have control of the department of finance for their schools respectively. The board is instructed, however, to provide and manage a loan fund for the benefit of students needing aid in pursuing their course in college or the theological seminary. The board consists of twelve members, six of whom are required by the Discipline to be ministers, and six of whom may be laymen. The service of the board in unifying and promoting the general educational work of the Church has attained a greater value than is generally perceived. Some of the quadrennial reports to the General Conference have been extended discussions of the general field of higher education, and ought to have a wide reading among the people of the Church. The board holds its meetings annually. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NEXT | |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
