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Show IProvo Preacher Heady for Infidels. Bl Hopes to Organize Class ifor Bible Study This Will Offer 100 Prizo for Essay on 2Tow Testament Plan, of Salvation. ' t I J Special to Tho Tribune, x fiTVROVO. Uluh. July 4. The itov. BJ5 Thomas Henry Scruggs, pautor of j $1 tho First BnpUst church oC Provo, 1 Is developing his "National Infldcl I CorrcspondencoBtbllcnl Institute," and has prepared a circulnr explaining tho I origin and object o tho same. Mr. Scrucgs says: "Tho oHkI.t camo from a personal conviction con-viction that partial realization of tho need j In Infldcl life. I advertised that on and after Juno 19 I would, on conditions, glvo Infidels ono dollar an hour to sit in my church services Sunday evening, and a fow days after tho correspondent of Tho Salt Lako Tribuno Interviewed me, and tho intervlow was published In Tho Tribune Trib-une and several of tho leading papers of the United States took tho matter up and persons In "many parts of tho United States wrote mo and asked mo more about some of my positions and wanted to know If 1 expected to follow up tho new lino of thought, etc. "I have decided to continue my efforts In behalf of the Infidels In the United 1 States and In tho world. Tho plans nro not perfect yet, but some of tho following will bo used and others will develop from time to time. The work will be conducted only In tho winter season when Infidels havo time to study the Bible. Twelve or fifteen lessons will bo given for a term and one may take more if tho work Is pleasing. Thrco kinds of persons may become actlvo members, viz.: Atheist, Infidel In-fidel and skeptic. "All applications for membership will have to bo examined, and will bo booked In one of the three departments. 1 will take each person through his department Just like I would If ho were the only student. stu-dent. "When a person accepts and Is accepted ac-cepted he must say how many lessons ho will lake and nothing but death Is to change that decision nnd promlso until those lessons are mastered and the person per-son passes an examination. The examination exami-nation will be from memory only because 1 will give but ono lesson at a tlmo and the text of that lescon will have to bo returned before I will send nnothor les-"son les-"son and another toxt. All questions and all answers will be written and all such matter will be preserved for futuro use. - "Tho results of tho first year's work will be published In our annual cataloguo and the cataloguo will cbe sold to 8how tho world what wo have done. At tho closo of tho tc-m all rtudonts In each department depart-ment will be required to write an essay on the subject: 'The Teachings of the New Testament on tho Plan of Salvation.' Salva-tion.' Tho writer of the best essay on the subject will receive a reward of ono hundred dollars lrr gold given by Thomas Henry Scrugg3 the founder and manager of the work. "The first year we will let the president of Chicago university decide who Is to receive he hundred dollars. The work Is to be conducted for five years and tho same subject Is to be written on each year. "Tho school will begin tho coming fall and an Introductory booklet will be prepared pre-pared for those who are Interested. I am now ready to corrcsopnd with all who are ' ll'Ing to enter the contest. Both gentle-it gentle-it n nnd ladles may study In the school ind compete for the $100 prize." |
