WHAT THE CHURCHES ARE DOING.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12506, 19 May 1906, Page 13

WHAT THE CHURCHES ARE DOING.

NEWS AND NOTES FOR PULPIT AND PEW.

UNIVERSITY BIBLE TEACHING

Thf> Theological Faculty of Manchester University has drawn up a scheme, for examinations in Bible knowledge which has been endorsed and accepted hy the University authorities, and will he put into practice forthwith. This scheme includes tho conferring certificates of proficiency in .knowledge of Scripture on who jxiss the examinations. The special object nkned at is that teachers —both day->ehr;ol and Sunday-school teachers—may in this vray give proof that they <ar«- duly <|ualifi«l to give instruction in itiblioal subjwts. It will not lie requisite that tJw candidates atli'iul «'my lt'ctures or becomo members of 1 h< , University. The examinations will bf* oik>ii to jill cottiers. The subject i>i what tho title indicates—kmnvhxlgo of the Bible if.solf; and the chief questions will bo on tho KPn<M-il contents of th» ()I<l nnd Now Tivitomcnts in the BnglWi Version. Thvro will fllso be somo f|iif«!tions in tho historj , «nd geography of litblo tinicH and lauds; find, further, ihero will Ik> qufations of a moro thorough kind on one iKiok of tho Oh! Te.-rtanient, and one book of tho N<-v. 'IWflinent, which will bo set for special study, also in Kntilif-h, but with the altoiTuitivo of a X<'\v Testament hook in Greek, «t tlie option of oamlidatra, tlu> cJioico l>eing duly recogni.se<l in tlie certificates. This examination will bo. oiitiiv.ly undenominational, find tjiere will I>'< no theological or ecclesiastical tosU;. Although tho Faculty of tho University <x)nsists of men of various d<'noinin:itions, fliii of its Tiierobcrs declares in tho "Christian World" that not once has th« f-li.sfhtp'-'t Kii«picion of dcncminational diffi'ivnces dis-turbod tho harmony of itR dipcu.-sion«.