It was my privilege to have David lipscomb, the profound writer, and James A. Harding, the great preacher and debater, as my teachers for many years. The chief factors in the greatness of these two men were their courage, their humility, their faith in God, and their vision. More than fifty years ago, they sensed the fact that through the educational system of the country, the young people even of the Church, would be lost to the Church. Something must be done. In their great vision they saw a school in which the Bible would be the chief textbaok-a school in which every student would have a lesson every day from its holy pages. So, with no money, no grounds or buildings, these two college-trained servants of the lowly Nazarene began the Nashville Bible School. As the days and years went by its students found something intangible-something you could feel. Ever since, we students have called that "intangible something" we found there "the Bible School Spirit", the spirit that made the school different, that made it the power it was to build men and women. Filled with this spirit, thot we know now was the invisible soul of these two men, we students longed, we hungered, for other schools in which that "intangible something", might live. How well we have built, only the Lord knows. But it is our effort at Harding College to preserve the spirit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as it was spread abroad over the campus by His two great servants, David lipscomb and James A. Harding. J . N. ARMSTRONG JAMES A. HARDI NG cnd DAVID LIPSCOMB ,
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