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These studies were originally prepared by laymen to meet the needs of students in the Association Bible Classes for Seniors of the Academic and Scientific Departments of Yale University. It was hoped that they might prove helpful in giving to young men about to enter upon their life work in many different professions a conception of the highest ideals which these careers could embrace. Largely as a result of the failure to distinguish clearly between the decision to do Gods will and the act of volunteering there exists among many college students today an erroneous impression that the doing of God swill is synonymous solely with the Clerical and Missionary careers. The call of God is popularly interpreted as a call to the Professional Ministry; Law, Business, Teaching, Medicine, Engineering and like professions are distinguished as secular. They are regarded as fields into which man may enter without relation to Gods will realms in which more latitude is allowed to the individual in personal morals and in manner of life, and within which he is largely released from responsibility for the advancement of the Kingdom of God. Jesus Christ and his A postles, however, entertained no such conception of the so-called secular professions. Our Lord and his followers were themselves laymen, not members of the professional clergy of the day. To them all honorable careers were ministries and service in these so-called secular i careers seemed to them to demand not less, but more, consecration to God than the organized church required of its leaders. This great truth, which more than any other was the ,secret of the mighty advances of Christianity in the first centuries, has been long obscured; but during the last decade more than at any other time it has been rediscovered and applied in America and the result has been a great leavening and purification of our public and
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