"Ignorance!" summarizes in one word the findings of a commission which investigated theological seminaries (Protestant) in the U. S. and Canada. The findings were recorded by Robert L. Kelly, ex-President of Earlham College, and were published by the Institute of Social and Religious Research under the auspices of such men as John R. Mott, Chairman, Raymond B. Fosdick, President Faunce of Brown
Many a seminary, says the report, is untouched by the progress of science. Libraries were found locked and barred. Lectures were often nothing more than "rhetorical, rambling, hortatory sermons."
Less than half...