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George A. Klingman

 

George Adam Klingman (1865-1939) was a pioneer in Church of Christ-related higher education. He was probably the best-educated preacher in Churches of Christ during the first third of the twentieth century. Klingman preached in Louisville, Kentucky. from 1894 until 1902, followed by a ministry with the Plum Street Church of Christ in Detroit, Michigan from 1904 to 1907 and again from 1909 to 1912.
A popular lecturer, he delivered the first series of special lectures at the newly established Childers Classical Institute in Abilene, Texas (now Abilene Christian University), in 1907. From 1917 until 1923, he served as dean of the A. M. Thornton Bible School at Abilene Christian College. He preached in Toronto, Canada, from 1923 until fall 1925 when he joined the faculty of Thorp Spring Christian College, which advertised him as "One of the Greatest Bible Teachers in the South”.

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Let Us Pause

Let us pause long enough just here to read the testimony of Dr. William Lyon Phelps, one of the world’s great educators:

    “Everyone who has a thorough knowledge of the Bible may be called educated; and no other learning or culture, no matter how extensive or elegant, among Europeans and Americans, can take its place. Western civilization is founded upon the Bible; our ideas, our wisdom, our philosophy, our literature, our art and ideals come more from the Bible than from all other books put together. It is a revelation of the Divine and the human; it contains the loftiest religious aspiration along with a candid representation of all that is earthly, sensual and devilish. I thoroughly believe in a university education for both men and women; but I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without the Bible. For in the Bible we have the nature of boys and girls, of men and women more accurately charted than in the works of any modern novelist or playwright. You can learn more human nature by reading your Bible than by living in a great city like New York.”

 

George A. Klingman
God Is. An Antedote for the Poisonous Propaganda of
“The American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc.”
Cincinnati: Rowe, 1929
p. 145

Marcus Stenson