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| While at Princeton, Kenneth was near the
top of his class in Greek and Hebrew and was allowed to begin to study
with Old Testament scholar Robert Dick Wilson. He worked incessantly
at studying, annoying his roommate because all of the study was done aloud.
Wilson was a methodical teacher who put his students through an incredible
regimen. He was so methodical that when Kenneth met him he told him
that he estimated his life span in comparison to his immediate family
and determined that he would live until his eighties, so he decided he
would lay his life out in fifteen year increments; fifteen years of study,
fifteen years to write, and fifteen years of teaching. From then
on he did all of them simultaneously. Wilson's example of excellence
was significant upon his students, and Kenneth in particular. Kenneth had
a natural ability with languages and he became one of Wilson's favorite
students. Wilson had invited Kenneth to travel to Germany for further study
with a view to Kenneth teaching at Princeton.
Kenneth reveled in Princeton and the great men he was able to study with. He told of studying with J. Gresham Machen and Charles Erdman. It was from these teachers that Kenneth learned to rest and trust in a creative, powerful God who has communicated to us in a trustworthy way, through the scriptures. He also learned to give his all to what he was doing. Kenneth's class, the class of 1927, would be one of the strongest at Princeton in decades, producing many great church leaders and missionaries, such as Clarence Duff, Austin Fulton, and Charles Woodbridge. It was while Kenneth was studying at Princeton that he felt the call and urging of God towards missions. Select the image to listen to a 2 minute clip of Kenneth describing his response to a chapel speaker and its relation to his desire to be a missionary. After listening advance to the next page. |