Auburn Adventist Academy - Rainier Vista Yearbook (Auburn, WA)

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' • • ucahon in aiure s ethng This Senior Class of 1948 and every graduating class of Auburn Academy represents the flower of young manhood and womanhood, stepping out of the doors of a Christian school of secondary education with their eyes fixed upon the Christian college and the horizons of service beyond. They are the product of a combination of education in the spiritual things of life and in the manual arts, in addition to training in the regular scholastic lines. And this threefold education becomes more significant to the Christian youth both for its greater fullness, and for the fondness of memories because it is set in an environment of God’s beautiful out-of-doors. These graduates are the product of the teaching of God’s Word and of other agencies of truth in the classroom and out, in an atmosphere of Nature at its most enticing. Away from the din of the cities it is as though the great fingers of light reached down from above through the sacred Word and unfiltrated the young minds made more susceptible by the quieting influence of the woods and mountains and rivers on all sides; and the product, more than that of the ordinary high school, is the vision of service for humanity. It is a beauteous evening , calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a child Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods o ' er the sea; Listen! the mighty Being is astir , And doth with His eternal motion make A sound of power — everlastingly . —Apologies to Wordsworth. 16

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ainier is king of mountains; God crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a rohe of clouds With a, glittering crown of snow.