Brown Military Academy - Warrior Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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. F, rx 4 , f ' Q, I Q , gl A A l i ,gm X I L -K U' ,Az .1 A , bl 5 lf. I dl . ,.- ' A I , A ,ts - . V, I V., fair, 1 ' :X ' 5 ' . . I , I n I - Q ' l - . . I w . - .1 l I I s o I - Zan. Hou Ill ber 4 :rc u IS but to be Aml 111 bar I1 k In lu uae! lVl11Id7ll lVatson Those of us who have attended the Academy for the past three or four years are greatly aware of our Indebtedness to our own Mrs d Many of us have conslstently asked her and In scholastic matters and doubtless many have also received luttle ponnters on social courtesues from the knndly lady with the ever present smnle Those of us who have recently entered BMA have also felt her almost parental concern for our academic standing and her sympathy for our seemnngly tremendous problems No one actu ally knows how much she has helped us from the sndellnes We the graduating Seniors and Junlor College men are Indeed grate ful to her for her wnllnngness to always lend an ear to our frequent trnals and tribulations The concern whuch she has afforded us, we, the Annual Staff, hope to partually repay by deducatung thus yearbook to her, our Guardnan Angel wuth the endearung southern accent

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I have fought a good light, I have frzished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that dar and not to me only but unto all them also that loze hrs appear :ng II Timothy 4 7 8 A soldrer has lard down hrs arms The staunch heart that waged the battle so valrantly beats no more The rndomrtable leader who champroned the wrll of God has been lard to rest The frttrng trrbute he so rrchly deserved has been pord The requrem of the farthful frrends who mourn hrm has faded away Hrs lrfe remams a memory rn the mrnds of those who loved hrm But after these are also gone how long wrll the memory of Dr John Elward Brown remarn7 A man rs remembered for the words he says and the deeds he does If the words be true and the deeds be good the memory of that mon wrll endure untrl the end of trme rndeed for all eternrty For Truth and Good are one wrth God wrth Whom there rs nerther begrnnrng nor end If then we examrne the lrfe of thrs man we frnd that he spoke the truth and forged one good deed after another As one of hrs own most admrred heroes Dr Brown chose Moses the lrberator of the chrldren of Israel who defred the krng of Egypt and led hrs people to freedom who also was the rnstrument through whom God gave Hrs Law to man The great prrn crples of thrs Law are that man rs to love God wrth all hrs heart wrth all hrs soul and wrth all hrs mrnd and hrs rrerghbor as hrmself Dr Brown strove vrgorously to uphold thrs law Durrng the frrst half of hrs lrfe he devoted hrs lrfe to wrnnrng men for Chrrst Then wrth the establrshment of the John Brown Unrversrty he rnaugurated a program of helprng men to satrsfy therr earthly needs by obtarn rng an educatron and learnrng a vocatron The latter part of hrs lrfe was devoted to trarnrng youth to lrve Hrs campargn to educate the heart the mrnd and the hand was one of unrversal good Frrst lead men to God then teach them how to lead a useful lrfe The foundrng of Brown Mrlrtary Academy em phasrzed John Brown s belref that the mrlrtary was a noble means of servrng God Many trmes he read us the words from the Book of Psalms wrrtten by Davrd the warrror krng or of Joshua who led the people of Israel rnto the promrsed land Choose thrs day whom you wrll serve but as for me and my house we wrll serve the Lord Uoshua 24 l5l and agarn from the Gospel of Luke regardrng the farth of the centurron a captarn rn the Roman army I have not found so great forth no not rn Israel lLuke 7 97 The work that Doctor Brown so vrgorously carrred out exemplrfred rn the best possrble manner the prrncrples of Chrrstranrty and patrrotrsm Among the last words thus man of God gave to us were those regardrng our own thoughts words wrrtten by Paul another warrror rn the frght agarnst evrl Frnally brethren whatsoever thrngs are true whatsoever thrngs are honest whatsoever thrngs are just whatsoever thrngs are pure whatsoever thrngs are lovely whatsoever thrngs are of good report rf there be any vrrtue and rf there be any prarse thunk on these thrngs lphrlrpprans 4 85 Here are words to lrve by a motto all of us should follow Wall hrs memory remarn7 We have the answer As rt was sard of Lrncoln when he dred so rt can be sard of John Brown Now he belongs to the ages And when the ages have run therr course the angels rn Heaven together wrth the glorrfred sarnts wrll prarse the work of Chrrst our Lord whom John Brown so farthfully served and rn whose name he conquered , - - 1 ' n ' , 5 1 J 1 I . 1 1 1 ' I ' 1 1 1 , . 1 1 1 . . . . . . . H , , 1 1 1 - , , . . . I, i . , , 1 1 ' 1 . . . . , I ,, , . ' 1 I , 1 . , , 1 ' 1 , 1 I 1 , ' 1 I - - - . . ,, . . . I . , . . . , , . ' 1 ' ' ' . - , 11 1 1 1 - - - , 11 11 . ' ' I I I - 11 A . . . . . 1 ' ' I 1 , , I I , .

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