Grace Theological Seminary - Xapis / Grace Yearbook (Winona Lake, IN)

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Acknowledgments . . . PAGE 8 Without the encouragement and help received from many friends, the publication of this volume would have been quite impossible. In order to express the deep appreciation of the Staff for help received, the following acknowledgments are made: @ To the Class of 1949, for publishing the first Year Book of Grace Seminary (Edward D. Miller, Editor), which served as a model and inspiration for this book. @ To Dr. Alva J. McClain and Dr. Herman A. Hoyt, faculty advisors, for their encouragement, advice, and detailed assistance. @ ToMr.F.B. Miller, for valuable technical advice, and the handling of engravings. @ To Miss Dorothy Magnuson and Miss Ruth Reddick for typing work, and the compiling of student lists. @ To Dr. Alva J. McClain for contributing The Background and Origin of Grace Theological Seminary; Dr. Herman A. Hoyt, The Aca- demic History of Grace Theological Seminary; John Rea, the articles on Student Pastors and Foreign Missions at Grace; Donald Ogden, the article on Music at Grace; and Charles Turner, the article on Social Activities at Grace. @ To Dr. Paul R. Bauman, Rev. L. L. Grubb, Rev. Homer Kent, Jr., Robert Betz, and Earl Dekker, for taking photographs. @ To Prof. Robert D. Culver, for proofreading and contributing many photographs. @ To alumni who contributed photographs and showed their interest in Many ways. @ To those who did the technical work in publishing the book: Mr. Edson Moyer, art work; the Brethren Missionary Herald Company, composition; the Free Methodist Publishing House, press work and binding.

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careful to maintain good works (Tit. 3:8), and especially accept as our solemn respon- sibility the duty and privilege of bearing the Gospel to a lost world in order that we may bear much fruit (Acts 1:8, 2 Cor. 5:19, John 15:16); remembering that a victorious and fruitful Christian life is possible only for those who have learned they are not under law but under grace (Rom. 6:14), and who in gratitude for the infinite and undeserved mercies of God have presented themselves wholly to Him for His service (Rom. 12:1-2). 8. We believe in THE EXISTENCE OF SATAN: who originally was created a holy and perfect being, but through pride and un- lawful ambition rebelled against God (Ezek. 28:13-17, Isa. 14:13-14, 1 Tim. 3:7); thus be- coming utterly depraved in character ( John 8:44), the great Adversary of God and His people (Matt. 4:1-11, Rev. 12:10), leader of all other evil angels and spirits (Matt. 12:24- 26, 25:41), the deceiver and god of this pres- ent world (Rev. 12:9, 2 Cor. 4:4); that his powers are supernaturally great, but strictly limited by the permissive will of God who over-rules all his wicked devices for good (Job. 1:1-22, Luke 22:31-32); that he was defeated and judged at the Cross, and there- fore his final doom is certain (John 12:31-32, 16:11, Rev. 20:10); that we are able to resist and overcome him only in the armor of God and by the Blood of the Lamb (Eph. 6:12-18, Rev. 12:11). 9. We believe in THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST: that His return from heaven will be personal, visible and glorious—a Blessed Hope for which we should constantly watch and pray, the time being unrevealed but always imminent (Acts 1:11, Rev. 1:7, Mark 13:33-37, Tit. 2:11-13, Rev. 22:20); that when He comes He will first by resurrection and translation remove from the earth His waiting Church (1 Thess. 4:16-18) then pour out the righteous judgments of God upon the unbelieving world (Rev. 6:1-18:24), after- ward descend with His Church and establish His glorious and literal kingdom over all the nations for a thousand years (Rev. 19:1-20:6, Matt. 13:41-43), at the close of which He will raise and judge the unsaved dead (Rev. 20: 11-15), and finally as the Son of David de- liver up His Messianic Kingdom to God the Father (1 Cor. 15:24-28), in order that as the Eternal Son He may reign forever with the Father in the New Heaven and the New Earth (Luke 1:32-33, Rev, 21:1-22:6). 10. We believe in FUTURE LIFE, BOD- ILY RESURRECTION, AND ETERNAL JUDGMENT: that the spirits of the saved at death go immediately to be with Christ in heaven (Phil. 1:21-23, 2 Cor. 5:8), where they abide in joyful fellowship with Him until His second coming, when their bodies shall be raised from the grave and changed into the likeness of His own glorious body (Phil. 3:20-21, 1 Cor. 15:35-58, 1 John 3:2), at which time their works shall be brought before the Judgment Seat of Christ for the determina- tion of rewards, a judgment which may issue in the loss of rewards, but not the loss of the soul (1 Cor. 3:8-15); that the spirits of the unsaved at death descend immediately into Hades where they are kept under punish- ment until the final day of judgment (Luke 16:19-31, 2 Pet. 2:9 ARV), at which time their bodies shall be raised from the grave, they shall be judged according to their works, and cast into the place of final and everlasting punishment (Rev. 20:11-15, 21:8, Mark 9:43-48, Jude 13). 1l. We believe in THE ONE TRUE CHURCH: the mystical Body and Bride of the Lord Jesus (Eph. 4:4, 5:25-32), which He began to build on the day of Pentecost (Matt. 16:18, Acts 2:47) and will complete at His second coming (1 Thess. 4:16-17); and into which all true believers of the present age are baptized immediately by the Holy Spirit (ieCor.1212-13 “with is2); that all’ the’ vari- ous members of this one spiritual Body should assemble themselves together in local churches for worship, prayer, fellowship, teaching, united testimony, and the observ- ance of the ordinances of our Lord (Heb. 10:25, Acts 2:41-47), among which are the following: the Baptism of believers by Triune Immersion (Matt. 28:20), the Laying on of Hands (1 Tim. 4:14, 2 Tim. 1:6), the Washing of the Saint’s Feet (John 13:1-17), the Lord’s Supper or Love-feast (1 Cor. 11:17-22, Jude 12 ARV), the Communion of the Bread and Cup (1 Cor. 11:23-24), and Prayer and Anointing for the Sick (Jas. 5:13-18). 12. We believe in SEPARATION FROM THE WORLD: that since our Christian citi- zenship is in heaven, as the children of God we should walk in separation from this pres- ent world, having no fellowship with its evil ways (Phil. 3:20 ARV, 2 Cor. 6:14-18, Rom. 12:2, Eph. 5:11), abstaining from all worldly amusements and unclean habits which defile mind and body (Luke 8:14, 1 Thess. 5:22, 1 Timo: 6el-Pete2: 1 Le npbe.5:3=11, Coles: 1, Eph. 5:3-5, 18, 1 Cor. 6:19-20), from the sin of divorce and remarriage as forbidden by our Lord (Matt. 19:9), from the swearing of any oath (Jas. 5:12), from the use of unbe- lieving courts for the settlement of disputes between Christians (1 Cor. 6:1-9), and from taking personal vengeance in carnal strife (Rom. 12:18-21, 2 Cor. 10:3-4). We understand that the above Articles do not by any means exhaust the content of our creed which is the whole Word of God, and they are not intended io set a limit beyond which faith cannot go within this Word; but we do believe that in so far as these Articles ex- tend they are a true presentation of the sound doctrine taught in the Scriptures and therefore binding upon us as Christian believers. PAGE 7

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The Background and Origin of Grace Theological Seminary By President Alva J. McClain It has been said, with some degree of justification, that Grace Theolog- ical Seminary under its present name was born out of theological conflict. But the school owes nothing to the conflict except its external form. Its definite Christian faith and educa- tional ideals are matters which great- ly antedate the form. And these are the important things. Therefore, this account will be concerned mainly with historical background and or- igins. Elsewhere in this publication Dean Herman A. Hoyt is presenting a rather complete academic history of the school. I. The Brethren Church and Education. The Brethren movement began in 1708 in Germany under the leader- ship of Alexander Mack, a well-edu- cated and Bible-loving Calvinist, who with others of similar inclinations felt that the Reformation in Europe had not brought the church entirely back to its original apostolic purity in faith and life as founded by the Lord Jesus Christ. These Brethren began their organization as a distinctively “Bible” church, accepting the Holy Scriptures as the fully inspired and inerrant Word of God which, literally inter- preted, was the only infallible rule of faith and practice. Standing boldly for the complete separation of church Dr. McClain in his office. and state, they quickly became ob- jects of persecution. In 1719 they began emigration to America and within a few years the entire membership had come to this country. Here they found refuge un- der the protection of William Penn, and founded their first congregation at Germantown, Philadelphia, where later one of their number, the famous Christopher Sower, established a large printing plant, printed many books, published a paper, set up the first type foundry in America, and brought out his celebrated “Sower Bible,’ now a collector’s item (1). According to Dr. S. Z. Sharp, first president of Ashland College, the early Brethren leaders of that day PAGE 9