Marion University - Marionette Yearbook (Marion, IN)

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I What scenes this place has seen! How hallowed are its walls! Scenes of genera¬ tions past in varying attitudes of worship and edification. Walls that have enclosed the happy, the sad, the thoughtful. The chapel, whose confines are so strange to us as first-year students, be¬ comes a pleasant habit. Daily devotions with the M. C. family circle at least, and usually programs of inspiration, entertain¬ ment, or elucidation. We look back on this year’s services and remember Rev. E. W. Black, and Rev. B. O. Crowe our evangel¬ ists in the first and second terms respect¬ ively. We recall with pleasure the times we listened to the College church pastor, Rev. Decker, to student missionaries O’Sul¬ livan and Whipple, to visiting neighbor preachers and missionaries, or members of our own faculty. We have heard an art lecture, and even instructions from the math professor on income tax returns. We were well satisfied with the concert by the Kryl Symphony Orchestra as one of the Music Lecture series. We heard the former Gospel Messengers in a program of quartet numbers. We were solemn when listening to each ensuing bulletin concerning drafted, deferred and enlisted men and were moved when the Juniors presented a program in their honor. Thirteen

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What the Student Conference means to the lives of M. C.’s students could scarcely be told in twice the space here allowed it. We could call witnesses from the long-graduated classes who would say that its influence was a steadying, motivating one. The weekly Tuesday night services were and are times of inspiration and edification among the students particularly, but also among the faculty and friends. Herein we give expression to our living faith. Here visiting speakers or student evangelists exhort to the proving of our testimony. Here the songs of Zion resound in the old chapel and the children of God enjoy His real presence in worship together. But the faith exemplified in the Tuesday night meetings is seen in action when groups of Gospel-heralding students go to the jail, the in¬ firmary, and the children’s home for services regularly. Defense Plant regulations forbade services held formerly at one factory; but the Con¬ ference remains always ready to serve, to spread the knowledge of the love of God. Fifteen