Marion University - Marionette Yearbook (Marion, IN)

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S. M. W. B. Connection with the College church is again found in the Senior Missionary Workers’ Band whose interest in the spread of the Good News is not confined to called missionaries alone but to the church and college young people who have that characteristic Christian burden for a gospel- hungry world. Contact with missionaries is here kept by the best means possible, and the prayers are fervent on their behalf as they themselves await with anticipation the post-war opportunities of missions. Memorable of the band’s activities this year was the three-day convention held at the College church with Rev. K. W. Kim, native Korean missionary as principal speaker. F. M. F. Youngest of the religious organizations on M. C.’s campus is the Student Foreign Missionary Fellowship whose weekly prayer meetings are held just after the dinner hour each Wednesday. The past, current, and future missionary activities are here given emphasis by speakers provided by the national organization to the local chapter. Given its impetus by veteran missionaries now enrolled in or near school, and by prospective missionaries who are here training for the time when it shall please God to make use of their lives in fields white unto harvest, the organization is among the most active and beneficial in the campus spiritual life. W. Y. P. S. The organization wherein the college students have perhaps the most active part in the life of the College Wesleyan Methodist church is the Wesleyan Young People’s Society. In well-planned programs use is made of many students and commendable records are made in the field of progress. Here we lend ourselves to the practice of living our faith as mutual edifiers and as listeners who learn that they might teach—teach others the way to a more abundant life, the life indeed in Christ. Sixteen

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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

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S. M. W. B. Frances Major—Vice President Harold Shigley—Chairman Pro¬ gram Committee Rose Stair—President Charles Day—Treasurer Osea Arney—Secretary F. M. F. Audrey Bhang—President W. Y. P. S. Verdon Higgins — Chairman Program Committee Alta Young—Secretary Clarence Huffman—President Dorothy Walker—Treasurer Charles Day—Vice President Seventeen