Practical Bible Training School - Theologue Yearbook (Johnson City, NY)

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gala? MW QM JP...- THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, I SET BEFORE YOU THE WAY OF LI-ll AND THE WAY OF DEATH. Jeremiah 21:8 The entire Word of God is devoted to one theme - The way of life vs. The way of death. The Lord wants everyone to understand that the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life. He has made simple and concise His plan for saving man, so that no one, not even the most ignorant could ever excuse himself by saying that he could not imderstand that he needed a Saviour or that he did not know how to be saved. The plan of salvation, as given in the Word of God, is briefly as follows: I You Need a Saviour 1. Because you have sinned Rom. 3:23 All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. 2. Because you are lost Ps. 119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep. 3. Because you will be judged Heb. 9:27 It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. II Jesus Is The Saviour You Need 1. Because He is the Son of God Heb. 4:14 We have a great High Priest, Jesus the Son of God. 2. Because He died for your sin Isa. 53:5 He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed. 3. Because He lives to intercede for you Heb. 7:25 He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them. HI He Will Save You Now 1. If you repent of your sin I John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousnessf' 2. If you receive Him as your Saviour Acts 16:31 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. 3. If you confess Him before others Rom. 10:9 If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 4 A.,

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FUHEUIUHD For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Philippians 1':21 That the Christian life is life in the highest sense is not to be questioned. It is a life in which Christ Himself, so dominates and controls the believer, that his one objective is to live to His Glory. It implies a surrendered will, and the body yielded to the Lord who has redeemed it, that it may be used only to His praise. Christ is the Christian's. life which the Christian received in salvation, a life which is ethical in its content, and which operates in the Christian as a motivating, energizing, pulsating principle of existence that transforms the Christian's life. Every Christian should be able to say, For to me to live is Christ. And it is only such who can heartily add, And to die is gain. Death being no enemy to the one whom Christ is all. To live gives opportunity to work for Christ here on earth, to die is to be with Christ in Glory, to a Christian nothing could be more precious. Having received our basic training to promulgate the Gospel to every living soul, Awe prayerfully submit this book as a Testimony that to live is Christ, and to die is truly gain. Carl A. Hathaway 3

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AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED by the Class of 1949 to - MRS. LAURA B. LOWE our sweet, quiet, consecrated Christian life has been a real blessing and inspiration to each one of us. Although you have not been before us in our class rooms or on the staff you have been before us continually in our lives daily. As a token of our esteem and sincere ap- preciation, we the class of 1949, prayerfully dedicate this book to you. 5