Anderson University - Echoes Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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DEDICATION FOR HIS FAITHFUL SERVICE AS TEACHER AND AS COUNSELOR, AND FOR THE INSPIRATION HE HAS GIVEN THE MANY STUDENTS WHO HAVE ATTENDED ANDERSON COLLEGE, WE AFFECTION¬ ATELY DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO DR. ADAM W. MILLER. A nderson College, as a Christian college, serves the Church and humanity by educating and dedicating young people to service in such Christian vocations as the minis¬ try, missionary work, teaching, social welfare work, and other fields of Christian humanitarian service. Looking through her windows back over the fifteen years I have been associated with Anderson College, I can see young men and women who now serve in India, China, Africa, Egypt, Syria, the West Indies, and several European countries — ministers, missionaries, doctors, nurses, teachers, and businessmen—because there was something vital at Anderson College that challenged them to such consecrated service. The number who thus serve in this country would make a long marching line from the doors of the College back through the years. As I look through her windows into the future I feel a new sense of dedication to the tasks that are hers. The Church has no dependable source from which to draw such leaders as are needed for its work at home and abroad other than those young men and women who come year after year from Christian colleges with such aims as those of Anderson College. It is said that the atmosphere of the present age is thickening with modern paganism. Something must be done to make it Christian. The most powerful method for changing our world is through such leadership as comes from a truly Christian college. A dream I have for Anderson College comes to me out of the past. In bygone days the campuses of Christian colleges have felt the mighty surge of some great ideal¬ istic or Christian movement, such as the great Student Volunteer Movement that thrust thousands of young men and women out into the most remote parts of the earth to build a new world. I dream of some such mighty movement sweeping over the campus of Anderson College that will make her name beloved in many places and lands.