Andrews University - Cardinal Yearbook (Berrien Springs, MI)

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Missionary Volunteer Society FRICA, India, China. the islands of the sea, and other remote portions of the earth are today holding outstretched arms toward foreign mission boards. Truly the harvest is ripe, but the laborers are few.'y It is a great problem to cope with the needs of' these millions of heathen who are sinking into Christless graves. Not alone are wants to be supplied in foreign Fields, but in many places around one's own community. The M. V. Society of E. M. C. has made several new advances toward preparing better workers and doing more effective work. Atthe beginning of the school year the work of the organization was divided into four depart- ments. They were: the Home Missions, Foreign Missions, Literature Minis- try, and Bible Study and Evangelism bands. An assistant leader of the regular organization was put in charge of each department. Regular meetings are held twice each month and are so arranged that they alternate with the Friday evening vesper services. Besides these general meetings. each department holds its own meetings regularly to carry on its particular Work in its own Held. The fact that two hundred young men and women are taking an active part in the M. V. work readily reveals the fact that much is really being accomplished. Giving so many an opportunity to take part helps to maintain a spirit Of loyalty and co-operation. The purpose of the M. V. department here is to prepare workers for missionary work in the homeland, as well as abroad. In order for an indi- vidual to become a good missionary he must not wait until he reaches some foreign shore, but he should learn to love that type of work right here at home. and develop some skill in evangelistic endeavors. lPage Seventy -sixl

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--.S--vinci... .L ,A . , H ' 1 ' 1 rgv, Sabbath School HE Sabbath School is one of the most distinctive and well-organized departments of the College as well as of the church. Each quarter, by assisting as teachers and ofhcers. some fifty students have the opportunity to become acquainted with the Sabbath School work. This work affords a def- inite training and provides an outlet for the spiritual life of the student. The department heads, teachers, and officers unite each week for counsel and mutual encouragement. Here students and teachers pray together, plan together, and sacrifice together, that the school may be a power in the life of each member and a blessing to those in mission service. The school holds the record of an A grade. By faithful attendance, individual daily lesson study. and liberal gifts to missions this record was gainedg and it is hoped by the same means to be able to retain it throughout the whole year. These goals are not ends in themselvesg they simply hold be- fore the members the ideal of more efficient service to God and man, strength- en their diligence in the study of God's word, and aid them to fulfill the prime mission of the Sabbath School itself-the saving of souls. As the orchestra, piano, organ, and voices of the assembly join in hymns of praise and consecration each Sabbath, one realizes that music is as much an act of worship as is prayer. Through the review, the mission reading, and the study of the lesson, the Sabbath School has an opportunity to touch lives and prove itself an individual blessing. Punctuality, order, and Christian dignity mark the weekly service. The Lord calls for young men and women to gird themselves for life- long, earnest labor in the Sabbath School. The Sabbath School of E. M. C. accepts this as a personal challenge to Greater heights in Bible study Greater heights in Christian experience Greater heights in service. lfPage Seventy-fivel

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Seminar OR a number of years it has been the policy of the officers of the Seminar to invite men of wide experience in the Held to give instruction at the meetings, but this year the students have followed the plan of asking various members to give short sermons and Bible readings. Practice makes perfect, says an old maxim. But how are the pros- pective ministers and Bible workers to obtain the needed practice? The Sem- inar is the answer. The classes in Homiletics I and H and Field XVorker's Training give the theory and formulae for preaching, but in the Seminar experiments are worked out before a kind and sympathetic audience which helps by con- structive criticism. Although there has been much impromptu speaking, yet this has not diminished the interest in the meeting. Rather it has inculcated a healthy spirit in the ministerial group so that now there is an attendance of over one hun- dred twenty. The influence of the Seminar is felt throughout the school. It fosters the Bible Y ear, the Standard of Attainment, and the Morning lfVatch, a leader having been appointed to take charge of each of these activities. There is no joy outside of heaven comparable with the joy of rescuing men and women from destruction. It is the primary purpose of the Seminar to prepare young people who will go forth into the world of darkness, lighten- ing and brightening the path of others as they are started on the way to the City of God. lPage Seventy-sevenl