Asbury Theological Seminary - Seminarian Yearbook (Wilmore, KY)

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ill One of the features of Asbury Seminary that makes our school life so rich is the wholesome atmosphere which pervades its campus. This is not true just because it is Asbury, but because Christ has been crowned King of Kings and Lord of Lords in the lives of these young men and women. Whether at the prayer meeting, at an evening of social entertainment, or in the classroom, all are bound together in genuine Christian fellowship, Community of interests, singleness of purpose, firmness of ethics, and nobility of ideals bind our hearts together into a large Christian family, all dedicated to the performance of God's will. We help each other if there be a spiritual need; we share our experiences; we exchange ideas on various phases of our business of winning souls and of disseminating eternal verities. The fellowship and friendship that we have here will prove precious and valuable down through the years of the future. We expect to find Asburians spreading thé Gospel wher- ever we go throughout the world. To para- phrase the words of Paul, We shall give thanks to God upon remembrance of one another and pray in behalf of each other for the fellowship in the furtherance of the Gos- pel, giving thanks continually through Jesus Christ for each other.

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ANNUAL MINSTER CONFERENCE The Annual Ministers’ Conference may be considered a part of the growing service of Asbury, having been instituted only last year. Its purpose is ''to emphasize the content of the Christian message and the deepening of the spiritual life, to face fearlessly the religious and theological problems of our day.’ The chief speakers this year were Bishop Charles C. Selec- man, who delivered the Lizzie H. Glide Lec- tures on the theme: ‘Early Methodist Evan- gelism, ' and Dr. Paul S. Rees, who gave a series of lectures on ''Our Wesleyan Heritage After Two Centuries.’ Other speakers were Dr. How- ard Whitaker, Dr. O. H. Callis, Dr. B. Joseph Martin, Dr, W. C. Mavis, Dr. James F. Bough- DR. PAUL S. REES Pastor First Covenant Church Minneapolis BISHOP CHARLES C. SELECMAN Dallas Area of the Methodist Church ton, Dr. Kenneth P. Wesche, and Rev. J. T. Seamands. The outside attendance at the conference this year was an increase of approximately fifty percent over last year. The conference prom- ises to be a growing contribution to the Semi- nary and a time of vigorous intellectual and spiritual stimulation to hundreds of pastors and evangelists in this section of our nation. In both of the conferences held to date there has gone out a great challenge to spiritual industry and consecration. For next year Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes has been chosen as the Glide lecturer, and Dr. Robert P. ''Bob'' Shuler has been chosen as the other chief speaker.

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Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.