Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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20 THE BETHEL HERALD partments, viz., preparatory, academic and college preparatory, commercial, music and theological, to fit themselves to have that part in the world’s constructive program, which will follow the present war. Read the words of influential men on this matter: President Woodrow Wilson: “Christian education has always yielded her best fruit when associated with religion. The object of scholarship, the object of all knowledge, is to understand; is to comprehend; is to know what the need of mankind is. This is the reason why scholarship has usually been more fruitful when associated with religion and scholarship has never, so far as I can at this moment recollect, been associated with any religion, except the religion of Jesus Christ.” Hon. Janies J. Hill: “The small Chris- tian school is the hope of America. Character is essential to statesmanship and these schools are vital factors in the development of sterling character.” Hon. William Howard Taft: “It comes to me every once in a while when I am charged with accomplishing something among a people, how absolutely essential it is that we should have the influence of the church behind everything that we do.” Martin Luther: “The right instruction of youth is a matter in which Christ and all the world is concerned.” To make the world safe for democracy, that the government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth,—this is the task of Christian education in America. For this we must all prepare and to this end bend our every effort and influence. Seminariets Alumneravdelning EN HOST FRAN ’89 Av Rev. L. J. Olson, Ashland, Wis. Jag glommer aldrig de dr jag hade den stora formdnen att sitta sdsom larjunge vid C. G. Lagergrens, E .Sandells och N. N. Mortens fotter. V r skola var d forlagd i det underhart skona ch fridfulla Morgan Park. Det var hosten 1889, dd vi samlades frdn landcts olika dclar for att upptaga skolar-betet. Dr Lagergren hade just antagit Allmanna Konf. kallelse att bliva larare och fo-restdndare for samfundets missionsskola. Vdr aktade och avhdllne larare dr Lagergren var alltid den kristne gentlemannen. Vi, som hade formdnen att d lara kanna honom pd nara hd.ll, kunde ickc annat an hogakta och beundra bans fasta karaktar, rena vandel, beumlransvarda stadga i tron, trohet och karlek till Gud och manniskor. Hans vasende var fbrsonligt och fridsamt. Tjugosex drs erfarenhet och iakttagelser hava ej forminskat fortroendet eller slitit de innerliga brodersband, som d knotos, utan fastmera starkt desamma. Alltid var dr La-gercren likt en om och omtiinksam fader, rddgivare och van. Ofta var jag inbjuden att gdsta uti deras hem. Dar rddde harmo-lii och karlek. Aldrig skall jag forg ta den godhet, som jag dar ronte. Fru Lagergren var alltid likt en dm moder och van for de studerande broderna. Sdval dr som fru Lagergren vann vdr tillgivenhet genom deras sympatiska vasende. Mer an en broder fick av den omtank-samme lararen mottaga hjiilp i ekonomiska trdngmdl. Om mcra an ett kvarts sckels tystnad fortegat karleksbovis, skall likval Herren. som vet a lit, belona den nu dldrige ldraren for hans uppmuntrande beteende emot oerfarna och rdd villa studenter. Vi gladjns over, att dr Lagergren fdtt oav-brutet fortsatta arbetet i forbindelse med vftra skolor, och vi hoppas, att ban dnnu under mdnga dr fdr giva vdr skolverksamhet kraftiga impulscr utav sina mognade erfa-renheter och den lardom, som under ett lfingt liv forvarvats. Md Herrcns rikaste valsignelse Vila over vdr broder. larare och van.

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THE BETHEL HERALD 19 For the War Department, Newton D. Baker, Secretary, For the Navy Department, Josephus Danielson, Secretary, For the Department of Agriculture, David F. Houston, Secretary, For the Department of Labor, William B. Wilson. Secretary, For the U. S. Civil Service Commission, John Mcllhenny, Chairman, For the Department of the Interior, Franklin K. Lane, Secretary, P. P. Claxton, Commissioner of Education, Washington, D. C., April 5, 1918, being a result of several conferences called by Secretary Lane early in February. The statement includes a brief outline of the most pressing needs as seen by each depart-mnt concerned, followed by a summary of conclusions and recommendations from which we make our extracts: “There is urgent need today on the farms for boys for chores and field work, as well as for capable women in the household duties, without which additional help could not be taken on the farm. The army and navy has no use for boys under eighteen years of age, nor boys nor men of any age who are not strong and well-developed physically, hence, so far as the army and navy are concerned, there is nothing more important that the schools can do than to keep them going at full capacity. High school boys will render the best service of which they are capable by remaining in school until the completion of the high school course. “There is a strong demand for clerks, stenographers and typewriters, but the places cannot be filleil by boys and girls under eighteen years of age, hence, even here no advantage would accrue to the civil service in any way by shutting down the schools or curtailing school facilities. Many civil service positions have been filled by drawing workers from commercial and industrial houses, and also by drawing teachers from the schools. All of the positions thus made vacant, must be filled from some source. Therefore, schools could undoubtedly render a much needed service by organizing classes to train stenographers, typewriters, clerks and secretaries. “Many industries and commercial establishments could use capable boys and girls for various kinds of service, but the government officials maintain that no emergency exists which justifies proposing any relaxation of the laws safeguarding the working conditions of the young people. “Still more serious labor shortage in industry are anticipated, but boys and girls under eighteen years of age should not be used to make up these shortages any more than can possibly be helped. Conditions in different sections of the country are so diverse that no detailed policy will he uniformly applicable. Only general policies and principles may he adopted for the country as a whole. One of the places in which there appears to bo immediate demand for modifications of the high school program is in respect to the need for agricultural labor. In no case can justification be found for the general shortening of the school term in the expectation that some students may find places of useful service. “In response to definite requests from government agencies, schools should be used from time to time for specific preparation of individuals for immediate service. Boys and girls should be urged, as a patriotic duty, to remain in school to the completion of the high school course, and in increasing numbers to enter upon college and university lines, and normal school courses, to meet the great need for trained men and women.” It is plainly evident from the foregoing that the government does not intend to curtail or in any way interfere with the educational processes of the land, but rather to emphasize the education of the boys and girls who are not in draft age. It is, therefore, also self-evident that a Christian school like Bethel Academy and Theological Seminary is one which in every way should be patronized and supported. When Colonel House returned from Europe the last time lie told President Wilson he was convinced that no peace would be adequate except based upon the teachings of Jesus Christ. How significant this is in our turbulent age. Thus empasizing again, not alone the need of education, but also Christian education. We would urge our young people to seek the opportunities offered in Bethel Academy and Theological Seminary in the various de-

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The Bethel Herald A monthly published during the School year by the students of Bethel Academy and Thoological Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE 50c PER YEAR STAFF C. GEO. ERICSON—Editor-in-chief • Martin C. Hamlin—Business Manager SEMINARY : A. Lilicmark ..............Swedish Dept. Anton E. Sjolund................English Dept. G. A. Gustavson...............Rapportor D. A. Anderson ......Ass't Business Mgr. David Gustavson. A. B...........Faculty Ass’t. BETHEL HERALD Snclllng and Nebraska Avenues, St. Paul, Minnesota Entered as second-class matter April 29, 1915. at the Post Office at St. Paul, Minn., under the Act of March 3. 1S79. 0. Milton Lind—Circulating Manager ACADEMY: Conrad Carlson ............English Dept. A. L. Frcdrikson ...........Swedish Dept. Waif red G. Holmberg--Ass’t Business Mgr. Eric N. Lindholin---Ass’t Circulation Mgr. Fred Moberg........1 Olive Johnson......} .......School Items Esther Olander.....J Hc iiry Wingbladc, A. B....Faculty Ass’t TILL DEAN C. G. LAGERGREN, D.D. Det ar med hogsta aktning och tillgiven-het, vi tillagna detta nummer av Bethel Herald till doktor Lagergren. Hogst fi sjut-tioiringar kunna se tillbaka pi ett liv si lingt och mingsidigt i Ilerrens tjanst som denne vir hogt varderade larare. Dot ar nu snart femtio Sr sedan han blev pastor i Uppsala, Sverige, vilken forsamling han tja-nade i tolv ir. Under de pifoljande sex i-ren var ban pastor i Sundsvall, di han, 1SS0. kallades till professorsstolcn av divarande The Baptist Union Theological Seminary of Chicago”. I Sverige liar han gjort sitt namn odod-ligt icke allenast genom sin insats uti bap-tistsamfundet utan liven inom nykterhets-rorelson och pi det litterarar omridet. I Amerika har den nu dryga delen av ett verk-samt liv tillbringats. Sisom fbrestindare och larare for virt Seminarium i nu tjugo-nio r har dr Lagergren bidragit till utbikilling av faktiskt hola vir predikantkftr. Det inflytande, en teologie larare under si min- ga ir utovar pi ett samfund, kan val knap-past tillfullo beskrivas. Det kommer att overleva honom sjalv. Dr Lagergrens nobla karaktar och akt-ningsvarda umgange ibland oss, inom och utom klassrummot, har varit av den mest foradlande och karaktarsdanancle natur. Vi hava lart oss att hogakta ocli iilska honom som en hdgsint och varmhjartad van och la-rare. Med den gedigna bildning, som endast Uppsala universitet kunde giva, tillsammans med mer an ett halvsekels forskning och er-farenhet, kan man gott saga, att dr Lagergren stir framsl ibland virt folk ifraga om bildningsgrad. Som samfundsman har han haft den sjir-egna fdrminen att med sitt eget livs erfa-renliet fitt lanka tillsammans de svenska baptisternas utveckling i tvenne lander. Detta darfor, att han redan som aderton-ftring blev medlem av en baptistforsamling och, knappast lumnen over kvartssekelgriin-sen. pastor for baptistforsamllngen i sjalva lardomsstaden Uppsala.