To Our Dear Teacher And Friend HENRY C. WINCBLADE WHOSE FAITHFUL AND EFFICIENT WORK AS A TEACHER, AND WHOSE CHRISTIAN CHARACTER HAVE MEANT SO MUCH TO US ALL, WE MOST AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATE THIS ANNUAL ISSUE OF THE BETHEL HERALD innehAll SEMINARISTS AVDELNING 1. Commencement Program ....................... 4 2. Gustav A. Gustavson --•........................ 5 3. Linus Johnson ................................. 6 4. David N. Moberg ............................. 7 5. Fanny Crosby, den blin,da sdngerskan........... 8 6. Rapportoren .................................. 12 7. Making the Most of My Life.................... 13 8. The Value of Reading.......................... 15 9. Poiaters ..................................... 16 10. Editorial .................................... 17 ACADEMY DEPARTMENT 1. Class Song ...................................... 20 2. Class 'History .................................. 21 3. Class Prophesy .................................. 27 4. Class Will ...................................... 29 5. Commercial Class Prophesy ....................... 31 6. Personals ....................................... 33 7. Letter from India .............................. 36 8. Ministerial Students ............................ 37 9. Student Volunteers .............................. 38 10. Missionary Band and Olivia Johnson Memorial Missionary Movement ............................ 39 11. Ambition ........................................ 40 12. Athletic News ................................... 41 13. The Materialist ................................. 42 14. The Ambition that perished ...................... 43 15. Maud Muller ..................................... 45 16. “Min ar hamnden , sager Herren................... 46 17. The Meaning of Our words......................... 49 18. What School for the Christian.................... 49 18. Under ronn och syren ............................ 52 20. The Beautiful Life .............................. 52 21. To a Waterfowl .................................. 53 22. Christian Home .................................. 53 T,u- Bethel Herald “Acorn'' och “Seminarie-Posten forenade M nadstidning, utgiven av studenterna vid Bethel Academy and Theological Seminary St. Paul, Minn. — The Swedish Baptist Educational Institute — VOL 2. MAY, 1920 {: NO. 7 HENRY C. VINGBLADE, B.A 4 THE BETHEL HERALD THE GRADUATING CLASS OF THE Bethel Theological Seminary REQUESTS YOUR PRESENCE AT THE FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT TO BE HELD FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1920 . AT EIGHT O’CLOCK AT THE CENTRAL SWEDISH BAPTIST CHURCH ROY AND SHIELDS STREET ST. PAUL, MINN. ORGAN PRELUDE PROGRAM Miss Esther Moline SONG ----------- Congregation SCRIPTURE READING...........Prof. Ad. Olson, D. A. PRAYER ---------- - D. N. Moberg SALUTATION - - Rev. Arvid Edstam SONG ORATION—Engslish: Contending for the Faith as a Preacher - G. Gustafson SONG - - - - - - ' Bethel Glee Club ORATION Swedish: Contending for the Faith as a Pastor - - Linus Johnson. SONG ADDRESS SONG - -- -- -- -- - Bethel Qaurtette PRESENTATION OF GRADUATES - - Dean C. G. Lagergren. A. B., D. D. CONFERRING OF DIPLOMAS - - - - pres. g. Arvid Hagstrom. D. D. BENEDICTION................................Prof. Em. Schmidt, A. B., Ph. D. THE BETHEL HERALD 5 GUSTAF ADOLPH GUSTAVSOX, Th. B. Thesis: Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles Gustaf Adolpli Gustafson, fiidd i Vaster-stada sockcn. Malmohus lan, Sk ne, den 15 oktober 1892, bosatte eig, efter att hava ge-nomg tt smftskolan i Sverige, med sina for-ftldrar i Long Prairie, Minn., 1903, dftr han, genomgick Public School. Omvftnd. dopt och forenad mod Reynolds Svenska Baptist-forsamling, intradde Gustavtjon i Bethel Academy hasten 1914 och graduerade dar-ifr n i juitf 1918. Under 1916 och 1917 ut-ovades predikoverksamhet i Becker och Watertown, Minn., och i Lake Xorden, S. Dakota. Den 1 oktober 1917 inskrevs Guatavson i Bethel Theological Seminary och graduerar darifrftn den 4 nastkommande junj med graden Th. B. Under hela Seminarietiden har predikoverksamhoten uppehftllits i Watertown. utom en sondag i mftnaden, dft hem forsaml ingen. Reynolds, betjftnats med predikan p£ engelska spr ket. Gustavson har antagit kallelse frftn Lake Nordens forsamling, S. D., att frftn den 1 juli 1920 upptaga verksamheten s som pastor. C. G. Ii. 6 THE BETHEL HERALD LINUS JOHNSON, Th. B. Thesis: The Holy Spirit in the New Testament Linus Johnson, fodd i Rftneft, Xorrbotten, den, 25 juli 1892, genomgick folkskolan i hemlandet. Var fr n tidiga r upptagen med hftrt arbete. Blev omvftnd, dbpt och forenad med fonsamlingen i Jim ton, Norr-bottcn, Sverige, ftr 1909. Kommen till Ame-rika i aprll 1911, forenade Job neon sig med Svcnska Baptistfbrsamlingcn, i Cadillac, Mich., vilken hau tillhbrde dft han hdsten 1913 intradde i vftrt Seminarium i Morgan Park. I anledning av Seminarlets flyttning ftr 1914 ingick Johnson i Bethel Academy hdsten samnia ftr och graduerade dftrlfr n 1919. Iloeten 1917 ftterupptogs studium i Seminariet, och d rlfr n graduerar John- son i ftr med gradcn Th. B., den -slate av vftra elever, som studerat i Morgan Park. Under hela skoltiden, fr n sommaren 1914, hava fdljande Xbrsamllngar betjftnats med evangelii predikan: La Porte, Ind., Evansville. Becker, Burns och St. Francis, Minn. Hdsten. 1919 blev Johnson kallad av Bethaniafdrsamlingen i St. Paul att upp-taga arbetet efter pastor Adolf Oleon, en verksamhet, som han. i cgcnekap av pastor, uppehftllit detta ftr och amnar fortsatta. Johnson har efter flyttningen till Minnesota, hela tiden tillhort denna fdrsamling, dar han ock fanji sin ledsagarinna genom ( . (L L. THE BETHEL HERALD 7 DAVII) NATHANIEL MOBERG Thesis: Moses, (he Man of God David Nathaniel Moberg, fbdd i Vaster-gotland den 3 aug. 1893, genomgick folk-skolan i Sverige och kom vid 17 Ars Alder till Amerika, bosattande sig i Orange, Mass., 1910, varifrAn han efter en tid slog sig ned i Rockford, 111., arbetande i en piano fa-brik, och frAn Rockford kom han. dft han hosten 1915 intrAdde i Bethel Academy. Moberg blev onivand i Sverige 1909, dopt och fdrcnad med Svenska Baptistforsam-lingen i Rockford I decern her 1910, dar han verkade sAsom sondagsskollarare och ung-domsforeningens ordforande. Den 1 okt. 1918 intradde han i Seminariet och gradue-rar darirrAn den 4 Junl med graden Th. G., pA samma gAng graduerande frAn Bethel Academy. Under skoltiden har Moberg haft verk-eamhet i foljande torsamllngar: Kenora, Ont., Can., Lund, Wis., Creston, la., och Enfield. Minn. Efter graduationen upptager han verksamhet sAsom pastor i Norwood, Mass. C. G. L. s TIIE BETHEL HERALD Fanny Crosby, den blinda sangerskan Av prof. Kmanuel Schmidt, Ph. I . Sopdag eftcr sondag sjunga vi i vftra kyr-kor sdnger soin tilltala oss p grumi av deras sk(ina musik. deras utsbkt fina ord och djupa tankar, deras till sjalen gdende budskap om ndd och kraft och valsignel-se. men huru sallan tanka vi pd den, som komponerat den, harliga musiken eller den som forfattat don ansldende hyninen. Huru ofta ha ej dessa gripande sdnger sjung-its, “Trygg i Min Jesu flrmar, “Radda de doende” eller “Fralst av n d,” utan att en enda tanke av erkannande eller sympati riktats till den blinda forfattarinnan som upplyst varlden, med sin trosfriska sftng. Den 24 mars 1820 ftiddes i en oansenlig koja i Southeast. Putnam county. New New York. Fanny Crosby, en av vdrt slak-tes adlaste kvinnor. Hennes moder var en av dessa modiga. verksamma karaktarer fran New England, vilka hjalpte till att lag-ga grunden for denna republik. Hennos fa-ders namn var John Crosby. Han dog, in-nan Fanny fyllt sitt forstd fir. sd att lion kunde icke ens minnas honom, men han tillhorde en slakt, som gjort sig bemiirkt redan under kolonialtiden. Sd tidlgt som 1635 hade Crosby-familjen slagit sig ned vid Charles River i narheten av.Boston, och dessa Crosbys raknades bland grumllaggar-na till Harvard College. Ett sareget for-hftllande var det, att pd modernet hade fle-ra av Fanny Crosby.s foraldrar ndtt en sar-deles hog aider. Henncs mor levdc tills hon blev 91 dr och hennes mormor blev 103. Sjalv onskade Fanny f leva liingre an dct. men on.dast 94 dr fdrunnades det heune. Nar hon var sex vcckor gammal, blev hon ganska sjuk och sarskilt ogonen blevo angripna. De som hade vdrd om henne. lade ndgot .slags grot pd ogonen. Deras ofdr-stdnd och oforsiktighet gjorde. att hon for-lorade totalt sin syn. “Dd jag vaxte upp,” anmdrker hon i sin sjalvbiografi.’’ sade man mig. att jag skulle aldrig fd sc mina v n-ners anleten, eller faltets blommor. eller him lens blda valv. eller stjarnornas gylle- ne glans, men min moder sokte trosta mig med att visa huru tvenne av varldens stor-sta skalder varit blinda. och att ibland for-synen berovade vissa persoaer ndgon av deras fbrmdgor, for att deras andliga in-sikt skulle sd mycket fullkomllgare vackas till liv.” Fanny gbmde tidigt i sitt hjiirta en liten klenod. som hon kallade fdrnojaamhet, och denna skatt gjorde hennes liv lyckligt. Henncs poetiska begdvnlng visade sig redan vid 8 drs dlder, dd hon skrev foljande vackra lilla poem: 0 what a happy soul am I, Although 1 cannot see. 1 am resolved that in this world Contented I will be. How many blesssings I enjoy. That other People don't. To weep and sigh, because I'm blind. I cannot and I won’t. Hennes mormor tog stort intresse i henne och undervisade henne om Guds skiina natur, om floder och skogar och blommor och fdglar, om den harliga regnbdgen. i skyn. Violen var hennes favoritblomma. och som liten flicka skrev hon ett mycket vackert poem om den blyga blomman. Det var Sven hennes mormor, som meddelade henne de forsta grun.derna i kristendoms-kunskap. Hon berattar sjalv darom: “Det var mormor som bragte bibeln till .mig och mig till bibeln. Den lieliga bokens be-rattelser och sanningar kommo till mig over hennes lappar. trSngde in i mitt hjar-ta och slogo rot dar. Nar aftonens skug-gor folio, brukadc hon taga mig i sitt kna och gunga mig i sin gamla gungstol och he-ratta for mig om en god. himmelsk fader, som «dnt sin enfddde son, Jesus Kristus. ned till denna varlden for att bliva en Fral-sare och en, van for hela mdnskligheten. Sedan larde hon mig boja mina knan i bon. THE BETHEL HERALD 9 och ofta lade jag mitt trotta lilla liuvud i mormors kna och somnade in.” Hon lar-de sig sAlunda utantill lAnga stycken ur bibeln, och heunes tidigare poesi var grun-dad pA de val kanda bibliska berattelser-na. Vid femton Ars aider inskrevs hon som elev i The Institution for the Blind i Now York City. Har studerade hon i tolv Ars tid och kvarstannadc sedan som lara-rinn.a. Vid denna skola kom hon i herd-ring med de fdrnamsta formftgor pA olika omrAdcn i llvet, ty pA grund av sin ovan-liga begAvning blev hon st ndigt pAkallad att deklamera oiler hAlla tal vid liogtid-liga tillfallen. SAlunda blev hon bekant med framstAende statsman, littcrara fdrmA-gor och mAstare pA musikens och konstens omrAden. Under sin lAnga levnad blev hon person-ligen bekant med de fiesta av vArt lands presidenter. ty med undantag av George Washington ha alia vAra presidenter levat i hennes livstid. John Adams dog. nar hon var sex Ar gammal. Hon namner sarukilt Andrew Jackson. William Henry Harrison. John Tyler Polk, Lincoln. Grant och Garfield bland sina fdrnamsta vauner. men.” sager hon. det var med Grover Cleveland, som jag kom i narmare beroring an med nAgon annan av vAra presidenter. Han var sekreterare for The Institution for the Blind,” och jag kom ofta till honom mod mina bekymmer och svArigheter, och han visade «ig vara en sympatisk van. Han kopicrade flera av mina poem for mlg. Under alia de Ar vi voro bekanta, tog han stort intresse i mig och mitt arbete. Jag har ofta varit gast i hang hem bAde i Lake-wood och i Princeton.” Nar Jenny Lind, den svenska nAkter-galen. besbkte detta land, onskade hon aven komma och sjunga en 6Ang for de blinda. Om detta besdk sk river Fanny Crosby: Nar det blev bekant. att Jen- ny Lind skulle sjunga vid vAr skola, kunde ej ord uttrycka de kanslor, som genom-strdmmade mig. Mitt hjarta liknade en dverflodande bagare. min gladje var lik en bubblande kalla, min kropp var latt som en fjader. Den morgonen kunde jag ej ata nAgon frukost. Jenny Lind skulle sjunga. och jag skulle deklamera mitt poem. The Swedish Nightingale. Jag kande hennes narvaro, nar jag kom upp pA tala-restolen. Jag slutade mitt poem med denna strof: Yet, Sweden’s daughter, thou shalt live In every grateful heart. And many the choicest gifts of heaven Be thine, where’er thou art” varpA Jenny Lind reste sig och sjong Home, home, sweet, sweet home” med en sAdan innerlig kansla, att jag aldrig kan forgata det iixtryck hennes sAng gjorde pA mig. Vid ett annat tillfalle hade de besdk av Ole Bull, och hennes beskrivning av bans musik ar underbar: Dot syntes som om jag bokstavligen s A g lionom, nar lian, drog strAken over violinens strangar. t'Aglar-na sjdngo, bAcken porlade, regnet foil, Ajs-kan dundrade, solstrAlama dansade, kloc-korna klamtadc. anglarna sjdngo. Vi voro alia fdrtrollade. Varma gladjetArar fldda-de nedfdr mina kinder och ett himmelskt ljus kastade sin gloria over min hjassa. Nar jag fattade Ole Bulls hand, kande jag som om jag berordes av nAgon frAn en annan viirld. Vi sutto ned till-sammans. Han samtalade med mig. och hans ord voro ful-la av uppmuntran. Han gav mig en klara-re inblick om karleken an jag nAgonsin kunnat fatta forut. Hans musik har gjort mina egna sAnger mera ljuva. mera gu-domliga.” Den blinda sAngerskan hade aven sin Lilia karlekssaga.” Somliga manniskor synas ej fatta, att blinda flickor aga lika stor formAga act alska och verkligen alska lika varmt och lika helhjArtat som de vil-ka aga sin syn. Det kom en rikt begAvad yn.gling vid namn Alexander Van Alstyne till skolan, och han var sardeles skicklig i musik. Han visade sig hogcligcn intres-serad av Fannys poem, och hon beundrade hans ljuva musik. SAlunda fattade de tyc-ke for varandra. men hennes egen. berat-tel.se harom ar mera intressant an nAgon annans skildring: En dag i juni gick han, ut och satte sig under elmtraden for att lyssna, dA fAglarna kvittrade och vindarna ■spelade sin karlekwvisa bland loven. Det var bar karleken,s rdst hojde sin stamma i hans sjal. Dar lyssnade han. dar horde han en rost vai s musik tilltalade hans hjarta. Just dA kom en annan. som kallats 10 THE BETHEL HERALD arv samma rost, till den plats, dar lian satt och dromde. Jag lade min hogra hand pA hans van.stra och sade “Van.” DA var det som tv lyckkiga alskare sutto under tys-t-nad mcdan 6olcns strAlar damsade kring de-ras hjassor och dagens gyllene sloja drog in sitt 1 jus. Van” tog upp karlekens har-pa och lat sina fingrar glida over strang-arn.as guld, och sjong for mig cn sann al-skares hjartesAng. FrAn den stunden blic-kade tvenne liv ut over ett nyfct universum. ty karlek motte karlek, och hela varlden var forandrad. Vi voro icke langre blin-da, ty karlekens ljus visade oss, var liljor-na blomma, var kristallklara vatten, finna sin mossbebramade kalla.” Efter ett fyr-tiofyra-Arigt aktenskap gick “Van” till sin Faders hue. DA skrev den blinda alska-rinnan: ‘Tis only a leaf, a withered leaf. But its story is fraught with pain; 'Twas the gift of one who is far away And will n.ever return again; ‘Tis only a leaf a withered leaf, And yet I prize it so, For it brings to my mem’ry the brightest hour I ever on earth shall know. ‘Tis only a leaf, a withered leaf, But its story is fraught with pain; ‘Twas the gift of one who is far away He will never return; but I feel ere long My spirit with his will be, And the old-time love shall be sweeter there Where I know that he waits for me. Under mAnga Ar var det Fanny Crosbys on.skan att kunna bli on hymnforfattarin-na, men det var ej forran Ar 1864 som ett tillfalle yppade sig fbr hcnne. En dag det Aret bad henne W. B. Bradbury skriva en hymn At honom. Efter tre dagar kom hon tillbaka med fdljande verser, till vilka han satte musik: We are going, we are going, To a home beyond the skies, Where the fields are robed in beauty. And the sunlight never dies; Where the fount of life is flowing In the valley green and fair, We shall dwell in love together; There will be n.o parting there. We are going, we are going, And the music we have heard Like the echo of the woodland. Or the carol of a bird; With the rosy light of morning. On the calm and fragrant air. Still it murmurs, 60ftly murmurs, There will be no parting there. We are going, we are going, When the day of life is o’er, To the pure and happy region. Where our friends have gone before; They are singing with the angels In that land so bright and fair; We shall dwell with them forever; There will be no parting there. Sedan var det mojligt for henne att fort-satta. och under de stora Moody och San-key vackelserna i England och Skottland pA 70-talet var det Fanny Crosby sAngerna, som voro mest omtyckta. i all synnerhet “Pass me not O Gentle Saviour,” om vilken Sankey sade. att det var ingen 6Ang som gjorde sA djupt intryck som den,na under London vackelsen 1874. En dag kom mr W. H. Doane till henne och sade: “Fanny jag har en melodi, till vilken jag onskade du ville skriva ord.” Han spelade igen.om den och genast utropade hon: “den me-lodin sager ‘Safe in the Arms of Jesus’ ” hon sprang upp pA sitt rum, och inom tret-tio minuter kom hon tillbaka med sin odod-liga sAng. I Ridgefield. Conn., blev hon bekant med Sylvester Main och hans son, Hubert P. Main, vilka tillhorde den stora firman Biglow and Main. For den,na firma skrev Fanny Crosby, och erholl betalning darfor. fern tusen, nio liundra sAnger, och mr Main beraknar, att hon skrivit for andra forlag-gare och vanner ytterligare tvA tusen sju hundra sAnger, sA att hennes poem av oli-ka slag overstiger Atta tusen. Kanske den mest omtyckta av hennes sAnger var “Saved by Grace.” Hon 6ande in don till Biglow and Main, och dar lades den in bland hundratals andra sAnger och THE BETHEL HERALD 11 forglomdee. En afton bad mr Sankey hen-ne avlagga ett vittnesbbrd. Hon tvekade forst, men, Sankey ville ej hora ett nej.” SAlunda sade lion nAgra ord och avslutade sitt tal med att deklamera sin hymn: Some day the silver cord will break. And I no more as now shall sing, But O, the joy, when I shall wake Within the Palace of the King. Nar lion slutat, utbrast Sankey: “Fan.- ny, var liar du fAtt tag i den dar vackra sAngcn?” Det horde du veta, jag isAlde den till er firma for tre Ar sedan, och jag liar van tat liela dcnna tid pA ett tillfiille att fA deklamera den.” Mr Sankey gav sig ingen ro. forran han t'Att mr Stcbbein att saita musik till den, och sAlunda kom den-na skona hymn allmanheten till del. och sannolikt torde det bland henries tusentals sAnger t'inas mAnga sAdana harliga kleno-der, om blott vAra stora tonsattare fingo reda pA deni. Det ar i sanning rorande att lAsa om hu-ru Fann,v Crosby besokte Sankey, nar den-ne forlorat sin syn, och huru lion sokte trosta honom. De grato och sjongo och bado tillisammans. Han vantade aldrig att han skulle fardas over floden fore aunt Fanny, och darfor skrev han. till hcnne en gAng: ‘‘Jag onskar, nar du koinmer till himlen (som du nog gor fore mig) att du vantar pA mig vid parleporten pA ostra si-dan om staden, och nar jag konvmer dit, skall jag taga dig vid liauden och leda dig langs den, gvllenc gatan upp till Guds tron och dar skola vi stA infbr Lanimet och saga: 'Och nu se vi dig ansikte mot ansikte, fralsta genom din oandligga nAd’ och dA bliva vi nojda for evigt.” Det fauns mAnga intressanta och roran-de episoder i hennes langa och skiftesrika liv. LAngt in i den hoga Alderdomen bibe-holl.hon sitt trosliv varmt och friskt. PA sin nittion.de fodelsedag hade nAgra van-ner kommit for att uppmuntra henne, och dA holl hon ett tal. vars inledning ar for-tjusande vacker: ‘‘Jag koinmer till eder i livets aftontimma med en kapp och en stav. men jag lever i Asyn, av evigheteas soluppgAng. Hoppets stjarna strAlar kla-rare pA min stig an den gjorde for femtio apueussiA 3upp? uo ii[ an usq 'uepas .i ros i mitt liv, den riktar och forskonar varje timma. Hoppet bar alltid varit am-ne for min sAng. Det ar den bestamman-de tonen i mitt verksamma liv. Hoppet upplyser mina morgontimmar, det str lar pA mitt arbete vid middagstid, det gjuter sitt skimmer bland aftonens skuggor. Jag skriver standigt om Hoppets dorr for 60r-gebundna sjalar, och jag amnar utfora IIop-pets tjanst, till des6 jag intruder i den, him-melska staden.” Fredagsmorgonen den 12 februari 1916 utsandes ett bud over liela varlden, att Fanny Crosby, den ryktbara hymnforfattarin-nan stilla och lugrit gAtt over gransen till ett battre land. En myckct imponerande begravning bolls i Bridgeport, Conn. En rik blomstcrhyllning ekanktes henne, som under sin lAnga livstid strbtt poesiens och trostens blommor omkring sig, och ehuru blind varit medel till att giva tusenden sin syn. Hen,no3 pris har hojts i tal och sAng, men det mest imponerande eulogium torde dock ha givits av E. E. Hewitt, forfatta-ren till den val kanda sAngen. ‘Will there be any stans in my crown:’ “Away to the country of sunsliin.e and song, Our songbird has taken her flight; And she who has sung in the darkness so long Now sings in the beautiful light; The harpstrings here broken are sweetly rest rung To ring in the chorus sublime; The hymns that on earth she so trustfully 6ung Keep tune with eternity’s chime. What heart can conceive of the rapture she knows Awakened to glories so bright. Where radiant splendour unceasingly glows. Where cometh n.o shadows of night. Her ‘life-work is ended,’ and over the tide, ‘Redeemed’ in His presence to stan.d. She knows her Redeemer, for her crucified, 'By the print of the nails in His hand.’ O, ‘Blessed Assurance’—the lamp in her soul. That made earthly midninght as naught. A ‘New Song’ of joy shall unceasingly roll To Him who her ransom had bought. 12 THE BETHEL HERALD To ‘Rescue the Perishing,’ her great delight, What bliss, in the Homeland, to meet With those she had told of the Lord’s saving might, Together, to bow at His feet. Good-bye dearest Fanny, good-bye for awhile; You walk in the shadows no more; Around you the sunbeams of glory will smile; The Lamb is the Light of that shore. Some day we will meet in the City above; Together we'll look on His face; Safe, Safe in the Arms of the Jesus we love; Together we’ll sing ‘Saved by Grace’.” Rapportoren I). X. Moberg Detta skol r tillhor nil snart historiens blad. tv tiden nalkas for v r skolavslut-ning. Hela detta r har dock varit ett an-genamt ftr, icke s litet av intresse kunde kanske namnas, och nar lasaren i en snar framtid onskar p minna sig n got. fr n, detta r. las igenom ftrg ngen av ‘‘Bethel Herald” for 1919—1920. Den sista tiden har varit val upptagcn med moten och anordningar av olika slag. For en langre tid sedan var Seminariets studentk r och larare inbjudna till dr. och mns G. Arvid Hagstroms hem. En mvcket trcvlig och angenam afton tillbringades. Den 28 april hade dr. Emanuel Schmidt an-ordn.at cn storre banquet i Seminariet, d alia ‘‘predikanterna”, skolornas lararek r. skolstyrclscn och n gra andra voro inbjudna. Ett trevligt program var utfort. och dr. Schmidt gav ett intressant tal om biblio-tekets samling som han skan.kt till skolan. Freda gen den 7 maj hade dr C. G. Lager-gren anordnat en social afton, for studen-ter och larare i Seminariet. Samkvamet var av en mycket angenam natur. D detta skrives har Seminariet aven en inbjudan att besoka prof. Adolf Olsons hem den 18 maj. Vi vanta att aven dar hava det mycket trevligt. For att nu lasaren skall kunna fblja stu-denterna uti deras arbete skola vi tillkan-nagiva var de komma att vara under som-maren. De tre forsta aro graduanter och komma att stanna pa sina fait aven efter som mare ns slut. Linus Johnson ar redan och kommer att vara pastor for Betaniaforsamlingen i St. Paul. G. A. Gustavson har en sommar forut tjanat Lake Norden, S. D., och har antagits att bliva dess predikan.t och ledare. David N. Moberg ar kallad att upptaga arbetet i Norwood, Mass., vilket han ocks antagit Arthur B. Nelson kommer att kvarstS pa sin post i Cushing. Minn. Han har tjanat denna forsamling under vintern, samt for-liden sommar. Fred L. Moberg blir ej i r Canadas-apos-tel utan Canova, S. D. har begart hans hjalp i sommar. Axel Anderson kommer att vara predi-kant i Svcr.ska Baptistkvrkan. i Anoka. Minn. Oscar Magnuson har antagit kallelse till Clear Brook. Minn., for sommaren. Eric Lindliolm har beslutat kvarstft som pastor for den Amerikanska for.samlingen. i Dassel. Minn. W. Holmberg stannar i St. Paul i Baptist Missionncns tjcinst. e som sondags.skolar-betare och predikant. Martin C. Hamlin skall vikariera for pastor Bergstrom i Virginia, Minn. Emil T. Carlson borjade forliden sommar att bygga kvrka i Ramsey, S. D.. och vill i sommar ga dit for att inviga den. M Guds valsignelse Vila over s val stu-denter som forsamlingar! Ett tack och farval for i r! THE BETHEL HERALD 13 Making the most of my life By G. ARVID IIAGSTROM The approaching Commencement season, of which the Annual Number of the Bethel Herald is an unfailing reminder, is like its predecessors one of mingled reflections and emotions to both faculty and studen.t alike. The year just closing is rich with meaningful import. Has it been our best or could it be improved for each of us? Has our service been helpful to him who ministers as well as to the one ministered unto? Browning says: “A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich, a sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense of service which thou renderest,” and Again “all service ranks the same with God.” Whatever be the message of the year it will not fail of its purpose if it enables us to attain a greater degree of efficiency and to have contributed something to the enrichment of other lives. To the student who graduates as well as to him who continues the problem is how to make most of one’s life. To many a young person, yea, even to the maturer ones, the first and often the most dominating element in making the most of one’s life consists in. getting the most one can. that is getting rather than giving, receiving rather than contributing. This, however, is a mistaken notion for it is in, giving that living consists rather than receiving. The beauty of our faith is that it can be successfully lived. It works, and it works better than anything else offered. Some one has said: Faith in God. faith in man, stands behind the words “I can. When you have faith in God nothing is impossible for then what is God’s is yours to draw upon. An unknown author has expressed this thought in the following lines: The sun is forever pouring its gold On. a hundred worlds that need to borrow, To give is to live. His warmth he squanders on. summits cold, His wealth on the homes of want and sorrow, Its joy is the joy it freely diffuses; The flower shines not for itself at all; Of beauty and balm it is prodigal. And it lives in the life it freely loses; No choice for the rose but glory or doom, To exhale or smother, to wither or bloom To deny is to die. The seas lend silvery rays to the land The land its sapphire streams to the ocean.; The heart sends blood to the brain of command. The brain to the heart its lightning motion, and over and over we yield our breath Till the mirror is dry and images death. To live is to give. Dead is the hand that is not open wide To help the need of a human, brother; He doubles the length of his life long ride Who gives of his fortunes to help another; And a thousand million lives are his Who carries the world in his sympathies to deny is to die. The talents of life, its opportunities for the use and investment of the same for the help of those around us to lift them to a nobler realm and help them catch a clearci vision of the higher ideals in life is to be imbued with the mind of the Master who came not to be ministered unto but to minister and give His life a ransom for many.” Who like He has made the most of His life and. being so, it will be possible when permeated by Ilis spirit we catch His vision, walk in His footsteps and do His bidding. Kipling says: The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart: Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, an humble and a contrite heart. This is not only the way to fruitful and acceptable service but is also the golden way by which the talents and possibilities deposited by God in the human heart can reach their highest development arid hence in no other way is growth assured. This 14 THE BETHEL HERALD makes for the spirit of resignation an,d patience, that knows no discontent or lack of control, for whatever comes, when one's life is a part of God’s great plan, is best as a Caroline Atwater Mason aptly puts it: Whichever way the wind doth blow, Some heart is glad to have it so; Then blow is east or blow it west, The wind that blows, that wind is best, Life in this path is making its largest contribution to the fulfillment of the Divine plan, the accomplishment of the Divine program and thus, in the light of Him who knoweth all and doeth all things well, life is making the very most of itself when serving the purpose which He, its author and upholder, lias set for it. Nothing but the highest and best is what we covet for each graduate of Bethel and none the less for every undergraduate. STADET Jag stannade en afton in.vid smedjans dorr, Och horde stadets sftng vid val avslutad dag. Jag s g p golvet slaggor, som jag sett dem forr, De gam la slaggor, slitna utav rens slag. “Hur m nga stad har du val haft, min van, Att slita, nota dessa slaggor ut?” “Blott ett”, sad’ sraeden, men tillade se’n, “Du vet, att stadet gor pit alia slaggor slut! “Guds Ord”, jag tank-te, “stftr lik stadet n, Av tvivlets slag i sekler det berorts, Likval nar ljudet av dess slag dott ban, Oskatt star st det — slhggorna forstorts”. (Efter engelskan av E. Schmidt). + + In the still air the music lies unheard; In the rough marble beauty lies unseen; To make that music and the beauty needs The master’s touch, the sculptor’s chisel keen. Great Master, touch us with thy skillful hand; Let not the music that is in us die! Great Sculptor, hew and polish us; nor let Hidden and lost, thy form within us lie! —H. BONAR. “The human anatomy is a wonderful bit of mechanism,” observed the Sage. “Yes,” replied the Fool. “Pat a man on the back and you'll make his head swell.” —Cincinnati Enquirer. OUR Bl'RDEN BEARER The little sharp vexations and the briars that catch and fret. Why not take all to the helper, who has never failed us yet? Tell Him all about the heartache and tell him the longings too. Tell Him the baffled purpose when we scarce knew what to do. Then, leaving all our weakness with the One divinely strong Forget that we bore the burden and carry away the song. —Phillip Brooks. He died in harness, poor chap.” “Yes, and by the way. did you ever notice how much like a harness life is? There are the traces of care, lines of trouble, bits of good fortune and breaches of faith. Also tongues must be briddled, passions curbed, and everybody ha6 to tug to pull thru.” —Onward. + Maud—Can you run a fliver? Beatrice—No, indeed. Maud—Why, I thot you graduated from an Automobile school. Beatrice—So I did, but I only took the Classical Courses. —Life. Blessed is the man that does not expect anything, he is never disappointed. —Pope. THE BETHEL HERALD 15 The value of reading By EMIL T. CARLSON We arc living in an age of refinement and culture. Schools and colleges are annually turning out vast armies of men and women of refined taste and manners. The illiterate person is a back number in any walk of life today. In our nation, the great melting pot of nations, only 7.7 percent of all its inhabitants are unable to read or write to some extent. In the northern countries of Europe, such as Sweden, Norway and Denmark the percentage of illiteracy is even lower, varying between 2 and 3 percen.t. The condition of the people of these countries is greatly superior to the ignorant and illiterate people of southern Europe. Although we are enjoying these privileges and have access to multitudes of books, yet how few really know and understand the value of reading. A person may have command of one and even more languages, and yet not gain the value from reading that lie should. Ruskin has very ably divided all books into two classes,—the book of the hour an,d the book of all time. These two classes may both of them again be devided into good books and bad books. A book is the product of the man or woman who has made a life study of that particular subject he lias written about. What it has taken them a lifetime to find out through sacrifices and hard labor, we may find out in a few hours by reading their books. The first thing essential for us is to know what is of value in literature and what is not. Just as an efficient goldsmith mu6t know how to distinguish pure gold from alloys and imitations, a reader, to be an efficient reader, must know a book of value from a book of no value. At first sight one may be as attractive as the other. It is through the rigid test of furnace and acid that the genuineness of the pure metal is proven. Our souls may be likened to the smelting furnace, our learning and wit to the acids and tools. It is not enough to have found a good book. After we have found it we must learn to read it. We must let the author’s life become a part of our life. It is not the number of books we read that makes reading valuable. It is the accuracy and thor- oughness with which we read that counts. Men who wrote these books spent years of their life investigating and analyzing these things. Every word and every thought is a gold mine in itself. We must dig anjd we must work. The more we dig the more we find. Books bring to us the best society of all ages. We can associate with men and women of the past better than many of those who live contemporaneously with them. By reading the biography of Lincoln, and his stories wc probably know more about Lincoln than many who were personally aquainted with him. We know more about what Jesus taught and practiced by reading the four Gospels than many a Jew living in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus. The book is the best of the author’s life. Milton said: “A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on, purpose for a life beyond life.” Every man’s life has its drawbacks and faults. Most of our geniuses have been more or less eccentric. But whatever may have been their faults we know this: their books are the best of their lives minus the faults and failures. Books are the stepping stones by which we are to attain our ambitions. They are the inheritance of our fathers. The world today is better than, it was two thousand years ago because our forefathers have forged a way. We study the life and works of Lincoln. Washington was Lincoln’s comrade during those long winter evenings in the log cabin. Washington, in turn fought the great battles of Breitenfeld and Lutzen in company with Gustav Adolph. Through the Bible we can associate with the partiarchs of old and God’s men of all ages. We learn by their mistakes, we profit by their faith and patience. This is no doubt what the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews wishes to tell us in the eleventh chapter of that epistle. In the reading of good literature we are then getting the experiences of our forefathers, handed down to us. They are the bridges for us to use in crossing the marshes and dangerous rivers of life. 16 THE BETHEL HERALD A MODEL LIFE When you think, when you speak, when, you read, when you write, When you sing, when you walk, when you seek for delight, To be kept from all harm when at home or abroad. Live always as under the eyes of the Lord. Whatever you think, never think what you feel You would blush in the presence of God to reveal; Whatever you say in. a whisper or clear, Say nothing you would not like Jesus to hear. Whatever you read, though the page may allure. Read nothing of which you are perfectly sure Consternation at once would be seen in your look If God should say solemnly. Show me that •book. Whatever you write, though with haste or with heed, Write nothing you would not like Jesus to read; Whatever you sing in the midst of your glee, Sing nothing that His listening ears would displease. Wherever you go, never go where you fear, Lest the great God should say. How earnest thou here? Turn away from each pleasure you would Shrink from pursuing If God should look down and say, What are you doing? —Selected. ..Anomalous a6 it may seem, it is the “wets” who arc dry. —Shreveport Times. •' Visitor— I am collecting for the poet's hospital. Will you contribute? Editor—With pleasure. Call tonight with the Ambulance and I'll have a poet ready. —Selected. WHICH FOR l’Ol’? What position,, please do you occupy in the church? Are you An Attender, or an Absenter?— A Pillar, or a Sleeper?—A Wing, or a Weight?—A Power, or a Problem?—A Promoter, or a Provoker? A Giver or a Getter? —A Goer, or a Gadder?—A Doer, or a Deadhead?—A Booster, or a Knocker? A Supporter. or a Sponger?—A Soldier, or a Slacker? There with the goods, or off with au excuse? Ask yourself the question: Which am I? “God asks little of you. but he asks your best.” “Christ is ready to turn our water into wine, but he expects us to keep it from turning into vinegar.” “Every man should keep a fairsized cemetery, in which to bury the faults of his friends.” Grace is better than ability, an.d love of souls is better than talents. - God always gives us our duties. Often lie gives happiness; but it is not the essential thing. Life is never a failure until a man gives up. To the faithful who fail, God opens new doors. ♦ + No one is a good Christian whose peace of mind is at the mercy of events, and not anchored iu God. Sympathizing with the hopes and endeavors of others enlarge the mind more than most studies can do. The Bethel Herald A monthly published during the School year by the students of Bethel Academy and Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minq, SUBSCRIPTION PRICK 75c PER YEAR Gordon Hasselblad—Business Mgr. SEMINARY Eric N. Lindholm................Eng. Dept. Axel A. Anderson...............Swed. Dept. David Moberg...............Rapportor Oscar Magnusson ......Ass’t Bus. Mgr. Emanuel Schmidt, Ph. D...Faculty Asst’ S X A P F EMIL T. CARLSON Editor-in-Chicf W. G. Holmberg—Circulating Mgr. ACADEMY Gladys Hedman ..............Eng. Dept. Bengt Anderson ............Swed. Dept. Lillian Wik { „ , , _ Milton Ward ............School Items William Carlson ........Ass’t Bus. Mgr. Edwin Omark..............Ass’t Cir. Mgr. H. C. Wingblade, A. B....Faculty Ass’t BETHEL HERALD Snelling and Nebraska Avenue. St. Paul, Minnesota Entered as second-class matter December 15,1919, at the Post Office at St. Paul, Minnesota under the Act of March 3, 1879. Prof. Henry C. Wingblade At the close of this school year, Prof. Henry Wingblade will have completed his ten,th year as teacher at Bethel Academy. He came to Bethel in the fall of 1910, after having graduated from Washburn University of Topeka, Kansas, to take charge of the English and Public Speaking departments. That he has shown himself to be an excellent instructor is evidenced by his popularity among both studen.ts and alumni. Ten years may not seem a very long period in history, but in a teacher’s life it means much. At a school like Bethel, hundreds of students will have studied during that time for a longer or shorter period. The education which a student carries with him from school is not on,ly that which he has been able to learn from text books, but also from the life and character of his teacher. This has made an impression on the young mind and has helped to mould his character. Bethel has been fortunate in having good teachers and this has in, no small measure added to the success of the school. We shall not endeavor to write a biography or character sketch of Prof. Wingblade. His life and work is known and felt thruout or denamination today, and his influen.ee will continue to be felt, we are sure, as the years go by, for we feel certain that these ten years have merely been an introduction to his work as teacher at our school. 18 THE BETHEL HERALD EX LITKN ATEKBLICK Sn.art liar Aterigen ett skolar hastat ha-dan, och vi stft fardiga att lanma dessa lar-domssalar sA dyrbara for de fiesta av oss. I)A vi nu blicka tillbaka over detta skolAr kunna vi icke annat an tacka Gud for bans underbara ledning. DA man tager allt i be-tankande bar det i sanding varit ett i alia riktningar valsignelserikt skolAr. Antalet elever i alia avdelningar bar varit betydligt storre an nAgot annat Ar. Detta har gjort att flera larareformAgor ha anlitats. Flera tillokningar hava ocksA gjort.s till skolan.s utrustning, till exempel i skolans gymnasium, vetenskapsavdelning och bibliotek. Biblioteket ensamt har tredubblats genom Dr, E. Schmidts storslagna gAva. Aven ve-tenskasavdelningens utrustning har betydligt tillokats genom bans gAva. Andra hava frikostigt kommit ihAg oss, for vilket vi kanna oss tacksamma. Med denna tillvaxt ar det ju naturligt att vi vanta Annu storre tillvaxt i det kom-mande. MA ungdomar i vAra forsamlingar liorsamma kallelsen att komma till Bethel. VAr skola ar en missionsskola. Detta var iindamAlet med dess tillkomst och denna anda ar mer och mer tilltagande. Allt efter som elevantalet okas ar det ju ocksA naturligt att hehov pA medel och utrustning vaxa. Om nAgon skulle lasa dessa radcr, som kanner «sig vilja gora nAgot for Her-rens mission, lAt oss pAminna cr att liar ar ett ypperligt tillfalle. Ingen verksamhet ar val utav storre vikt an att soka vinna sjalar for Gud och utbilda kristn,a karakta-rer. If Christianity ceases to be an enthusiasm, it ceases to be a reality. —Charles. No man is born taijto the world whose work Is not born with him; there is always work, And tools to work with, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil! —Lowell. MOULDING I took a piece of plastic clay And idly fashioned it one day, And as my fingers pressed it. still, It moved and yielded at my will. I came again when days were past, The hit of clay was hard at last. The form 1 gave it still it bore But I could change that form no more. I took a piece of living clay, And gently formed it day by day, And moulded with my power and art A young child’s soft and yielding heart. I came again when days were gone; It was a man I looked upon; He still that early impress bore, And I could change it never more. —Selected. A LAST WORD Just before sending this last issue to press we wish to say a few words of farewell to our many readers. We have enjoyed speaking to you month after month thru these columns because we have had the conversation pretty much our way. We are indeed thankful for all words of appreciation received from time to time as this has made our work more enjoyable. It has not been an easy work to edit a paper, but it has been very interesting in many ways. Wo have in some measure come to understand that the path of a newspaper man is not free from thorns. We desire to thank all the students and members of the faculty who have helped to make the paper a success. We would not forget -those who have desired to Iv more for the paper but have in some way been unable to realize their ambitions. The typographers of “Veckobladct” arc worthy of thanks for the pleasant way in which they have helped to make the Herald a success. We hope that the staff to be selected for next year will find the same support as we have had. May the Bethel Herald live aud grow! THE BETHEL HERALD 19 BETHEL HERALD STAFF 1st Row left to right—Lillian Wik, Eric Lindholm, Emil Carlson, Dr. E. Schmidt, Gladys Hedmaiv 2nd Row—Walfrid Holmberg, David Mo :erg. Axel Anderson, Bength Anderson, Edwin Omark. 3rd Row—Gordon Hasselblad, Oscar Magnuson, William Carlson, Milton Ward. I sista numret av tidningen glomde vi att namna forfattaren av artikeln under ru-briken “Arbetarne aro f pi sidan 2. For-fattaren av denna artikel ar prof. A. Olson. ♦ The Senior Class of 1920 has donated to the Academy a Baloptican screen projector. This is Something the school has been very much in need of and will certainly be of great value to the school. It is so constructed that picutres can be thrown on the screen either from slides or from ordinary pictures and photographs. The class is certainly to be commended -for this gift to their Alma Mater. ♦ Fredagen den 7 maj voro Seminarists la-rare och studtnter inbjudna till en trevlig afton.underhillning i Dr. Lagergrens hem. Efter ett omvaxlande program av sing och musik serverades forfriskningar. Dr. E. Schmidt had a reception for the faculty and Ministerial Staden.ts of both the Academy and Seminary Wednesday evening, April 28. The reception was held in the Chapel of Seminary Hall. Members of the school board and pastors of the Twin Cities were also guests. After a very interesting program refreshments were served. It also happened to be Dr. Schmidts birthday and he was presented with a basket of beautiful red roses by the school board. ♦ ♦ Not what seems fair—but what is true! Not what we dream—but the good we do! These are the things that shine like gems, Like stars, in heaven's diadems.’’ Not what we take—but what we give! Not as we pray—but as we live, These are the things that make for peace, Both now, and after time shall cease.” Fred. Moberg. Aleyrdlo Animato. ± BETHEL Class Song of i 920 Harold Ericsson. -A- b 1. All to-geth - er sing - ing low 2. ' 3. : In the twilight’s fad-ing glow, Let us voice the 2. In the beau-ty of the morn While the gol-aen light is borne On the wings of ule the walking shadows stay ’Neath the trees a-long our way Andthemidday- While the -s TH I t • -a-jLj ... --ft_ ■ —-k— -- :£z=f=: i-z =?: -----1— N-----( - - name a-ring-ing in our hearts! 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Beth - el, Beth - el hail her loud and long! j3fcfc =| 15= a 9- . ! t=| H I - S 0 0 - f i -v ’✓ 1 B(=g==P=7 3 v bt X- 1 |wHr ; z=l 0 £ - 1 i E i p j ff :z2l5_ A-i m p Beth - el, Beth-el Sing it deep and strong,’Till the e-chocs in re - frain - L —{-— F F N-f • f—f .• 1 —:— —4 1 ft 4 p—ts ■ • : : k • ?i_-d L L L 1 -N- --------------- tit. N ji Chant the dear old name again And a thousand hearts are ring-ing with our song. g-iT —r-£---- -0— —r — --------- --j-, THE BETHEL HERALD 21 Academy Department “Trust in God and Work” 4----..-------------------- ■----- ..... —-- Class History 1920 By LILLIAN 0. WIK Gordon llusselblad—Our most efficient class president aroused the city of Duluth, Minn., by his cries one glorious June day in. 1897. lie was a very quiet goodnatured child, which characteristic he still retains. Not being satisfied with remaining in one state he decided to try S. Dakota and Nebraska also. Here he received his early education, but a longing came over him to see again his native state, so he entered Bethel as a freshman and throughout his stay here he has been loyal and true as his motto “Faithful in Service’' clearly indicates. Gordon has held many positions of honor while here. He has been president of his class for three years and has shown unusual ability along this line. His favorite flower is the carnation. We axpect to hear great things of Gordon in the future, for he is a man of good principles and talents. Ernelia Peterson—The world was greatly blessed one morning early in April, 1893, by the arrival of Ernelia at Kent City, Mich. She remained here until at the age of two years when she came to Cadillac, Mich, where she remained until the age of thirteen. She completed the public school and one year of high i Kansas. From there she went to In,dianapolis, Ind., and studied art for a year. She finally arrived at Minneapolis after spending a short time at Chicago, and Grand Rapids, Mich. Ernelia liked to travel around until she struck the Twin Cities and here she is preparing for her great life's work. She first spent about two and a half years at the X. W. Bible School, and after graduating from there, and seeing her need of more education, she decided to enter Bethel Academy. We see that Ernelia is a very enthusiastic young woman and lias the stick-to-it-tivenoss that makes for success as her motto implies, “Stick, even if you must stand in the eavesdrop for a good share of it.’’ Her favorite flower is the Pansy, for she thinks that they have such sympathetic wise human little faces. Her favorite study is “Theology. Elmore Kandquist—This splendid young man wa6 born on.e Sunday morning in the fall of 1900 at Stillwater, Minn. After four years of school there his parents moved to Hudson, Wis., where Elmore finished the public school. After living five years in Hudson he decided to come to St. Paul. Being a very ambitious young man he entered the Mechanic Arts High School where he remained for two years, but he decided to finish at Bethel, but after completing one year’s work here he heard Uncle Sam’s call and offered his services. He served for nine months. A longing came over him to come back to dear old Bethel, so in the fall of 1919 he re-entered Bethel. His motto never despair” predicts success for him in life. Elmore loves to study. English is his favorite subject. His favorite flower is the “Lily of the Valley.” Marion Hagstroin—This blue-eved, fairhaired maiden, the baby of our class ('tlio' not in height) bestowed her first smile upon this world Oct. 31, 1903, in the great city of Chicago. Being of a changeable nature she remained there only three years, and arrived at St. Paul in 1906. She entered school at the age of seven, attending the Phalen Park School as well as various other schools. As she was very fond of studying she entered Johnson High at once where 22 THE BETHEL HERALD she remained only half a year, for with her bright eyes she saw immediately that there was no place like Bethel. Marion is found of entering the realms of the unknown, consequently she considers chemistry her favorite study. The violet is her favorite flower and her motto “Keep Smiling” is certainly lived up to as all her schoolmates can readily testify. Ada Lidstrom—Far. far away across the great Atlantic, one cold December day in, 1895 Ada first opened her blue eyes and discovered herself in the delightful country of Angermanland, Sweden. Her childhood days were very happily spent, but as she grew older a longing came into her heart to •see the world, so. at the age of eight years -she decided to leave her home. After boarding a great ocean, liner, she departed for America, that wonderful country of which she had heard so much. Arriving in America she •found that her expectations were more than fulfilled and she settled at Mora, Minn., where she has lived ever since. Ada lias been at B. A. four years an.d she has shown herself to be a very brilliant student. She has taken active interest in, Athletics and she has been the coach for the girls Basket Ball team during the past year. All her tasks have been performed conscientiously as her motto “Duty before Pleasure” indicates. Her favorite study is Latin an d she has a great love for flowers especially for the American Beauty. Enteric Gustafson—This dignified young man, who feels the dignity of being a Senior so deeply, was born in the central part of Minnesota, near Long Prairie, on the 80tli of January, 1898. His home was built of hewn logs, surrounded by a thick forest. At the age of eight years, Emerie entered the public school graduating at the age of 15. As he was studiously inclined, it was his ambition to enter high school, but several obstacles arose, preventing it. Then, in, the fall of 1917, feeling that he had been especially called into the service of his Master, he began searching for a place in which to get the necessary preparation for his life’s work and, as a result, was enrolled as a student at B. A. in the fall of 1917. Emerie’s motto is “Faithfulness and Service,” which is a 6ure stepping stone to suc- cess. His favorite flower is the Lily of the Valley and English is his favorite study. Anna Mattson—About 280 years after the landing of the Pilgrims, 1901, the sunshine of our class was born. St. Francis, Minn., felt itself a great deal richer by the arrival of this tiny maiden. We all know that Anna is a born student as her excellent work here signifies. Before she entered Bethel she attended the grade school and two years of high school at Anoka, Minn. She then entered B. A. in the fall of '18 taking the Com’l course, but after getting one taste of Bethel she wanted more, as all do, and. as a result, she is back with us this year. Anna has the real school spirit as has been manifested by her hearty yelling at our Basket Ball games and interest in the other phases of school life. Mathematics is her favorite subject and her motto is “Duty before Pleasure.” The Carnation is her favorite flower. Carl Anderson—This industrious young man was born across the great ocean one warm July day in 1894. Yes, Carl’s home was in the beautiful country of Sm land. Sweden. lie came to the shores of America in the spring of 1914 coming immediately to St. Paul. He came for the purpose of getting a better education. He entered Bethel in the fall of T5 remaining here three years when he entered Uncle Sam’s service. Carl was in service here and in France for a year. Tn the fall of T9 he entered Macalaster college. His motto is “Onward and Upward.” IIi«s favorite flower is the Lily of the Valley and he considers Science his favorite subject. His aim is to become a doctor and our class will surely have reason to be proud of him in the future. Esther Larson—What a great commotion was created at Little Falls, Minn., on the morning of Oct. 8, 1902, when Esther, the witty, arrived. She looked about her and. falliing in love with Little Falls, decided to stay there, so has lived there ever since. Here her happy childhood days were spent, but after completing the grade school and three and a half years of high school her heart’s de sirc, namely to come to Bethel Academy, was realized. Esther is a jolly. THE BETHEL HERALD 23 good hearted girl and our class would not he complete without her. Her favorite study is history and she has no favorite flower, as she loves them all. Her motto is Never Give Up.” William Carlson—Our class orator an,d debater was born in that far away country, Sweden, Dec. 11, 1901. As he was ambitious and eager for knowledge, he decided to enroll as a student of Bethel Academy, after graduating from the Phalen Park public school in 1916. During the four years that he has been here he has developed into a young man of marvelous talents and great possibilities. He expects to enter college next fall and we expect to hear great things of him in the near future. Science is the study of all studies for him and his motto Nil Sine Numine is a great stepping stone to success. The trailing Abutus is his favorite flower. Marie Erickson—Early one beautiful May morning in 1896 the world was blessed by the arrival of this young woman who has chosen for her life’s work a life of service. Kansas City. Mo., was her birthplace. Her parents died when she was but a child and at the age of six she want to Sweden, finishing the grade school there. She returned to America in 1914. Marie has entered heartily into the school life and spirit during her stay here and has rendered many acts of service while here. She has had many trials and hardships here that we know little about, but thru them all she has clung to her motto “Never give up.” an.d has gone thru with creditable sereneness. The Lily of the Valley is her favorite flower and Bible and Chemistry are her favorite studies. Marie plans to enter training at Mounds Park Sanitarium in the near future and we feel sure that she will be successful along this line as her work here during the flu epidemic testified. Huldnii Gustafson—This young lady who is very demure and quiet, was born Aug. 27, 1900, at Hungtington, Iowa. When only a few months old her parents moved to Dun-nell, Minn,, where she attended the public school and took two years of high school. She then decided to come to Bethel Acad-demy in the fall of 1917. Huldah is a girl of the persevering type, as her motto Never give up” indicates. She has set her aim high and is bound to be victorious in spite of the many obstacles that may confront her in life. She is mathematically inclin.ed so naturally mathematics is her favorite subject. Her favorite flower is the Pansy. Carl Berg—Who is this great athletic? This is a question that we expect will be asked in the near future and how proud the class of ’20 will be to think that—Yes, it’s Carl—our Carl. This broadshouldered sincere young man was born at Morgan Park, 111., Aug. 16, 1901. Not being content with remaining forever in Illinois, lie decided to move to Prentice, Wis. He completed the public .school and two years of high school at Mora. Minn. He then made a very wise decision, namely to come to B. A. Carl's favorite study is History and of all flowers lie thinks none can compare with the American Beauty rose. His mottd Perseverance conquers” has certainly been lived up to during his stay here. It has especially been manifested on the gymnasium floor during the basket ball games. Lenore A. Feltlious.—The beautiful city of Hampton. Iowa, has the honor of being the birthplace of our cheery classmate. Len.ore. This young lady first caught a glimpse of the world on April 20. 1901. When she was at the age of one, her folks left Iowa and came to St. Paul, where they have lived ever since. She attended and graduated from the Longfellow grade school and .after spending one year at Miss Loomis’ school, she entered Bethel as a sophomore. Lenore knew a good thing when she saw it as this plainly indicates. Her plans are to attend a medical schood in Kentucky and to gain at M. D. degree in surgery and we feel sure that she will succeed, for when Lenore begins a thing she is sure to finish it. Her motto “Air Castles of Solid Rock” is one of her characteristic traits. Her favorite flower is the Old Fashioned La-nender and Science is her favorite study. Oscar Gunnerfcldt—Far away in the eastern hemisphere in the province of Dalarna, Sweden, is the birthplace of our bighearted brother Oscar. He was born on the 26th day of July, 1895. This precocious lad fin- 24 THE BETHEL HERALD ished the public school in Sweden and at the age of twenty came to the beautiful shores of America. On his voyage to this land he visited Norway and England. He has spent two summer vacations in Christian, work in Canada and one summer in New York as pastor. His well fitted motto is “Saved to Serve.” Oscar is known all over the campus by his broad sunny smile and we feel sure that Oscar will win success wherever he goes. He is a Student Volunteer and plans to sail for China as soon as he has the necessary preparation. His favorite flower is the Carnation, and his favorite study is History. Alice Peterson—What was the cause of all the commotion one stormy March morning at Prentice, Wls. The wind was howling around the corners and through all the noice a tiny cry was heard. Yes, it was Alice, the salutorian of our class. But even, if it was stormy outside there was sunshine and gladness within for this sunny hearted young woman caused sunshine and has been spreading sun,shine ever since. Alice finished public school at Prentice and spent one year at the Bible Training School in Chicago. She then entered B. A. and throut her stay here she has entered heartily into school life. She is a member of the Sextette and has been very prominent in the musical sphere. She considers English and Sciences her favorite subjects and the Sweet Peas are her favorite flower. Her motto is “Nil Sine Xumine,” and her aim is a very worthy on.e, namely to be of service to others.. Her plans are to enter training at the Mounds Park Sanitarium in the near future and we expect to hear great things of her. Harold Ericson—This young man. on,e of our musicians, was born Nov. 9, 1892 in the •far away country of Lindes, Bergslag, Vast-manland, Sweden. In 1895 he moved to Kalsva, Vast.manlan.d. and finished the public school there. In 1910-11 he attended the Iarma folkhogskola. Having heard so much of our wonderful America the desire to come here kept growing and growing, and as a result lie landed in Chicago on a rare June day in 1912. He attended evenpng school there, completing the public school in 1916. It was a happy never-to-he-forgotten day when in the fall of 1916 Harold became en- rolled as a student at Bethel Academy. Harold is on,e of our soldier boy’s having spent seven months with the A. E. F’s in, France. He was discharged May 14. 1919. During his stay here he has held many positions of prominence. Science is his favorite study. The Lily of the Valley is his flower and his motto —Nothing is Impossible assurees him success in 'life. Louise Koscndalil—Who would have guessed that this bright young lady was born across the great Atlantic Ocean? Yes, one fine day in the fall at Hafaliem. Gotland. Sweden, Louise first opened her blue eyes to gaze upon this world. Here in this little village at the edge of a large beautiful forest, her happy childhood days were spent. She spent two years of school in Sweden and completed the public school in the beautiful state of California. Louise lives on a splendid fruit farm in the neighbori ig vicinity of Kingsburg, California. After spending three years at the Kingsburg Joint Union, High School, she decided to complete her high school course here. We see that Bethel's fame has spread even to the coast. Louis’ worthy aim is to become a foreign missionary and in future years we will be proud to think that she was a member of our class. Her motto is “Saved to Serve.” Her favorite study is History and her favorite flower is the Pansy. Elizabeth Lind berg—Elizabeth, one of our brightest young ladies, was born at Echo, Minn., one cold December morning in 1900. Her parents moved to Willmar, Minn., where they remained for only a short time, moving to Sacramento, Cal., in 1905. Being fond of traveling, she remained there only six years, moving to Kingsburg. California, in 1911. Elizabeth attended grammar school here until 1913 but completed school at Harrison. After spending three years at the Kingsburg Joint Union II. S. she decided to come to Bethel. She is a very lovable girl and makes friends with all with whom she comes in contact. Her worthy aim is to become a missionary, to win souls at home and abroad. Her motto is “What would Jesus do?” Her favorite study is English and the Violet is her favorite flower. David Moberg—Among the most beautiful THE BETHEL HERALD 25 places in Sweden is Kinnekulle in Vaster-gbtland. There among the flowers and trees David had the privilege of spending his boyhood days. He was born, Aug. 3, 1893 He attended public school there and at the age of 17 the longing came to see the world. Accordingly David arrived at the shores of our wonderful country. After a short stay of 'two months in Orange, Miss., he went to Rockford, 111., where he remained a great deal of the time until the fall of 1915. He then, made the wise decision to enter Bethel and prepare for the ministry. In connection with the academic course the last two years he has taken a special course in the Seminary. His motto is By faith and courage” and his favorite flower is the Lily of the Valley. His favorite study is physiology. David is a young man of a great personality. He is jolly and bighearted. He has set his aim high and is sure to be victorious. Gladys lied man—Our model, the valedictorian of our class, was born at Cambridge, Minn. At the age of nine she moved to Princeton, Minn. From there she moved to St. Paul. Gladys graduated from the Hancock grade school in 1911 and entered B. A. in the fall of 1917. During her stay here Gladys has shown herself to be of unusual ability. Her favorite study is English literature. Her motto ‘‘Perseverance wins” assures her success in life. Alice Edwards—V gviken, Wasa, Finland, has the honor of being the birthplace of this quiet demure young lady. At the age of 16 Alice left Finlan l and emigrated to America landing in New York. She had finished the grade school in Finland so entered Bethel after remaining in New York for short time. Her motto is “Live to Serve.' ’ Her favorite study is history and her flower is the Lily of the Valley. Alice has performed all her tasks conscientiously and has gained a scholarship in school. Melvin Okersfroni—This aspiring young man was born at Cambridge, Minnesota. March 30, 1898. He completed the grade school at Cambridge and has attended Bethel for three and a half years. During his stay here he has been a leader among his fellow students. This is due to his personality, which is of the type that attracts. Okie,” as he is called, is very fond of athletics and has become famous along this line. Ilis favorite study is law and his ambition is to be a commercial leader and we feel sure that he will succeed because he puts his whole strength an,d soul into whatever he attempts to do. His favorite flower is the American Beauty Rose and his motto is Ne tentes aut perfice.” Hilma Larson—This tiny maiden was born in Ashland, Wis., Sept. 9, 1896. Hilma is the nightingale of our class. She is small but oh my! When she sings you wouldn’t thinjc so. Hilma finished the public school at Mason. Wis., and from there she came to St. Paul and entered Bethel. Her motto is, Not I, But Christ.” Her favorite flower is the American Beauty Rose and her favorite study is Eng. litterature. Verna Swedlund—One of the most attractive young ladies in, our class is Verna who was born at OrtonVille, Minn., March 22, 1902, and being a very contented maiden she remained there ever since. She finished the public school and three years of high school there and decided to come to Bethel Academy in the fall of ’19. Our class would not he complete without our sunny Verna and we are sure to hear of her in future years. Lillian Wik—Another popular young lady is the secretary of our class, Lillian Wik. much loved and appreciated by those who know her best. On April 30th, 1902 (it must have been a sunshiny day we are sure) she came to gladden the home of Mr. and Mrs. N. Wik at Milliard, S. Dakota. She finished the ninth grade there but in the fall of 1917 decided that Bethel Academy was the only place for her. She has been a conscientious student and has shown ability in, her classes as well as in other responsible positions. She is an ambitious girl and with such a motto, Nothing without Divine Guidance,” we can be certain that she will constantly aim towards the high n.oble achievements of her day. We know that we will hear of her accomplishments with joy. Her favorite flower is the American Beauty. —A. C. P. 26 THE RETIIEL HERALD THE BETHEL HERALD 27 Class Prophecy By ANNA MATTSON One beautiful summer evening in July, 1937. after our beloved friend and teacher, Prof, Henry Wingblade, had finished his dinner, he went out on the porch to enjoy the fresh air. A little later Mrs. Wingblade came out to join him. He appeared to be in deep meditation. Mrs. W. asked. What are you thinking about, dearie?” He answered, in a very pleasant way, I was just thinking about the time when I was teaching at Bethel Academy, and especially of the wonderful class of 1920. That was such a fine class of splendid young people that I was just wondering where each and every one of them 13 now. Wouldn’t it be nice to take a tour and .see whether we happen to run across some of them?” Mrs. W. was very pleased with the suggestion. A month later it so happened that they left St. Paul for a trip of real pleasure. They stopped at Chicago first. It was not long before they visited the Swedish Baptiet Church there. Much to their surprise and pleasure they found that Gordon Hasselblad was pastor of the largest Swedish Baptist Church in Chicago. After a brief conversation with him, they inquired about the other students of the class of 1920. Mr. Wingblade found that Harold Ericsson was candidate for the next Presidential election, although it had n.ot as yet been announced to the public. Mr Ericson was living somewhere near Washington, D. C., so Mr. Wingblade decided to go to see him. Upon meeting Harold and entering into a conversation, with him. it was found that William Carlson had made a name for himself in thhe East by aome great scientific discovery. The next inquiry was about some of the girls. He learned that Alice C. Peterson was a very successful missionary out on the foreign fields of China, and that Ycrnu Swedlund was at the head of the largest Children’s Home in Belgium. After travelling and coming in contact with other people who knew of, and were interested in Bethel, he found that Elmore Sandquist was one of the millionaries of New York City. Just as Mr. Wingblade entered the latter’s office, he noticed a check book open on the desk. He learned that Mr. San.dquist had written a check for $1,000,000 as a donation to Bethel Academy. Money had gone through Mr. Sandquist’s hands for the support of Louise Hosendalil and Elisabeth Limlberg who were working side by side as faithful and true missionaries in Japan, He also learned while in New York, that Oscar Gunnerfelt was a very successful medical missionary in India and that Eniclia Peterson was carrying on a great work as teacher in Western. Africa. Mr. Wingblade had planned on going across the watens but for some very good reasons he changed his plans. It seemed strange that while so many of the students were in the East, news about them had not .spread West very rapidly. But nevertheless through newspapers and books he found out something about each one of his class of 1920. He found, on picking up the morning paper, that Carl Anderson was to be the next governor of Minnesota. On his way back to St. Paul, he spent a few days in Philadelphia, Pa., och here was Melvin Okerstrom one of the busiest lawyers in the state of Pennsylvania. Mr. Wingblade reached home again, very much disappointed that he hadn’t seen more of the class of 1920 than he had, but. on keeping up correspondence with those he had located he learned where the rest of them were. Lenore Kelthnns was the greatest lady physician in the United States, stationed somewhere in Kentucky. Amanda Lldstrom was the head nurse in the hospital or sanitarium that miss Felthous had organized. He. Mr. Wingblade. received a book through the mail one day the author of which was no other than our honorable David Moberg. Of course, he knew where Gladys Hed-muh was because she was at the head of the Student’s Union organized for the benefit of the students of Bethel Academy. Mr. Wingblade picked up the evening paper and saw in the headlines something about Mexico and Central America. On reading the article, he found that Lillian Wik was 28 THE BETHEL HERALD a travelling missionary in Mexico and Central America. She had carried on a great work, by her kind deeds and words, among the natives of these Southern countries. Upon turning the paper over he noticed “Former Bethel Academy Student to be Science teacher at Macalester College.” .Marlon Hagstrom was the Bethelite who was to fill this position. Hulda Gustafson had just recen.tly written Mr. Wingbladc informing him that she was filling the position as Principal of a High School in Dcs Moines, Iowa. Some of the students of Bethel had been mentioning a wonderful den,tist they had in St. Louis. Missouri, who was a graduate of Bethel Academy. After inquiring about this it was found that it was no other than our honorable student, Carl Berg, class of 1920. Most St. Paul people including the students and faculty of Bethel Academy were very proud of the fact that Alice Edwards had made a great success at nursing and was now at the head of the Mounds Midway Hospital. Tho not very much was heard of Esther Larson after she left Bethel it was found that at this time she had completed an Art course In Italy. Mr. Wingblade received word that Kmerie Gustafson was going to pay Bethel Academy a visit and promised a lecture of his work which he had been carrying on among the negroes in Lousiana. ..Marie Erickson was at the head of one of the leading firms in, Chicago. She was making very good in a millinery store there, llilvna .Nelson rubbed shoulders with Harold Ericsson on the busy streets of Washington. D. C., when she informed him that she had just completed a business tour around the world in the interests of her employers. She was for the most part acting Cashier in, the Bank at Washington, D. C. • EXTRA! It was just learned that Anna Matson is now living in New York City and just recently entertained a few of the Class of 1920, at her beautiful home on Fifth Avenue. It seems that one of the enterprising young men of the Class of 1923 became her life companion owing to fond affeettions during 1919-20, and after a quiet wedding they went to Pennsylvania where, after two years, they discovered oil on their farm there. So now Anna has a beautiful home of her own and is living in the most fashionable Swedish society of New York City. E. AV. S. GLEE CLUB OF BETHEL ACADEMY THE BETHEL HERALD 29 Class Will We, the class of 1920, in our last will and testament do hereby bequeath to the class of 1921 our illustrious accomplishments and most luxurious possessions. Owing to the deficiency of talents we see in some of our lower classmen, we feel it our duty to aid them in their future career. Therefore we wish to bestow: Cordon ilasselblad’s oratorial abilities to Elmer Johnson. Alice Peterson’s brains to Emil Nylund. Verna Swcdlund’s appetite to Gordon Bo-dien. Harold Ericson’s musical inclinations to Albin Norling. Esther Larson’s “animals” to Elmer Palm, David Mobcrg’s superfluous head of hair to Emily Satterberg. Emerice Gustafson’s overflowing affections to Carl Palm. Ada Lidstrom’s winning ways to August Berg. Gladys Hedman’s dignity to Myra Peterson. Carl Berg’s gracefulness to Gladys Holm-quist. Marion Hagstrom’s stumpy growth to Mil-ton Ward. Oscar Gunnerfeldt’s ability to talk to Alice Jorgenson. Hulda Gustafson's curly hair to Edith Nelson. Lenore Felthous’ rosy cheeks to Esther Dufstrom. Marie Erickson’s sentimentalism to Rag-nar Wall. Alice Edward’s little feet to Bengt Anderson. Bill Carlson’s illustrious scientific accomplishments to Elsie Larson. Elizabeth Lindberg’s modesty to Oliver Olson. Anna Mattson's brown eyes to Barthol Jacobson. Melvin, Okerstrom’s athletics to Harry Lundcll. Elmore Sandquist’s flirting eyes to Mable Peterson. Lillian Wik’s popularity to Edwin Omark. Louise Rosendahl's sunny disposition to Clarence Moberg. To Ernest Hasselblad we leave the awful task of preserving order at the fifth period in the Study Room. To our Principal A. J. Wingblade we leave the beautiful campus, which will no longer be molested by us. To Mr. H. C. Wingblade we leave the next year’s Seniour Class, in hopes that they will attain to a greater height of knowledge than we. To Mrs. Swedberg. we give the pleasure of rounding up the students for chapel. To Mr. Lin,d, we bequeath the task of keeping the “Swedes” polished. To Mr. Olson we leave the job of reforming the Seminary students. To Miss Swenson we leave the memory of the faithful three in, Cicero Class. . To Mr. Snyder we bequeath the scrap iron upon the campus, to be made into locks for the Chemistry Laboratory. To Mr. Danielson we leave a history never to be surpassed in Bethel. To the Juniors we leave the tremendous task of surpassing the Class of 1920. To the Sophomores we leave the care of the Infant Freshmen of 1920. To our smallest frineds the Freshmen we bequeath the greatest of our possessions, our good manners. Lastly we hereby revoke all former wills and testaments by us at any time heretofore made, and declare this to be our last will and testament. In witness whereof we. as the class of 1920, have hereto affixed our seal in the Chapel of Bethel Academy, in the city of St. Paul. Ramsey County, in the state of Minnesota, this 13th day of May. 1920 A. D., in the presence of the rest of the students. THE SENIORS OF 1920. 30 TIIE BETHEL HERALD COMMERCIAL CLASS THE BETHEL HERALD 31 Commercial Class Prophesy T'was a windy spooky night in the middle of May, While sitting in a chair I suddenly dozed away. I soon become aware of a white being by my side, Who said I could learn my neighbor’s thoughts if I tried. I seemed to be walking through the Muses Hall. Where I found an ancient gazing ball; As I slowly turned the crystal sphere, The fate of all my class mates appeared. Now I will reveal the things I saw funny. Of the Commercial Class of 1920. Fred Swanson is the first I see. Herding a flock of Bumble Bees. The next one 6een is Vernice Holmquist, She teaches ladies the latest hair twist. Reuben Pearson the brightest boy in class, Is now digging sewers for Petterson Hass. Pearl Nelson for the want of occupation, Is leading a German Band in a subway station. Hildur Anderson I see is down on the farm. Way off in Wisconsin away from harm. While Harold Gardner instructs a class. How to laugh without laughing gas. Gordon Ekblad, that ambitious lad, Is now running a Poor Farm with his Dad. Up in Alaska Melvin Okerstrom is seen, Trying to sell condensed gasoline. Hark! the wedding bells are ringing For Gordon Peterson is bringing Ilis little smiling bride. For their honey-moon ride. The next one I see is Lillian Bosell. She peaches the gospel to the convicts in their cell. Oliver Tehven has secured a good position, Shining shoes for a blind and crippled physician. Xorah Nelson, with her sweet voice, Made housekeeping her last choice. Says Le Roy Borg, This is the life, Just traveling the world around looking for a wife. Up on the hill side under a tall shady pine, Sits Russell Paulson feeding kine. Ruth Hanson has. strange to say, A Canary shop along the milky way. David Freedlun.d in his flying machine. Would like to elope with his lady queen. Carrie Raymetz has a queer desire. To wait near the depot with Autos to hire. Florence Nyberg har hardly been able to sleep. Since she took that job as chimney sweep. Floyd Holmquist, it is strange to say, Feeds his chickens beef steak in order to make them lay. Gentle Ellstrom in a lion’s cage. Would quell all riots of beastly rage. Elsie Solomonson from College came back. To marry that tall slim lumber jack. Ruth Peterson, so they say. It is a private tutor by the day. Dr. Theodore Mcllin so dignified. Claims that not one of his patieuts have died. Mabel Carlson not strange to tell, Has become our leading Sassicty belle” Congratulations to Florence Widell, She married Mr...... Oh. I mustn’t tell. Lillian Telander, that speed breaking steno.’ Has also developed alike classified memo. Her sweet countenance we’ll always greet, When we meet dear Lillian on the street. Hazel Larson, quite and demure. Will soon change her ways and go off to work. And gladly do that which others would shirk. 32 THE BETHEL HERALD May Olson is settled for life. In a country town as a minister’s wife. Bethel Academy’s faculty has a new feature. Agnus Soiling is the new Gym. teacher. Winn,ifred Peterson is a soldiers wife brave, While Selma Johnson is a lady making children behave. Margaret Johnson, as the wise one tells, Will twice ring her wedding bells. Almina Ledin is teaching school, With children who strictly obey her rule. When Huldah conies to sing in town, People come from miles around. John Weatlund, way out on the ocean, To dive and swim with the sharks takes a notion, Rebecca Bcrgstrand so quiet and shy, To exceed Mrs. Swedberg she has begun to try. With a sudden flash the vision died away. While the sun dawned upon another day; As I slowly rubbed my sleepy eyes, Alas' If it would only come true, I cried. J. YT. GIRL’S BASKET BALL TEAM THE BETHEL HERALD 33 Saturday May 1 was “Visitors Day” at Bethel Academy. The weather was ideal and about noon people began coming from all parts of the twin cities to View our schools. A program was rendered by the pupils and teachers of the musical and expression departments in the afternoon. Supper was served by the Ladies Aid Society of the Twin Cities. In the evening a missionary program was given .The large auditorium was packed to the doors. The main exhibition this year was the collection of books donated by Dr. E. Schmidt last fall. After considerable work it has been possible to place this large collection of more than 10,000 volumes on the shelves. Many of these books are very rare and almost impossible to duplicate. Dr. Schmidt’s donation also included several valuable paintings and pictures besides several articles of great value to our science departments. Those who have been accustomed to come out for our annual visitor’s day cannot help but feel that our dear school is growing. The Freshmen reception on May 10th was something new. Program consisted in speeches, music, etc. It had been the intention of the Freshmen, to give this sometime ago but on account of hindrance of some sort it was not given until now. Refreshments were served consisting of coffee and pie a la mode. Rev. Adolph Olson preached in the Elim church, Sunday, May 0th. in the evening. The Biology class is planning a trip in the near future to study various biological specimens. The Biology Class realizes that the time is gone by when all information resides in, textbooks Miss Vernice Holmquist, of the Shorthand Department, has secured a position in Minneapolis. She is fast gaining knowledge in a practical way. ♦ Remember the concert on May 28. Make this a great success. The tickets are 50c. The money will be used for purchasing articles for the Music Department. We need equipment in the Music rooms, as well as a new piano. Another copy of the Bethel Booster was issued on May 1. This is the organ of the Publicity Committee in Bethel Academy. We are all urged to inclose a copy in every letter we write. The Seniors had charge of the Chapel on May 13. A surprise birthday party was given in honor of Mrs. A. Swedberg, April 27th. in the com’l room. A beautiful writing folio was presented to her. The program rendered was short, but good, and delicious refreshments were served. ♦ The Annual Athletic Banquet was held the evening of April 30. The program consisted of isevcral musical selections and short speeches given by the members of the first team, namely Oliver Olson. Clarence Moberg, Melvin Okerstrom, Adolph Johnson. Carl Berg and Elmer Johnson. Principal A. J. Wingblade then made a speech commending tho boys on their good year’s work, and presented the letters to first and second teams. Yell leader Barthel Jacobson was given three big hearty “rails’ for his good services during the year. 34 THE BETHEL HERALD Those who have not been members of the civics class have certainly missed many good times. Our teacher Mr. Waif red Danielson has taken his class to many places of interest during the year, for instance the Washburn Crosby Mills, the State Capitol etc. The latest excursion was a trip to Stillwater May 3rd. All reported an enjoyable never-to-be-forgotten time. Moral take civics next year. In the final Girls’ Declamation Contest Miss Louise Rosendahl took first hon,ors. In the final debate Souter and Sorenson won. We were very sorry to hear of the death of Gordon Boding father, and wish to extend our sympathy to him in his bereavement. Through an accident some time ago Elmer Cain broke his arm. However we are glad to see him about again with his broad sunny smile. Rev. J. J. Runyan of Merriam Park church gave us an interesting talk in chapel on, his experiences overseas during the war. Other chapel speakers have been Mr. Meers, Dr. E. Schmidt, Miss May Fleming, Mr. Juan Orendain. ♦ The preparatory department gave their teacher, Miss Violet Wullendorf, a very happy surprise, when, they all called upon her one evening to show their appreciation of her services, and gave her a beautiful gift as token of the same. ♦ The winners in the Girls’ Preliminary Declamation Contest were Esther Larson. Louise Rosen lahl, Lillian Wik. Myra Peterson and Elsie Larson. Claus Hammarstrom and Ragnar Wall, have been on the sick list for a few days. ♦ Wilton Ward had a slight operation on his nose last week. ALPHA BETA “Wach Us Grow.” This is the most interesting society we have in school. During the past year some very interesting programs have been rendered, consisting of some very inspiring speeches and beautiful musical numbers. The following officers have served during the last term. William Carlson—President. Harold Ericsson—Vice-Pros. Anna Mattson,—Secretary. Herbert L. Peterson—Treasurer. Mabel Peterson—Pianost. Prof. H. C. Wingblade—Critic. Someone has truly said, that the Senior Class of 1920 in the Academy is not at all showy or outspoken. They are, in other words, specimens of that, kind which plan before they act without telling the whole world about it. Their entertainment last Friday night came therefore like a surprise to all concerned. The program included every virtue that makes .for an enjoyable evening. A musical recital, intermingled with readings, was rendered by masters in their arts from the Twin Cities, and the senior class added heaps of humor by presenting the class thru the medium of a “family album show.” Everything good deserves to be honored. Many expressed the opinion that this was the best entertainment that, up to date, had been given in Bethel. —H. E. TJaNSTEMaN For missionary band FOR 1920—21 Ordf., Edwin Omark V. ordf,. Ernest Olson Sekr., Emely Satterberg, Kassor. Edith Palm. S ngledare, August Berg, Pianist, Clara Hanson. ♦ The Ladies' Sextette sang at Springvale, Minn., Sunday, May 2. ♦ The Male Quartette sang at Grandy and Cambridge, Minn., Sunday, May 16. THE BETHEL HERALD o CO FRESHMEN CLASS 1919-1920 THE BETHEL HERALD ' 3G Letter from India Gauhati Assam, India. March 12, 1920. Dear Bethel family: These three words place you all vividly before me, and instead of being in the enveloping fog thru which palm trees lift their plummy tops, I am back in the dear memories of Bethel Chapel, where freshmen , sophomores, juniors, seniors and faculty are gathered for the morning worship. So instead of hearing the chirping of gay colored birds mingled with the harsh caw-caw of the ever present crow I hear your strong voices ring out, “Sing when your trials arc greatest. Trust in the Ix rd and take heart, and if every student truly learns to do that his education will have been worth infinitely more than the cost, even should he forget all about the feudal system or the mysteries of X. Y. Z. Q. E. D. Not finding it possible to write to you individually, as both Mr. Dahlby and I would like to do, we ask for the privelege of greeting you in this way (if ye editor can find a corner in which to tuck our message). First of all we want to thank you for the many happy fellowships we have enjoyed together, for the friendship, love and prayers and the mutual faith that were ours. We shall ever remember Bethel days with unmixed pleasure. I shall not attempt a detailed description of the process involved in getting from one side of the globe to the other. —We hope not a few of you will experience that for yourselves and learn to know the ups an,d downs of an ocean voyage, the art of making your wants known in a strange land without an interpreter, the interest in beholding the manifold variation in God’s great creation, and best of all to know that it is your privelege to be a messenger of good tidings for the King of kings. Yokohoma, Tokio, Osaka, Nagasaki. Shanghai. Hong-Kong. Singapore, Pennang, Rangoon, Calcutta and other names are now more than mere georaphic terms. I am sorry we could not get a picture of the equator, we missed it by two degrees, however we did feel the heat of that region— the physical geography students would have no difficulty in remembering what doldrums are had they been there, as we experienced the force of the daily showers for more than a week. Our enforced stay in Burma, due to illness, delayed our arrival in Assam by six weeks. We have now been here for somewhat more than a month and permit me to say it is a fair and likeable country with sufficient inconveniences to make you appreciate the blessings of America, but above all it is a country desperately in need of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,—sin, superstition and sickness on every hand reveal the heart need of these people. We long to be able to point the way to the Healing Blood and give them the Bread of Life. We are praying that our beloved Bethel may be a God’s power house which shall send light and gladness to every part of the world in ever increasing strength. We are glad to be remembered in your prayers —for only in Him can aught be accamplish-ed. Your fellow workers for Christ, Kditli and Albert Dulilby. The final declamatory contest in. Swedish was held Saturday, May 8. Miss Hildoborg Olson won first honors and Hugo Herrgard second. The judges were Rev. A. Edstam, Rev. J. A. Swanson and Prof. A. Olson. FIVE WAYS TO SIZE A MAN IT 1. Character,—what he is. 2. Conduct,—what he does. 3. Conversation,—what he says. 4. Contribution,- what he gives. 5. Courage,—what he dares. THE BETHEL HERALD 37 - o £ f L 1- % h f ill 1 f f A % I BETHkl p . i y MINISTERIAL STUDENTS ATTENDING BETHEL MINISTERIAL STUDENT'S ASSOCIATION Denna forening bestAr av unga man som i Akademien bereda sig for mlssionsverk-samhctcn. Stbrsta dclcn av dessa unga man komma att upptaga studier 1 Seming-riet, d de blrva fardiga med Akademien. En del av brdderna bereda sig for hem-missionen och andra for utlandska mis-sionsfAlten. Under skolAret ha uAgra av fbreningens medlemmar haft fo ream ling, som de be-sbkt pA sbndagarna med Guds ords predi-kan. De av brdderna som varit i tvilling-staderna pa sondagarna ha dar deltagit i moten dA tillfallen dartill givits. Under sommaren komma de fiesta brdderna att ha fo ream ling. V r onskan, ar att forsam-lingarna bedja for oss, sA att varhelst brdderna komma att vara, de mA bliva till stor valsignelse. Fdreningen har haft sina moten en gAng varannan, vecka, dA det forekommit utkast-kritik och korta tal. XvensA har fdreningen deltagit i Alexis foreningens moten, som hAllits varje onsdag kvall. Foreningens larare. prof. Adolf Olson, har deltagit med liv och in,tresse i forening-ens moten vilket ar vart heder och erkan-nande for det vardcfulla arbcte han utfort som larare. Vi onska fA se flera unga man vid eko-lan nasta host, som aro villiga att forena sig med vAra led. Skdrden ar mycken, men arbetarna aro fA. bedjen for den skull skor-dens Herre, att han sander arbelare 1 sin skord. Hugo Herrgftrd, sekr. 38 THE BETHEL HERALD STUDENT VOLUNTEERS AT BETHEL Student Volunteers The Student Volunteer Band is a group of students who have decided to prepare for mission work on the foreign field and to go to such a field if God so leads. About twenty of the students belong to the band. While preparing for future service we have tried to do our little share in the work right here at home. The band has visited churches, missions, and old people’s homes, and in each place has tried to show forth the wonderful love of our precious Lord and Master Jesus Christ. Once a month we have met with the Twin City Band of Student Volunteers and have had pleasant and profitable meetings. Three of our members left recently for foreign fields, namely Mr. and Mrs. Da hi by and Mr. Rhenetrom. The Band has procured their pictures which now, together with the pictures of Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Ahlquist and Miss Olivia Johnson, adorn the walls of our chapel. The purpose of the Band is to stimulate interest for foreign mission among the studenU and help those who are called for service to heed that call and not grow weary in their preparations. God has blessed us thus far. an.d allowed us to contribute somewhat to the great work by sending some of our own out as workers. May God help us to grow in grace and wisdom ever faithful to him who came to save us, and may our motto be: Saved for service. ESTHER BODIEX, Sec’y. THE BETHEL HERALD 39 MISSIONARY BAND During the past year the Missionary Band has endeavored to fulfill its mission both among students and those outside the school. The Ban.d has taken part in almost every branch of Christian service. The following are some o( the activities during the past year.- Sunday school has been held every Sunday morning in the Seminary chapel, Prayer meetings have been held every morning ot the Academy and every Friday evening at the Seminary Chapel. The meetings have been of great blessing and inspiration to those who have attended them. The work outside the school has consisted of visits to old people's homes and also in conducting young people’s meetings and evening cervices at different churches, missions and chapels in and near the Twin Cities. Many of the now students have joined the Band. We thank God for the past year and feel assured that the Missionary Band has an important position to fill at our school. May it be a great power for God in the Struggle between rigth and wrong! Esther Bndicn, Sec’y. OLIVIA JOHNSON MEMORIAL MISSIONARY MOVEMENT One of the most promising and still the youngest society in Bethel Academy is the newly organized Olivia Johnson Memorial missionary movement. The faculty and students felt that something ought to be done to commemorate the noble life work of our departed alumna and missionary Miss Olivia Johnson. She was one of those noble characters who had fully given up her life to the call of her Master. It was because of her untiring zeal that she fell a victim to the flu that was then raging the country. Had she postponed her studies for a short time and recuperated sufficiently from her work over there she might have been better equipped to fight the pestilence. She has gone and her works live after her. It was thought that a stronger society could be instituted if the three religious societies in the school, namely the Missionary Band. Student Volunteers and Ministerial Students united in this endeavor. As a result the executive committees of the three societys met and discussed plans for working out a society. It was decided at a meeting held January 14, that the president of the society be automatically elected according to the alphabetical standing of the three societies. The result was that Mr. Bengt Anderson was chosen president and the other officers elected were as follows: Vice president, Mr. August Berg, Secretary, Mr. Oscar Magnuson. A constitution was drawn up as follows: 1) Name: Olivia Johnson Memorial Missions ry Movement of Bethel Academy. 2) Purpose: To stimulate interest in Home and Forign Mission, by getting people to: 1. Study Missions. 2. Talk Missions. 3. Give to Missions. 4. Re Missionaries. 3) This Movement shall be governed by a Board of eleven, consisting of the School President, the School Principal and nin.c students, which are the Presidents, Secretaries and Treasurers of the three religious societies: Ministerial Students, Missionary Band and Student Volunteers. The Presidents of the three religous societies shall each in. turn (alphabetical) act as chairmen of this movement, each per.son serving one year. It shall be the duty of the chairman and the Board to outline and decide upon a definite goal of program, (financial and otherwise) and to see that such outline is carried out. 4) Meetings to be held at the school three times a year at which the proper stimulating programs be given. 5) That a contribution of $1 (or more) por year shall make the donor a contributing member. 6) That all students as well as others interested be invited to have a share. Our first meeting was held in the home church of Miss Olivia Johnson, namely the First Swedish Baptist church of Minneapolis. Dr. G. Arvid Hagstrom gave an address and the undersigned gave a report of the Student Volunteer convention. We received paid merberships and a collection approximating seventy-five dollars at 40 THE BETHEL HERALD this meeting. Since then a similar meeting has been hold in Elim Baptist church and our fin.al meeting will be held in the First Swedish Baptist church St. Paul the 30th of May. Letters have been sent to our Alumni and they have responded generously. Our plan is to make this society stretch as far as possible so that all our Swedish Baptists can, have a part. As yet we have not been able to realize this but we hope that by added encouragement and the help of God our society will reach around the world and its influence be felt in the remote parts of the earth. Oscar Mngmison, Sec’y. SVEA FoRE NINO EX Svea foreningens moten hava under det gAngna ret varit de inest goda och intres-santa, sanu valbesokta av b de medlemmar och utomst ende. Herr Oscar Ekstrom var foreningens ord-forande under den forsta skolterminen. och herr Emil Nylund under den senare. B da hade under var sin, tjanstetid gjort sitt bas-ta for att kunna rokommendera och bibe-h lla det svenska spr ket rent och oforfal-skat ibland oss, samt p minde oss om huru vi bora, fastan i ett frammande land, upp-skatta och virdera vart eget foster- och fadernesland. M nga larorika och introssan.ta tal hava presterats av skolans studenter, saint vid itskilliga till fallen av ndgon utav lararnc. Skolans s ngare is viil com musikanter ha villigt doltagit och varit till mycken hjalp for att hbja stamningen vid v ra motor),. Vi hoppas Sveaforeningen gftr fram t och forokas i fortsattningen och att det svenska spr ket bli alskat och varderat ibland oss. V rt land ar fattigt. skall s bli for den, som guld begar, en framling far oss stolt forbi; men, detta landet iilska vi, tor oss med moar. fjall och skiir ett guldland dock det ar. llildcbeivr Olson, sekr. AMBITION E. C. GUSTAFSON “Cromwell I charge thee, fling away Ambition. By that sin fell the angels.”—Shakespeare. If we look abroad upon the great multitude of mankind, trying to trace out the principles of action in every individual, it will, I think, seem highly probable that ambition runs thru the whole species, and that every man is more or lose incited by it. Now then, we may divide this subject into two groups; the ambition of doing bad and the ambition of doing good. While we ought to cherish the ambition of doing good, on the other hand we ought by all mean s to exterminate the other ambition. Then may we consider the evil ambition. We find that Judas had a passion for money and hence he betrayed his beloved Master. Esau had the passion or desire for food and as a result sold his birth light. The late Kaiser had the ambition, of ruling the entire world, and to obtain his ends used all sorts of foul means. The Bolsheviks have an ambition for overthrowing the government and. as a result, are using their rotten propaganda. But then, the picture is illumined when we consider all those dominated by ambition to good. Noah had the ambition of saving himself and the sinful world and so he preached for one hundred and twenty years. John, the Baptist, had the ambition of pointing to the Lamb of God and hence he went out into the desert and lived a life of sacrifice. Paul was a man who sacrificed all, because he had an ambition to see his fellow men saved. Men with high ambitions have done most noble deeds and feats which we human beings would scarcely deem possible. Look at that student with the ambition of getting an education. He is not so particular whether he works an hour too long. So we see that one of two kinds ambition is predominating in your life and min.e. If it is for the evil, our means will be foul and unfair, we will no doubt attain unto our ambitions, but remember that we will reap a harvest of wild oats. But on the other hand if our ambition is for obtaining that which is good our means employed will be noble an.d the results will be worth while. THE BETHEL HERALD 41 BETHEL ACADEMY BASKET BALL TEAM AHTLETIC NEWS The Bethel Athletes have been training for more than a mon.th on the field preparing for the contest to be held with Minnehaha Academy. Monday, March 17th. Mr. Clark, the physical director of Mac-alester College, has been directing the field events at Bethel. The Annual Basketball Banquet was held Friday evening. April 29th. In. spite of the fact that there were several other meetings that same evening, the attendance was good, and all present reported a good time. At this occasion, letters were awarded to the basketball men. The Bethel Baseball Team played the Twin City Business College team Saturday, May S. Bethel lost by a score of 22 to 6. The cause of Bethel defeat was due to the fact that the opponents team consisted of players, not belonging to their school, and their alumni. Bethel and Minnehaha met in a Field Day con.test on the Minnehaha grounds, May 17. BETHEL CARRIED AWAY THE PENNANT. This was the climax of a very successful year in athletics in spite of the fact that our Director took sick and resigned early in the year. Next year, we are informed, we will have a member on the faculty in the person of our new science teacher, who is a shark in, all lines of athletics. This will mean great things for Bethel students. Let’s begin now to boost. And, by the way, three rahs for the Field Day champions. 42 THE BETHEL HERALD GORDON HASSELBLAD Business and Advertising Mgr. of Bethel Herald. The Materialist By AUGUST BERG “A primrose by the river’s brim A yellow pimrose was to him,— And nothing more.” A materialist is a person who believes that there is only one substance in the universe, and that substan.ee is matter. The word has come to us from the Latin “materialis,” which means matter. We would agree with the materialist if it were not for the undeniable fact that there is something else besides matter in the universe. This other thing is life. Who can deny that there is life? And I would like to meet the person who would classify life as matter. When the Lord God had formed man out of the dust of the ground, then man was only matter, an,d if God had stopped his creative act there, then I would agree with the materialist that there is nothing but matter in the universe. But God did not stop here. We read in the same verse, Gen. 2: 7, that God “breathed into his nositrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. Therefore man is more than matter. The same is true in nature. There is life almost everywhere around us. THE BETHEL HERALD 43 We are told a story about the great artist and sculptor, Michael Angelo. One day he was out walking, accompanied by some of his friends. As they were walking along, Michael Angelo abruptly stopped and looked at a big marble block by the road side. It was partly covered with dirt and the artist began to clear the dirt and clean it. His friends were astonished at his act and questioned him what he was doing. He replied: “Oh. I see an angel in this stone and I must bring it out.” Afterwards lie had it brought home and not long after this he had completed a beautiful,, magnificent statue in the form of an angel. This artist saw what the other men’s eyes were blind to. So it is with the materialist. He sees nothing beautiful. Everything is to him as lifeless matter, an l there is no revelation to him through anything. Being in this state of mind, he is separated from others, his fellow men. He does not understand them and he stands alone. No person who stands thus alone is truly happy. He has nobody to share his burdens with. Nobody sympathizes with him. This is not because others are unwilling to sympathize, but because he does not get close enougii to them. Besides being alienated from his fellow men he is also alienated from God. This is a sure consequen.ee of denying God. And this is truly denial, to refuse to accept God's plan. Instead of recognizing God as the Creator and Controller of the universe the materialist believes that all this is a casualty. As a result, the materialist lives only for the present. Only what appeals to the outward man attracts his attention. He may endeavor to make everything comfortable for himself in this world, but how can a man really enjoy life .if his eyes are closed to what is most beautiful? If he enjoys himself only in things that are tangible, then his loss is great. Ilis efforts to accumulate money or possessions may bo a success, an;d he may have all these things, but do they satisfy? The more he gets the more he wants, and still his soul craves for something which cannot be satisfied with earthly things. Only when the materialist learns to know Him who 6aid: “I am the way. the truth and the life,” will his eyes be opened and he will then see what his physical eyes never can discern, but which are of greater importance, for, the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” An Ambition that “Perished” By MILTON WARD Chester Shaw walked out of the office of Lansing College. He felt just a little out of sorts. But, at the same time, he thought he ought to feel elated. Chester had finished a four years’ prep, course the year before, and bad just now registered at Lansing. Had be not reason for holding his head high this morning? He had been the valedictorian of his class in High School. In prep, school he had received the scholarship from Lansing. He had studied electrical engineering an.d even now could match his knowledge of that science with that of men holding great positions. But the one thing that made him pucker up his lips this morning was the thought expressed by the registrar. The old fogy, lie had said Chester’s pleasant face reminded him of a young preacher whom he knew. Chester, the registrar said, would make a good preacher. That was enough to upset anybody whose prospects were as bright as Chester’s. As time went on in College Chester evidently forgot this little unpleasantness. 44 THE BETHEL HERALD He almost immcdiatly became one of the most popular boys in school. Everything seemed to come his way. Inez Norwood was one of Chester’s classmates. They met in the registrar’s office the day school opened. From that time they had become quite good friends. There was one thing about Inez which Chester didn’t like. She always went to church, but never to a dance or the theatre. Chester liked her company very much, an,d for that one reason she was able to get him to go with her to church. Of course he didn’t enjoy the sermons, but the preacher was a very reowned man, and one who was very much looked up to. His sermons were supposed to be about as perfect as they could be made. Chester always liked to find fault with great men. That showed how much he himself knew an l understood. The only fault he could find with Dr. Best’s sermons was that they were so old-fashioned. He always preached about the saving power of the Blood of the Lamb. All the modern preachers entirely ignored this. But, he reasoned, there must be something to it, or Dr. Best would not be such a successful man. Successful?” he said. Yos, successful in his lin.e.” But wait, when he would get his E. E.,”, he would show people real success. He liked popularity. Dr. Best was a successful preacner. He was popular. Was there anything in what the registrar said? These thoughts were continually on his mind. One day his mother came to visit him. He was proud of her. She was such a fine woman that no one could help admiring her. Of course he wanted his mother to see Inez. He kn,ew his mother would fall in love with her as soon as they met. His mother was a beautiful Christian woman Her Christian life was as charming as he thought her personality to be. Dr. Best was holding a series of special revival meetings at the time of his mother’s visit. It was so arranged that the three should go to church together. Inez was a wonderful singer. She sang at every meeting, and the entire audience was lifted to the seventh heaven in rapture while she sang. Her singing was really the first thing that had touched Chester’s heart and turned his thoughts seriously toward his soul’s eternal welfare. The meetings had continued for two weeks and Chester had attended nearly every meeting. On the second evening before his mother’s departure. Dr. Best gave the invitation to all who wished for prayer to go forward. Chester had by this time decided that the only real worthwhile thing was to be a Christian. So this evening he bravely stepped out and confessed Christ to the world. He was the happiest boy on earth when he left church that evening. And though his old comrades deserted him when he took this stand, he remained firm in his trust in Christ. It was Chester’s last year in college. His Christian life had grown and developed won.derfullv. He had met many adversities. Ilis father’s business had failed, so he was forced to make his own way through school. Ilis friend Inez had been doing Christian work in the slums, caught a cold, got sick, and died. This left him terribly downcast for a while. But, with his Master’s help, he recovered. Imagine his mother’s joy when she read the following line in a letter. In, memory of her for whom I would have given my life; to show my love for Jesus and fel-lowmen, I have given my life to His work, and -sail next week with Dr. Best to Hon-kong. China. Pray for me.” m THE BETHEL HERALD 45 M A U I T U L L E R (oversiittiling fran engelskan av Hjalmar Edgren). En sommarafton den viina nid .Maud Muller, riivsar nyslaget ho. Eu sllten liatt tiicker liiilsaus glbd. Eli blick sa varni och en kind sil rod. Vid riivsan sjunger lion; Haugens lopp av fiigel hiirmas i triidets topp. Men niir lion blickar mot fjiirrau stud, Soin ler bland kullarnas brutna rad, DA tystnar plbfsligen hennes rost: En aning smyger i flickans brost, En oviss liingtan, knappt. halft fbrstadd, En ljuvilg dnskan, ej sin fbrradd. Sa nalkas doinarn pi griisrik plan Oeli smoker biislens ndtbruna mail. Han drar in tygeln vid iingen gron Oeli halsar hbviskt den skdna iiibn. Och ber om vatten fran silvcr-a Tars boljor frani over vagen ga. Da bojer hon sig vid biickens rand Oeli fyller kiirlet. uti sin band; Men rodnar djupt for sin nakna fot Oeli slitna driikt, niir ban tar emot. Han talar sedan om blom och triid, Om fagelns sanger oeli gyllne sad; Han talar och till den skdna mb Om hotfiillt regn om det slagna ho. Och hon fdrgldmmer sin slitna driikt Och bruna fot, som iir obetiickt. Och ser nied glad och forundrad blick Mot domain npp — fast i blygsamt skick. Han bryter tveksamt till slut en ros Ger den at heniie och far sin kos. Maud Muller blickar och suckar “Gud Den som dock kunde fa bli bans brud!” wHan skulle kliida mig grann och fin Och prisa mig i sitt gyllne vin. “Jag skulle pryda min far med stat, At bror min gave jag malad bat. “Jag skulle pynta min nior sa grann, Och liten skulle f lektyg, ban. Men lit. de faftige gave jag Biid 2iat och kliider av varje slag! Och alia skulle, iiu mer iin fbrr, Yiilsigna mig vhl mill egen .dorr.” “Hav tack!” sad domorn. “Ej battre hand Itjdd biittre dryck Ifrin kiillans rand.” Men domarii blickar tillbaks igen: Diir star den ljuva Maud Muller iin. 46 THE BETHEL HERALD Hun snckar: “Aldrig jag- funnit en Med form sa skdn och nted blick si ren. Och bonnes blygsanuna siitl och svar G frail on sjiil, som iir lika klar. “0, vore bon dock min brud, ocb jag Eli simpel skdrdeiuun blott i dag: “Dii bjttcs Lagens osiikra vlkt, Ocb bittra tvister ocb stranga plikt “Mot. landligt sorl blott. och fiigelsang Ocb frdjd ocb kiirlek blott dagon l ng!” Se’n (iinker bon dock pit system bird Ocb stolta modern nti sin yard, Ocb sluter bjiirtat ocb rider bort: Ocb Maud star ensam dar inom kort. Och tankfull drojcr den viina mo, Tills riignet taller pa orbrl lio. Han tog en maka med gold ocb prakt: For stilt hon lcvdc, som ban for makf. I pruktfullt marmorpalats iinda Sag ban en bild for sitt oga sta: Han sag Maud Mullers guldrena blick Och glada undran ocb blyga skick. Nar vinets purpur 1 glaset brann, Fa biickcns porlande tiinkte ban, Slot till sitt bga, att drbnima om Den grona iingen med kloverblom, Och got sin ensliga klagan sa: “0, yore. Tore jag fri iinda!” Sa fri, som nar jag den ljuTa sag Med nakna fbtter vld biickens Tag!” Hon flck en make, ej rik, ej lard; Och barnen Tiixte kring byddans biird. Men livets provning med varje dag Skrer sina miirken pa hennes drag; Ocb ofta sedan, niir solen kom Ocb sken som forr bTer iingens blom; Ocb niir hon horde sin sihcr-a Med niuntert brus oTer yiigen ga, Hon atersag den dar ryttam skon, Som boll sin hast inyld iingen gron; Ocb kiinde burn bans klara blick Med bmma tankar till henne gick. Ocb stuiidom sSg bon sin tranga plats 1 drbmmen Tiixa fill ett pa bits. For spinnrockssurret ocb taljdank fans Pianoklang ocb lampetters glans. Ocb, bytt mot honom, som Triikt sig matt Mod bransvinsdrycken vid splseln, satt Kn manlig skepnad med skona drag; — Ocb plikt Tart frojd blott, ocb kiirlek lag. Ocb taligt got bon sin klagan da: “Det kumlc andfi ha Tarit sii!” Vc dig ocb domaren likaTiil: Dig stackars rike, dig hush llstriil! Gud trdste dessa ocb en ocb Tar, Som djupt bcgrata sin’ nngdomsdar, Ty bittrast dock bland allt bittcrt sta De ord: “det kiinde ha varlt sa!” Ack, Till for oss, att ett biittre hopp Begravet ligger i tideas lopp: En gang skaII kanske en iingels band Borhaltra stenen friin graTens rand. THE BETHEL HERALD 47 “MIX AK HaMNDEX,” SXGER HERREN Av Bengt Anderson Den lUnga och kalla vlntern hade slut-ligen, givit med sig, och solens str lar hade, med sin underbara livgivande kraft, omskapat det eljest dystra och grUa land-skapet. Snon hade forsvunnit, kolden var ej sa stark numera, och griiset borjade redan titta Tram pd steppens tuvor under det att fUglarn,a lato hora sin a glada toner. Med livets uppvaknande i naturen, vak-nadc hoppet i manniskornas hjartan. Den forflutna vintern hade medfort mycken, sorg och mUnga umbaranden for de 6ibi-riska bonderna. MUnga av dem hade gUtt till fanorna, d de “roda narmade sig och de som kvarblevo ledo brlst i alia hUn.se-en.den. MUnga av dem mbrdades och rova-des av de kringstrykande soldaterna. Bonden Nikolais hem var intet undantag i detta hanseende. Efter fyra Urs lUng och orolig vantan hade han,s modiga hustru val-komnat honom hem fr n kriget. Det var oforstalld gladje i hennes och den fjorton-Urige Peters hjarta dd far kom hem. De hade arbetat och forsakat under bans bor-tovaro. Xu kom ban hem for att hjalpa dem; nu skulle dc sn,art Uterigen kunna kdpa en ko och bryta nya tegar for korn och rUg. I den ungc gosscns sjal byggdcs stora luftslott; nu skulle far och han ut-fora undcrvcrk. Kanslan i moderns och hustruns sjal kan ej beskrivas. Karlek och stolthct voro blandado mod varandra, och hennes hjartas strangar vibrerade dU lion sUg sin man darhcmma. 6tyran.de och stal-lande pd den lilla garden. Hon tackade helgonen och jungfru Maria lor det bc-skydd de givit dem. Mannen sjalv var tyst och sluten.. Det h rda faltlivet hade annu niera nedstamt bans fdrut slutna lynne. Dock s sken bans skaggiga ansikte av be-lUtenhet, dU han sUg pU sin hustru och sin son. foriildrarnas stolthet. MUnskligt sett, lUg en ljas framtid fram-for dem i trots av all den nod och fattig-dom som rUdde i landet. De hade ju varandra och brod for dagen. och det var nog. Dock vilken Guds n d Ur det icke att vi ej veta vad som vantar oss i form av sorg och bekymmer! Vi aro glada och tillfreds- stUllda och dk kommer, plotsligt och ovUn-tat, — jobsposten.. Kriget var slut, men ej strider och oro-ligheter. I Ryssland voro strider och upp-ror av olika slag. “De roda harjade vitt och 'brett, anstallande mycken forddelse. Forst nUdde endast svaga rykten darom vUra vanner Nikolais, men sU en dag an,-lande en trupp roda till narmaste by, rarest de plundrade och mordade de forsvarsldsa innevUnarnc. MUnga av bonderna grepo genast till vapen och forenade sig for att driva dem bort. Nikolais var villig att gU aven han, men p grund av ett benbrott, som han, erhUllit i kriget. var han oduglig for anstrangande marcher och darfor ndd-sakad att stanna hcmma. Han var dock ej fri fr n hemmets hagn. NUista dag anfdllos de roda av de bevUp-nade bonderna, men dessa voro fUtaliga och utan god ledare, varfor de ledo ett sv rt nederlag. Nu borjade en sv r tid for den lilla byn med dess omgivning. GUrdar plundrades och brandes. folket rovades och mordades, kvinnor och barn skandades och misshan.dlades — allt var nod, fasor och elande. Sent cn dag anlandc truppcr till Nikolais gUrd. Har begarde de att mat skulle frarn-sattas och alia vardcsaker utlamnas. VU-ra forsvarslosa vanner fogade sig undergi-vet i deras bcgaran. glada att slippa un-dan med livet. Men detta var ej nog. soldaterna som redan, voro rusiga och vilda borjade uppfdra sig oanstandigt mot den unga hustrun. Nu var manncns tUlamod slut. I vredesmod grep han nUrmaste vapen och slog den friicke soldaten till mar-ken. Nu uppstod en, fdrtvivlad strid som slutade med att Nikolais segnade ned ba-dande i sitt eget och vUIdsverkarn,as blod. Ilustrun. som under Ungestrop och bon till Gud Usett striden, blev sedan antastad och skandad och hemmet antant, varefter trup-pen, avlagsnade sig, medforande sina sUra-de och doda. Peter, som med en gosses harm Usett •striden blandade sig dock ej i den, utan for-svann utom dorren, dock noga iakttagande 48 THE BETHEL HERALD mannens rorelser och brimiade av hat ocli hamndkansla. DA de lamnat, lyckadcs han slacka elden, samt gav sin mor den vArd hon var i beliov utav. Sedan sokte de att Aterkalla fadern till livet, — men, forgaves, — han hade fallit. forsvarande och beskyd-dande det so:n Gud givit honom. Ett Ar hade forflutit sedan den hemska handelsen. Peter och bans moder hade sAlt garden och flvttat till en mindre stad, var-est sonen hade erhallit anstallning och han, forsorjde nu sin. av sorg och bekymnier nedbrutna moder. Den handelse vi skibl-rat lamnade dock aldrig bans mlnn.e. Ha-tet och hamdkanslan vaxte for varje dag, och han hade svurit att om han fick 6C nA-gon av vAldsverkarn , sA skulle dennes lijarteblod flyta. Vid denna tid anlande en man som tala-de om Kristus och fralsning frAn 6vnd. Den nnge missionaren, samlade folket i en liyrd lokal och taladc till dcm om dcras sjals fralsning. Peter gick in en gAng for att tillfrcdsstalla sin nyfikcnhet. Manncn talade dA om syn.dens foljder och dess hem-ska straff. Dctta bchagadc Peter, ty han sAg framfor sig mordaren och skandaren, redan pA vag till den eviga elden. Dock var det nAgot i mannens ord som grep yng-lingcns hjarta och han, kom snart tillbaka for att fA libra mera om denne Kristus. Ordet slog rot i hans sjal och han fick syndaAnger. O. men hur hArt det var att upgiva sina hamndtankar. Men Kristus van.n. Peter blev harligt fralst och borja-de snart att vittna om sin Herre. om honom som bad for sina fiender och plago-mastare. En, tid fbrgick. En vackelse utbrot iblaud befolkningen som resultat av de kristnas bon och tragi),a arbete. Hundratals 6jalar folio vid korsets fot och Jesusnamnet var pA var mans lappar och i de fiestas hjar-tan. Peter deltog med liv och lust i arbetet. Nitisk och entusiastisk vittnade han om sin Fralsare, och mAnga aro de som han trots sin ungdom fAtt bedja med. Vackelsen spied sig. En, del av ledarna gingo till andra platser for att hjalpa till i insamlingen. Xven Peter gick ut for att predika. En kvall dA han stod och prcdi-kade om Kristus pA korset, overfor Ivans blickar den skumma salen, — men vad iir det han blir blek och borjar att stamma. Dar-n,ere vid dorren hade han igenkant miss-dAdaren, en av de soldater som skbvlade hans hem. Nu bdrjade en hArd kamp i Peters 6jal, de onda och de goda makterna kampade om herravaldet, men sa stod tex-tens ord sA klart for honom: “Fader for- lat dem. ty de veta icke vad de gora.” Guds ande fick makt med honom, med tArar i sin,a ogon och med brinnande hanforelse avslutade han sin predikan och i sin Mas-tares namn bjod svndare fralsning. Den rAe soldaten hade blivit overmakti-gad av Peters vittnesbord och fallit ned gratande vid dorren,. Nu kom frestaren igen; skulle han gA och bedja med honom? Ja, Peter gick, och i tArar bAdo de bAda till samma karleksrike och forlAtande fader. Xven i Peters hjarta hade forlAtel-sens frid fAtt intaga hamndens plats. De bada blevo sedan vanner for livet. Sedan Peter omtalat vem han, var, hade soldaten under den storsta Anger belt om for-lAtelse. vilken han aven erholl. De lijalp-tes nu At att forsbrja Peters moder och forljuva henes sista dagar, och dA hon ef-ter ett Ars tid, lyckligt ingick i den sista vilan, in,tradde de bAda ynglingarna i en bibelskola. som amerikanska kristna upp-rattat, varest de vidare utbildade sig och blevo sedan medel i Herrens tjanst till tu-sendes fralsning. The Freshman Class gave a reception to the rest of the students Monday evening, May 10. After a very interesting program they treated their guests to ice cream and pie. The human race is divided into two classes—those who go ahead and do something and those who sit still and inquire. “Why wasn’t it done the other way?” —Oliwcr Wendell Holems. ♦ Life.—“The sum total of the functions which resist death” Spiritual life.—“The sum tatal of the functions which resist sin.” —Selected. THE BETHEL HERALD 49 THE MEANING OF OUR WORDS Keep a Match on your words, my friends. For words are wonderful things; They are sweet like the hees fresh honey— Like hees they have terrible stings, They can bless like the Marin, glad sunshine, And brighten a lonely life; They can cut in the strife of anger. Like an open (no-edged knife. Let them pass through the lips unchallenged If their errand is true and kind— If they come to support the weary. To comfort and help the blind; If a bitter revengeful spirit Prompt, the words, let them be unsaid; They may flash thru a brain like lightning, Or fall on the heart like lead. Keep them back if they’re cold or cruel. Under bar and lock and seal; The Mounds they make, young people. Arc always slow to heal, God guard your lips and ever, From the time of your early youth, May the words you daily utter Be the words of beautiful truth. —Author unknown Is it because seeds have failed in the south that birds begin to flock north? Is it because summer has ceased to warm the fields there that they are flying hither? Near the God appointed time for their migration the birds begin with their peculiar instinct to yearn and long, and they abstain from their wanted food, till by and by at a given signal, they lift themselves up, and move in througs through the air toward the land where there is new summer. Now God breathes a spiritual, migratory instinct into the hearts of men. Not because they arc n.ot well off here, not because they would be unclothed; but because beyond and above them there is something better and nobler than this life. They long for perfectness. H. W. BEEOHEK. WHAT SCHOOL FOR THE CHRISTIAN By PHILIP E. HOWARD He was a boy who had never liked study. The out of doors was his natural habitat, and the saddle well cinched on his small Arabian mare wais a far more attractive and important seat to him than any make of school or home or “opera house” chair. Books he loved to read,—if he did not have to, and if they were exciting enough. Study. —well, he did as little as possible, and when it grew too hard, vigorous boy though he was. he would even, cry about it all by himself. He was trudging along the shaded street. of a New England town one glad day with his chum, both of them somewhat overcome with joy. not unmixed with surprise, because both had successfully passed a most fearsome examination in arithmetic. When, you are nine, arithmetic may be worse than analytical geometry at nineteen. Say,” ventured the chum, do you know how I passed that exam?” No, I don’t” was the truthful and emphatic answer. Well, maybe I had better not tell you. ’cause you might, laugh.” I won’t laugh, go on, tell a fellow.” Well,” the chum almost whispered, I prayed about it.” An,d then silence. The two small boys of the public school, restless, tunloving little chaps, trudged along together under the elms. That’s great, Charlie, I’m glad you told me,” said the boy, who remembers the moment as of yesterday. And was that all? Not quite. For they had made a discovery, but without knowing then how significiant it was. Prayer, religion, study, belonged together for small boys! It was much later that one of them came to love study, but the lines of faith and practice had begun to converge. For the out-of-doors boy, study was even more irksome in his teens. The crisis came when he insisted on leaving school, a private school at this period, to enter business. But just on the threshhold of that alluring career, a real teacher asked the boy, while waiting for a business opening. to come temporarily to his school. So TI1E BETIIEL HERALD 50 the trap was set with kindly guile, and the diversion once accomplished, the snare held fast. For that teacher taught the boy something more than the textbooks. He gave horizorp. He showed by word and deed how expectant he was that the boy would have a great time as he followed his teacher into the unfolding mysteries of why such things as the classics and mathematics, and 'history, and much English, were worth while. Morcver, he put the boy in charge of the athletics of the school as trainer. IIow responsibilicty makes a youngster grow! Then, one golden afternoon, far out in the country, the teacher sat with the boy on a log by the roadside and just talked. That was the intellectual turning point. Nor did the teacher‘ stop there. One day the boy received at his home a very personal letter from his teacher friend, urging him to accept Christ. It was the first letter of the kind he had ever seen. It went to the heart of the whole matter and to the boy’s heart. Not at once, but later, he united with the church, and so moved on into Christian service. Once more religion and education had been co-workers in, his own experience and observation. Many years afterwards when attending, as an, alumnus, a celebration at his college, he grew enthusiastic over an address that exalted the pia of the religious in education, and turning to an old classmate, now a teacher in the college, he exclaimed, That’e great, isn’t it?” “Good speech,” was the reply, “but I have no use for what he is saying just now. Religion has no place in education. Who was right? the litle chap in the New England town, the teacher of prep’ school days, or the classmate-instructor in the big college? It is not a superfluous question, for anyone who has the choosing of a school today for boy or girl, for none too many schools, are educationally efficient in the fostering of that without which mere so-called education is a menace. Many teachers who give keen, attention to the curruc-ulum are highly superficial, or worse in dealing with character, and the soul’s relation to the Life that is the Light of men. The principal of a famous private school for boys, when asked if he had any real diffuculty in securing the right teachers. replied, Oh, I can get plenty of men who kn.ow their subjects, but the trouble is to find a man who knows boys”; and he might have added, “and who knows Christ.” One teacher in a co-educational school, in referring to a hit of Bible history, remarked, “Of course no one n.owadays believes this sort of thing,” whereupon a young girl in the class rose in her place and exclaimed, “Why, Miss-------, I believe that, and so do lots of People I know.” “That will do,” said the teacher, “we won’t discuss that,” and the subject was dropped. But the principle involved cannot be dropped. The Christian family is necessarily dissatisfied with any school that neither gives Christ His rightful preeminence, nor gives the pupil protection against the disparaging of sacred things. More than on.e educator has pointed out the far reaching importance of education by atmosphere”; and the mental and religious atmosphere of the class room and of the whole school life ought to be carefully considered by parents. “What do you suppose one of our professors did to-day?” exclaimed a mature and much disturbed college upper-classman. Why, lie took about fifteen minutes of the hour to enlarge upon the advantages of swearing!” And the principle of education by atmosphere was illustrated in the approving delight of the class. On the other hand, there are schools where this type of miseducation is rendered impossible. A certain college president, when asked about his method of choosing teachers, replied that he fir9t inq.uired as to their fundamental Christian beliefs, and then, as to their personal habits. While never abating his requirements as to scholarship and pedagogical skill, he never accepts the teacher, no matter how expert in his specialty, who does not qualify on the other points. One result of this is a free an.d genuine and whole-hearted religious atmosphere in a school where severely taxing mental and physical standards are also steadily maintained. It would be idle to suppose that there are no fires of temptations smouldering or burning in that institution. Young life is a favorite mark for Satan everywhere. But at least it can be THE BETHEL HERALD 51 said that the authorities in that school are not giving him their approval. An.d why should Christians not encourage by their gifts, their influnece, their direct management, and especially by the presence of their children, the schools and colleges that do recognize the preeminence of Christ, not only as the Master Teacher, but as the Saviour who alone makes us into the new creations that are capable then of the guidance of the Spirit into “all the truth”? Two fathers were discussing the comparative merits of two available schools for the daughter of one of these Christian men. One school was nearer, less expensive, and more convenient. Both schools stood well in scholarship, but the near-by institution dealt with the Bible in the most destructive fashion, while the other strongly upheld the old faith. The father was puzzled. He thought his daughter might be strengthened through having to encounter the spiritual disadvantages of the more convenient school. “But there is the question as I see it.” said his friend. If we are to choose, ought Ave to commit our children, to the care of a school where the beliefs that we count essential are directly denied by the fixed policy of the school. Is it even educationally correct to put your adolescent child into an atmosphere which is directly contrary to the the purpose you cherish for your children?” The questions needed only to be asked to make the point clear. No, the Christian who squarely considers the facts cannot be satisfied with a school where his son or daughter must constantly struggle for breath in an, atmosphere spiritually suffocating. Nor does he willingly choose, if he gives Christ the preeminence, a school where sheer wordliness is the ever present ideal,( Avhere. in miniature, the materialistic nonreligious elements of a gainful, selfish and Christ-forgetting society are strongly influential. The aroused Christion will prefer, and will go far if need be, to find the school that is frankly Christian, and not hostile, or even cautiously noncommittal oil that question. That school at its best will provide an equipment of able Christian teachers first of all, and in support of their Avork, simple, healthy housing, carefully supervised physical Avork, not always com- petitive, but always constructive in building strength at weak points. The Bible Avill be prominent in the curriculum, and taught by one who believes it. And Christ will walk the halls of that school, frequent the class rooms and living rooms and athletic field, in the life an,d ways and spirit of the faculty, so that the students may see Him exalted in the common tasks that spell school life to them. The students in that school will know that the masters are interested personally in their boys, with the same genuiness of interest that the Master showed in his “boys” Avhen He called them by that familiar name. And would it sound strange to you. if a boy, when asked how things Avere going in his school (and this did occur), should reply with genuaine boyish enthusiasm, Fine! Why, Ave have had lots of new students come lately, and when asked how he accounted for this, should answer frankly, “Why, I guess it's just an answer to prayer.” Have we n.ot, as Christians, too carelessly committed our children to a school life (even when we could choose as among several schools) the atmosphere of which is taken for granted as satisfactory, because of purely worldly tests of popularity and efficiency? Have Ave taken seriously enough the sacred trust of fatherhood and motherhood and of counselor in selecting the group that is to have such abiding influence over our children in their most impressionable years? (From Record of Christian Work.) TAKEN llofta, dot (a, du unga ;ir! Strb med blommor vart vinterspar! Liir oss tro, att iin naft och ddd Vika uiidan for v rsols glbd! Prison Clud utiir hjiirtegrand Jord och hlmmel och sjo och lund! Trtc.koin hoiioin for vArens frojd, Sligo snngon till liimlens hbjd! To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illume only the track behind. —Coleridge. 52 THE BETHEL HERALD UNDE It KttN N OCH SYKES Blonimande skdna dalar Horn for mitt hjiirtas ro! Ljunmilga grona solar, I)ar Yar och kiirlek bo! Soliira barn av luft ocb ljus, 0, jag: forstar ert tysta sus, Blonimande skbna dalar, Hem for Iniirtals ro! Siill i syreiiens skugga, Sbker jag hiir mitt hagn. Itdnnarnas dofter dugga FInaste blomsterrcgn. llegnet sliir ned i hjiirtats var; Hela dess viirld i blommor star, Siill i syrenernas skugga Sbker jag: mitt hagn. Korn du min viin i skogen Kom vid min sala sjnng! Skogen sir evigf trogen Yaren iir evigt nng. Livet fbrgar som kviillcns flakt; Evig iir varens andedriikt. Kom, du min viiii i skogen, Vid min sidn sjnng! Alskade blaa oga, Le som i forna dar! Liit vita rbnnen snbga Blommor pa dot som var! Skiink glad at kviillens dagg din tar! Yakna pa nytt din sol och var Alskade blaa oga, Le som fordna dar! Blonimande skbna dalar Strain av siillbet da; Klararc varen talar, Ball re vi den fiirsta Aftoncn rod liar, vaken slar, St ilia en doft nr lijiirtat gar; Blommamle skbna dalar Strain siillbet da. Z. Topellns. The boast of heraldry, the pomps of power. And all that beauty, all that wealth e’re gave. Await alike tlf inevitable hour— The paths of glory lead but to the grave. —Grey. THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE An educated Japan,ese came to America, and studied the life of an old carpenter in California. He called his enigma “The Beautiful Life.” He accepted a New Testament, under protest: and two years later on, his way to Japan he ran into the study of Dr. Leighton Parks, and exclaimed, “I have found the Beautiful Life in Jesus Christ.' ' It is a beautiful thing to be a poet, but more beautiful to be a poem. “You are better than all poems that ever were written or read; for ye are living poems, and all the rest are dead.” The sky is a poem in light. Earth is a poem in matter. A Cathedral is a poem in ston.e. Man is a poem in flesh, the “poem of God.” (Eph. 2: 10.) The Creator has made all things beautiful for man, and given man the power to appreciate. Better still He has made man capable of the most ideal beauty, and able to adorn everything he touches. The evil do not appreciate the beautiful, for good is the supreme beauty. Some think more of beauty of face, which is an. object of envy and very superficial and fleeting. The true adornment is “The hidden man of the heart.” Handsome is that handsome does.” A Japanese lady in Japan visited a Mission, school and wondered at the beauty of the girl’s faces. “Do you accept only the beautiful?” “We take anyone, hut we cultivate the soul. “I wish my daughter had that beauty, but I do not want her to he a Christian. She came, and got the “Beautiful Life.” The eyes are to let the beauty shine. Painting on china is a beautiful art; and the beauty is “burnt in.” The highest beauty is in character; and often, it is “burnt in” bv suffering. A native found a picture of a “Head crowned with thorns.” and he asked the missionary, “Is this connected in any way with your religion?” —The Bible Champion. Truth may bend, hut it will never break. Truth will ever rise above falsehood, like oil above water. —Cervanter. THE BETHEL HERALD 53 TO A WATERFOWL Whither, midst falling dew. While glow the heavens with the last steps of day. Fair, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler’s eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly seen against the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. Scek’st thou the plashy brink Of weedy hake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean-side? There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless const— The desert and illimitable air— Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings hare fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere. Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night, is near. And soon that toil shall end; Soon shall thou find a summer home and rest. And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend. Soon, o’er thy sheltered nest. Thou’rt gone the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply has sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart; He who from zone to zone, Gaides through the boundless sky thy certain flight. In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. —William Cullen Bryant. A CHRISTIAN HOME A Christian home—why is it such a fine and precious thing? Because it is the garden of the Lord, a nursery for human lives to grow in. Its rich, fertile soil furnishes the best field for the development of the virtues which wc mo6t need. Its seclusion, its shelter, its wise and careful culture are invaluable to growing souls, and nothing can, make up for the lack of them. The home is the God-appointed educator of mankind. We have a multitude of institutions w'hich we call schools, but the real schools, where the real lessons of life are learned, are the homes of America. We hear a great deal about the higher education still, the lieighest that can be had. It is found in the lofty lessons of self-con.trol and self-sacrifice and sublime faith and splendid trust which home life has such marvelous power to teach. There is no training to be had in school, or college, or anywhere in. the world, which can take the place of the discipline of home. Every true Christian home is a university, fully equipped, amply endowed, and able to give the highest education which can be got in the world. —Selected. ♦ An, envious man is in pain upon all occasions that should give him pleasure. —Addison. RAYMOND BROS. TRANSFER AND FUEL Trunks, Freight and Moving Household Goods a Specialty 1S03 Talmadge - - Minneapolis 2226 Carter Ave. r - St. Paul YOU SHOULD PATRONIZE LAKE PARK BARBER SHOP OCTAVE SIGO, Prop. 1520 COMO AVENUE WEST Cor. Arona, one block east of Snelling Ave. FINE SHOE REPAIRING TOMAS GIMBLETT 7G: n. snelling 54 THE BETHEL HERALD WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE? A STYLISH TAILOR MADE SUIT OR A READY MADE SUIT AT THE SAME PRICE W. LEVIN - Master Tailor Cleaner We Specialize iu FRENCH DRY CLEANING, DYEING OR PRESSING Expert in Alterations ami Repairing. Moderate Charges. Worked called for and delivered. Midway MOO 698 N. SWELLING AYE. WORK GUARANTEED HAIR CUTTING A SPECIALTY W. R. BUCKNELL B A 11 B E R S H 0 P SWELLING AM) MINNEHAHA ST. PAUL, MINN. Six Great Piano Factories Make the pianos we sell. Their instruments are renouned from coast to coast as pianos of beautiful tone and time-reststing quality. STEINWAY I VERS POND LUDWIG AEOLIAN WEBER DYER BROTHERS Thousands of the Northwest’s musicians know this house as musical headquarters. Write ns for anything musical. ! BRO.s lished 1870 — TIIE BETHEL HERALD 55 Johnson Sons UNDERTAKERS 946-48 PAYNE AYE., ST. PAUL Phones: T. S. 77 957; N. W. Bomont 3135.—Res. T. S. 780 523 Members of the First Swedish Baptist Church BREMER ARCADE, ST. PAUL MAKERS OF Exclusive Clothes for Men and Women The shop where tailoring is a fine art. Highest Class Material in Cloth Findings and Making Up (Special designs) Tel. Automatic 23749 Always ask your Grocer for FAVORITE CREAMERY BUTTER Manufactured by MILLER HOLMES SAINT PAUL................... - MINNESOTA 56 THE BETHEL IIERALD BENSON’S 1225 WASHINGTON AVENUE SOUTH PIANOS VICTROLAS ORGANS Sold on Easy Terms Hultinan and Thousands of other Swedish and American Records to Select From. String: and Band Instruments, Bibles, Hymn Books, Etc. Flowers, Ferns Decorating: Material for all Occasions fetoanson’s (Incorporated) ii Hje Spouse of jflotoer£ Society Decorators and Designers of Artistic Floral Work for Dinner Parties House Parties, Weddings, Funerals Phones: Atlantic 6033 Automatic 38143 Greenhouses, 6th Ave. N. and Thomas St. 912 NICOLLET AVENUE MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Member Florists Telegraph Delivery. THE BETHEL HERALD 57 401-3-5 EAST HENNEPIN MINNEAPOLIS “The Caxton” and Campus Togs Clothes NETTLETON SHOES — BETTER VALUES Res. 1217 Monroe Street Both Phones O. E. LARSON Undertaker FUNERAL DIRECTOR Office: 2218 CENTRAL AVENUE MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 58 THE BETHEL HERALD Mounds Park Sanitarium and Hospital ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Departments General Surgery Neurology Medicine Obstetrics Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Laboratories Radium X-Ray Pathology Basal Metabolism Serology Training School for Nurses THE BETHEL HERALD 59 J. W. PAIN TER NOTIONS CONFECTIONERY AND ICE CREAM PARLOR ST. PAUL 1578 COMO AVENUE MINNESOTA Anton Johnson CROC E R 920 ARCADE STREET : : : ST. PAUL DR. H. T. TAARUD DENTIST T. S. 81123. Office Phone: N. W. Miday 198 Cor. Carter and Como Avenues IV., St. Anthony Park DAVIS CARLSON CLOTHIERS 413 ROBERT STREET, ST. PAUL POPULAR PRICES Swenson Bros. Department Store DRY GOODS, SHOES Auto 20881 FURNITURE AND HARDWARE 990 PAYNE AYE. ST. PAUL, MINN. N. W. Bomont 90 JOSEPH STOFFELS CONFECTIONARY ---and— ICE CREAM PARLOR 1199 Snelling Avenue St. Paul, Minn. N. W. Phone, Midway 971 Auto 82 792 Dr. L. P. GANFIELD DEN TIS T 721 Snelling Avenue St. Paul, Minn. Cor. Snelling and Minnehaha N. W. Phone Midway 3313 Hamline Tailor Shop GEO. PENZENSTADLER Proprietor 763 N. Snelling Avenue St Paul, Minn. EYES TESTED GLASSES FITTED Scientifically 60 THE BETHEL HERALD SINCERITY - CAMBRIDGE LANGHAM CLOTHES WHEN YOU WEAR EITHER OF THESE MAKES YOU CAN BE SATISFIED AT ALL TIMES FOR YOU’LL LOOK RIGHT YOU’LL FEEL RIGHT AND YOU’LL HAVE THE POISE THAT COMES WITH CORRECT GARMENTS The new brown and green shades, also novelty stripes at $40 $45 $50 to $60 The Model Clothing House NICOLLET AT THIRD ST. MINNEAPOLIS N. W. Midway 4065 Tri-State 831 034 Midway Creamery Co Pasturized Milk and Cream ‘ QUALITY AND SERVICE” OUR MOTTO GIVE US A TRIAL 1563-65 COMO AVENUE W. ST. PAUL, MINN'. THE BETHEL HERALD 61 14TH UNIVERSITY of Como Car in Minneapolis, Minn. SERVICE TO STUDENTS TAILORED SUITS TOGGERY DRY CLEANING PRESSING REPAIRING ST. PAUL MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH SUPERIOR ploan I everoos SEVENTH AN1) JACKSON ST. PAUL, MINN 62 THE BETHEL HERALD Your Successors Like your predecessors, probaby will have the Buckbee Mears folks do the engravings for the Bethel Herald in years to come. Hundreds of other High Schools and Academies also entrust their engraving and illustrating problems each year to BUCKBEE MEARS COMPANY Designers — Engravers NEWTON BUILDING Saint Paul, Minnesota J. G. THAUNG Begravningsentreprenor PHONES: Res.: 898 Burr St.: T. S. 20236; Office: T. S. 3164 327 EAST SEVENTH STREET ST. PAUL.............MINNESOTA N. W. East 1314 Miss Edith Larson MILLINERY AND NEEDLECRAFT 2026 Central Avenue : : : : MINNEAPOLIS Anto. 61 375 N. W. Drexel 4976 The H. LARSON STUDIO Special Kates for Bethel Students 2708 E. LAKE STREET (Coliseum Bldg.) MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Ewald Challberg, Masseur Graduate of Stockholm, Sweden, 1905 701 Pillsbury Building : Minneapolis Phones: Auto. 33547; N. W. Nic. 5202 Res., Shirley Arms THE BETHEL HERALD 63 I. EKBERG F. A. PETERSON J. N. JOHNSON UNION CLOTHING CO. Dealers in The Co-operative Shoe—made of leather only—will give the wearer satisfaction. Clothing, Gent’s Furnishing Goods, Shoes, Trunks and Valises We solicit your patronage. 1101-1108 WASHINGTON AYE. SO. Automatic 32978 Minneapolis, Minn. PBENUMEREBA PA VAR SAMFUNDS TIDNING SVENSKA STANDARET GET WELL SPINAL DISORDER AND INPINGED NERVES CAUSES SUFFERING. YOUR HEALTH AND VITALITY CAN BE RESTORED BY MY METHOD. EXAMINATION FREE I)R. TOLLEEX Phone. Atlan. 4298 517 MEDICAL BLOCK, 008 NICOLLET AYE., MINNEAPOLIS J IT’S THE CLOTHES THAT MAKE THE MAN •AND- FRIEDMAN BROS. That MAKE the CLOTHES NEWEST SPRING WOOLENS NOW ON DISPLAY Order Your SPRING SUIT NOW Our Suits and Overcoats are made in our own St. Paul Shops— SAVING you the iManufacturcr's Profit. 10% DISCOUNT TO STUDENTS Friedman Bros. TAILORS 345 Robert Street St. Paul 64 THE BETHEL HERALD The SWEPUSIHl IKIOSPBYAL cor.io ave.so. a 8 st. The School of Nursing OF The Swedish Hospital MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Offers exceptional opportunities for high-grade training .to young women desiring to enter the profession of Nursing. The entrance requirements are: A high school education 20 years of age and not over 30, good health, good moral character, devotion to duty and a desire to serve. The course extends over three years. Students reside at the hospital nurses homes and receive their maintenance and a nominal monthly allowance. The eight-hour day for the practical work of student nurses will be introduced early in 1920. Graduates of Bethel Academy are especially invited to apply. Application blanks furnished upon request. Address, SUPERINTENDENT OF NURSES, THE SWEDISH HOSPITAL. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHS Family Groups A SPECIALTY The LIEBIG STUDIO (SUCCESSOR TO NORDIN BROTHERS) 329 East Hennepin Avenue Special Rates for Bethel Students Automatic 42 351 N. W. East 3351 IS KARAT WEDDING RINGS Chas. Olson Company JEWELERS 211 EAST HENNEPIN : : MINNEAPOLIS My “Dad” Took tills Picture Charles Skooglun OFFICE: 502-503 RYAN BUILDING CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER SAINT PAUL - MINNESOTA T. S. 22 977 N. W. Cedar 8007 The Official Photographer for Iletliel Academy and Theological Seminary Carl O. Erickson PHOTO ARTIST EXCLUSIVE FINE PHOTOS A SPECIALTY 171-173 EAST SEVENTH ST., ST. PAUL, MINN. Phone T. S. 23 618 Special Rates to Students Deponera i Svenskarnas Spar bank. 4 Procent Intresse Be talas Payne Ave. State Bank COR. PAYNE AVE. A JENKS ST ST. PAUL, MINN. Resources over $1,000,000.00 EMANUEL E. LARSON DR. ROBERT EARL LEWIS SWENSON O. M. CARLSON - PRESIDENT VICE-PRES. - VICE-PRES. CASHIER Peter Westlund DEALER IN FRESH AND SALT MEATS Res. 95 Litchfield Ave., Phone T. S. 24465 Phone T. S. 25441 927 Rice St. N. W. Cedar 5641 ST. PAUL, MINN. wm wim r 8 ' •• :■;' • £££ jtf5® V' w.. . • v-.-iir;; •• ; « '. ,Vv'- ■ 41 li'. if t 'V Vi, Jjt, w • • • • _ V - ’.' • . :r 1 r - • ' .• 5 : . i IMIS mm ■ ' '- .• . ; •. s'.tf.■ }} iVCl vwi ‘A :v.v - - • • : • rt .‘ fj,. ■ V “V ■ ■' t4yv7-v.-i § gHKHalKB
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