Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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THE BETHEL HERALD 23 St. Paul for att hedra grundlaggaren, s val som alia som langre eller kortare tid tja-nat samfundet i dess betydelsefulla skol-verksamhet. There ought to be a grand reunion of all who have received their preparation under its tutorage. Grundlaggaren och de som narmast upp-togo verksamheten efter honom aro all he-der varda for deras mod att i trots av alia sv riglieter och nodvandiga uppoffringar, lagga en sk saker grund och fora saken tram t till harlig seger. Vi std nu p deras skuldror och rona frukterna av deras gedigna pionararbete. Konferensen har satt till m l att vid den-na hogtid sarcla en grundfond p $200,000 och det ar att hoppas att detta hoga mil mi kunna uppnis. Litom oss hedra minnet av vira fdre-gingare och betrygga samfundets framtid genom att pi allt satt understodja och be-frimja virt kara seminarium. COMMENCEMENT At graduation perhaps as never before do the words of Longfellow ring out: Life is real, Life is earnest. A completed school course is the commencement of one’s life work. The happy care-free school days are exchanged for the stern reality of life. Yet no one who has used his days of preparation wisely need fear the future. He commences his career confident of a life of usefulness to God and to mankind. A large number of excellent young men and women, the largest in the history of Bethel, graduate this year and all join most heartily in wishing every one of them Godspeed in whatever realm of life each expects to enter. Great things are prophesied of them and great things aro expected of them and we know we shall not be disappointed if all remain true to the precepts inculcated at dear old Bethel. May this be the commencement of great things for all of you. A WORD OF THANKS The measure of success attained by the Bethel Herald during the school year now drawing to a close is due to the splendid co-operation enjoyed in its publication. No venture of this kind can be successfully carried out without such co-operation and The Staff wishes to express its heartfelt gratitude to the faculties and students of both schools, the subscribers and advertisers and all who have in any way contributed to the success of the publication. We are especially indebted to our faculty advisers, Prof. A. Olson, in the Seminary and Prof. H. C. Wingblade in the Academy for their timely and valuable suggestions and advice. Bethel Herald Staff. Det har glatt oss, att Herren fdrlanat v r avh llne larare och seminariets forest n-dare, cl:r Lagergren, halsa och krafter, sk att han under hela Aret kunnat fortsatta sitt arbete 1 Seminariet. Samfundet m kanr.a sig trygg, sk lange som d:r Lagergren undervisar i Seminariet och lagger grunden for predikanternas verksamhet p ordets fasta grundval. M tte Herren val-signa och spara denne v x hogtaktade la-rare och samfundsnian till annu m nga Sr av tjanst for Guds rikes uppbyggande bland v rt svenska folk i Amcrika. The world is old, yet likes to laugh. New jokes are hard to find, And even a whole new Herald staff Can’t tickle every mind. So if you meet some ancient joke, Decked out in modern guise, Don’t frown and call the thing a joke.” Just laugh—don’t be too wise. —Anonymous. TO BETHEL HERALD’S ADVERTISERS AND SUBSCRIBERS Our Herald goes now on its last tour and we hope that its mission has not been in vain. We as business managers want to express our sincere thanks to all our advertisers for the favor shown ns during the year. We know that the subscribers loyally gave them their support and trade. Thanks to all! BENGT ANDERSON, ElMRRIE GUSTAFSON, MILTON WARD.

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The Bethel Herald A monthly published during the School year by the students of Bethel Academy and Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00 PER YEA if STAFF WALFREU G. HOLMBERG, Editor-in-Chief Bengt Anderson, Business Mgr. Emil T. Carlson, Circulating Mgr. SEMINARY ACADEMY Martin C. Hamlin.............Eng. Dept. Fred Moberg.................Swed. Dept. Axel A. Anderson...............Rapportor Einerie C. Gustafson....Ass’t Bus. Mgr. Adolf Olson, A. B.........Faculty Ass’t. Barthol Jacobson..... Ragnar Wall.......... Milton Ward.......... Naomi Larson......... Myra Peterson Fredolph Anderson ) H. C. Wingblade A. B, .....Eng. Dept. ----Swed. Dept. Ass’t Bus. Mgr. Ass'n Circ. Mgr. School Items ... Faculty Ass’t BETHEL HERALD Snelling and Nebraska Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota Entered as second-class matter Dec. 15, 19 19, at the Post Office at St. Paul, Minnesota under the Act of March 3, 1879. PRINCIPAL ALFRED J. WINGBLADE It is now fourteen years since Prof. A. J. Wingblade began teaching at Bethel Academy. He assumed the principalsliip in 1912 succeeding Dr. Gordh and has since then been at the head of the Academy. The students who have studied under him as well as the Swedish Baptist denomination as a whole are deeply indebted to him for his loyalty to the denomination and unselfish devotion to the best interests of the students. It has meant no small sacrifice for him, as well as all the teachers of our institution, to devote himself to the cause of Christian education. But he has considered what sacrifice he has been called upon to make well repaid in the satisfac- tion and joy derived from serving God and his fellow-men by inculcating Christian ideals into the minds and hearts of young lives. Our best wishes follow him for God’s richest blessings and many years of service in the work he loves so much. SEMINARISTS FEMTIOARS.U BILEl’M Nar Svenska Baptisternas i Amerika Allmanna Konfercns sammantrader i St. Paul denna heist, liras i samband d rmed grund-laggandet av samfundets seminarium av dr John Alexis Edgren i Chicago, 111. hasten 1S71. Denna hdgtid horde vara anledning till att alia broder, com graduerat eller studerat i seminariet, vanda sina steg At

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24 THE BETHEL HERALD PRESIDENT’S CORNER At the close of the Spanish American War Major General Leonard Wood was offered a business position that would have yielded not less than forty thousand dollars a year. He declined it, choosing to continue a life that brought him into constant touch with human life, with opportunities to serve effectively the needs of men in the strenuous conflicts of life. This is not surprising when we read that he has said: “A motto for all Americans—‘I serve.’ Somewhere, each and everyone of us must serve the nation to the very best of our ability.” We cannot serve as we should till we catch a vision of the world’s need and our relation to it. No one can fully realize himself and his possibilities till he sees the vision and identifies himself with a world movement to accomplish the fulfillment of this vision. We have, save and preserve only that which we let go, give out and invest in the great world enterprise. The Christ we will not share we may not keep. Active resistless service in the truest and best sense will be possible only as it grows out of the season of meditation and prayer. “More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend.” ftlorto -d’ Arthur—Tennyson. Prayer makes possible spiritual vision to the eyes of the soul, who by trust in God depending upon His promise, launches out in faith and obedience to serve, lovingly, joyfully, tirelessly, as he himself would be served. Hence the highest type of service is that which draws from the deepest sources and rises to the highest level. The development of the body may make a splendid animal, the discipline of the mind may make a brilliant demon! To ignore or subordinate the spiritual nature is inhuman and unreasonable. Body, mind and spirit are indispensible to the highest development in man and hence to the most effective and fruitful service. This is not impossible, except as one considers one hundred per cent efficiency as the goal to be reached at the start. It is the abuse or rather misuse of the resources and powers nearest at hand that seemingly makes this goal unreachable. From figures furnished by the Secretary of Treasury it appears, that money spent in one year needlessly, if laid up for a rainy day or used for necessities, would accomplish marvelous results. The figures include what the American public spends for chewing gum, fifty million, candy one billion, ciga rettes 880 million, soft drinks, ice cream soda, etc. 330 million, perfumery and cosmetics 730 million, cigars 510 million, tobacco and snuff S00 million, furs 300 million, carpets and luxurious clothing 1 billion 500 million, toilet soaps 40ft million, or a sum total of six billion dollars in twelve months. The labor and capital employed in producing these luxuries might otherwise have been turning out necessities, clothes, food, fuel, shoes, houses. The luxury consumer is paying a higher price for his necessities because he is al normally consuming luxuries. Who are the innocent ones, not included in this class? Surely they are few. We should remember that capital, whether a few pennies or a few dollars or a larger sum, represents human thought, energy and labor. It is a part of us and what we inherited from our forbearers translated into coin. It is a vehicle for service either to the uplift or down throw of humanity. May we not be found guilty of the latter, otherwise we will not only injure our neighbor but limit ourselves and cut short our own career of usefulness. Garret P. Serviss says, that a person’s brains keep him young, or would do so if he exercised his brains—and no one will admit he hasn’t any brains or that he doesn't exercise them. “If your occupation consumes your bodily energies” he says, }D3 siieo uje.i(i .moA ouuj auics Dip ju puu.. no exercise or the least possible exercise, your chances for long life are not very good. It will be found in cases of remarkable longevity that the subjects were mentally active to a noticeable degree, even when their occupations and their status of edu-