Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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30 THE BETHEL HERALD Men may come and men may go, but I go on forever.” Solomon said, All rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; Unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.” Our present lives will all end in eternity. Shall they then be resurrected to the Life Eternal? RAlTORTtfRENS RON By AXEL A. ANDERSON Detta las r tillhor nu snart det flydda, men de erfarenheter man ront foljer varje individ p sina enskilda vagar i livet. I f ord sagt liar det varit ett ldrorikt och trev-ligt skol r, bAde i klasrummen och varhelst man samlats till mbten av social cller rent religios natur. Studenterna skingras nu At olika hail for att tjana Herren pA sina respektiva fait. Onsdagen den 11 :e maj vigdes av prof. Adolf Olson, broder Fred L. Moberg och Anna Sundberg, sjukskoterska vid Mounds Park Sanatorium, varefter brudparet av-reste till Kingsburg, Cal. till brudgummens fdr ldrahem. Broder Moberg var hcmkal-lad p grund av sin faders allvarliga sjuk-dom och passade d pA i all hast att taga sin liustru med sig. Vi taga anledning att pk det hjartligaste gratulera brudparet till ett lyckligt aktenskap, och p samma g ng uttrycka den dnskan att hr. Mobergs fader m tte tillfriskna. De nygifta amn.a sl ned sina bopSlar i Maynard, Minn., varest hr. Moberg antagit kallelse s som pastor. Martin C. Hamlin predikar fortfarande i • Lake City, Minn., och amnar stanna dar under sommaren. Geo. Ferre har under sista m naden gjort ett besok i Ogema och Westboro, Wis. Harris, Minn., blir broder Ferres sommarfa.lt. Oscar Gunnerfeldt predikar i Dalbo varje sdndag och kominer att fortsatta dar under sommaren. Ilan skall besoka Central Canada Konfercnsens moten i Winnipeg den 9—12 juni. Emerie C. Gustafson har predikat i St. Francis och Becker, Minn., och den 15:e maj i Anoka, Minn. Hugo Herrg rd liar besokt Ogema och Westboro Wis., varannan sondag under vintern. Sina ferier skall han tillbringa p vastkusten sAsom missionar for sver.sk-finska baptisterna. William Turnwall fortsatter sitt goda verk vid Wheelock Parkway missionen a-ven under sommaren. Oscar Magnuson skall foretaga en resa genom ostern under sommaren sSsom iped-lem av the Bethel Male Quartett. Arthur B. Nelson bosatter sig efter gra-duationen i Grantsburg, Wis., s som stadig-varandc pastor. Han har uppehS.llit verk-samheten dar sedan januari mSnad. Emil T. Carlson stannar pi sin post i Enfield, Minn, under sommaren, den fbrsam-ling han tjanat under skol ret Herbert R. Peterson amnar fortfara i Superior, Wis., varest ett gott verk p be-gynts. Rapportbren predikar fortfarande i Anoka, Minn. Han besokte Lake Norden, S. D. sondagen den 15 :e maj. Efter graduation intrader han sSsom pastor i Eveleth, Minn. Redaktoren stannar kvar i Spring Vale, Minn, under sommaren, varest han predikat varje sondag under senare tiden. Dr. C. G. Lagergren har predikat pS. fol-jande platscr under maj m nad: Isanti Nor-ra. Lake Sarah och Bethel, Minneapolis. Prof. Adolf Olson innehar fortfarande pastorsvSrden i St. Paul l:a forsamling och roner valsignelse och framg ng. Dr. G. Arvid Ilagstrom har pft. senare tiden talat och predikat som foljer: Under p skveckan, predikade i Woodland Park kyrkan, St. Paul. Minn., den 25 mars och sondagen den 27:e mars vid vackelsemote i St. Paul l:a svenska forsamling. Sondagen den 3:e april predikade vid svenska baptistforsamlingen i Mankato, •Minn., vid missionsforsamlingen Kasta, Minn., och talade vid en ungdomskonferens p kvallen samma dag i Amerikanska kyrkan i Mankato. Den 6:e april deltog i State Board of Promotion mote i Calvary baptistkyrkan i Minneapolis, Minn. Sondagen den 10:e april talade vid gilds-tjanst vid Mounds Park Sanitarium. Den 15:e april talade vid en bankett i Willmar, Minn., och samlade subskriptioner for ett nytt pastorsbostalle, predikade aven darstades sondagen den 17 :e april. Sbndagen den 24 :e april talade vid en ungdomskonferens i Spring Valley, Minn. Onsdagen den 27 :e april presiderade vid en debatt i Central High School, Minneapolis, Minn., mellan North Park College,

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THE BETHEL HERALD 29 kop darstades. S som biskop hade han m nga bittra stridcr att utkampa med sA-clana som tankte olika. Om hans insats uti sin tids religiosa verksamhet onska vi icke hftr att orda. efter att hava sokt att endast framdraga irAgot av intresse frAn bans personliga liv. Dessa hans “Bekan-nelser,” ur vilka vi hamtat vAra tankar kanske aro framstallda uti alIt for morka larger, dock m ste vi under det vi lasa dem beundra den man som sA troget och oppenhjartigt bekanner for Gud sin lev-nad. Augustinus dog Ar 430 i staden Hippo, icke s lAngt frftn sin fddelseort. Hans livs afton fordystrados av de vilda Vanda-lernas infall uti norra Afrika, och hans dod intraffade clA dessa hollo pA att le-lagra staden. uti villccn han utfort sitt storsta arbete. THE R1VEK OF LIFE By EMIL T. CARLSON The human life resembles a river in many ways. Just as life has three distinct stages of development so also the course of every river may be divided into three distinct divisions. The source or beginning of a river is its youth. As it winds on towards its goal it becomes more and more mature. Gradually approaching the end of its course it reaches its old age. Here as it is about to empty its contents into the ocean its current becomes sluggish and its bed worn. A river is always moving, so also is life. There are times when the current runs swiftly. At other times it runs more slowly ancl with greater difficulty. Just as there are falls and whirlpools in a river’s course so there are breaks and eruptions in every human life. Then again there are obstructions causing the current to pass slowly ancl with difficulty. It is just at such places in a river’s course that its power is available for use. In like manner it is the difficulties encountered and overcome in a person’s life that tests his power and efficiency. No river runs straight. It has more or less windings and bends In its course. Such also is human life. Many a meandering stream as it approaches the sea will have formed islands and lakes. The person who has not had a set goal in life and purposed to roach that goal will find his life more or less a failure. He will not have accomplished much of importance and the fruits of his labor will have been divided and of little value. The mouth of a river is always larger than its source. A largo river as it empties into the sea is but a combination of many smaller rivers and brooks. So also is life. We are all more or less Influenced by each other. Other men’s experiences and teachings enlarge our lives. Our life in turn goes up in some other person’s life. As a small rivulet we start out in life. Our own experience ns well as other people’s experiences anJ teachings enlarge our lives. The more of these little rivulets entering into our lives, the larger will our lives be as we approach the Sea of Eternity. A river’s purpose is not merely to drain and cleanse, hut also to supply water for vegetation, animals and mankind. We always find the most vegetation and naturally the densest population close to a large river. Whether the river is there because of the vegetation or the vegetation is there because of the river might he a debatable question. We know this much, however, that vegetation, rivers and civilization go hand in hand. How beautifully docs not this correspond to lives of great men! We are accustomed to class a man great who has been the means of advancing and bettering civilization. If we take some of the world's greatest statesmen we find that it , is what they did that helps us to remember who they were. That life indeed can be said to be worth while which, like the river drains off all rubbish and trash, helps to rid society of the evils which beset it, and at the same time helps to nourish and tend the things worth while. Our lives like the pure crystal water of the river should reflect the nobler things above us. If we do not reflect the things that arc noble and true we will reflect those that are evil. Would that God could look down a:t every man and woman and there see a true image of Himself as He meant us to be. Lastly a river suggests immortality to us. As we stand on the river’s bank watching it glide peacefully by, it seems to tell us,

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THE BETHEL HERALD 31 Chicago, 111. och Minnehaha Academy. •Sondagen den 8:e maj predikade pi f. m. i Bethel, Minneapolis, Minn. M ndagen den 9:e maj talade over “Religious Education, A Community Need” vid en bankett h llen av Ramsey County Sunday Sschool Ass’n i St. Paul l:a svcnska baptist kyrka. Den 12: e dennes talade till fdrmin for The School Amendment vid ett community mote anordnad av The iPhalen. Park School Mothers’ Club i Biblioteksbyggna-den, Greenbrier och Jessamine Sts., St. Paul. Sondagen den 15 :e dennes predikade i Reynolds, Minn. BETHEL COMMERCIAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION No, indeed, it was not “only one of those many rumors, as the notice in the March issue of the Bethel Herald says. The members of the graduating class of the Commercial Department ’21 as well as representatives from the classes of previous years met, April 30th, 1921, for the purpose of organizing the Bethel Commercial Alumni Association. And organize they did! The officers for the year 1921 are as follows: Oscar Youngquist Enoch Johnson Lambert Rodclius Eleanore Bonde Gordon Bodien President Vice President Treasurer Secretary Assistant Secretary •No one has heard very much from our Commercial graduates in former years, but we intend in the future to let you know that we are very much alive. Watch the Bethel Academy Commercial Department grow! ELEANORE BONDE. Secretary.