Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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 Miiliriiaiiiii 1923 — The Bethannual — 1923 PRESIDENT G. ARV.ID HAGSTROM, D. D. Loved at home, revered abroad. Page 6

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 1923 — The Bethannual — 1923 iiiuiiBstnititii IIIII2HII:fiiitiaimtriiiiiiini iniiritimtiiiii intiiiiiiuicmiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiuiuiiniiiiii iiiinnmimiiiiai PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE ME first book to be printed from movable type. 467 years ago, was the Bible, and the printing of this consumed five years for the completion of the task. One of these copies was recently sold for $50,000. One of the latest pieces of printed matter to come from the press will lie the Bethannual. and the printing of it consumes perhaps five minutes. It is. however, a matter for rejoicing and gratitude that the latter is not only a product of the former, as one step of the evolution in the part of printing, but most and best of all in the matter which makes up its copy. As the message of the Bible goes into the making of character, which builds the life beautiful, so the work of Bethel Academy in class room and chapel, as well as in its publications, the Clarion and the Bethannual, makes a distinct contribution to the rounding out of the full-orbed life. Though continuing in the path of the “Blue and Gray” with a new name. Bethannual, it still breathes the Bethel spirit, and gives the Bethel message, which is “Trust in God and Work.” Education has been called another form of spring cleaning. It is cleaning up of the mind to un-learn what we learn, to fling out one’s mental rubbish and store the mind with what is really useful and beautiful. Even the highest and most spiritual forms of education answer to the same description. The one who knows how to forget the things that are best forgotten and to remember all the things that arc best remembered, has mastered the high art of education. The apostle Paul referred to this when he said: “This one thing I do. forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press forward toward the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” The Golden Age is ahead, of that there can be no doubt, the age of increasing knowledge, matchless achievements, and unprecedented progress. May we, therefore, press on to have our full part in its triumphs. Helen Keller has aptly said. “Join the great company of those that make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness. Carry a vision of Heaven in your hearts and you shall make your home, your school, the world, corresjxmd to this vision. Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. The great enduring realities are love and service. Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” That the horizon of every Bethel Senior and every reader of the Bethannual may, in the words of the immortal Judson. be “as bright as the promises of God.” contitutes the heart yearning of the entire Faculty. Page 7