Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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 1 9 2 5 — T H E BETH A N N U A L — 1 9 2 5 |» PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE FOR THE BETHANNUAL POME one has said: No power on earth or under the earth can make a man do wrong without his own consent. Bethel has had for its purpose this year to make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong on the part of each one who has attended. This is not entirely within human power, but is dependent on the power of an inborn and indwelling Christ. The prayers and yearnings of many have been that this Great and True friend might he an experience and continuous reality in the life of each student as the 1925 school year draws to its close. It is certain that if we yield ourselves to God with the same enthusiasm that we do to that which interests us most. He will give Himself to us in just that proportion. A Russian proverb says: With God. go over the sea: without Him. not over the threshold. A good motto to leave Bethel with. A great university president has defined scholarship thus: It is an interest in knowing things, a desire for truth, an insatiable curiosity not about the trivial and the unimportant, bur about the great things of the world and of human life. As an achievement, it is the acquisition of knowledge, and still more, a confirmed attitude of open-mindedness toward truth and acceptance of it. Thus we are confident that Bethel has contributed its quota toward this result— Scholarship —by its teaching, school activities and literary productions, the Clarion, the Student Handbook, and the Bethan-nual. and this will enable each to— Speak a shade more kindly Than the year before: Pray a little oftener: Love a littie more: Cling a little closer To the Father’s love: Life below shall liker grow To the Life Above.

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1925 — THE BETHANNUAL — 1925 + G. Arvid Hagstrom. D. D. Men of his slump sioay the soul by their prestige, by their personal beauty and grandeur, by their concentrated intensity of character, by their strength of faith. r u f hour

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TO YOU ALL ' JpHIS. then, is the Bethannual.” the story in words and pictures, of what happened at Bethel in 1925. In a few simple phrases we want to say to you fellow students, teachers, and friends that we hope the book will not displease you; that we have at least tried to make this record of the School Year worth something; and that we are happy to think rhat many shall find it pleasant to turn its pages in years to come. We thank you all for your kindly assistance. To Mrs. Grace Wilson, Edith Jacobson, Roger Wickstrand, Eldon Lindbergh. Frances Anderson. Naomi Hultgren, John Hedvvall, Arvid Gordh, Edgar Peterson, and others who have largely contributed to make the annual what it is. we wish particularly to express our gratitude. Tun Staff.