Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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T H E 19 2 7 B E T H ANNUAL PROPHECY OF THE CLASS OF 'll IT is a beautiful morning in the month of June. The sun has just risen over the eastern horizon but early as it is there arc signs of activity on the Aviation Field just outside St. Paul. As we approach the grounds we find the other members of our party already assembled, ready to set out on our expedition to the Holy Land. Our party consists of several religious workers and scientific men who are interested in the project that occupies the attention of so many at the present time, namely that of finding the lost Ark. Our expedition is under the leadership of the noted archeologist, Mr. Stanley Forsman, who graduated from Bethel Academy in 1927. The pilot who accompanies us on this journey to guide our machine through the air is the famous aviator Louis Ellis, a classmate of Mr. Forsman. It is an enjoyable sensation to feel ourselves lifted slowly upward until we reach the proper height and then to glide swiftly through the air looking down upon the tovlike towns, lakes and forests. For our own enjoyment we arc taking a very round-about route, visiting various countries and places on our way. We therefore first turn our machine toward the southwest as our pilot wishes, before leaving the country, to visit his sister Rosamund who is doing missionary work among the Mona Indians in southern California. After spending a few days with her we go on to San Francisco. Here we meet many friends, among them Martin Erickson, another member of the class of ’27 at Bethel. He is now a well known evangelist and is at present conducting evangelistic services in sunny California. Now we take our course northward along the coast and over the mountains toward South Dakota. Here we stop to attend commencement exercises at Sioux Falls College, of which Elvera Wik is now president. Here we also meet Phoebe Strom, who for several years has been teaching school in the Bad Lands of North Dakota. During our stay we also visit the Baptist Church, where services are being conducted by Rev. Joseph Carlson and Alpliin Conrad, who is known all over our land as the singing evangelist. From them we learn that their sturdy classmate Frank Anderson is working in Montana under the title of church invi-gorator.” He carries his tool chest with him and repairs broken down churches in which lie afterwards preaches the gospel. Again we turn our machine northward and arc carried forward over the vast expanse of western Canada to Alaska. One of the most interesting places we visit during our stay here is Kodiak Orphanage on Wood Island, of which Vivian Skog-man is matron. Now we turn our course across the ocean toward the Orient. We stop at Shanghai, China, to visit with our friend Erie Sjolund. who is in charge of the missionary work in the Shanghai province. After a brief stay, we continue on our way across the great country of Chinn and over Thibet to India. After stopping to visit several places of interest, we finally land at Ongolc, the place that is so memorable in the annals of Baptist Missions. Here we meet Elizabeth Anderson, who is Superintendent of Nurses at the Clough Memorial Hospital, and Esther Antonson, who is Assistant Superintendent. They are doing a much needed work among the women of India. From India we arc carried swiftly to Jerusalem, our destination. Almost two years have passed. We have finished the research work which we undertook to do during our stay in the Holy Land and arc ready to return home. Again we glide through the air as though borne on the powerful wings of a bird, over mountain and vale until we reach Switzerland and land at Geneva. While visiting the Y. M. C. A. we meet Rudolph Ehnhom and learn that lie is now Thirty-One

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T H E 19 2 7 B E T H A N N U A L Looking into the veiled future, four years seems a long stretch, hut as we stand on the Bethel threshold ready to step out into the world, we feel that four years is a very, very short time. Still in this short time we derived many benefits at Bethel for which we thank her—for the interest every member of the Faculty had in us, and for the influence they have exerted over us. We also extend our appreciation to our fellow students for the comradeship we have enjoyed together. Owing to the training and atmosphere at Bethel we go out as Christian soldiers with welded weapons with which to fight for the good and great Cause. Xaomir Hultoren. Thirty

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T II E 19 2 7 B E T II A N N U A L International Secretary of this association. Our next stop is at Paris. As we view various scenes of historical interest we meet many Americans; one of these is Nellie Wohlford who has become a famous artist. We see several of her paintings which are on exhibition. Then we travel on across Germany to Hamburg to see the Theological Seminary of which August Winklcman is Dean. We cannot stay very long at any place, but we must stop a few days at London to give some desired information concerning our work to Gordon Lindeen, the Editor of The London Times. Now we turn our ship southward over Africa toward Congo. In Congoland we find Carol Dexter, who now has an M. D. degree and is healing sick bodies as well as souls. Here also is Eric Anderson preaching the gospel and directing the work in the Sona Data field. After a short but pleasant sojourn with these friends, we are carried across the blue waves of the Atlantic to South America. In Brazil we visit in the home of one of our former Bethel girls, Tillie Singer. She has been doing missionary work in Brazil for several years with her husband, also a former Bethel student. At last we direct our machine toward our own country again. When we reach Florida we stop to refresh ourselves at the Tourist Tavern in Tampa, which is owned and managed by Orville Johnson. Here we also meet Esther Jorgenson, who in the capacity of private nurse is traveling with a wealthy family. In flying northward over the Kentucky mountains we notice, as we look down, a group of splendid looking buildings surrounded bv beautiful lawns. This is a rather unusual sight in these mountains. We stop to investigate and learn that this is headquarters for the mission work which Ellen Carlson has been carrying on among the back-woods people in these mountains. Being so near Washington we decide to go there and listen in at some of the sessions of Congress. At one of these sessions, as the Senator from South Dakota rises to speak, we discover that he is none other than Birger Swenson, whose oratorical ability as a student at Bethel we well remember. But we must continue on our way. In Chicago we stop at the borne of Helen Skoglun, who is married to the manager of the National Baseball League. During our stay we also meet Alice Larson, who is a Social Settlement worker in Chicago. We are now on the last lap of our long and extensive journey and we come back to St. Paul just in time to attend commencement exercises at Bethel. Many former students have returned for this occasion; we meet Naomic Hultgrcn, who is now wife of the Science Instructor at Carlcton College; Helen Johnson, who is Superintendent of Nurses at Mounds Park; Donald Anderson, now County Agricultural Agent in northern Minnesota; Fritjof Johson, now successfully treading in Dr. Riley's footsteps as pastor of the First Baptist Church; Irving Ellis and Allan Frcdinc, who are working with F. A. Johnson as song leader and organist, respectively of his church; and Ruth Dahlcn, who as Miss Jacobson’s successor is teaching History at Bethel. Adolph Carlson, who is a successful pastor at Toronto, Canada, successor of fundamentalist leader Dr. Shields, has come with his wife (who was formerly Adeline Knutson) to attend a Bible conference at the First Church, where Mr. Forsman will give lectures on his work in the Holy Land. Axel Rcndahl, who is now General Superintendent of Baptist work in Wisconsin, lias come for the same purpose. All these former classmates gather for a re-union to hear Mr. Forsman tell of the manifold work carried on by other members of the class whom he has met on his journeys, and to return thanks to God because so many parts of the world are being brightened by the useful, influential lives of the members of the class of ’27. Thirty-Tico