Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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19 2 8 li E T H ANNUAL 19 2 8 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE THE year 1928 is a remarkable year in Baptist History. It is four hundred years, March 11th, since Balthasar Hubinnicr, one of the four heretics mentioned in the Index of Prohibited Books issued by the Catholic church, was burned at the stake in Vienna, where his faithful wife was drowned in the Danube three days later, as martyrs for the faith, once for all delivered to the saints. Ilis noble words are fulfilled: Divine truth is immortal, and although in the present it may be arrested, scourged, crowned with thorns, crucified and laid in the grave, it will nevertheless rise again on the third day, victorious, and will reign in triumph for all eternity.” It is three hundred years since the immortal dreamer of Bedford, John Bunyan. was born. Though Baptists, these heroes by their life and contribution to soul liberty and a true gospel, belong to all mankind everywhere. In June this year at Toronto, the Baptist World Alliance will meet, when proper recognition of these heroes will be made. How much we have inherited from the pioneers and leaders of the past, we can never fully comprehend, and the extent of our obligation to them we cannot grasp. As heirs of the priceless legacy that lias come down to us from the past, we have every reason to realize on our inheritance and rise to higher and nobler achievements for Christ and humanity. The contribution of another year at Bethel cannot be described in monetary terms. It includes impressions upon the table of the immortal soul, which will remain when the rust of time has ceased to corrode. There are impulses to purer thinking, to nobler deeds, to a worth while life, which would never come in another environment. There are lessons learned not only from text books, but from the influence of Christian personality, which will ever be a guide in hours of perplexity and moments of indecision, pointing to the path that insures happiness and success. There is an investment made in lives by faculty, students, parents and home folks, pastors and other friends, without which life would be poor indeed, but having been received, it is a constant reminder of the one of whom it is written: For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might become rich.” .Inti i on iti zchom thr rathe young life is throbbing Hut with a steadier ulse and gentler flow: Whose hearts tcere made for sacrifice and loving. Whose soul’s ideas grow zeith you as you grow— Oh, give to Christ your first, most sacred lox't, sin 1 of your heart's devotion give to Him the best you have. Twelve