Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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 tfosieuxoAxi The 1940 SPIRE is presented as a story and picture album of school life at Bethel. The mechanism of the Camera our administrative beards and faculty — governs and regulates the impression of life v hich is made upon the Film -our student body. By processes of Printing and Developing—cur athletic, religious, creative, and social activities—the Film is prepared and presented as a finished picture. It is the purpose of this book to depict Bethel life in its entirety, focusing attention not only on the routine, ordinary, expected subject matter, but revealing also the hidden, unanticipated, candid shots of campus activities as found in Scraps 'N Snaps. The sum comprises a true reproduction, an accurate representation of Bethel's constituency.

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Gositesiti CAMERA Administration Faculty Student Council FILM Classes Seminary Junior College Christian Workers' Department Music Department DEVELOPING Religious Work Forensics Music Publications Clubs PRINTING Basketball Baseball Tennis Intramural Coed Sports SCRAPS 'N SNAPS

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In Memory of Dr. Arvkl Gordh, Th. D. Who car. record the work and worth of a Spirit-led man? Such a life sheds its influence, not only to the generation it serves, but also to posterity. In ever widening circles, that influence continues to the shores of eternity, leaving in its wake the blessings of a consecrated man of God. This can well be said of Dr. Arvid Gordh, who was taken from this life at the Midway Hospital, St. Paul, shortly after noor. on January 4, 1940. Dr. Gordh was born November lb, 1872, in Gothenburg, Sweden, and came to America while still a young man. He was converted and joined the First Swedish Baptist Church of Brooklyn. New York, under the ministry of Dr. O. Hedeen. Having answered the cell to the Christian ministry, he studied at the Swedish Baptist Theological Seminary of Morgan Park, Chicago, and at the Seminary in Stockholm, Sweden. He began his pastoral work in Orebro, Sweden, serving a Baptist church there for two years. Returning to the United States, the young Gordh spent two years at Newton Theological Institution and one year at the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville. Kentucky. In 1903, he became editor of the Baneret, a privately owned denominational paper published in Minneapolis. Throughout his life, he made contributions in the literary field. His works of poetry and prose contain much food for thought end inspiration. From 1905 to 1911, Dr. Gcrdh served as principal of the newly-founded Bethel Academy. The next ten years were spent again in pastoral service in Brockton, Massachusetts, and New York City. For lour years he served as dean of the Theological Seminary, being successor to Dr. C. G. Lagergren. Since 1925, he continued teaching New Testament Greek. Because our beloved teacher was closely identified with the Swedish Baptists in America, he has left a vacancy which cannot easily be refilled. The testimony of the work he accomplished and of the plans he cherished have come to us as a sacred trust and an active challenge.