Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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 DEAN OF THE COLLEGE C. EMANUEL CARLSON The day of graduation has proved to be a day of keen disappointment in the experiences of many college students. Having worked hard for four years toward an objective upon which all energies were focussed, they arrived only to find that graduation did not produce those overwhelming delights which had been anticipated. There was neither a pot of gold nor a haven of peace at the end of the rainbow. Upon graduation, however, I wish each of you the satisfaction of a realization that you are equipped for more work and for harder work than you were when you started your college career. If, in addition, you have found a sense of direction in life, a sense of obligation and dependence, which calls for the full use of your capacities, your college days will have been worthwhile. Growth is a divine law and a divine method. This law ends at the grove, and not at commencement. When you have explored the Lord's potentials and the Lord's imperatives, you are ready for service. DEAN OF THE SEMINARY EDWIN J. OMARK A good minister of Jesus Christ. These words of the Apostle Paul express an ideal and a challenge to every Seminary student. You Seniors who go directly into pastoral or missionary work will particularly sense a burden of responsibility, than which there is none greater. To win and watch over the souls of men, this is your task. Bring to it your deep devotion, sanctified gifts and trained minds. Seek not ease nor the praise of men but only the will of God. Then He will bless your ministry, and those of us who have our posts of duty here at Bethel will pray and cheer you on. Pogc 15

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aAPTIST !BstLf £ % and Seminara WlUWrO uo ASUNiIO-1 AVIWVU SAINT PAW «. MWNtSO’A War X, mi Hear Seniors: It h»s bean w«U 3Aid that the thoujnto or jenth »re Ion , lent thoughts. When wo are young, tho years loos largo li e harvest nocna, Vat as «o grow alder the roars becose ooro Uko precious wine drops, or Ilk pearls brought fron distent shores. Life beeooe rich with Reoorles, end Icureasirvcly so. Thar aro seoa thlnes »e could not Toma’. IT we would) and there ore sooe tKlr s wo would not f017.0b If w» eould. As you I00V ahead evrn today, the future offers a vista of golden opportunities. All thills are posatblo. The older can way soy: 'J have lived, aeen Oed's Hand through a llfeilee, end all was for beat. Hot the young say say: “1 look nnead and see the years crowded with •Birokis' or 'Eldoradoes.' Tor the SonXoro, then, Just this wish: May you ftrd your ongoing steps in His still, and soy you eay with the saint of old, 1, being in the way—the lord led so. Cordially and sle erel if 103 H y

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H. Wyman Malmsten Assistant to the President Harold Lidbom Supervisor of Men BOARD OF Milford Carlson Bursar Page 16