Calvary College - Covenanter Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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The tomb where Jesus' bocly lay. lt is located in a garden, at the base of the same range of cliffs of which Golgotha forms a part. lFrom the -,personal collection of Dr. Charles S. Price.l A scene talren from the Mount of Olives. loolring toward the eastern wall of Jerusalem. Absalom's tomb can be seen in the left foreground. lFrom the personal collection of Dr. Charles S. Price.l

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TI-IE BEGINNING .,.. The man of today is but a composite of all of his yesterdays. The soul is a king that is sitting upon a throne. The sceptre that he holds in his hand extends back- ward over yesterday-is held above our todays-and goes on forward over our tomorrows. Yesterday is ruled by memory, today is under the sceptre of reason while tomorrow acknowledges the sovereignty of hope. The law of cause and effect operates in the spiritual world just as inevitably as it works in the natural. Show me a man's beginning, said a wise man, and I will predict his end. The sinner can look at himself, miserable, heavy-Iadened and sad and he can point back to the tragic days of the beginning. He can tell you what started it all. But we all have sinned. Everyone of us found our beginnings in iniquity and beheld the seeds sprout in the fertile soil of our deprave and sinful natures. Because we began in iniquity must then we finish within the confines of its power? No. For now, through the -blood of the only begotten Son of God we behold a miracle. The supernatural transcends the natural. Grace flows from the fountains of a Father's love, and through the miracle of regeneration we behold a new creation. The old heart is taken away-and a new one is given. We are not transformed externally. We are changed by grace divine in the inner man. We receive a new beginning. The old things have passed away-behold all things have become new. As we once grew in sin, we can now grow in grace. Be sure, therefore, that you build upon a right foun- dation, then alone can the superstructure of your life endure. -Dr. Charles S. Price Therefore if any mon be in Christ, He is o new creofure: Old fhings are passed away: Behold! All fhings are become new. ll Cor. 5:77

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The Humanity ol Christ . . The Word became flesh. What mystery lies behind these simple wordsl What self-sacrifice is there enshrined! Of all events which had ever taken place in heaven, not one could for a moment compare in strangeness and awe with the day on which God Himself became man. The sons of God had shouted for joy when the earth came into being: had shuddered with horror when the waters of the Flood en- gulfed the new creation: had watched with breathless interest the tragedy of Job: and marveled at the magnificent deliverance of lsrael from Egypt. But nothing had ever equalled the astounding event that now took place 'before their wondering eyes. At ,one moment the Son of God Himself, glorious in splendour, mighty in power, infinite in wisdom, in the bosom of the Father: the next moment a Being wrapped up in flesh in Mary's womb, helpless, dependent upon the care of man, needing to grow in wisdom and stature! He emptied Himself, we read in Phil. 2:7 R.V. But we can only guess at the courage, the faith, the devotion, the tender love, which led Him to step down into this hostile world and later in Hades itself. For He took a body that He might not only live upon the earth, but that He might know the pangs of the disem- bodied state. A body hast Thou prepared Me are the words recorded of the Son of God -Heb. lO:5. It is as if a prince exclaimed, l go to live in a hovel , or a millionaire, l am a pauperl That the infinite God should be Hcribbed, cabined and confined within a finite body, should know by experience suffering, pain, cold, weariness and hunger: should need to eat and sleep: should even die and rise again: such thoughts were incredible were they not in Scripture. And to-day, as we are reading, the Son of God is still the Son of Man, and He who knows the frailty of flesh is ever interceding for those who groan within themselves, waiting for the redemption of their bodies. His incarnation lends us confidence in His sympathy and mercy. He who has suffered in the flesh can help our infirmities. And as He sits upon the Great White Throne-for all judgment is committed to the Son-it will be because He too is a Son of Man, that the destinies of all the world of men will be entrusted to His hands, lest upon the lips of those who depart into the blackest night of Hell should raise the taunt, You never knew what life on earth was like . Nay, God knows full well the trials of an earthly life, and knows also the ex- haustless supplies of heavenly grace that make that life possible and keep the soul pure in the midst of sin's filthiness. And through the ages of Eternity the sons of God will gaze with adoration and wonder upon the form of Him who became poor that they might become rich, who became flesh that they might be lifted into heavenly places. -Howard Carter lUsed by the permission of the Bible School and Missionary Association Correspondence Course, of Hampstead, London, England.l