Cedarville University - Miracle / Cedrus Yearbook (Cedarville, OH)

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The son of a Corning, New York farmer, Jeremiah worked on the farm in his youth. He received his early education by attending a one-roomed country school through the sixth grade; then, due to sickness and a death in the family, he moved with his parents to Johnson City, New York. In his senior year of high school, while visiting a friend, a faithful Sunday School teacher, Mr. Arket Savage invited him to Sunday School. During the lessons the kindly teacher continually spoke on God's word concerning a person's lost soul and need of Christ as Savior, which caused increasing conviction. Mr. Savage spoke to him about his soul but was stopped with the words, I'll come to you when I'm ready to be saved. He refused to make a decision immediately because he felt that he would be called to preach if he were saved. Finally, under deep conviction, he came to Mr. Savage and received Jesus Christ as personal Savior. After being graduated from high school in 1933, he enrolled at the Baptist Bible Seminary in Johnson City, where he met Ruby Lathrop of Springville, Pennsylvania. They were graduated in 1936 and were married the following October. Upon completion of extension work at the National Bible College at Wichita, Kansas, he was awarded the Bachelor of Theology Degree. An ordination council was held at the First Baptist Church of Johnson City during which he was ordained along with Bernard Bancroft, now a missionary to the Philip- pines, and Richard Teachot, missionary to Africa. His first pastorate was the Harmony Baptist Church, Panama, New York, a small town of 300, where from 1936 to 1939 he received valuable experience for future pastorates. He spent eleven years as pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Toledo, Ohio; then he became pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, Dayton, Ohio, in 1950. God has richly blessed his ministry as a pastor, and his fifteen year's radio ministry. His service as a member of the Council of Fourteen for five years, Ohio Independent Baptist Council, and Mid-Missions Council has been faithful and has pro- vided him with a wealth of experience for his present position. While serving on the Board of Trus- tees of the Baptist Bible Institute, Cleve- land, Ohio, he was influential in acquiring the present campus and buildings which house the Cedarville Baptist College. His tireless efforts and valuable service as Vice President led to his being named President in 1954. May God continue to guide him in the heavy duties which lie ahead and may Jesus Christ receive the glory through his future ministry as President of our school.

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The Psalmist said, Wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from Him. (Psalms 62:5) Since we believe God led in making Cedar- ville College a possibility for our own young people and we are conscious of the fact that He has preserved it as a testimony to Himself, all of us can repeat, My expectation is from Him. To the world it may seem an impossible thing for any people to build a school without the approval of certain educational societies, great religious organizations, and other man made systems. To the believer in Jesus Christ nothing is impossible when our expectation is from Him. We press forward in the work of Cedarville College conscious of two great facts. First of all, we know Satan will oppose us. Second, we know that God is for us. But with John the Apostle we say, Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. (I John 4:4) It is my prayer that we as faculty, trustees, and students alike may always keep 6ur eyes upon God and expect great things from Him. As the graduates of the class of 1955 leave our campus, we could wish nothing better for them than that which is expressed by Paul the Apostle for the Colossian Christians when he desired that they might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. As you face a world antagonistic to Christ, we continue by saying, That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. (Colossians 1:9-10) 6

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES SEATED. L. TOR.:H. W. Harvey. C. C. Clawson. J. T. Jeremiah, N. B. Chappell, G. S. Milner. A. Dyke. STANDING. L. TO R.: R. Matthews. K. A. Muck. E. B. Smith, E. V. Willetts, A. G. Ross, H. Dautel. R. Jones. W. Patterson, A. Colwell. NOT PICTURED: J. I. Reese, A. G. Fctzcr, E. F. Imhof, A. E. Lewis, W. C. Rooke, R. O. Sanborn, C. Somers, J. D. Murphy, G. Smelser. £ X t c C 0 u m t m i v t SEATED: J. T. Jeremiah, G. S. Milner. STAND- ING: J. H. Stoll. A. F. Williams. N. B. Chappell. NOT PIC- TURED: C. C. Clawson.