Cincinnati Bible Seminary - Nautilus Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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TO OUR PRESIDENT Thou art not a pillar, cloud-formed, To adorn the sky, White as Pariari marble, suri-touched, And pleasing to the eye: lristable as the foam that flecks The storm-tossed sea, Shaped by fickle winds to suit each Wind-horn fantasy. But thou art a pillar, firmly fixed, Measured by Christ's inerrarit Rod, Granite-strong, carved and polished To adorn the temple of our God. ---lra M. Boswell ff it N, ,Sw I H 1 , f -'Wa PRESIDENT RALPH L. RECORDS ,-.ut ai sifffai ,, , tttp new . f f--f f,,,- S ee., 5 -Efifhif., V f -East +' K i ,xii Z If?- i

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w vary wav :au Character and Purpose of the Cincinnati Bible Seminary I-IE Cincinnati Bible Seminary, in its endeavor to equip and train young men and Women tor Chris- tian service, shall make the Bible its chief textbook, arrange all its courses of study, and conduct its Work in harmony with the spirit and letter of the Word of God. To this end every trustee and teacher must be a member of the Church of Christ Cundenominationall and MUST BELIEVE WITHOUT RESERVATION in the full and final inspiration ot the Bible to the extent that it is to him the infallible Word of God, and, therefore, the all-sufficient rule ot iaith and lite: in the deity and su- preme authority oi Christy obedience to the Gospel: the editication of the Church, and the restoration of its unity on the New Testament basis. Believing that such faith and a church with a pro- gram in harmony with this faith are essential to the salvation ot the World, The Cincinnati Bible Seminary shall endeavor to so train and inspire its students as to make ot them eiiective servants of Christ.

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, E I THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE TO THE CLASS CF 1941 HE record of the seventeenth year of The Cincinnati Bible Seminary will soon be completed and you, the members of the class of 1941, will leave your Alma Mater to enter upon the larger service for which you have been preparing yourselves tor the past several years. We rejoice with you in the completion of your courses of study and are happy to be able to confer upon you the degrees which recognize your at- tainments. Your years in the Seminary have been pleasant ones. Of course there have been hardships and trials interspersed with pleasures, but now that you have reached the end of your undergraduate study, l am sure that your minor disappointments have served only to accentuate the joy of your successes. Your life in the Seminary has been like a journey through a forest on a bright sum- mer day. The sunlight falling through the branches of the trees spreads about us a beautiful pattern of light and shadows. Sometimes the shadows predominate, some- times the sunlight chases them away. But when we reach the edge of the forest there is only the glorious sunlight. As we look back over the path we have trod we see that the lights and shadows of the forest have heightened the glories of the open country. So your experiences in the Seminary will enrich the life that is before you. We do not like to say good-by to you. You have won an abiding place in our hearts and we shall miss you when you have gone. We, of the Seminary, are a happy family, bound together by the bonds of Christian love and fellowship, infinitely tender and yet stronger than any bonds that bind us to the fellowship of the world. As we clasp your hands in parting, our voices will have a huskiness in them and our eyes will be dimmed with tears, but our hearts will be full of hope and joy and pride, for you go as good soldiers into the army of our Lord. May he enable you to win many victories for himl While you have been students in the Seminary you have been sheltered from the attacks of infidelity and worldliness and have always had the opportunity to profit by the counsel and advice of your instructors. Now you are to go into the world where you will be compelled to rely upon the training you have received and your own strength and ability to make decisions as to the proper course to pursue. We are aware of the problems you will be compelled to consider and to solve. Our deep interest in you constrains us to offer a few words of advice which we be- lieve will help you in times of stress and trial. You are going into a world that has not only forgotten the God of our fathers, but that rejects him and despises his Word. Nations have outlawed his Church and speak of the Bible as the folk lore of the Hebrews. Even in the United States of America, science and liberal education reject the inspiration of the Scriptures and the deity of Christ. The Gospel of jesus Christ has been abandoned for a social gospel which minis.ers only to the physical needs of mankind. Faith in Gad and belief in the supernatural are considered proper for the ignorant and unlearned but are looked upon with disdain by the intelligent and educated. The reve- lation ol the Word of God has given place to the hypothesis of evolution which traces man's ancestry to the beast. The authority of the Word of God has been discarded for the dictum of the inner consciousness of man. The final authority for the individual is determined by comparing his inner consciousness with the inner consciousness of the race. There is no longer a divine standard of right and wrong revealed to man, but we are told that whatever functions is right, and that what is right today may not be right tomorrow. Instead of believing that the human race fell from its high estate, as revealed in the Scriptures, we are asked to believe that the race is stumbling upward toward a God that is the creation of man's intellect. The wisdom of the world is es- teemed more highly than the wisdom of God. Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanliness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselvesg for that they exchanged