Cincinnati Bible Seminary - Nautilus Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. Rom. 1:24, 25. And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fittingg being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousnessg full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignityy whisperers, backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant- breakers, without natural affection, unmercifulg who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also 'consent with them that practice them. Rom. 1:28, 32. As messengers of Iesus Christ you go unto this unbelieving and sinful world to call sinners to repentance and to life eternal. Remember that you have the Gospel, the power of God unto salvation to all that believe it . lf you proclaim the Gospel faithfully you will be able to bring some to a saving knowledge of the truth and your ministry will be a blessing to the world. All other plans and efforts to save the world have failed and are doomed to eternal failure. lf you go in your own strength and wisdom you shall only add to the confusion of the world. You know Christ and have been instructed in his Word. Depart not from his teaching. Even among those who profess to be Christians you will discover an appalling ignorance of the Word of God and a disregard for the authority of that Word. You will find that the approval of conscience has been exalted above obedience to the Word. You will be told that strict observance of divine requirements is not essential if the believer is conscientious in his attitude and life. This is the falsehood advanced to justify or condone denominationalism. It strikes at the authority of your message. Remember that you have been taught to be loyal to Iesus Christ and every teach- ing of his Word. In the spirit of gentleness and love, but in firmness, you must insist upon complete submission and full obedience to the Word of God. This will not always be easy but it is right and the only way that leads to God's approval and life eternal. Remember that you are not sent into the world to change, modify or compromise God's Word. You are to be faithful stewards and you will be required to give a strict account of your stewardship. 1 Cor. 4:1-2. Remember that One is your Christ, your Redeemer, your Lord, your King. You owe full allegiance to Him and to no other. Avoid the ecclesiastical machines as you would avoid any other contrivance of Satan to change your allegiance and to rob you of your liberty in Christ. Protestant ecclesiasticism is as wicked as Roman Catho- lic ecclesiasticism and infinitely more dangerous to your rights and liberties in Christ. Beware of its encroachment and be not entangled in its meshes. Resistance will bring you hardship and criticism, perhaps persecution. Scars from this conflict will not be a reproach, but will bring you somewhat of the joy Paul felt when he said, Henceforth let no man trouble me, for I bear branded on my body the marks of Iesus. Gal. 6:17. Remember that you are not your own. You have been bought with a price, be- come not bond servants of men. 1 Cor. 7:23. Be loyal to him who has redeemed you from death at the price of his own precious blood, ll Peter. 1:18D and who said, Be thou faithful unto death and 1 will give thee the crown of life. Rev. 2:10. Your Alma Mater prays that God may bless you as you fight the good fight of the faith. The scars you receive in this battle will be a glory to your Alma Mater and your passport to the life eternal. We hope that the precious fellowship we have enjoyed in The Cincinnati Bible Seminary may be renewed from time to time as you return to visit your Alma Mater, and that while absent from each other we shall be mutually strengthened by the knowledge that we are loyal comrades in the Master's service. Those who are so united in life, death cannot separate. Throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity they shall rejoice together in triumph in the presence of the Master. May God bless and keep you and bring you, each and all, to this glorious con- summation of life. AW

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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

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A PILLAR IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD OU have no doubt noticed the etching of the column on the division pages of our annual. There is a particular message that we would have this convey to the reader. The Greek inscription on the column means a pil- lar in the temple of God. The apostle Paul tells us that we, as followers of Christ, are the temple of God: that is, the Church of Christ. Any individual in the church, any institution, organization, school or semi- nary which pretends to be an agency of the church, or any church itself, is a pillar of support to the cause of Christ only insofar as it exalts, reveres and practices the divine precepts of God and Christ as revealed in the Bible. With this thought in mind we would remind the read- er that from the time of its conception, The Cincinnati Bible Seminary has always been an unshakable sup- port in the Church of Iesus Christ. As the years pass away and new Christians replace those who have la- bored so tirelessly to build this great institution, it is our prayer that this pillar may not crumble away because of the elements of modernism and atheism but may it ever be a solid, unshakable and immovable pillar in the temple of God. 10