THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE TO THE CLASS OF 1946 President Ralph L. Records Swiftly the days have passed since you enrolled as Freshmen in The Cincinnati Bible Seminary. When you made out your first class schedule, your graduation seemed to be an event in the distant future. Now it seems but as yesterday that you began your life in a new and strange environment. Today, as you look back over these eventful years, you find them filled mostly with sun- shine, with only a few shadows that ac- centuate the beauty and brightness of the happy sunny days. During the years you have been with us we have grown to love you and have a deep interest in you, and you have become a part of the Seminary family. We have tried to put the best of our lives into you, and as you go to your various fields of labor you will express our ideals, hopes, and aims. These, modified by your own personality and mental alertness, under your initiative and zeal, will make you effective servants of Christ. A few days hence you will receive your degrees and diplomas, your Alma Mater’s recognition of your life and labor with us. As we give them to you, we will be filled with a sense of pride, as you will be so filled to receive them. We will feel also a great tenderness in our hearts because we know that you will be going out from us, and that we shall miss the joy of your daily smiles and greeting and the happy fellow- ship that has been a great inspiration to us. We will try to restrain the tears that come to our eyes as we say goodsye—as the fathers and mothers do when their sons march away under the spell of martial music to fight their country’s battles. These tears shall -evidence our love, our devotion to you, our hope for your fearlessness and faithfulness in the discharge of your dutics, and our unchanging friendship. It is entirely fitting, at such a -time, that we should direct to you some final words of encourag ment and instruction that will be helpful in the emergencies that will confront you, as well as in the less stirring times of your ministry. Since you began your college work a great war has been fought and won. The problems it brought challenged our civili- zation. The peace that has come has not solved these. problems, but brought addi- tional ones and thus increased our responsi- bilities. The enemy nations have been defeated and broken. They can not care for them- selves. The countries they ravaged are helpless. Millions face starvation. The cries of hunger, misery, and death fill these lands. These peoples must be fed and clothed, restored to health, and brought to Page Twenty-six
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