Cornerstone University - KUMI ORI Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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MIDDLE YEAR SEMINARY Front Row, Left to Right: Burt Gardner, Hollis Tiffany, Hilbert Zwyghuaen, Budd Bentley. Rear Row, Left Vo Right: Harwood Hess, George Adams, David Hess. A Class That Is Different! This class may appear to be sma'.’, but if really isn't. It is quite complete. There are seven members, and seven is the ’perfect number. Besides this, it wi be noted by checking the names alphabetically that they begin with A and end with ‘Z . It is a different class as to its members. No fwo are cut from the same pattern: there is noi an 'echo in the grouo. Only in a truly Baptistic school could seven such strikingly different (I his word $ used advisedly) fellows get along sc har- moniously! At some time in classroom discussion each one has held out against iue rest of the class in defense of his view on some subject. vet there is not a class to be found anywhere which is so knit together in the bonds of Christian love and fellowship. 3ecsuse of this bond in Christ, the whole class, v ith their families gather together ir one of their churches for one Sunday evening service each month. What a wonderful time1 of fellowship this is! Every member is used in some capacity in that service. There are four ex-G.i.'s ec.d four pastors of Baptist churches in this class. Can you add four and four, and make seven This class JS different!!! • 15 • — GEORGE ADAMS

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Seniors GE.RRIT CETON Fruitport, Mich. One-two-ihree-four years. That seems to bo the rate of speed they passed. Four years of the sweetest fellowship we have enjoyed. After spending nearly half of our alloied years of toil in a power plan! as engineer, it seems precious to come to a real Power Plant where Gcd is the Engineer. In rhe former place His name was generally used bias- phemcusly. Here at 8.T.S. it is used only in praise. A fuller revelation concerning Himself — for this I praise h‘m. For entrance into a richer, ft ler deeper spiritual experience, my heart responds in gratitude. Fellow- ship with Christ my Lord, with saints of like mind; what more could anyone desire! Even now a tinge of sadness appears. I I miss my pal who shared the radiator with me — the qenia president who always had a solution for the problems we presented — the smiling registrar who answered our gripes in kind the godly instructors who so patiently dealt with our short- comings. Never can we forget the Interest they exhibited toward each individual. It has been a precious four years; a foretaste of the time when, once more united, but this t me face to face, we can srng His praises together. Fond memories will recall the blessings of this grand experience. May God shower His choicest blessings upon the school and upon a who are row or will be in the future connected with it. Man because of his creation in the image and likeness of Gcd has the potentialities of spiritual thought and serv- ice. As I loci back upon these years in the Bapt’st B’ble Semirary. I believe we have together been thinking after the thoughts of God. These have been happy years, and they were such for they have been spent in His p°esence ard with His author’tative Word. am grateful to the many who have made h‘ school possible. They are not the ones who receive diplomas out are the h dden saints and unknown churches of cur district. ! am grateful also for the teaching stai of our seminary. These men who are called and equipped for this work of cooperation with God are makinq fishers of men. What mere can J say? Only this: f am sorry it is over. I look forward to eternity when we can do more thari just see through a glass darkly. • 14 • VICTOR MATTHEWS Byron Center, Mich.

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FIRST YEAR SEMINARY Front Row, Left to Right: James Tinker, David Smith, Leonard Terpstra, W. Herbert Scott, Gerrit Schut, Woodrow McCaleb, Earl Nieboer. Back Row, Left to Right: Jervis Loye, Forest Anderson, David Van Tuyl, Herbert Vender Lugt, Maurice Christenson, Oscar Anderson, Harold Knickerbocker, Chester Miller, Andrew Brown. The Enabling Christ I thank Him that enabled me, even Christ Jesus our Lord, for that He counted me faith- ful, appointing me To His service. [I Tim. 1:12, R.V.) Once Saul, now Paul, his entire life, ambitions and goa changed as v eJI as his name. Shackled by the irons of Jewish tradi- tions, clutched with the manacles of Rabbinical discriminations, propelled with fervency end fanatical zeal for his religion, he lived a life of death. But by dying he lived again. From then on he was thankful. I thank Him that enabled me to smolder the flaming hate of heart and to kindle the lamp of life, to shatter the aircasVles of Rabbinical aspira' lions for the palace in the sky, to exchange the smoke and shadows of Sinai's servility for liberty's law of life and hope. Yes. He has enabled me to step from position to poverty, from flowing robes to tatters, from the judicial judgments of the Sanhedrin's senate sessions to damp dungeons, stripes, blood, hunger and thirst. Dear fellow students, we find ourselves from various walks of life within the bounds of God's enablement. In each life there has been the Red Sea. frustration, impossibilities, and the insoluble, but they have been stepping stones of God's enablement. Remember, He is counting us faithful. Let us also remember that the Christian life is a paradox. We keep by giving, are exalted by being humble, win by defeat, rejoice through weeping, are free by being bound, find by losing, traverse hemispheres on our knees, live jgy dying, and wake by sleeping. • 16 • — GERRIT SCHUT