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

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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

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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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SECOND YEAR PRE-SEMI NARY Fronf Row, Left to Right: Walter Winebrenner, Frank Collins, Keith Mclver, Larry Jones, Bruce Stine, Robert Bearse, Leonard Feerick. Second Row, Left io Right: Lawrence Matfis, Gerald Bolthouse, Robert NcUon, Jcv Newta, WiUiara Roller. Absent when picture was taken: Milton Barkley. Second Year Pre-Seminary Class In September, 1948, the Second Year Pre-Seminary class called the roll, and thirteen men answered. They chose their class officers, and here they are: President, Milton Barkley: Vice-President, Jay Nauta: Secretary-Treasurer, William Roller; and Student Council Repre- sentatives, Robert Nelson and Gerald Bolthouse. Everybody but Frank Co! ins, Walter Wine- brer,ner Lawrence Jones, Ler, Feer'ck, Lawrence Mathis, Bruce Stine Keith Mclver, and Rob- erf Bearse was elected an officer. The cl ass voted to take on some practical Christian work, and appointed a committee which found that the First Bapt’st Church at Lowell had no pastor, and that attendance at church and Sunday School was very low. The class voted to help the church by supplying the speakers for the services, and they canvassed +hs city, telling the people of Christ's power to save, and inviting them to the Evangelistic Services. Nearly all the fellows in the class have preached. The attendance in the children's Sunday School class has increased •from one to ten. Ihe class also sponsors a youth rally every other Saturday night. The members of the class have had a good time serving the Lord, and they realize that it is a privilege to proclaim the wonderful Gospel of God's grace. They can say with Paul: For I am net ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for If is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth. (Romans 1:16.) I hey look forward to proclaiming His Word for many years to come wherever they may be. — WILLIAM ROLLER