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

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B.D. DEGREES AWARDED In the school year of 1948-49, the State of Michigan granted to our school the privilege of granting Ihe degree of Bachelor of Divinity to graduates of our Seminary who had fulfilled the necessary requirements. Those requirements are, in addition to the completion of the prescribed course of Seminary study, that the student hold the degree of Bachelor of Arts, or its equivalent, from some college of recognized standing, that he have maintained at least a B minus average in all of his seminary work, and that he have satisfactorily passed a comprehensive examination covering the entire three-year course. We counted if a marked blessing of God upon our school and a real milestone in our gradual and continuous growth when the privilege of granting this degree was extended 1o us a year ago, and we now count it an equally fine step ahead that we have this year our first candidates for the receiving of the degree. We are truly grateful for this new evidence of God’s approval upon us. Also we would congratulate these who are the first to be thus honored and wish for them that God's hand of blessing may continue to rest upon them as they go forth in service for Him. LEON J. WOOD, Dean of Men SEMINARY GRADUATES DAVID N. HESS, A.B. O the depth of Ihe riches both of the wisdom and First Baptist Church, Williamston, Mich. knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out! (Romans 11:33) How wonderful that the cill-wise and all-knowing God leads us in ways we cannot understand, in paths we cannot foresee. How gracious of our Lord that He does not limit Himself to our poor ambitions and hopes, instead, He leads us in paths we cannot search out and in ways we are not able to go in our own wisdom. If is because of this truth that I had the privilege of attending this school. I certainly could neither foresee the preparation in the things of God, nor the growth in spirit- ual life that has been gained under the instruction here. The omniscient God's ways are past our tracing out. I do not know why He should save me, nor why He should give me the privilege of ministering His glorious Word, nor why He should lead me in the paths of training that He did, but this ( do know, that His ways, though in- scrutable, are perfect. “And Jesus came and spake unto them saying, All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.' ” “Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” “Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name.’’ Ye have not chosen Me, hot I have chosen you that ye should go and bring tor Hi fruit.—John 15:16 Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name.” “Thus it is written, and thus it be- hoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: and that repentance ana remission of sins should be preached in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And yc are witnesses of these things. H. HARWOOD HESS, A.B. First Baptist Church, Wiiliamsfon, Mich.