Eastern Mennonite School - Shenandoah Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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Iohn L. Stauffer-President and Bible teacher, car- ries his responsibilities with a consciousness that he is the steward of a great work. Teachers and students alike feel they have in him one concerned Hrst of all for their highest spiritual attainments. All other things must serve the highest purpose. The residentds Message O THE CLASSES OF 1941: I wish to congratulate you upon the com- pletion of your tasks. Eastern Mennonite School endeavors to supply a distinctly Christian training to her students and every graduate should therefore have a welldequipped mind and a settled Christian faith with ig .. i 3 1 J which to face the world. The Christian can bless the world through a genuine Christian ex- perience only. Such an experience is rooted in the reality of the new birth. The new birth is the impartation of the divine nature to men after which a Christian remains a man of two natures. We are responsible to crucify the old and live after the new. A Christian needs an intimate acquaintance with the Holy Spirit. Too many people think of the Holy Spirit as an influence rather than as a person. Many Christians would live more triumphantly if they kept in mind the fact that the Spirit's work is to guide into truth, that He illuminates Scripture and that He shares all the divine attributes with the other members of the Godhead. Let us honor the Spirit, who is the Comforter in Christ's stead to direct us over an un- known course and to lead us safely amidst dangers of every kind. A Christian needs much experience with God in prayer. The prayer-closet is one of the greatest battlefields in the world. There, victories are won that are not found in the headlines of the newspapersq but they are greater than those that tell of gigantic loss of life and destruction of property. The Christian needs to know by experience that God hears and answers prayer. A Christian needs unwavering loyalty to God's Word. The Word has been the consolation and guide in crises of human experience in the past: it is still a safe guide to lead us in the future. The foundations of society are giving way, moral standards are in confusion, religious persuasions are built up apart from the Word of God. There is a growing conviction that a collapse is certain for the future. Only the Christian who believes in a revelation from God and has had a Page Six

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supernatural experience within his own soul will see any way out of world confusion or have any hope ol' the future. liastern Mennonite School is counting upon every graduate to Find for himself and others the way out of present world perplexity and to maintain his hope for the future through the spiritual experience and possihilities enumerated. -Iohn L. Stauffer. Chester K. Lehmanellean and Registrar, is an efficient administrator and thorough scholar. llis profound lectures in theology are punctuated hy the look ol a piercing eye and an ever-present humor. Both as writer and ardent minister ol' the Gospel he is discovered a man ol' deep convictions, Spirit-filled, and unmoved in faith. Daniel W. Lehman-Acting Dean and Registrar. Instructor in Education and Psychology, is a keen student ol' human nature and very much interested in the spiritual, mental. and physical development of our young people. His scholarship, cheerful disposition, musical ahilities. and wholesome counsel contrihute much to the life ol' If. M. S. D. Ralph Hostetter-The Director of High School, is a lover of nature, an authority on hirds, a cheerful personality, an efficient supervisor, a Chemist and hiologist, a trainer of youth, an interested scholar, and a mission superintendent,- this is liro. Hostetter. Page Srtwi