Eastern Mennonite University - Shenandoah Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.....-.. .n.....,.,2g-...M-.wv ' l......,,,L ?-4-'U' F ...... The Acting President To the Graduating Class of 1949: This graduation marks the close of a significant period in your training. It indicates another crossroad in your life where you decide important issues. Every experience of this kind makes a new demand upon faith. I am happy to believe that you have approached this hour with confidence and with faith in God. To resolve the issues of life with satisfaction and purpose requires more than belief in God's existenceg it takes faith that has a vital bearing upon human experience. To make faith vital to experience means that your believing embodies the elements of trust, cf confidence, and of commitment. Faith sustains very personal relationship with God in which you have complete trust in His purpose for your lifeg you have perfect confidence in His providence as it affects your experienceg and you are fully yielded in commitment to His will in all things. Faith in God is to make our belief in Him the controlling interest of all our thoughts, the measure of all we say, and the ground of all we do-. VV ith such a faith God becomes the supreme reality of human life so that any activity apart from Him ist disappointing and worthless. If you want to find the deepest reality in faith you will have to surrender your will in cheerful submission to God. This requires humble obedience to His word and a sincere purpo.se to live in His will. It means that you have gladly accepted His plan of salvation and that you have ceased from your own labors. You have anchored your hope in Christ and you rest in the promise of His presence. My prayer for you all is that with deepening conviction you may follow the leading of the Holy Spiritg that with increasing desire you may seek to do the will of Christ and that with growing confidence you may have faith in God. Sincerely, Iohn R. Mumaw, Acting President E121 Dear mess The Iesu: Paul one t dem ness the for fror wm Loi Rex of the ,, :, , , .,,, sw- A - Y. ,. -, , .,.- ' , . ,,, ,hw up vm R- 1 Y , ,, - '

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