Fort Wayne Bible College - Vine / Light Tower Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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SAFARA A. WITMER Dean Fort Wayne Bible Institute Indiana State University A. I3. Taylor University Missions and Evangelism W e Are His W orkmanslupv cEph.2.1op We are living in a creative age. The emphasis even among Christians is on SERVICE and ACHIEVEMENT. We forget that WE OURSELVES are the product of God's creative work in redemption. Oh, that the meaning of this tremendous truth would grip us as the truth of God's love almost over- whelmed the mind of a South Sea native when he first heard a missionary repeat John 3:10. 'tls it true? he asked. Can it be that God so loved the world? ls it really true? The missionary assured him that it was the very message he came to proclaim. The native burst into tears, and turning from the little company, retreated soberly into the bushes to think alone on the wonderful news. WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIPV' We are the object of His redeeming love! We are to be fashioned according to HIS creative plan! The infinite God-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - is trying to make something worthy out of us! He has gone to the limit in His investment in the finished product! He Ugave His only begotten Son! And what a glorious ideal the divine Potter has for you and me! From the horrible pit of miry clay, from the depths of depravity and ruin, He takes the raw material of broken, sin- besmirched human lives and begins to remake and fashion them accord- ing to His glorious purpose. And that is nothing less than Christlikeness. He is creating free, holy, Christlike personalities who will live forever in His fellowship and share with Him the glories of the world to come! May we never cease to wonder, love, and praise! ELEVEN

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2 if L 1, A - 1:63-f if X32 it Q ' 2, i i . ---1 - 'A1' Iggy. e . .. ' JOSEPH E. RAMSEYER President Lectures on Deeper Christian Life. Vessels of Honor According to divine revelation God needs vessels in which to deposit the riches of his grace - the unsearchable riches of Christ. Through this medium He makes Himself known in the world. Paul says, HFor we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord. Then he adds, 'tBut we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may he of God and not of us. Through these vessels that He is preparing and using now as channels through which to pour Himself upon earth's needy ones, He will then exhibit the riches of His grace in the world to come. For we are told, That in the ages to come, he might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. Oh, glorious future, that shall never end! God likens Himself unto a potter, as we read in Jeremiah eighteeng and His great pottery is here on earth. He forms His vessels out of clay. This re- fers to our human being with all its ransomed faculties. All those who wield themselves unreservedly and everlastingly to Him are MADE by Him t'Vessels unto honor, sanctified and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good workf' ll Timothy 2:23. May every one of the class of 1937 answer to the description above. 'Through you, not only may the Word of God be carried to many different parts of the world, but may the Life of Jesus Christ be made manifest as Paul says: t'Noxv thanks he unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge BY US lN EVERY PLACE. TEN

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6 'Vw A l.ll.l.lAN M. ZELLER, Dean of Women Nyack Missionary Training' Institute Bowling Green State Normal English and Expression REV. PAUL UPDIKE A. B., Manchester College Graduate Work at Chicago University Christian Education and History C. ADOLPH GERBER Moody Bible Institute Theory of Music and Voice REV. LOYAL R. RINGENBERG Fort Wayne Bihle Institute Valley City State Normal A. B. Taylor University Old Testament and Church History TWELVE G96 4. Q