Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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Uhr filvwiw S f' Grades BRINGING THE CHILDREN TO CHRIST The time that otfers the best opportunity for leading the children to Christ is when they are yet members of the home ci1'cle and are still under parental discipline. For if we Train up a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not depart from it. And more than that, the person that has learned the lesson of obedience at home finds it so much easier to adjust himself to the demands of life, and to keep his right relationship to God. There is no lesson so important and essential to success in life, and especially to a victorious t'hristian experience, as the lesson of obedience. ln II Timothy 3:2 we read that Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents. unthankful and unholy. What a sad comment upon the p1'esent age! What an awful thing is disobedience! lt has made necessary the establishment. of every penal institu- tion in our land. Nearly every thief, gambler and drunkard in the world, no doubt, began their career of crime and sin by repeatedly disobeying their par- ents. or was so unfo1'tunate as to be deprived of wholesome home influences. Wliilt- the child is in the school room and on the play-ground there is another opportunity for leading him to Christ. Perhaps not always in a di- rect appeal but in the very atmosphere of the school life and by making every thing point in that direction. Psalms 3-1:11. Come, ye children, hearken unto me, I will teach you the fear of' the Lord. It means so much more than we can realize for a child to have a guarded Christian education, one that will hold his faith firm in the coming yea1's. You often hear parents say, I don't want my child to believe in evolution and the different isms of this day and time, but will continue to send him to a school whose whole curriculum ever tends to unbelief and skepticism. So quiet and unassuming is the teaching presented, that before you or the child are aware of it, the child finds that he can no longer believe what he once held dear about God, the Bible and what eternity holds in sto1'e for each one of us. And while we are thinking' of this let us also ponder over the thought that the teaching received in the formative years while in school so indelibly molds the 'future and character of the individual that even God himself cannot de- st1'oy it without destroying the individual. The wise thing to do if one cares for the education of his children, is to place them in a christian college where God is first and the president, an-il teachers really know Cod in Holiness of heart and have a love for the truth- a school where each class is opened with prayer, the Bible is taught in eve1'y class and the chapel services are g'iven over to the spiritual interest. of the students. Another God honored avenue of leading the young people to Christ is that of the services of religious worship. The induence of the Church and Sunday School is a great panacea for crime. VVe see this when we discover the seventy-five per cent of the boys who are arrested and brought into the various police courts weekly are those who do not attend Sunday School. A poor man hung some time ago for the crime of murder said, the first to his getting into crime was breaking the Sabbath. Suffer the little children to come unto me, entreats the Christ, and forbid them not. for of such is the kingdom of God. -68-' M M- Z

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53112 1512611111 Nkf9 'f i ' 4 I' Activities MISSI4 JNARY PRAYER BAND THE MISSIONARY PRAYER BAND When sehool opened in the fall there was a large number of students who were tfeiinitely ealled to the foreign Held. The burden of their eall became so heavy that early in the year they.deeided to meet together each Week to pray especially for foreign missionary work. Every VVednesday evening they gath- ered In one of the elass-rooms for a season of earnest prayer. Many requests and burdens for different iields were presented to the hand for special prayer. From the very heginning the liord blessed these prayer meetings in an un- usual manner. Other students heeame members. One who had been attending reeeived a eall to India, others were definitely led concerning' their call. It was a real privilege to he in a prayer meeting' where there was such a burden for the lost who have never heard the gospel story. When the time for the great ingathering comes, we feel eertain that there will he there souls saved from heathen darkness heeause of the earnest prevail- ing' prayers of this prayer hand. Vile want to thank the Lord for the privilege of gatliering' precious souls for Him, while yet here in the home-land by praying and giving. 'tllillions now in sin and shame are dyingg Listen to their sad and bitter ery, Hasten In-other, hasten to the reseueg Quickly answer, Master, here am I. Soon the time of reaping will be overg Soon we'll gather for the harvest-home, May the Lord smile upon us, May we hear his blessed, 'Child well done '. A -Leauna Stuart. If IJ A