Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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EDITORIAL YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE 'RUTH is permanent, and enduring, and continuous. A principle founded , on Truth does not change or vary. XVe wander our several ways in devious paths, bufteted here and there by our separate contacts and environments, up one minute, butfeted thc next, smug in our own inditferences until some shock restores our reason and leads us back to the Way, the Truth, and the llifen. Turning' to God in His eternal wisdom and His perfect unity, Truth be- comes the simplest and mest wonderful of all unities. ln fact, Christ stated that He Himself was the source of Truth in His words, I am the Truth . Since this is true, we must come to Him for our learning and our knowledge oif facts that are essentially true. Unless there is a coming to Christ and a learning' at the fountain source from which the knowledge of Truth spring-s, we can never hope to know the Truth. Men without t'hrist, who are, as the Word states, Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth , give conclusive evidence, after six thousand years of trial and failure, that Truth is evasive outside ot' Christ. But the try, try again spirit, which the world and much of the Church manifest, ends. Seeking Truth without Christ repels intelligent search from the only one scurce that can reveal Truth in its elearness, strength, and beauty with eternal verities and securities. Thus it becomes the honest enquirer after Truth to turn away from modern speculation and hypothetical guesses, and drink freely from the fountain of Truth, whose source is Christ. Truth, the corner-stone of justice established in the beginning of things. is here, always has been, always will be, as long as the Holy Ghost reveals Christ to men. Its success as a working' principle is as unchangeable as time. We may disregard it and erect our tempt-ral and spiritual buildings, but their ruins will mark the ever ascending pathway to God. Times change, customs and ideals change, circumstances and desires change, but it, the Truth, never changes. But we, by forgetting and neglecting it, may wander into the dark- ness, and stumble into the pitfalls of er1'or and oblivion. Christ knew that the world-lt'-ng conflict between good and evil would never cease until the light of Truth shone into the hearts of men through the new birth and they practised the new commandment that He gave when He said, A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another . He Himself stood upon the mountain top and refused the kingdoms of the world. In one terse sentence, Get thee behind me, Satan , He demonstrated Him- self as master over the evil forces that were tugging at the Truth that was in Him. He overcame and taught us how to overcome through the Truth. One certain way to know Truth is by direct revelation from G-od. He is glad to make known the detinite, positive Truth of His will to man's con- sciousness if man will but humble himself as a little child, and in that spirit go to his open Bible and to God. He may know the Truth and the Truth will make him free. -7-

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THE GLEAMS STAFF -5-

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DEDICATIO P141 E, gladly and joyously, bear witness to the Lord Jesus Christ as the Savior and Sanctitier of 111en Zllltl the giver of Eternal Life. That He was 1112111 no o11e disputes. That He was God is affirmed by the fact of His resurrection from the dead, deinonstrated by tl1e pouring out of the power of Eternal Life into believers' hearts by the Holy Ghost. We know His Spirit has witnessed illld does witness with our spirits that we are HONV children of Godg and we hold in our ONVH consciousness the fact that we have Eter- nal Life. His vicarious suitering a11d atonement 011 the cross satisiied the justiee of God and brought redemption to us :wud we now watch and look for His coming with expectant hearts. Ta Him. the Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior, our Lord, and our God, we dedicate gratefully this volume of the Annual. -The Gleams Staff. i a