Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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ia Uh? gg ! PEARL SIMS Indiana Class Secretary KJ Take fast hold of instructiong let if her not go: for she is thy lifef' Major: Education. Degree: A. B. 4 V z 'The busy world shoves angrily aside The man who stands with arms akimbo set, Until occasion tells him what to dog And he who waits to have his task marked out, Shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled. Hur time is one which calls for earnest deeds. The life of Miss Pearl Sims has become one that is constantly beckoning from the common walks of life in the world to better and nobler things and to higher virtues in christian experience and activities. This girl has not found life made up of roses without thorns, of sunshine without shadows, or of joys without sorrows. But she has found a Savior that tinds for her the perfume despite the thorn, the sunshine beyond the shadow, and the joy in the midst of sorrow. Her education has helped her to be optimistic. courageous, and has shown her the way into the deeper depths of the truth of the old Book. Her greatest ambition is to bc God 's child of faith in active service, but she feels called to service in the line of teaching and instructing others. Let us at this place take this testimony as though it were coming from her own lips: The educated rationalist may laugh at you. But tomorrow he will be trodden under foot, and will go down to shame and everlasting con- tempt. 'Stopf you say, 'suppose he graduated from one of the great Univer- sities? or suppose he is at the head of one of the Universities? I can not help that. God makes no special regulation for the graduates of great Universities. Rejecting the Bible. they will go down to be companions of the most abandoned wretehes in the universe. and more miserable than they. because of their su- perior edueation. Une rule for all-for great brain and little brain: for high- foreheaded flreek professor, and for flat-skulled Esquimaux: 'He that be- liveth and is baptized shall be savedg and he that belieevth not shall be damned '. -

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3 any fglpamn ,.........,... l PEARL HARBISON Indiana Class Vice-President Major : English 'KI was glad when they said unto me. 7 Degree: A. B. God is in this and every plaeeg But O, how dark and void To me!-'tis one great wilderness This earth without my God. There are today just as marked examples of God's grace as in any other period of time. There is nothing that is more beautiful and of greater Worth than to see a person, whose very soul has been rent and torn, tossed hither and thither by doubts and fears, find a settled experience in the salvation of Christ. Then when there is added to this definite and positive fixedness in the teach- ing of God's VVord a direct and a divine call of that faith and NVord of sal- vation, such a character truly becomes a monument of the grace of God. Such a person was and is Miss Pearl Harbison, the vice-president of the class of 1930. Having heard God's call to preach the XVord, Miss Harbison has entered whole-souled and energetically into the Gospel of Christ. She has a message and gives it out to the people With no uncertain sound. Her work in College and in the Theological Department in the School has strengthened and built her up in the truth, and her dependence upon the Holy Spirit makes her a beautiful example of what God can do with a Spirit-filled and surrendered life. Pearl is vice-president of the Young People's movement in the Pilgrim Church in Indiana. She feels the weight of her most precious call to the min- istry of the Word, and to prayer. -33- let us go into the house of the Lord. '

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JAMES STONE North Carolina Class Treasurer I will instruct thee and tcaeh thee in the Way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eyef' Major: History. Degree: A. B. You might have painted that picture, I might have Written that songg Not ours, but others that triumph, Tis done and well done-so ,long! The subject of this sketch-James W, Stone is treasurer of the class of 1930. 1-Ie is a native ofthe splendid state of North Carolina, where he began his education in the public schools. At an early age, he was saved and sancti- ned and called to preach. Heiviewed life more seriously than most young peo- ple. The questions of the depravity of man, his sin and salvation took such :1 hold upon him that he felt woe is me if I preach not the Gospel . At the same time he felt the need of a greater preparation and a call to prepare. entered Frankfort Pilgrim College on its opening day 1928 and has steadily pursued his education Winning his diploma at commencement the last of May, 1930. The second year of his work here he not only carried his course of study. but was pastor of the church at Forest. He expects to make the min- istry his life work. The Bible has become his counsellor and the Holy Spirit his guide. He is often heard to state that he purposes to be true to his con- victions and be loyal to Christ until he reaches his final triumph. Heaven is the place of victory and triumph. This is the battle-fieldg there is the triumphal procession. This is the land of the sword and the spearg that is the land of the wreath and the crown. Oh, what a thrill of joy will shoot through the hearts of all the blessed when their conquests will be made complete in Heaveng when death itself, the last of foes, shall be slain, and Satan dragged as captive at the chariot wheels of Christ. 363 '-35- nnnunnmmn