Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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l 3 Q vvlllvllllf The President's Counsel To The Graduates i' DEAR Graduates of Frankfort Pilgrim College: It is withl unfeigned delight that I accept the privilege of addressing you as students of this school. I am the more delighted because of my long association with you as your teacher. counselor, and president. ln this last address to you may I say, first, let your greatest aims and your strongest efforts be for the best things of life. In all your efforts, salvation in the ultra sense of the word, which must include a spiritual birth from God and a purity baptism of the Holy Spirit with power, is the most valuable. The best things may include, also, the very highest excellence and what are often termed common place every-day things. A heart filled with divine love and a wisdom that cometh down from above is always seeing something a little better, or a little higher order of relationships than those about it. It also leads to an effort to reach the better in all living and all activities. Second, I'll call your attention to what seems to me to be a fact that is not apparent to all. You are living in a peculiar time, with peculiar condi- tions all about you. Strange things have recently entered the world-in poli- tics, in government, in education, in religion, in social life. You should be pre- You ask, What is the change J? Briefly, the world is rapidly being prepared by the forces of righteousness, directed by God, the Father, and the forces of evil directed by Satan and his deinonish followers for the very soon coming of Jesus and the preparation for the kingdom that he always said he would set up to rule the world. On the other hand preparation for the outpouring of tIod's wrath on a Hodless, wicked world in order to break the power of sin and unrighteousncss upheld by the nations is taking place. You are in these days. Quickly lind your placeg strike valiant blows for the coming kingdom of Christy rescue every soul possible from the fires, anguish and death of the Next, I have a warning for you. The Lord said that at this time men shall have the form of godliness while denying the power thereof. It may take the form of luke-warmness, wherein being deceived you may say with the liaodiceans, UI am rich and have need of nothing . Your nakedness caused by the absence of humility, purity of heart and the Spirit may not be perceived until it is too late, the Lord having come. It may take the form of a broken cistern leaking out its waters representing the Spirit, or like the fool- ish virgins with their lamps going out and not enough power and presence of the Spirit to replenish in the moment of need. Or it may be like the love wan- ing because of the church being full of iniquity. Beware of the losing of grace Finally, be of strong courage. This quality was needed from ancient times and will be needed the more now. lVe are at the end of the world. Live low, in fact, keep so little and humble that the tire of the enemy will go over you. But if he should strike you, be armoured with the truth. Christ: then can protect you. Be farsightedg a vision, that will include the time until the coming of the Lord, revealing the succession of events, will be needed. As you are obedient and call on the Lord, wisdom will come. Above all, run the race wellg light your battle trueg keep your hearts perfect in divine loveg be filled with the Spirit always, yielding to Him, preach the Gospel with no un- certain tonesg warn all meng keep yourselves unspotted and ready for the coming of the Lord. May the riches of God's grace and the depths of His love The best things are always from Heaven. pared to meet them. tribulation. and the Spirit. keep your hearts steadfast until that day. I 3621 -33-

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m fg Q -1 N FRANCES BURSCH Kansas treublef' ' Major: Language. Degree: A. l,. 194 l i Build a little fence of trust Around to-dayg Fill the space with loving work, And therein stayg Look not through the sheltering bars Upon to-niorrowg God will help thee bear what comes Of joy or sorrow. NVQ desire to enseribe the above sentiment to our graduate, who eornes from Kansas. Frances is always valiant for the truth. Constancy and tidcli- Iy to righteousness and holi11ess gives her great strength of character. liven when not professing christianity she is ever a defender of its truths, its vir- tues and its practices. Hypocrisy is the most hateful thing in her sight. If she herself believed that she had turned front the faith she could not tolerate the prlneiple of others making profession Without showing the real grace and power. She was niagnaninious, steadfast and true to her convictions. To her, selfishness is sin. Self indulgence is eriniinalg and like the inn of Bethlehem, given to lodge nieaner guests, a heart full of pride has no chamber within which Christ may be born in us the hope of glory. How rare a virtue is self sacrifice. lf she expressed herself with regard to salvation it was of a high standard in perfect harmony with the Bible and always positive. If the sub- ject was that of holiness, she believed that Heliness is beauty and purity and that there is no beauty like that of a pure character. The grandest sight on this earth is not the march of the all-conquering storni whose cloudy battalions go rushing through the sounding heavensg the niost beautiful thing on earth is not the garden which opens. and sends forth from its eensers fragrance: it is not the stateliness of the tree which you sit under through the long sunnner's dayg those are not the rnost beautiful things on earth that art earved out of stoneg the beauty of the soul lies in its secret ehantberg and the rich, deep, just. holy and loving natures-these are the beautiful things of this world. There is nothing so beautiful as Christ in man. 1 !fQ' mum..-ml... - mmm -37- The liord will also be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in the time of , FX

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After Four Years N ALL our lives there come times when decisions must be made that affect very vitally our eternal destiny. Times eome when there must be a choosing for God and Holiness or a choice for hell and its torments through our resistance and neglect of the things of God. All of us as free moral agents must thus choose. But how glad we are as members of the col- lege senior class of 1930 that we ever met the man of Galilee, the man Christ Jesus who came not only to help us choose but to make possible our choice of Heaven. And because of this vital contact with Christ, our lives were so com- pletely transformed in the newness of the power of Christ that old desires and ambitions were supplanted by a love for righteousness and holiness augmented by a desire to see His second coming. And then there began to spring up within our innermost beings a yearning desire to so equip ourselves that we might be able to accomplish something for the Lord. Hence our minds were turned toward securing a Christian educa- tion that would enable us to fulfill our new ambitions. We began to pray for divine guidance as to what we should do and where we should go in order that we might acquire an education so guarded and directed that we would not inbibe such teachings as would be detrimental to the welfare of our Chris- tian lives. Realizing the fact that the world and its institutions of learning were failing to supply that which would satisfy and benefit lost and dying humani- ty and realizing as well the demand for men and women who knowing Jesus, could present Him to others, we were made to feel more and more the need of such an education as could be obtained in our spiritual schools and colleges. Hence this year finds us at Frankfort Pilerim College, almost at the end 7 1 C D of our brief, but never-to-be-forgotten college career. Looking back over near- ly four years spent in efforts to attain a college education, we see many changes which have come with these passing years. Many times during these years our president, teachers, and fellow-students have been used of God to impress up- on our minds and hearts a greater realization of what it actually means to be whole-hearted followers of Christ. Their testimonies, their counsel and their prayers have often been the means of drawing us nearer to God. And when we have tarried before the Lord in secret prayer, God has let new light dawn upon our hearts and we have been obedient, non-essentials have faded into insignifaiice while communion with our Savior has been sweeter. Consequent- ly He has been better able to use our lives to bless those around us. Many times in our Bible and Theology classes and in other classes, too, has God spoken to us through His precious Word and revealed and applied new truths to our hearts. We do give God glory and honor for He has led us out and beyond many modern day conceptions of God and His truths into new and pleasant paths. Nevertheless, the road which we have travelled has not been without its trials, its difficulties, and ofttimes, its seeming failures. But. He who has p1'omised that there shall no temptation take us but such as we were able to bear has mercifully provided a way of escape in every circumstance. There have been on every side those influences which have tended to hold us steady. When the powers of darkness have been a1'rayed against our souls, faith, that mighty influence, has sustained us and carried us through. When discouragements have come and all our efforts seemed of no avail. God has drawn us to Himself in prayer and whispered to us that He is able to D