Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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Faith AITH is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not Y seen, so said the great apostle Paul. Faith is one of the most simple, yet the most powerful of all things, given to man. It will overcome all difficulties and win out in all bat- tles of life. It is easily able to tear down kingdoms or build up kingdoms, to reach beyond where nature must stop and to bring God to the help of him that believes. The principle in the life of an unfallen man is faith in God: the grace of life is love toward God: and the manifestation of faith is obedi- ence to God. Faith is an immediate and indispensible requisite of pardon or purity of soul. Transeending faith triumphs over the tomb: it reveals to him who exercises it the heart of the Bible. It is our guide into the holy of holies. It kindles a light in the grave and opens the door of a blessed immortality. Let not the leaders confuse living faith with mental assent or head faith. Faith is practically nothing so long as it is merely in the head. Head faith can save no man. This is exactly so in daily life. There is no witchery nor mystery in this doctrine at all. Faith can not save you in commerce any more than it can save you in religion. Faith can not save the body any more than it C311 save the soul. A man believes that if he puts his money into certain funds, he will get back good interest with the most approved security, yet at the end of a year he gets literally nothing. How was that? Because, though he believed it, he did not put any money into the funds. Can faith save him? A man thoroughly believes that if he takes a certain mixture prescribed for him by good medical authority, he will get better, he will be recovered from his disease: but he gets no better: he gets worse: because, though he believed in the mixture, he did not take it. Can faith save him? A man wants to go to New York: he believes that ship is going: he is quite sure that that ship will be there in less than a fortnight: yet he himself will not be there! How is that? He had faith. He had not the shadow of a doubt. Yet there he is, in England! Can faith take him to New York Q! Can faith save him? f'Faith of our fathers! living still In spite of dungeon, tire and sword: Oh, how our hearts beat high with joy, VVhene'er we hear that glorious word: Our fathers, chained in prisons dark, Were still in heart and conscience free: How sweet would be their children's fate, If they, like them, could die for Thee! f'Faith of our fathers! we will love Both friend and foe in all our strife: And preach thee, too, as love knows how, By kindly words and virtuous life! Faith of our fathers! holy faith! We will be true to thee till death! ..49..

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L. C. PHILO Michigan Degree: B. D. The steps of a good man are or- dered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. More holiness give me, More strivings Withing More patience in suff'ring More sorrow for sin, More faith in my Savior More sense of His care: More joy in His service. More purpose in prayer. Last night I saw a faint yellow light struggling with feeble timidity against some angry eloudsg they gathered against the light as if determined to shut it out and the pale moon seemed too languid for resistance, but the breeze eame to help her: the thickening clouds were broken, and the moon seemed to take heart: brighter and brighter were her mild beams, until at last she stood up in the southern sky, the clouds all gone, like an angel watching from afar the flowers which the sun had just forsaken. In these words we feel that. we have introduced to you something of the spirit of earnest battling against the powers that have opposed him and his de- pendence upon the Holy Spirit who so sweetly tights his battles and upon whom he depends. Perhaps Brother Philo has fought just such battles as are written in the light and the elouds, a thousand times. A few words often writes a great biography. L. C. Philo came from Michi- gan to us, seeking to know more about Fhrist, the Holy Spirit, Redemption, and how to carry the Gospel messages to the lost. Having tinishecl his col- lege course he pursued the Theological course and received his diploma May twenty-eighth. He loved the secret place of prayer and was very active in the work of Christ. lfle is now serving a second year as president of the Young Peoples' Society of the Pilgrim Church of Indiana. During his second year of school he was ordained as a minister of the Gospel. In brief, his conscious- ness calls him to meet the highest standards, the deepest spirituality, and the best standards, in his profession and in his ministry. .48-

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English Bible Graduates 'Ms I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go unto the house of the Behold, I do not give leetur little charity, NVhen I give I give myself. RUTH ANDERSON For the Lord God will help me: Therefore I Shall not be confounded, Therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know I shall not be ashamed. QM. nz,-1.1 ., I fanart FREIDA RICH CARRIE GICK Lord. es or t'To the teacher, time's hour-glass Should still run gold-dust. 'AAS the heart panteth after ter brooks, so panteth my sou thee, O God. the wa- l after 6 fi .-50