Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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Foreword Many years ago, according to an old legend, four archers decided to test their skill. They took as their target a dove, which they tethered to the top of a tall pole firmly planted in the ground. The first archer was timid and unsure of his ability: I am afraid, said he, that my arrow will miss the dove. Therefore I shall take the pole as my target. The second archer, a proud and boastful man, laughed scornfully. Ho, he cried, this is really no test for such skill as mine. But look: with one arrow I shall sever the cord and set the bird free. The third contestant thought to himself: I am an hon- orable man, and this bird should now be allowed to go free. But I am also a poor man: my wife and children must have meat. And he brought the dove fluttering to earth. The last archer stepped forward, smiling quietly. There is nothing I can do to show my skill superior to yours. But I have one arrow. and I do not wish to waste it. So let me direct my arrow toward the sky, for God to sec. There are men who feel incompetent and aim too low: there are proud men who aim for the praise of others: there are small-minded men who see only material values. But the man whose deeds are done for God fo sec is the man the world needs. He it is who does great deeds quietly, who serves his fellow man and his God with humility and sincerity. Many men of the faith we hold p1'ecious have been men who lived for Gm! fo sec and bequeathed to us a rich heritage in words and deeds and spirit. They founded Goshen College for the perpetuation of their ideals. In the hope that we may be increasingly conscious of this heritage, and that we may more strongly desire to perpetuate and enhance it, the staff has prepared this Maple Leaf. May this book through its record of the iiftieth year of Goshen College impart also some intimations of the glorious tradition which today's students hold as a sacred trust. Ours is the task to preserve and use and teach and spread the essential principles of this great Christian heritage for God to sec. 4

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JOHN S. COFFMAN .IONAS S. HARTZLER The Founders J. S. Coffman was perhaps the most important factor in the founding of Elkhart Institute. As a boy on a Virginia farm he pursued his private studies between the plow handles, sensing a divine call to greater respon- sibilities to come. As the first effective evangelist of the Mennonite Church, he developed a vision of the need of Christian education in the work of the Church. As the first president of the Board of Directors of Elkhart Institute, his efforts were unsparing, and his Wise, courageous, spi1'itual leadership undoubtedly made the successful building of the school possible. Upon his deathbed at the early age of forty-nine, he remarked, I see much that ought to be done and that I might do. But if it is the Lord's will that my work must stop I am perfectly contented and gladly go to my rest, Oh Perfect Rest. The school could have profited from his leadership for many more years, but the essential work had been done, and Goshen College of today gratefully acknowledges her deep debt to this devoted man of God, John S. Coffman. When Elkhart Institute was established the Mennonite Church as a whole was rather cool toward higher education. Someone needed to demon- strate to the church that a man could actively promote and administer higher education and still be a faithful Mennonite. More than any other person, J. S. Hartzler was that man. As an instructor in Bible for nearly twenty years, he set the tone for the Bible School. More than this, he was a member of the first Board of Directors, business manager, and secretary of the school. Much of the early success of the school was due to his busi- ness ability and his arduous efforts during the critical periods of its his- tory. He on the inside, like J. S. Coiman on the outside, was a key figure and in his whole personality a symbol of the fact that Goshen College is a church school, Christian and Mennonite. The college is happy that at the advanced age of eighty-eight, he can join in the fiftieth anniversary. A word of tribute should also be given to H. A. Mumaw, M.D., who established the school in 1894 as a private institutiong likewise to Lewis Kulp and N. E. Byers who helped to guide successfully the school forward in a courageous faith which has been richly rewarded throughout the years. 6 ,