Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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9 We are at the moment confronted with an unprecedented opportunity in the field of Christian higher education. Our colleges are not soliciting students. We have them standing at our doors knocking for admission. We house them in basements and sleep them in tiers and we provide traffic lanes to pass them through our crowded halls. A staff already overburdened with many responsibilities is asked to take time to help students to Find themselves in terms of vocation, belief about God, and attitude to the Church. It is time now to direct a larger share of the resources of the Church to meet the needs of the young men and women who are on our campuses seeking help and guidance. There are two main tasks before the Christian church. The one consists in calling out from the page lourreen ERNEST E. MILLER President and Professor of Education Ph. D., New York ROM OUR world and maintaining a body of believers who will live together in a Christ-like way. The other task consists in the commitment to the service and salvation of the unsaved world on the part of those so called out and maintained. It is the duty of our schools as institutions of the Church to help carry out that program. To the extent to which we succeed in doing this we may be considered worthy. In this respect we have not done all that we should but our graduates are serving the Church today in many ways in many parts of the world. The Mennonite Church of the future exists in our present young people, full of energy and vigor, potentially ready for guidance into consecration for the tasks that lie ahead. -Ernest E. Miller

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CARL KREIDER Dcan and Professor of Economics Ph. D,, Princeton H. S. BENDER Dean of the Seminary and Professor of Church History Th. D.. Heidelberg ADMINISTRATION... Never has a college student faced such bound- less opportunities for selfish gain on the one hand nor such dire human need on the other. The secularism of our age creates a desire for personal aggrandizement and stimulates an in- terest in securing it. True Christian culture, on the contrary, clearly establishes Christian serv- ice as the true end of life and commands obedience to it. Pursuit of personal gain yields transitory beneiits to the individual, but it often works contrary to the best interests of the world community. Christian service sometimes creates temporary difficulties and disappointments. In the end, however, it leads to integration of the individual personality and to the glorious world goal of advancing the Kingdom of God. Thomas Carlyle once reminded his readers that in each of us dwells a coward and a hero. We live in a day that demands the greatness that comes through shunning the cowardly acceptance of the norms of a materialistic civilization and ac- cepting the challenge of heroism through Chris- tian service. -Carl Kreider A truly liberal education must mean primarily the development of ideals and appreciations. To this basic task all else is secondary. In college, and certainly in the Christian college, we build the faith men live by, however much we also create skills and tools. But this process carries a grave danger, that we confuse intellectualiza- tion with life, and make thought the equivalent of action. To propose ideals without commit- ment is dangerous. This Hnal and unrestricted commitment of life to the highest is the crown- ing glory of the Christian college. May it be the glory of Goshen College. -H. S. Bender page fifteen