Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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CARL KREIDER Dean cmd Professor of Economics Ph.D., Princeton A French writer has recently characterized our twentieth century as the century of fear. Why should an institution of higher learning persist in singing hymns of praise and joy in this century of fear? Because its faculty and students have learned of the perfect love which casteth out fear. This is indeed a century of fear-of utter despair-for the non-Christian who has seen his idols of enlightenment and scientific method crumble to the earth. This is a time of infinite hope-of supreme confidence-for the Christian. He who has learned to know Christ sees more clearly than ever before that the hope of mankind lies in the application of the Gospel of the Son of Man. A Christian College, dedicated to providing a Christian culture which will stimulate and give meaning to lives of Christian service MUST sing or the very stones would cry out. We yield our powers to Thy command: To Thee we consecrate our days: Perpetual blessings from Thine hand Demand perpetual songs of praise, -Carl Kreider page fifteen

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,. g ERNEST E. MILLER President and Professor of Education Ph.D., New York A major difficulty these days is to remain sensitively aware of the evils of our time and still maintain in a vital sense the ground of unshakable triumphant hope. There is much in the present world situation to cause concern. There is a widespread breakdown of moral sensi- tiveness among our adult population. There is an alarming spread of juvenile delinquency. There is deplorable greed, selfishness, and exploitation in public and private life. In a pamph- let written a few months before his death, H. G. Wells suggested that we are now witnessing the end of the human experiment, the last act in the dramatic story of homo-sapiens. To dis- miss this statement as the morbid foreboding of a dying man is merely to attempt to evade the realities of our time. However, it is at just such a period that the fortitude of the Christian must be unshaken. He must abound in hopefulness, for as Iohn B. Mott has pointed out, no pessimist ever be- came a great Christian leader, no doubter ever led a triumphant advance. The real ambas- sador for Christ creates an atmosphere of optimistic faith so that it becomes easier for other men to believe and hope. Such a hope rests in our faith in our Christ. Christ is not an alleged incarnation of God as Buddha or Ram or Sita. He is the great I AM. He is the Bread of Life. He is the Light of the World. He is the Saviour of the World. And because of this the Christian re- mains triumphantly hopeful. -Ernest E. Miller. page fourteen

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Clflfl WILLARD H. SMITH Professor of History and Political Science SILAS HERTZLER Professor of Education and Psychology Ph.D., Indicinu Ph.D., Yule GUY F. HERSHBERGER LOIS GUNDEN Professor of History and Sociology Assistant Professor of French Ph.D., Iowa M.A., George Peabody