Houghton College - Boulder Yearbook (Houghton, NY)

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center: Stephen W. Paine, A.M., Ph.D., LL D., President. left: Edward T. Burton, Assistant to the President. right: Helen Hubbard, A.B., Secretary. ALL POWER The writer of Hebrews refers to Christ as Upholding all things by the word of his power. The big diesel locomotive is the life of a transcontinental streamliner. From that engine comes the heat and the light which make the train comfortable, convenient, and cheerful. From the engine comes the energy to move the thousands of tons of heavy cars with speed toward a desired destination. A train without a power unit is a dead train. Men have thought of the sun as the locomotive of the solar system, supplying us directly or indirectly with practically all of our heat, light, and power. With the intense storms of atomic combustion, causing flames which leap thousands of miles from its surface, it con- tinues to disperse heat which, even though decreasing tremendously in its effect as it travels out, is for us-at 93,000,000 miles remoteness-a factor without which we could not live. But who put the energy into the sun? And into the thousands of suns which we can ob- serve? Energy cannot come from nowhere. The Bible tells us that it was God in the person of the Son who did so with His creative word. And the reference in Hebrews adds the thought that God the Son also upholds and maintains them with His word of power and authority. This is a sobering thought for us all, and it brings ioy to those who are willingly aligning their 'lives and wills with that of our Savior. To us there is wonderful assurance in Christ's words, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Likewise there is tremendous compulsion in His accompanying command, Go ye into all the world. And there is won- derful exaltation in the coupled promise, And lo, I am with you alway. What the locomotive is to the train, what the sun is to its planets, all this and much more is Christ to His own. Stephen W. Paine l9

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Arthur W. Lynip, A.M., Ph.D. Dean of the College Jean Seyler, A.B., Secretary Claude A. Ries, A.M., B.D., Th.D., Dear Seniors, Vice-President Somewhat awed by the enormous destructive pow- ers now in his hands, man has turned to a kind of rec- ognition of God. How long this will continue is not given to us to know, but both Scripture and common sense tell us that this intermediate period of awe will be short-lived. ln its place is likely to emerge a boastful self-confidence and an optimism: man is really getting better and finally learning how to manage himself. This is no doubt God's plan for him after all. The Scripture says that there will surely be a falling away as the end times approach. lt is in the power of the trained Christian leader to discern between the pseudo-Christian atmosphere: The modernist, the neo-orthodox, the extremist of any school-and the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ re- vealed clearly and unequivocally in His Word. We pray that you may have the ability to discern and that you will choose His Way and, choosing that, you will be willing even to die for that faith. For it is in the power of God that you will triumph even over death through our Lord Jesus Christ. Having fixed your position for the defense of the gospel we trust that you will remember us that this school continue to be a place where Christ is honored in all that we think, say or do. Yours, ni His Service Arthur W. Lynip 20