Kansas City National Training School - Shield Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Uhr Ctrratrr Art Z' T WAS a warm spring afternoon, nearing Com- mencement time. Plans for Commencement were talked of everywhere, and many arrangements were being made for the important event. The class of Madison High, '20, was the largest ever to graduate, and the High School was proud of the scholarship and honor of the class, as well as the size of it. Two members of the class, Elizabeth Morrison and Helen Ward, were walking home from a committee meeting, in the late afternoon. They had been discuss- ing Commencement exercises, plays and parties, but now their thoughts and words turned to a different subject. Elizabeth and Helen had been friends all through High School and their friendship was one which had ennobled both. Now they were discussing their plans for the next year, half glad and half sorry to leave the old school. What happy days these have been! Elizabeth said, yet we need not regret leaving them, for we are going on to something nobler and finer. Elizabeth was planning to go to Baker University where she hoped to prepare herself for a teacher, while Helen ex- pected to study to be a kindergarten teacher. I wish I were ready right now to begin teaching, Elizabeth said, and how I hope that I may be a teach- er like Miss Robertson has been. She has always in- spired me to do my best, and I feel lifted and lifted after being with her. Helen had been silent for a few moments. Now she surprised Elizabeth with a question: Do you ye- member what Dr. McDowell said the other night about the urgent need for trained and consecrated workers- those who would give all? Ever since he spoke, the faces of those forlorn little folk, which we Saw dgwn on Fifth Street the other day, have been coming be- fore my mind. Surely someone is needed to help re- St0I'6 happiness '00 them. I believe this is God's way of calling me to service for him. What greater art than to restore the image of God to faces that have lost it ? Elizabeth quoted. Perhaps we can both help to restore His image, you, helping .the little folk, and I, the young people. Per- haps you may work in a Settlement some day. Yes, I might be sent to some Settlement some day, Helen said, or even across the seas. But she trembled as she said this, for she thought of the pos- sible separations, the loneliness, and the hardships to be endured. But she seemed to hear a voice saying: I am with thee, and will keep thee whithel-Soever thou goest, and she said softly, I will go anywhere with Him. 1...-..-i Miss Garretson was deeply absorbed in a Week- Day Religious Education council when a knock was heard on her door. She remembered that she ought to Say Something but could not think what, so she called desperately, Hello. - .i..1 n If 'a thing really needs to be done, it can be done lf we know how to do it. Pniw 77

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mlm El Glamr in li. 01. N. Gi. Ev. It was while attending Epworth League institute, I realized I was not doing all that I should for my Master, and with the realization, I made a decision to prepare myself for definite Christian service. With the knowledge of God's call and the decision made, the next step was to go some place where I could prepare for better service. The way opened so wonderfully for me to come to K. C. N. T. S. and I have been so happy since being here. M S The Vision Splendid! Yes, it was a vision that gave me insight to the needs of the world and a long- ing that I might be used to help bring in the Kingdom of Righteousness. There was nothing miraculgus about it, however. It was but a gradual working of the Spirit. It came about in this manner: Through the Winsome Christ-filled personality of a friend, the leader of our Epworth League, I was led to see my lack of Christian service and to know God, the Father, in a more vital way. Through Bible and Mis- sion Study classes, the dire need of folks everywhere, without Christ, came to me with deep conviction, and through Epworth League activities, I experienced real service and longed for more. I was a business girl and enjoyed my work but was not satisfied. Why? Because the vision of the need, together with the love God had placed in my heart, were deepening and ever luring me on to give of myself. It was at an Epworth League Institute that I said, Yes, Lord, Here am I, send me. And the vision? It is all the more potent, because I am n0W Preparing for greater usefulness. E. R. One day after a conversation with a friend, she suggested that deaconess work would be fine for me' but I answered that I was needed at home and did not think much about it. Several years afterward I listened to an evan- gelist preach from this text: He that loves father or mother, brother or sister, more than me is not worthy of me. The sermon. was forgotten, but a voice that spoke only to me said: Be a Deaconess. Then I made other excuses, but took a correspondence course in Bible work while I tried to make Sure 1 was not mistaken. One Sunday morning almost four years afterward the pastor called for volunteers for service. I sudden- ly found myself going over events and to my surprise realized that every obstacle had disappeared. I prom- ised God that morning that I would commence train- ing the next September, and I did. Satisfied? Yes. M. L. God Speaks-Far, far from our dear K. C. N. T. S., in a little country ChU1'Ch, I heard God's voice. It was revealed to me throughfche ministry of one who had a vision for greater service. There came to me and within me, a deeper experience of God's love. God Calls-As the joy and happiness of my new experience grew, a desire to help others and to tell P818 79