Kuyper College - Echo Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS Qliack Rowj Leroy Baas, President: Marjorie Visser, Vice President lFront Rowj Ida Noordmans, Treasurer: Jennie Stryker, Secretary fNot picturedj Elsie Koop, Vicar CH LLE GED The challenge for particular full-time service for our Lord, which once seemed so far away, is now very near. X'Vhen we, as freshmen, started our Reformed Bible Institute training, there was indeed a challenge set before us to work more fully for Him and to become His witnesses, but the challenge seemed far away. Now, what seems just a short time later, we are standing at the open gate of service. lille must leave our school and meet the challenge of witnessingg boldly, with the XVord of God always before us, and thankfully, for we by God's grace have been HCHOSEN TO B15 XVITNESSESU. WVe praise God that He has given each of us a certain distinctive task in this world. We soon will be leaving each other, going to the Field of service God has assigned us. How wonder- ful is the promise of God that His YVord shall not return unto Him void. Ulith that promise we can go out humbly, yet victoriously, for God's Word will stand firm and win over all the works of the Evil One. Wfe, as the Senior Class. feel that we have been challenged by God to work for Him. VVe pray that many may feel the challenge and answer the voice of Jesus, so beautifully put in that challenging hymn that has become the favorite of our class: Harlc! Ilze voice of jesus crying, Wim will go and work today? Fields are wlzite, and lzarzfest waiting, H710 will bear the slzeazfes away? Load and long llze Master calletlz, Rich reward He offers free, l'Vl1o will answer, gladly saying, Here am I,' send me, send me? LEROY BAAS - Class President Page Twenty eight

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Page Th irly THE LIVING WORD When thou goest, it shall lead thee, when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee, and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee!! lPr0v. 6:22j. In Wlashington D.C., we have the world's largest library. Called the Congres- sional Library, it takes in two blocks. and covers three and one-half acres. Its volumes number into the millions. requiring a staff of fifteen hundred members to manage. When one thinks of such a vast amount of books, he is both amazed and dumb- founded. for what a wealth of knowledge and information must be stacked upon those shelves! Yet, most of these books will be forgotten and die as have hosts of volumes written centuries ago. just as the forest multiplies its leaves each year only to cast them down in the fall to wither and die, so shall the words of man last but for a season. And yet, we have a Book that will never be forgotten, will never grow old, will never die. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the Word of the Lord endureth forever. The Wlord. as fresh and full of force as it was in the days of the Apostles, still breathes, and speaks, and conquers. No book had wrought as many miracles or given such life. No book has arrested as many souls, has rebuked as many sinners, has com- forted as many sorrowing, has warmed as many saints as the Bible. Pray tell, what other volume has done as much? Truly this Book is alive , vitally alive, from the first chapter in Genesis to the last verse in Revelation. There are people who say the Scriptures should be put on the shelf with all the other antiques. because it was written for a generation that lived two thousand years ago. They sneer at its doctrines, at the Apostles, at the Christ, and call it a relic of an age that has long passed on. So they say! But the Word is so much alive that if it were cut into a thousand pieces and thrown to the four winds, or scattered over the seven seas, each piece would germinate and bring forth the Gospel a hundred fold. If it were cast into the roaring fire, it would walk through the Hame unsinged as it has done time and time again. Thus it is with the Word of God: it liveth and abideth forever, and in every soil and under all circumstances it is prepared to prove its own life by the energy with which it grows and produces fruit tio the glory of God. How vain, and how wicked, are all attempts to kill the Word. Those who attempt the crime, will be forever beginning, and never come to the end. While God liveth, His Word shall live! We have an immortal God, therefore an immortal Gospel, incapable of being destroyed, which shall live and shine when even the sun has burned out its last scant supply of oil, and time shall be no more. Knowing this, may we be 'Lliving witnesses, of the living Word! ALBERT Bvrwonk - junior