Lancaster Mennonite High School - Laurel Wreath Yearbook (Lancaster, PA)

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LANCASTER MENNONITE SCHOOL IOURNAL MILL STREAM STAFF Seated: Miriam Weaver, Luke Stoltzius, Rhoda Krady. First Row: Lois Kraybill, Arlene Stauffer, Martha Kliug, James Hess, Florence Miller, Ellen Eby, Sadie Riehl, Ilia Mae Homsher, Edna K. Wenger, Adviser, Arlene Landis. Second Row: Ruth Zeiset, Sidney Carpenter, Mary E. Lutz, Ruth Newcomer, Rachel Kraybill, Erika Lehuhoff. SENIOR JOURNAL STAFF Alta Weaver, Miriam Weaver, Rhoda Krady, Arlene Landis, James Hess, Mary E. Lutz, Luke Stoltzfus. 21

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THE MILL STREAM Special Bible Term Memories '.liHE MENTION OF Special Term brings back memories of those sixty-nine students who spent six weeks with us. Those mixed chorus periods where you enjoyed the leadership of Brother Lehman and Brother Stoner, and those conjoint prayer circles with Brother Lutz and Brother Garber- you remember the fellowship of those times. You studied Book Studies, Doctrinal Studies, and 'Christian Workei' Courses, and learned more about God and the Bible. 'God has become closer to you because ot Brother Krady's messages. Your circle and our circle of friends has been enlarged, and we have learned to know new personalities. To you, the sixty-nine students of the Short Bible Term, we express our appreciation for the privilege of knowing you. May God's richest blessing be with you. 20

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Tl-IE MILL STREAM Editorial THE TIME 1-ms COME for which we as Seniors have long waited and to which we have long looked forward. This will be remembered as one of the more important events in life. Some, of course, will pursue education in further schooling. For others, however, this is the end of their learning in schools. As we look back over the twelve years through which we have come in school life, they do not seem Very long. Perhaps many can remember the first day in school. It was all so strange, and so many new faces were there. Again this is so for us as we leave these buildings. We will have to begin life by facing many new problems and meeting many new personalities. Life is a school and in it are many hard lessons. Each of these lessons will have to be learned well, and every test will have to be passed with a high average. And what shall determine our success? Will it be the wealth we acquire? Wfill it be the host of friends we win? Our success will de- pend upon our ability to face each issue of life as it presents itself and to take the bitterness that life offers along with its sweetness. YVith Christ as our Guide and Hope, we will go through this life with the success that God assures to Christians. J. R, H. THE SUN ROSE SLOWLY from behind the mountain peak and spilled its rays carelessly down the other side. From the opposite mountain I suddenly be- came aware of a radiant glory. Turning abruptly on the trail, T beheld the most glorious and enrapturing scene that ever came to my vision. Great splashes of brilliancy spotted the sky. The mountains had caught the flame. The heavens seemed to touch and ignite the earth everywhere, making both a part of one grat tire. I was being lifted into the very midst of the glory around me. Speech- less with wonder, I was still drawn closer and closer to the heavens. which received me with outstretched arms. Wfas this then the glory to which earthly glory was not able to be compared? Vvas Christ about to reveal Himself in this glory? Suddenly a bell chimed out from the chapel on the trail above me, and I realized that l was still here on this earth where not all was sunshine. and that even with this scene. f1It1fQf0l'j' is incomparable. For then. we shall see Him fact: to facv. R. Xl. K. THE NIGHT ixnoufr Us is very dark-so dark that it can almost be felt-for the oppression on body and soul is weighty. War, with its threat to disrupt our social, economic. and religious systems, has Cast its mantle of thick darkness about us. At nearly every threshold to the future come obstacles and barricades of uncertainty. W hat can be ahead for us? VVith such a view of future events, discouragenient is bounl to set foot on our territory. However, we should turn the clouds about and see the brighter lining. Although some thresholds are blocked, new doors to Christian service have opened. Great are the opportunities for consecrated youth to serve nobly in the name of Christ. to heal the world's war scars. and to point lost. sin-sick souls to the Prince of Peace. lle it nursing, teaching, farming. or any other occupation, when it is done to Gods glory, all is well. ln His service we shall End our greatest joy. M. R. XV. 22