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

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-X. . x its ge. fegpq iii. 2593 asv- v with messages to graduating class To the class of 1947: You have chosen as your class motto, Through Trials to Triumph. Now as you leave high school, you are unaware of the implications of this motto. The good Lord does not reveal in detail our futures, but He says, Have faith! May you have this faith in Him that will enable you to live victoriously. Look not merely for direction in the large things of life, but also in the smallest routine thing of life. Now, go! Live for Him and perchance, if need be, die for Him. -John S. Wenger. Dear Comrades of the Upper Road, may God grant you grace to meet each life issue, not only successfully, but triumphantly. The pages of the Bible and the annals of the centuries record the names of many who lived and died grandly for Christ. Those whose names are lost are not unknown soldiers, for their Leader remembers. When the battle is done, may the King Himself grant you a welcome into His presence, the crown of life, the victor's palm branch, and a part in the chorus of heaven. These are the glad rewards of those who overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of their testimony. May they be yours. -Edna K. Wenger. Dear Seniors, When we want to make something perfect, we need a pat- tern. The more valuable our material, the more carefully we need to work. Are not our lives our most precious possession. and is not the perfection of our lives our most important task? For this we need a pattern. We cannot aiford to make mistakes. As our days slip past, they are hopelessly gone. So it is trc- mendously important that now We make our lives perfect, con- formed to the pattern of the One who has given us 'Lan example, that ye should follow his steps. Keep the Lord Jesus as your pattern in all thingsg and grow in grace and in the knowledge of Him and His will. -Lois N. Garber. To the Seniors: 'The years have rapidly passed since you first entered L.M.S. They have been busy years, happy years. Now you stand at the threshold of new opportunities and new responsibilities. Wheth- er the future, to which you are so eagerly looking, shall be suc- eessful or not will depend largely on the choices which you have already made, and on the choices which you are about to make. Of Mary, Jesus said, IShe1 hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. It is your privilege, too, to choose the one thing . . . needful. To love the Lord Jesus, to serve Him, to obey Him, to let Him live His life through you will bring to you a life of peace, of satisfaction, and of fruitful- ness. -Myra E. Hess. S

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Class Aclviser's Message i This issue of the Laurel Wreath marks another milestone X, in the history of your school, but for you it marks more especially l another milestone in your educational career. For some of you i the hnal examinations of this school year will be the last of the kind. Others, 1 feel confidently, will go on in school work and what you are experiencing will serve as a steppingstone rathet' tltan a tertmintts. There are a number of rather important things that we hope you have gotten in your school experiences. It is important. that you have skills and knowledge which should be a part. of the courses you have taken. Certain attitudes which help you to adjust yourself to society and make a worth-while contribution should have been developed. An outlook on life which gives you enthusiasm, courage, and discretion should be yours as a result of experience and training. An appreciation of the accomplislnnents of great men and women in the past in many lines of endeavor should give you a desire to make your contribution to the time in which you live. The needs of mankind in this present age should arouse in you a seriousness and a concern to do your share in alleviating the suffering and hopelessness of a large section of the present-day population of this earth. What you have learned about the potentialities of the mind of man and the vast. forces in nature that. can be harnessed and controlled should be a genuine challenge to you, young men and women. XVhat you have learned about the debauched condition of much of mankind should inspire you to show yottrselves examples of character far above atty cause for shame. Your experience in school will have shown you that education alone does not. make a person useful, for many of those who have gone before you have not made a worth-while contributiong this should cause you to think carefully about your plans for your life. The biggest. contri- bution that a Christian school should make in your life is a feeling and a willingness to serve the Lord in whatever 1-Ie calls you to, -Nom-t G. Coon. To the graduating class of 1947: Cause me to know the way wherein I shottld work tPsalm 143:8j. This was the sincere prayer of one who recognized that .. God had a claim on his life and sought to surrender his life to , the accomplislnnent of the mission which God had for him to fulfill in life. Many laws, commandments, and doctrines of the Bible guide us in our daily walk with God, yet it becomes an individual matter to seek, to hnd, and to willingly accept God's plan for our lives. Chance has no place in a world created and ruled by an infinite Cod. As you leave the portals of this school, may you seek and find the place in life where Cod would have you serve. Accept the challenge of the abundant Christian life in Christ Jesusg and then may your life reflect the divine purpose of God. -CLYDE B. S'roN15R. 7

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Faculty To the graduating class: Ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price: there- gartei glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are 0 's. Graduates, you are called to serve God in the vigor of your youth, because you are God'sg He is your Master. You will glorify God by obeying His command to evangelize the world. However, the world is not only Africa or other countries far distant. Think first of your own community and of the many unsaved there. Pray God to give you a realization of the fact that they are lost. With that prayer will come the knowledge that unless you present to them the claims of Christ upon their lives, the responsibility for their lost condition rests upon you. Remember, graduates, you are God's. -J. Lester Brubaker. To the class of 1947: Congratulations! May the full blessings of God attend you as you go out from this school in the humble recognition of His sovereign grace and power, not only in the world about you, but in every department of your own life and person. It is the primary aim of this school to help you catch the vision of the true values C Neither count I my life dear unto myself -Acts 20:24J and real purposes C For to me to live is Christ -Philippians l:21J of life in the world. As you follow these principles, you are assured of our prayers back of you and of God's blessings upon you. -Amos W. Weaver. To the graduating class: Life is a gift from God. It is good to remember that it is not our own but that it belongs to Him, and that it is in Him we live and move and have our being. Life is meant to be redeemed, not Wasted. It is meant to be lived unto the Lord, not unto self. It is meant to be a pilgrimage through the world, not a citizenship of this world. Life does not consist of material possessions but of spiritual possessions. What advantage is it if one succeeds in gathering together great gain in this life and loses his own soul? What is life? To know Christ is life. To know Him is eternal life. Since Christ is the author, center, and goal of life, glorifying God can be its only real purpose. -Martha F. Mosemann. To the Seniors: To know Jesus-that is triumph, and so that we may know Him very Well He does allow trials to come. There are days when the Companion who said that He would be with us day by day until the end of the age, seems very far away. When the friends of Bethany needed Jesus so desperately, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. Jesus loved themg so He stayed away. They knew Jesus as a great Healer, but they needed to know Him as the Resurrection, and the Life. If Jesus seems to be away when trials come it is only because He is waiting to reveal Himself in a greater way. Tri- umph does come through 'trialsg and that triumph is to know Jesus Himself as He really is in all His glory and sufliciency. -Leah Kauffman. 9