Lynden Christian School - Excelsior Yearbook (Lynden, WA)

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Superintendent Dear Graduates of 1963: Our hands are frequently used to help express a thought or an emotion. You need only to think of the clenched fist and you associate this gesture with anger. Folded hands may portray an attitude of prayer. A pointing finger serves to clearly define who or what is being singled out. In the theme of this book you have dedicated the the use of your hands to the service of the Lord. This is symbolic language, of course. Hands do not act in isolation from the rest of the body or with- out a motive first conceived in the mind. The difference between a Martin Luther’s hands nailing 95 theses to a door, and an Adolph Hitler’s hands directing the murder of millions of helpless people is not in the size of the gloves they wore, but rather in the dedication of Luther to the service of the Lord and Hitler to the service of Satan. The difference between a Pilate’s hands, ‘“‘washed in supposed innocency’’ and the Christ’s innocent hands subjected to cruel nail piercing is not due to different racial background or social status, but to the motive of a Pilate to please the people, and of the Christ to do the will of His Father who had sent Him. Each of you will be called to wider service than what you have experienced thus far. Many of the things you have learned at Christian High you will be using in your future work. Whether you serve as a business man, a doctor, a farmer, a minister, a nurse, a secretary, a housewife, or a statesman is not the most important consideration. From what motive, for what reason you serve is the most important. The Apostle Paul summarized it in I Cor. 10:31: Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory ot God. If each of you will start with this humble begin- ning, ‘Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I1 cling; you will be able to go in real strength and say “Take my hands and let them move, at the impulse of Thy love.’’ God grant the desire to each of you to so dedi- cate his life. Yours as ever in Christ, Ben Boxum