Maplewood Academy - Maple Log Yearbook (Hutchinson, MN)

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.wif if iiimlilmses f F ,. 1 IWW ' CI-LC Class Poem V We have come to the close of our senior year, With a courage dauntless and strong, And never, never shall we fear The rush of life's unnumbered throng. We're the loyal class of nineteen thirty-oneg A11 are soldiers faithful land brave. On life's great sea we've just begun Helping others to ride the wave. Let us always choose to be helpful and true, And reflect the light we have caught. Well give to God what is His due, Gladly telling what He has wrought. He has guided us thus far, safely through life: He will never forsake His own. So if we're true through all the strife, He will never leave us alone. So let us be valiant all the day long, And never our Master betray, That we may sing the victor's song, With those who have walked in the Way. -Burnell Rosenthal ij2f1 ffZl 2Eif EEf' ffi IfZ Q.1l? 31

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P x r U r .,. F, A h HUTCHSONIAN f .B-if ef swhsws e P if MMM ' Vik:--.. Class Sonq 9 The parting of the way Now lies just before our eyes. 'Tis sad to leave behind Loyal friends and schoolday ties. CHORUS Holding high the banner Christ would have us to unfurl, We shall joyfully some day Meet inside the gates of pearl. We must not long delay, Swiftly pass the days of grace, To guide some wandering soul Who doth here destruction face. Perfection! is our goal, As we climb 1ife's rugged way. Though it be rough and steep May we from it never stray.

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. N f .X HUTCHSONIAN - in I x 'K gi' f ' H-, H J -f iiwiim s f if mlm f ... Cfhe Class Gift HE FOUR years spent in school have increased our desire to fill the place the Lord has for us. We have had wonderful opportunities to gain knowledge and experience that will make us better co-laborers with God. It has been our purpose to avail ourselves of these opportunities, so we have willingly entered into the routine and responsibilities of school life. This has required that our minds, to a great degree, be centered upon the immediate tasks from day to day, but through it all we have not lost sight of the conditions and needs of the ripened fields beyond. Returned missionaries have told us of their experiences and by the mission exercises from Sabbath to Sabbath the work has been kept before us. Much has been accomplished throughout the world field. ' However, we have reached a crisis in our world wide mission endeavor. At the Fall Council, in spite of all the efforts made to curtail and transfer funds, they still were compelled to reduce the appropriations to home and foreign fields 6 per cent. 'I'his may seem to some like a small cut. It is not 6 per cent below the urgent request of the fields, but a 6 per cent cut on the amount actually used last year for salaries, furloughs, and other regular operating expenses. Not only are we unable to allow for expansion of the work for 1931, but we are really asking the fields to cut the basic expenditures 6 per cent. The actual cut is far more than 6 per cent, for no appropriations have been made for miuch-needed buildings and other extension enterprises not included in the base, as has nearly always been done. We regret that there should be a shortage of funds at this time but we are thankful that it is not greater during this time of depression, when many other organizations have found it necessary to cease from mission work almost entirely. We rejoice in the way God has led and is still leading us as a people. Let us turn our thoughts for a few moments to the mission fields beyond. There is a great longing in the hearts of thousands of heathen people for the gospel of Christ. In the northern part of Abyssi'nia there are today many who have turned from Islam and who are groping their way from the darkness of superstition to the light of the gospel message. It is not long ago since Sheik Zakarias heard the call of God in a dream, and left the Islamic road to tread the Christian pathway. Without hesitating he obeyed, and although alone with no Christian friends to encourage or help, he began to preach the message of salvation and to herald the soon return of the Saviour. His work was abundantly blessed. After a few years he was laid low with sickness. Realizing that he was about to die, he called his chief men together, telling them that God had given him light, but he likened it to the flickering gleam of yonder star. Some day, he said, the missionary will come to bring you a wonderful message, and that which he will bring will be like the sun shining in its strength. Now that message has come to them. Our missionaries have come in touch with these people and many of them have been baptized, and as they have learned the truth as it is in Jesus, their hearts rejoice and they are looking forward with gladness to the return of the Saviour. An example of faithfulness comes to us in the story of Naomi, an old Fijian woman who was born in the days of cannibalism. She was the daughter of a cannibal, and had witnessed many dreadful scenes in her own village when her friends would be clubbed and taken away to be eaten by enemy 0 32 0