Northwestern Bible School - Scroll Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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N. IV. B. S. proceeded against the forts. The boats went against Fort Henry and captured it. J ort Donaldson resisted strongly. After four days of lighting, the Confederates hoisted the white (lag and asked for terms. Then Grant replied, “No terms other than unconditional surrender ' and it is in vain for us to lly a flag of truce and plead for this unspeakable favor at the Father ' s hands until we surrender. Surrender self—the whole self—body, soul and spirit. The Scriptures say, A ield yourself unto God ' and again, “Present your bodies a living sacrifice 1 I here is a story of a monk who was disobedient to the law of the monastery and was taken out to he buried alive, He was placed standing in the grave and the earth was i;ii ed in so that he could not move lus feet. The Superior asked him, “Are you dead yet?” He answered, “No!” They shoveled in more until it rose to his chest and he found it hard to breathe, and the Superior repeated his question, and he said, “No, 1 will not die ’ They filled up the hole to his lips, and when it was smothering him, he cried out to the Superior, ' I give up. I surrender. My will shall be thy will.” That surrender was victory for him over death and the grave, and also for him from the reigning one. You see your way? Surrendered to serve, and to serve, not as we desire, but as God indicates. This is success. You have sometimes thought that if you had been better horn, your success would have been more sure ; if you had been better bred, your success might have been more sure; if you had been more broadly educated, your success would have been more sure; if you had been the son of a bond holder, your success had been more sure. But what is each success beside the one and only thing to be desired-—power in the service of God? And for that, it makes little difference about the breeding your father gave you. if only you have put yourself into the Heavenly bathers hands; little difference about the education of the schools, if only the Spirit is now your instructor; little difference about the riches of earth, if only you know how to get those that God is daily sending down from Heaven, When one of my brothers was at college, there was a young fellow there who was a poor student, the subject of many a smile on the part of his intellectual superiors; a constant trial to the patience of learned professors, and often a chagrin to himself. But he surrendered to God for service, and wherever he went, revivals were in his wake. He was able to win more to Jesus Christ than the combined Christian faculty and two hundred students were winning. I reckon him the suc¬ cessful man of that school, and since lie went out from it, for forty years he has gone on, God with him. Whatever our privileges in life; whatever our station; whate ver our favored circumstance, we might well covet that man’s station, for he stands well with God, and the Holy Ghost speaks in him and through him. “The strong man ' s strength to toil for Christ, The fervent preacher’s skill, 1 sometimes wish; but better far To be just what God will. No service in itself is small, None great though earth it fill; But that is small that seeks its own, And great that seeks God ' s will.