Northwestern Bible School - Scroll Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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OUR TRIBUTE To DR. W. B. RILEY: As we stand upon the threshold of new expe¬ riences and look hack upon our years at North- western, our hearts are filled with deep gratitude for the days of training, teaching and service which have been made possible, under God, through your consecrated effort and purpose. To you we owe, in a large measure, our school with all it brings of privilege and blessing. To you, by the grace of God, we are indebted for our determination to preach and defend the Word- We have looked to you as Founder and Superin¬ tendent of our beloved Northwestern. You have, through the medium of our school, touched the uttermost parts of the earth with the message and ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We respect you as teacher and preacher of the Word of Life. We are grateful for the privilege that has been ours to sit at your feet as you have expounded to us the inspired and eternal truths of Scripture. We honor you as a great defender of our faith. Your unwavering courage in the midst of opposition has stirred our deep admiration and strengthened our own conviction. We love you as our counsellor and friend. The kindly ministry that you have exercised in our midst has been a benediction to us. We marvel aL the scope and power of the work you have accomplished. As we contemplate it, we realize that it has been wrought in the strength of the Lord. It is to us a testimony to the truth of the words spoken by the Lord to Joshua so long ago: “Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; he noL afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” You have proved yourself eminently a scholar and a leader. You have proved yourself pre-eminently a man of God, The influence of your life has left its indelible impress upon our own lives. Your association with u$ during our clays of training here shall ever be a cherished memory. We could render no greater tribute to you than the pledge of our own conse¬ cration to the Lord Jesus Christ and live infallible truth of His Word. The prayers and love of the outgoing Senior Class shall attend you and your work. May the blessing of our God ever rest upon you. THE CLASS OF 1929 [ 22 ]

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THE LORDSHIP OF CHRIST PSALM 24 By Dit. V. B. Riley The Earth Is the Lord’s HE EARTH is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For He hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods (Psalm 24:1, 2). This statement conforms perfectly to the general teaching of the Bible, and asserts an accepted truth. I his Lordship of llie earth rests in certain definite and divinely recorded circumstances. First , He created the earth “All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.” (John 1:3 ) He is the Creator of the earth not only in the sense that He gave it form, but in the fact that lie brought it into existence. He filled the earth “The earth is the Lord ' s and the fulness thereof. That is to say, He placed in it everything which the earth holds He created its grass, herbs, and trees, its fish and fowl, its creeping things, its mammals, its man I haL is why the silver and the gold are His; why the cattle upon a thousand hills are His; why all men all women, all children are His, so far, at least, as physical creation and factual origin are concerned He also founded ti. “For He hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods” (verse 2). Science and Scripture alike hear their testimony to the effect that the earth originally was without form and void, and it was God who said, “Let the waters under the heaven he gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it w f as so And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good (Genesis 1:9, 10 ) Mr, Spurgeon calls attention to the fact that waters make an unstable foundation, and moralizes, “They who trust in worldly things build upon the sea; hut we have laid our hopes, by God ' s grace, upon the Rock of Ages ” There is, however, a com¬ plementary truth, namely this, that God can make the unstable to he stable, and though He founded the earth on the seas, and set the continents to float in the same, yet He hath made them stable, dependable! Such is God ' s ability In fact, according to Job 26:7, “He hangeth the world on nothing,” and yet. since it is in His hand, its stability is assured. Who Is This Lord? This is the question raised in the third verse and answered in tire fourth fifth and sixth. “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in His holy place?” (verse 3) The answer is, Christ alone , Among all the men known Lo all the ages, He alone is holy; He alone hath clean hands and a pure heart; He alone lifted not up His soul to vanity nor swore deceitfully. Of all others there was none that did good; not one w-ithoul sin; not one with clean bands; not one with a pure heart In these relations, He stands solitary and alone. Of the rest, it is written, “They arc all gone out of the way there is none that doetli good, no, not one.” Rut of Him it was said, “Without sin ” He challenged Ills enemies as no other dare, “Which of you con vinceth Me of sin?” [ 23 ]