Northwestern Bible School - Scroll Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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HE OFFICES of our Deans form Lhe center from which radiates ilie program and work of Lhe school. It is here that the burdens and the problems incident to the administration of the institution are faced and solved. We can scarcely J appreciate the unnumbered hours of work and study and prayer spent here bv our Deans in behalf of the school life in its every phase. To the office of Mr. Robert L. Moyer, Dean of Men. the hoys come for coun¬ sel and advice. There is perhaps no one in Northwestern who bears a greater burden than Mr. Moyer. Yet, in spite of multiplied duties and innumerable demands upon Ids time, we find him kind, helpful, wise in his counsel. IIis remarkable ability as a teacher of the Word, his zeal and earnestness in the preaching of the Gospel, and the testimony of his life will ever be a blessing to us. To Miss Marie R. Acomb, Dean of Women, the girls of the Training School come with their problems and perplexities. Many a consultation has been held in her office. Many a difficulty has been thoughtfully discussed and prayed about, l ew are the moments in which there is no one waiting to see Miss Acomb. In addition to her many pressing duties as Dean of Women, Miss Acomb is also llie faculty adviser of the two student publications of Northwestern, the Pilot, our monthly magazine, and the SCROLL, our annual To her untiring efforts and capable direction is due, by the grace of God. the success of these literary enterprises. Miss Acomb is marked by rare executive and administrative ability and earnestness in her work. Her influence in the school is most keenly felt. We thank God for our Dean of Men and our Dean of Women, and for all that they have meant to us. [ 25 ]

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He atone merited the Father s favor . He alone received the full blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from llie God of His salvation. It is true that every man is under divine blessing. God ' s children arc peculiarly sensible of that fact, believing that “Every good gift ami every perfect gift is from above, and cometli down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning,” but that they receive them as unworthy dependents, not on Lhe basis of merit. God’s blessing to sinful men is all of grace, but His blessing upon this Man is of merit, for Ills righteousness is from the God of His salvation. lie alone is worthy of worship. Thai is why the generation of believers seek Him; that is why they arc attracted to Him; that is why they hope Lo spend eternity with Him. He is the embodiment of all for which believers hope. In fact, He is Head over all things lo the Church, and on that account, is spoken of here as Jacob, the name that compassed the Old Testament church, the church of the Psalmist’s lime. He Is Also the Coming King “Lift up your heads, 0 ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, 0 ye gales; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of Glory. Selali” (verses 7-10}. The king- ship here spoken of, however, is the kingship of promise as well as position. When Christ completed His earthly ministry as the sinner’s substitute, He started straightway for His final office of the world’s kingship, and while His path led by the throne, where He stops as our intercessor, it will end as the world’s ruler. In that glorious estate He i$ recognized by the heavenly host, and the words of the Psalmist here are addressed to the heavenly ones, “Lift up your heads, 0 ye gates; and he ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in” (verse 7). The figure employed here seems to refer to the faeL that when He had finished His conflict with the adversary, had conquered by the cross, and had triumphed over death and the grave. He returned Lo Liu? Land of Glory and this is the inspired record of His recep¬ tion. The gates of Heaven opened; the everlasting doors lifted up to let the King of Glory in. The second question, “Who is the King of Glory?” gave occasion to the answer, “The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle” (verse 8). This refers to the completeness of His work. At the very moment when Satan and all hell supposed that they had finished Him. He was coming Lo the completion of 11 is ear Lilly ministry, and could say, concerning His entire earthly work, “It is finished.” The soul’s redemption was purchased; the victory against death and the grave was absolute, and the righteous hopes of all heaven were realized. But to put past dispute the Messianic character of the Psalm, our last question arises—“Who is this King of Glory?” with the answer, “The Lord of hosts, He is the King of Glory.” Christ is the Lord of Hosts. We are told that in the Orient, doors were sometimes taken from their hinges, or, if they were the port-cull is form, drawn up at the ap¬ proach of the conquering king, Jt was an expression of the wide welcome which they accorded lo the approaching conqueror. This fact is made a figure of our Lord’s return to the Father’s House after His redemptive work was finished. It is little wonder that such a figure should he employed, and yeL, we feel that it hut faintly, represents what must have taken place in Heaven when all the archangels and the angels, and the en¬ tire portion of God’s family that was there, received our Saviour as He came from the scenes of earth’s conflict, a victor in all. And yet how poorly human language portrays such a scene! Our figures of speech fall far short, for the greatest demonstrations of earth are faint symbols of what Heaven must have witnessed when ChrisL returned, having accomplished salvation for man. [2-i]

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