Northwestern Bible School - Scroll Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Willingly sharing the heavy burdens of the school, the Board of Direc¬ tors, under the capable leadership of Dr. Riley, is like a strong hand that guides the movements of the school into channels of usefulness and blessing. Mr. Colqete Buctbee and Dr. Earfe V. Pferce were absent when picture was taken

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THE RIVER FROM THE ROCK By R. L. MOYER The natural world is a desert that stretches hot and terrible on all sides. The hot sun beats down upon that sea of sand to slay every green thing. The desert is a parched, uninhabited place—a place of death. The only growth of the desert is a worthless, sapless, useless shrub that is a picture of death itself. Rivers introduced into that waste and desert place would become rivers of life, causing life to spring up everywhere Egypt, in Scripture, represents the natural world. The river Nile is the life of Egypt. Without the Nile, Egypt would be a place of famine and death. Because the Nile is the life of Egypt, the Egyptians worship the river as a god. What the river is to the desert, what the Nile is to Egypt, Jesus Christ is to the human soul—Rivers of life. That one whose life is waste and desert because of sin may be transformed by Jesus Christ into one whose life is like frees that are dripping because of the new life that has come through the sparkling current. We beleive that nothing in the Word of God speaks more sweetly of Him than its rivers We believe that there is not a stream in which He is not found Prophecy declares that He Himself shall be as rivers of water In a dry place, Certainly He is the One from Whom the rivers of life flow. We have read a translation of John 7:37-39 which suggests the following: If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and let him drink that believeth on me, according as the scripture hath said concerning me, ' Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water ' . In all probability this translation is true. Certainly the rivers of life flow forth from Him. The source of the Nile was not in Egypt itself. The Nile is thirty-five hundred miles in length. Its source is far down in tropical Africa, in abundant rain from heaven The source is so far away from Egypt that the men of Egypt have said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. They certainly did not create the waters of the Nile, although they may have devised means of spreading the water over the land. The Nile came from heaven. They neither knew nor acknowledged its source. The rivers of life do not arise in man, himself. By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. The river of life has its source in heaven It originated in the eternal councils of the Godhead, even before the foundation of the world, and was manifested in time in the healing stream that flowed forth from the Cross of Calvary. That river transforms and transfigures the sinner by bringing in life and fragrance and beauty. This river is typified by that stream that sprang forth from the smitten rock of Horeb. While the people of God were in the wilderness, They drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ [I Cor. 10:4). That Rock was Christ. So the type Is clear. Christ is often called the Rock. He Is the Rock of Life (Deut, 32:18], He is the Rock of Salvation [II Sam. 22:47) He is the Rock of Refuge [Psa. 27:5). He is the Rock of Rest and Refreshment [Isa. 32:2). The smitten rock was in the wilderness, where Israel journeyed. It was a barren place. Christ is a Rock In a weary land [Isa 32:2) Horeb means dry, or waste There was not water [Ex, ! 7:1}. It was the thirst of the people that emphasised the barrenness, just as an awakened soul will be conscious of dearth. The world can never supply the wants of the human soul. There was help for Israel in that apparently hopeless place, though Israel knew ft not. Jesus Christ was in the world, and the world knew Him not. Can one get water out of a rock? Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Yes! From a rock God caused water to flow! Yes! From Christ God caused the stream of salvation to flow! [ 22 ]