Northwestern Bible School - Scroll Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Like a Tree Feeling that thereby we could best convey to the reader what Northwestern is and what she .means to her graduates, the Seniors have selected the theme Trees for our 1938 SCROLL, As we here make mention of our president, Dr. W. B, Riley, we feel that our selection was a fortunate one. How like a great tree his life is! Sown in an environment where less vigorous life might be content with mediocrity, he fed his soul with the soil and sunlight of God s Word and Light, and grew to become a mighty presence, casting a world¬ wide shade. Nor can Dr, Riley ' s influence be expressed only as shade: it is more sub¬ stantial. With its far-scattered and numerous seed his life is an. inspiration to a host of Christian workers, finding material expression in their consecrated lives. Moreover, the seed he has planted grows in the tangible forms of many institutions, not the least of which are the Northwestern Bible School and the Evangelical Seminary, with their yearly fruitage of graduates. Through them the perennial revival flourishes on five continents while the hedgerows and windbreaks of fundamentalism grow ever stronger. Not only is this one page a direct tribute to Dr. Riley—the SCROLL pictures the buildings his faith has helped to finance, the faculty his leadership has gathered, and the student body from far comers his influence is molding—our whole yearbook, like those before, may be regarded as an indirect tribute or monument, a small chapter in a great biography. For the inspiration he radiates, for the institutions he has founded and directs, the 1938 Senior Class acknowledges a debt of gratitude and gives thanks. ( 13 )