Numidia Mennonite Bible School - Reflector Yearbook (Numidia, PA)

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f... 'C e . -.-u AJpll w1 YOUTH PROBLEMS T Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy plea- sure they are and were created. Using this as our theme verse we 22 students learned that we are created to give honor and glory to God. Brother William W. Wagler brought out 'many ways in which we can do this. First of all, we have to be dedicated Christians and seek His will for our lives. Some of the problems we as youth face are, understanding ourselves and our par- ents, conducting wholesome courtship and and finding the right life companion. We should be very thankful for our Christian parents, those who love us enough to instruct us to go the right way. We learn- ed that when youth becomes social some of the greatest temptations are before them. We must remember to ever keep our minds and bodies in subjection to His will in order to bring glory and honor to Him. Some of the questions that we answered were: When is a person mature enough to date? What kind of persons should we date? Where can we go and what can we do on dates? I'm sure we all appreciate this class and we learned much. -Sallie Stauffer TYPING We gathered each day after lunch in the dining room to learn to work with our fingers. Sister Ida Bontrager was our teacher. Our class was honored with three students. Each day as we opened our class with prayer we became more conscious of the many ways we could use typing to serve our Lord. We used the book Typing Made Simple. We questioned the title at first, but as we moved on from home base we became more ready to agree that typing can be mastered. We went over drills each day and T-R-I- E-D to have a bit of rhythm and speed. Each day we learned four new letters. During the first three weeks we learned to type the alphabet and how to use our margins and margin release, after which we had speed drills. The following three weeks we went on to numbers, symbols, horizontal and vertical centering, tabu- lating, and letter writing. We took this course hoping this typing skill might help us better serve the Lord. -Margaret Martin rusuc SPEAKING It's much more important to have something to say than to know how to say it, Brother Menno Brunk told the four listeners in his public speaking class. But as Jesus told the Pharisees, other undone.' So, we need both form and content in our speaking before a group. - l It wasn't all lecture, though! In fact, there wasn't a whole lot of time left for lecture, as each day each class member gave his speech: perhaps on an apostle, perhaps on a subject of his own choosing, or perhaps by reading a chapter from the Bible. Criticism was also a vital part of this class. With each speech given, crticism came from fellow speech-givers and from Brother Brunk himself. This aspect of our class was to help point out each other's weakness and thus improve one another's speech-giving ability. Be yourself , Brother Brunk remind- ed us. But he also admonished us to culti- vate good habits, so that we could natur- ally do what is proper. Adapting ourselves to our situation was also a point he brought out that applied to us very keenly. We met on the stage of the auditorium and a thin curtain divided our class from that of Tabernacle study which met in the back of the auditorium. One day a week we had the whole auditor- ium to ourselves. On those days our speech giving voices needed to cover a wider area than when we met in the small quarters of the stage. t We learned, practically, some things about public speaking. This is one vital avenue we can use in bringing God's Word and will to others. l -Pat Shank

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