Olivet Nazarene University - Aurora Yearbook (Bourbonnais, IL)

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m miMH FRED W. SHARP, Lapeer, Michigan. Attended public school in Michigan. Called to preach in 1914. Entered Olivet University, September, 1!)11:. President of the lission Band. Certificate Course. It is easy enough to be pleasant When life flows along like a song But the man ii ' orth zvhile, is the man z ' ho i ' ill smile When everything goes dead zcroug LEWIS THOMAS AVELLS. Brothel ' AYells comes to us from Cumbci ' land County, Ken- tucky. Aftei- completing the common school course he pursued, a high school course. Tie was saved ami began to preach in 1011. Spent three successful yeai-s in the evangelistic work and was ordained in I!)! ' - ' , lie liuishcs the Cci ' tiiicatc Tl b iric;il Course this year. Seest tl-.oii (I mtin dligent in his business? He shall stand before him s. — Prov. 22:29. Page Twenty-tlirce

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m mxvtt (Hlje Hilling Math F. Haynes, D. D. I HEKE is and has ever been a desperate and detennined J- purpose and effort to set aside the authority of the Word of God. So desperate are the enemies of the Word in their pur- pose to undermine its authority that they scruple not at any ineans to acc omplish this end. They seek therefore to destroy confidence in it by discrediting it as the divinely inspired Word of God. They assail it from every angle and by any and all sorts of methods seek to get rid of its supernaturalness. There is a reason for this enmity. This Holy Book claims the right to control the actions of men. It claims also the final authority to prescribe the conditions for determining man ' s destiny. It opposes that ultra-democratic s ' pirit which dis- tinguishes this age which seeks to defy man, even at the cost of degrading God to the limitations of humanity. Finally this enmity is rendered very desperate by the pertinacity of the life inherent in the Word. Despite all the opposition the Book lives, its distribution increases with the years, the nudtitudes who read and study it are nudtiplying prodigiously until the Book has become the wonder of all the ages. Let i:s stress briefly this one phase of 1he Book; that it is a Living Book. Says the author of Ilel rews -1:12, For the AVord of (Jod is quick, (living) and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, i)iercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and sj)irit and to the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. We confine our attention to a single word in the above verse. The word (puck, which means living. The author declares tluat the Word of God is a living AVord. Page TwL ' nty-fi ' C | This life of the Word is implied in the very authority Avith which it speaks. It speaks not as man speaks. It commands. Dead things exercise no authority, issue no commands, exact no obedience. Its life is manifested again in the knowledge it conveys to us of ourselves — our thoughts, impidses, motives. Wo do not come to the Bible so much to learn other men ' s thoughts or motives or hidden purposes or needs. We come to the Bible rather to learn about ourselves and find that it reveals to us the inmost recesses of our souls. This is a wonderful indication of real life. The life of the AVord is indicated again in its boldness. It dares to abase man and exalt God, which is the very reverse of the world ' s democracy. It talks about every imagination of the thoughts of man ' s heart as only evil continually. Read what it dares to say of man in Eomans 1:29-32, and 3-10-18 and Eph 2 :l-3. The life of the Book is further seen in both the courage and knowledge it displays as it derides the wisdom of man. Hear it : AVhere is the wise? AVhere is the scribe? AAHuM-e is the dis- puter of this wor ld? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? — I Cor. 1:20. Read also I Cor. 2:14, au.l S :2. It derides also man ' s civilization. As against the boasted achieve- ments of our civilization of which we hear so much, vcml the gruesome delineation of the Word as found in 11 Timothy, 3vd chapter, describing the last days, which refer to this age . Tlie Book says: Perilous times shall come, lor men shnll he bivcrs of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, hhisplicnioiis, dis- obedient to pai-ents, unthankfnl, nnholy, Avithout nalui ' al affec- LIBRARY Oliv3t Na arene College KANKAKEE, ILL.