Olivet Nazarene University - Aurora Yearbook (Bourbonnais, IL)

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3Kold § uch i n Conor ' Phillippians 2:29 ( 7 JTOPL I is yet in the future. The golden age is yet to come. God ' s ideal man y is seen in the Garden of Eden perfect, just, holy, wise and sinless. Adam was monarch of all he surveyed. God ' s first ideal man was president and pope ruling over a restored creation. God ' s second ideal man, the last Adam, is seen in the New Testament, born in a stable, cradled in a manger, nailed to a cross, cruci- fied and suspended between two thieves and between heaven and earth. God ' s second ideal man was cast out of his own world. Between Adam, the first man, and Christ, the second man, there have been millions of other men but the)- have all been wrecked and ruined by sin and the fall. They are not men as God intended them to be. President T. W. Willing- ham is one of the millions of men who were wrecked and ruined by the fall but who has been happily redeemed, regenerated, and renewed by Jesus Christ. As a young man his character and conduct were irreproachable. As President of this centrally located institute of learning he has already done a noble work. He has already accomplished a Herculean task. Although a young man he has already accomplished a giant ' s job. Hold such in honor. The writer was a pastor in Pennsylvania. At the back of our home was a railroad track and a huge engine could be seen daily pulling a hundred loaded cars and making the grade, although the progress was not very impressive. The great engine pulled. vSteam, fire, and sparks flew in every direction. A powerful engine would be heard whistling and announcing its coming to help the first engine that was pulling the load. Two whistles would blow. Fire, steam, smoke, and sparks would fly from both engines. Gathering momentum the cars would all make the grade and both engines would announce their triumph by a tremendous blast which seemed to us to say, Hallelujah ! We have made it ! President Willingham is a spiritual war-horse of the first order. He may be happier as the official puller, but we have found that he can adapt himself to the exigencies of the hour and push. Of a keen, analytical mind he is at once a puzzle to his friend and sometimes a terror to his enemies. He has drunk largely from the Wesleyan fountain as well as from the New Testament. As becometh a leader in our great Church he is intensely spiritual, sometimes seemingly intoxi- cated with God. His messages are spiritual, substantial, and soul strengthening. He is loved by the student bod) ' and respected by the faculty. Hold such in honor. He has the Spirit and enjoys a portion of the holy fire which burned in the big soul of the beloved founder of our Church, Phineas Rresee. He longs and prays and yearns for an old-fashioned Wesleyan, Whitefield, Finney, Moody, Naz- arene revival. Hold such in honor. Raymond Browning in his pastoral letter just to hand closes by saying, Mv heart aches and yearns for a real revival — something full and overflowing like a mighty tidal wave of joy and power. We cannot crawl along at this sluggish gait and do a mighty work for God. Lord God, our minds are dull and our hearts are heavy. We stare daily at tens of thousands of men and women walking down the broad road to the mad-house of eternity and we act as though we were looking at (Continued on page 100) Page Ten

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Administration Behold a sower went forth to sow. Mat. 13:3

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W. WILUNGHAM President Paye Eleven