Practical Bible Training School - Theologue Yearbook (Johnson City, NY)

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use . will ll The THEOLOGUE n use wan Message to Faculty Robert Teachout 1 There are thoughts and emotions in the human mind and heart which no tongue or pen has found the art to utter or express. Words are only as the foam that dances on the surface of a deep, heaving sea of un fathomed feeling that lies beneath, and we know that these bubbles can give but scant evidence of the ocean that bears them on its crest. Would that we might bring to you, our teachers, the ocean of love and apprecia tion which wells up in our hearts at the thought of you who have meant so much to us. However, we must use the instruments furnished for us Thus, words, be they ever so impotent must be our means of expression. Traveling back over the three short years that have been ours to en joy in dear old P. B. T. S., we remember the first time we gathered as Freshmen in the front lecture hall and took our places to begin a work the end of which, only eternity can reveal. What seemingly hopeless pros pects these, for service for the Lord of Lords! From homes near and fai they gathered, from schools, hayfields, lumber camps, machine shops, and factories came this motley assemblage of students, chosen like the dis ciples of old, to wind up their fish nets, to forsake all and follow Him. The Christ who worked miracles in the hearts of those rough, hardy workmen of old, still works miracles in the hearts and lives of men today, and it is yet our privilege to be co-laborers with the Son of God. Thus He has used you, as no other human instruments, to render us more fit for His noble calling. Under the direction of the Master, your fingers have chiselled the amorphous mass until some of the beauty of His purpose is at last making itself manifest. Your sacrifice and toil and years and tears and prayers have begun their miracle. Members of the faculty, we realize our debt to you, but there is not enough with which to pay it on this side of the Veil. Only He who shall reveal the fruit of your labors may recompense unto the full value and worth. But by the Grace of God we may help to make the labor and sacri tice of fuller, richer, higher worth, by exercising to the utmost the noble principles and truths which you have been instrumental in instilling into our very beings. What we are as true servants of Jesus Christ, under the Grace of Him who has called us, we owe in surpassing balance to you With our hearts we thank you, and praise Him for the beneficent and helpful touch of such lives as yours upon our own to the glory of Christ We hope and trust that we may ever prove an honor to you who have been so faithful in upholding the Blood-stained Banner of the Cross before our faces. Our prayer is that God's richest blessings shall attend you, and that the coming years may prove you as great a blessing to other lives as He has made you in our own. May we be true Crowns of Rejoicing for you, at the great ingathering of the redemmed. For God will recompense He says, I know thy works and thy toil and thy patience. Then know ye that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. Page Nineteen

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l if :Qu nge asm n The THEoLoGUE ln use ssl Financial Department ig The financial work of our school is under the direction of Mr. F. A. Haight, who is also chairman of the men's ad- 53 visory council. This is one of the most 2 difficult positions, and one which re- quires as careful obedience and as com- plete consecration to the Master as any in the entire school. Mr. Haight has :. been for many years a business man IQ? dealing with large corporations, but a few years ago he gave up his business for service in this part of the Lord's work. Our school was built upon the - gifts of our friends who wished to honor God with their money and for twenty- five years has been carried on by such gifts. It has been Mr. Haight's work L: to seek out new friends and to present QQ our needs to old ones that we might continue to have a steady income for the continuance and advancement of real service here. His task has been hard, many times it would seem that sufficient sums could be earned with less diliiculty to carry on the work of the school. If we had no other proof of the value of the study of God's Word, Satan's constant hinderance, financially, assures us of theworthi- ness of our mission. We read of legacies being left to rich, but, dead church organizations and worldly institutions, while the Bible Schools are fighting for existence every step of the way. This is no doubt an attack of Satan against a work he knows is effectively hindering him. So we praise God for those who are boosting us Hnancially, as well as spiritually, because, they are glad to be helping wherever the Truth is taught in its purity. School Song Miss Mabel J. Thomson When God would build a training school That man might learn His Word He chose this spot with beauty blest Where summer's songs are heardg With sunshine, shade and flowers too All nature's sweetest gifts, Above, the joys of heavens blue The eternal hills around. And then He called us through His Son From farm, from home, from play, He brought us here His Word to learn To shape our lives each dayg The riches of His grace to know, The vict'ry in the fight, The fullness of His love to live, And others show the light. God lead us forth to point the way For sinners to be whole Through Jesus Christ, our Saviour Lord, Made strong in life and soul. God keep us true in word and deed To be approved to Thee, As students deep of all Thy truths And not ashamed to be. Page Eight-een

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