Spring Arbor University - Echo Yearbook (Spring Arbor, MI)

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THE STUDENT-FACULTY COOPERATIVE GOVERNMENT Jf ever the world needed young people who realize their responsibility to others, it is now. It is obvious that the irresponsibility of the young people of our country is not altogether due to their faults; but it is more likely due to the fact that they have not had the opportunity to develop the sense of duty which they should have developed. When they are living at home with their parents, they arc carefree to a great extent. It is right for them to be partially free from responsibility while they are in their childhood; but when they arc of high school or college age, it is time for them to feel their tesponsibility. It seems to be a tragedy that so many young people, after having gone through high school and college, do not realize that their existence involves duty as well as pleasure. The student-faculty cooperative government of Spring Arbor Seminary and Junior College, which was organized in 1927, has proved to be a means by which the students have been made to feel that they were responsible to others, thereby causing them to develop a sense of duty. It would be preposterous for the students to have entire control of the government; but, with the faculty taking the part of the upper house and also having control of the supreme court, the students taking the part of the lower house and having control of the inferior court, the student-faculty cooperative government affords a valuable training for the students in politics that they could not get otherwise. It is almost impossible to disassociate politics and responsibility. The continuance of the student government in Spring Arbor Seminary and Junior College is not necessary to the successful running of the school. Here is where the need comes in: The students need just the type of training which the student-faculty cooperative government alone can give. Henry Ryckman. Mayor. I'uue Flflu

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W. C. Muffitt, Pastor. THE VOICE FROM THE FIELD The past year has been different from any year I have experienced. I remember the days of Cleveland. They were hard days, but not to be compared with these. I have heard the one word Depression on every side. The depression had not hit us more than two or three weeks until we seemed to have forgotten the wonderful, prosperous past twenty years. One good old lady said a few days ago that she didn’t see why we had to have such hard times during the depression. I have been reminded myself, and have tried to remind others, that we have a lot to be thankful for. God has been good to us. I have traveled over the territory for the past eight years, but this year it has been harder to raise money than ever before. However, we are thankful for the way the people have responded, and especially for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the services held. We are sure that if the people will continue to sacrifice, this good work can continue. If each member in the territory would send in only fifteen cents, it would bring to the school over one thousand dollars cash. No doubt each pastor could raise this amount several times during the year if a little system was worked out. The pastor gets his offering each week, and a missionary offering is taken at least once a month. Even though these offerings may be small, they have a system, and it works. The Sunday School offering is taken each Sunday. Why not have a system for taking an offering at least once a month for our missionary school. Spring Arbor Seminary, which would bring in a certain amount of cash each month, that our work might be carried on more efficiently, and our teachers’ salaries paid regularly. The laborer is worthy of his hire. THE CHURCH We arc pleased to report favorably of the Church and its workings at Spring Arbor. We have a very good church building for worship and Sunday School purposes. We are blest with the best of teachers for our Sunday School work and excellent class leaders for the various classes, all working together harmoniously, and contending for the faith once delivered unto the Saints” with a godly faculty. Our membership—we aim to have a burden for the souls of the students that arc committed to our care and do all we can for their salvation, encouraging them on to perfection in the Christian life. The student attendance this year has been below normal owing to the financial depression. Nevertheless we rise above the pressure, blest with the presence of God and made to feel we are kings and priests unto God and that Jesus Christ his son became poor that we through his poverty might be made rich. We feel like saying to the young people throughout our connection, Come then with us and we will do thee good.” —J. A. Kei.i.ey. »«««• Fl lu-tinr