Steinbach Bible Institute - Star Yearbook (Steinbach, Manitoba Canada)

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S. B. A. ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆A Q usAuatinx2, GIgAA, HIGH SCHOOL Jesus first, Others next, Yourself last. JAC. HIEBERT The Lord has put a new song in his heart which he brings torth clearly. Instructor in grammer in the Bible School Department as well as choir lead¬ er. Is especially concerned that Christ¬ ians come to a fuller realization of the fact that Christ lives in us. HELGA PETERS Shows that even mathematics can be mastered. Lover of nature and books. Likes to serve others before herself. Plays piano and sings in the trio. WILMA LOEWEN Life of grade 12. Finds other books interesting besides those on the grade 12 course. Will not easily succumb to mel¬ ancholy. Generous. Pet aversion, doing homework. HENRY HILDEBRAND Editor of the Year Book. Henry’s conversation indicates that he entertains aspirations of becoming an incarnate lexicon. His casual manner disguises a dual personality. — 8 —

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YEAR BOOK k ☆☆☆■£☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆• MGr CtA; SCHOOL WILLIAM WIEBE Holds to his principles with a great deal of tenacity. You find him on the farm in summer, but for the past three winters he has attended Bible School. Is an ardent student and a man of few words. Is systematic in his work. LYDIA KROEKER Is apt to see the bright side of a situation. She thoroughly enjoys her studies, though she doesn’t aim for the highest marks. For future service she trusts in the Lord’s leading. PETER MARTENS Instructor in woodwork, the results of which you will see at the spring sale. Plays the accordian and is looking to Northern Saskatchewan for his mission field where with his family he has labour¬ ed during the past summer. MARY WIEBE We love and respect her quiet and firm Christian character. She knows how to do the art projects at school and conducts a weekly children’s meeting. She intends to finish grade eleven after graduation. ABE KOOP v Particularly interested in Children’s Work, has been active in several Sun¬ day Schools in South Spencer. Serves as one of the librarians. Has varied inte¬ rests. The dinner problem does not worry him; he makes his own meals. In Febru¬ ary Brother Koop left for California to take a missionary training course. for Christ“ — 7 —

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☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ YEAR BOOK Tj ati GlaM (lefvo. ' U “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abound¬ ing in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord,” 1 Cor. 15:58. Much is being said about the needs of the world of to-day. Men of great learn¬ ing, leaders, kings, etc. all have their ideas of the world’s need. The spiritual Christian, however, can readily see what the need is. The need is Jesus Christ! Then our eyes are turned on the Chris¬ tian Church and we see another need. The Christian Church is in great need of men and women who will put them¬ selves one hundred per cent on the altar of sacrifice, tnen seek God’s will for their lives. Are you willing with Paul to cry out “Lord what wilt thou have me do?” Then answer with Isaiah, “Here am I: send me.” Many lands have opened their doors to the Gospel. Lands that were kept in -— heathen darkness and superstition, such as Japan are now opening up to the Gospel. But where are the missionaries to take over? The words of Jesus in Luke 10:2 ring in our ears as they did to the apostles. “The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He would send forth labourers into His harvest.” As third year students we covet your prayers that God may guide us into the right place of service. Quite a number of us are looking forward to service in the foreign field. Others plan to go into home mission work. The need is great. There are still many people in our land who have not yet heard of the finished work on Calvary for their sins. Therefore let us be up and doing, for the shadows of evening are lengthening and night com- eth, when no man can work. Harvey Barkman. GRADE XII CLASS REPORT Seldom have the possibilities in specu¬ lative reasoning been so nearly exhausted as they were by the ancient Greek phi¬ losophers. The profound impressions ef¬ fected upon human life and thought by these men have continued to influence the course of humanity even to the pre¬ sent day. Prom them we receive the first known hypotheses regarding atoms and molecules. Euclid and Pythagoras discovered certain geometric functions which still take a prominent part in high school mathematics. Because of their lofty achievements in the field of science they present to us a still clearer example of the futility of the human mind to en¬ deavour to fathom the depths of truth in the spiritual realm without the reve¬ lation and illumination of the Holy Spirit. Plato, aware of his limitations in this respect stated that man was incap¬ able of discovering divine truth unless it were revealed to him through a super¬ man. Socrates said, “It may be pos-ible for God to forgive sins, but I do not see how.” Years later a wizened little Jew came into Athens bearing the message of the one true religion. Yet it only provided them with a new impetus for their spec¬ ulations, and though the sermon that Paul preached that day on Mars Hili was one of the most scholarly orations he had ever delivered, they did not see in it the key to all of their philosophic conjectures. To them knowledge had be¬ come an obstacle to the reception of the Truth, for they pursued learning for learning’s sake. Since the natural man does not like to retain God in his knowledge he has frequently endeavoured to make science comply with his godless theories. His endeavours like those of all Christ-re- jecting men, have failed and ended in frustration. Theories which once seemed quite plausible, now are flimsy and faul¬ ty. All that has been proven satisfactorily is that man’s wisdom at best is partial and unreliable. This has led some people to make the statement that secular education is de¬ trimental to the spiritual welfare of Christians. Since certain ungodly scien¬ tists have tried to make science disprove the existence of God, some have been led to believe that science and the Scrip¬ tures are at variance. This could not be the case, for both the Scriptures and nature are of God. Theology is the study of facts which we have received by re¬ velation; science is the study of facts which have been revealed to us in nature. Again this year we have seen abund¬ antly the indications of the hand of Almighty God. In our chemistry course we marveled at the remarkable ingenuity of the Master Designer. The creation of the world was no hap-hazard procedure. There was provision made for every minute requirement of plants, animals and man. Into this environment God placed his crowning handiwork; man, en- CONTINUED ON PAGE 20 9