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

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24 STEINBACH BIBLE ACADEMY YEAR BOOK Life at the Dormitory It is seven o’clock. The lights reluctantly blink on. A group of bleary-eyed boys crawl out of their place of repose and, with despairing groans, assume the deceptive ap¬ pearance of wakefulness. After hastily re¬ moving the vestiges of their night’s ad¬ ventures, they tramp one by one down to breakfast. Another morning passes. At noon another period of turbulence erupts within the dormitory. The boys come home from school! After dinner comes the inevitable dish-washing, per¬ formed by the few privileged boys holding this office. You wouldn’t need a slow motion camera to snap these toiling laborers! In the evening, after study hours from 7:30 to 9:30 we indulge in a few games and other entertainment. Some even a ttempt to prove their musical ability by favoring us with samples of their vocal and instru¬ mental talent! Conversation is also a fav¬ orite pastime. Thus the days pass. With its quiet re¬ creation and scholastic atmosphere, the dorm is the ideal place to study. It will long linger in our memory. Wilmer Penner. ★ Our Sisters ' Prayer Meeting Precious indeed are the Tuesday after fours that we spend in meditation and prayer. As a group of sisters in the Lord, we have some of the sweetest experiences as we bow together before the Lord, send¬ ing our humble petitions up to Him Who knows our hearts and Who is ever ready and willing to hear us. The sisters take turns in leading the dis¬ cussion preceding our period of prayer. At our first gathering we made up a list of topics in which we wanted to gain more knowledge by searching the Scriptures. Oh, the depth and the riches of His Word! Would that we had a greater hunger and desire to study the Bible. We have been especially blest by the visits of some of the teachers’ wives. The thoughts and ex¬ periences they shared with us were very helpful. After our profitable discussion wherein we exchange our thoughts and often glean truths from the Word of God that we had never seen before, we voice our special re¬ quests and divide into groups for prayer. It is a time of spiritual uplifting and re¬ freshing. Truly is is like balm of Gilead to our souls to unite our hearts and voices in prayer to this great God ' of ours, who wants us to come to Him as children to a father. Jesus says in Matthew 18: 19, 20. “If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two ' or three are gather¬ ed together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Should not this be an in¬ centive to earnest prayer, so that God may manifest His saving power? Earnest, fer¬ vent prayer is in reality an open doorway to unlimited possibilities. The ministry of prayer is the greatest there is — a ministry in which every Christian can, indeed should have a vital part. How much we need to really get down on our knees in these last days and pray! Christ said, “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” This should challenge us to pray as never before. As we kneel together in the presence of God, pouring our hearts out to Him, we are filled with an inner peace that surpas¬ ses understanding. “When at the throne of grace I come to seek Thy face Then I can run life’s race all undismayed; When I petitions bear and plead Thy promise there, The answer to my prayer is not delayed.” Evelina Reimer. Sunday School Work It has been my privilege and ' opportunity to teach a Sunday School class in Giroux m for some time. I have been greatly blessed, first by studying the Word of God for my¬ self, and then to present it to the children. The Lord is speaking to their hearts and it is my prayer and desire that they would accept Jesus as their personal Saviour. Teaching children is much m ' ore import¬ ant and profitable than we often think. They each have a living soul. Experience teaches us that children in their state of innocence are won for Christ far easier than older people who are living in sin and have become hardened against the Word of God. In Psalm 51:5 it says “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me.” We kn ' ow that through the first sin, everyone has sinned and come short of the glory of God. Rom. 3:23. Therefore, as soon as a child reaches the age of accountability it is lost and needs to be saved to have eternal life. Children differ very much and we should watch them very carefully. “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Prov. 22:6. Continued on Page 40

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26 RTEINBACH BIBLE ACADEMY YEAR BOOK Science and the Scriptures The Bible is the most read book in the world, yet it is the most misunderstood book too. This Book claims to be true and claims to contain the very words of God. Skeptics may disagree with this fact and may try to prove their point by saying that the Bible is not in harmony with science. There are others who say, “because the Bible is not written in scientific langu¬ age it is not necessarily in agreement with science.” But we find that even though the Book d ' oes not use many “high sounding” words, with Latin origins, it does contain scientific facts and is true to science throughout. We shall look at a few points to show that the Bible is true. An important argument for the Bible is that it does not contain the errors of science that existed in the cultures of the time of the Bible authors. For example, archeologists have found on clay tablets writings of the scholars of ancient Egypt. These wise men, who were evolutionists, believed that at one time there was a wing¬ ed egg, flying around in space and from it the earth hatched. They explain the origin of men thus: In the slime of the Nile River lived white worms. These worms were be¬ lieved to have evolved, after a long time, into what we now call human beings. The wise men of Egypt had evidently seen worms change to butterflies and they ap¬ parently based their theory upon this fact. According to Acts 7:22 Moses “was learn¬ ed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians.” Moses was the writer of the first five books of the Bible and is the one who writes about the beginning of the World. But when we turn to Gen. 1:1 we find he writes nothing about the winged egg but writes, In the beginning God created hea¬ ven and the earth.” Then in verse 27 of the same chapter we read, “God created man.” We cannot help but agree with the Apostle Peter when he says, “Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (2 Pet. 1:21). Everyone, except a comparatively small number of infidels, to¬ day say that there is a God who created the world. Considering the wonders of modern sci¬ ence we cannot deny that it has made great progress in the last half century. But still more astounding is the remarkable way in which recent discoveries have been portray¬ ed in the Bible. For many years Bible crit¬ ics based their arguments against the Bible on Gen. 22:17 where God compares the number of stars with the number of grains of sand on the sea shore. Until recently it was believed that there were only a few thousand stars. Why, you can have that grains of sand in a few handfuls. But now through the newest and largest telescopes, men have seen millions of stars which were previously not known to exist. Astronomers now say it is quite probable that the num¬ ber of grains of sand equal the number of stars. Now let us turn to Isaiah 40:22. Here we find a fact that was “proved” less than 500 years ago by Magellan, in 1519. We read of the “circle of the earth” in a book that was written hundreds of years before Christ, yet till the time of Magellan most people believed that it was flat. Isaiah could never have recorded such truth if God had not guided his pen. In Job, chapter 38, verse 7 God speaks of the time when “the morning stars sang together.” Bible critics once said “Of course the stars don’t sing.” Now physicists have found that light, color and sound are fun¬ damentally the same. The differences are mainly wave lengths and frequency. Scien¬ tists have discovered that each light ray has a tonal value which changes with the changes of color. If our Creator had tuned our ears t ' o hear those tones, we could listen to the songs of the stars. “Canst thou send lightnings that they may go, and say unto thee, here we are?” This was a question God asked Job who had to answer, no. But were he living in the twentieth century, he could have answered, yes. Now we can send lightnings or elec¬ tricity which bring messages to far bff places. The telephone can now carry our words along wires for thousands of miles at an unbelievable speed. Radio is even more wonderful. It carries the voice around the world. In the same time that the human voice travels thirteen feet, radio will carry it a thousand miles. In fact, it is possible to send a message to any part of the world and receive a reply in one and a half se¬ conds! Did Job ever think of such possibil¬ ities? No, but God did! It is true that man has accomplished much in solving scientific problems of to¬ day, but it seems that the more problems scientists solve, the more they find still unsolved. Everyone is ready to admit that in past years men of science had many false ideas, but it is harder to realize how many wrong theories there still are, which have to be done away with. In the places where the Bible disagrees with today’s man-made theories, it is not because the Bible has not caught up with science, but rather, that science has not yet caught up with the Bible! These and many other scientific proofs are contained in the Word of God. Glen Reimer. ★