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

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MR. MENNO R. HAMM ILD STUDY. SUNDAY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION, PIANO

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The Bible Institute Relative to the Home Church Bible School training supplements teach¬ ing in the home church. Much of the acti¬ vity of the church is not training — per¬ haps some teaching, and I’m afraid often mere telling. Clarence H. Benson has ex¬ plained the difference well. “To tell” is merely informing; “to teach” is making information clear; “to train” is leading to do what is understood. If the learner does not live the truth, he actually did not learn it. The Bible Institute provides for Christian training which prepares the student for future service in the home church and elsewhere. This training naturally includes intensive Bible study and missions which instills into the heart of our youth love for the unsaved, and a passion for their salvation. Bible school also offers: (1)guid¬ ance by dedicated teachers through coun¬ selling, thus giving the student proper di¬ rection: (2) positive influence in dormitory life, leading to a better working relation¬ ship with others — better social adjust¬ ments so essential to the work of the church or on the mission field; (3) extra¬ curricular activities affording opportunity to acquire experience in ac cepting respon¬ sibilities. In short, the Bible Institute of¬ fers a well-balanced preparation for posi¬ tion of leadership in the church and on the mission field of the world. The task of the church is evangelism. No one ignorant of the Word of God can be a soul-winner. The ultimate purpose of MR. HENRY HIEBERT NOTATION I AND II. CONDUCTING, HISTORY OF MUSIC, CHOIR, VOICE REV. SAM EPP EXEGESIS, CHURCH ADMINISTRATION Bible training in our Bible Institute is also that of evangelism. The Bible Institute supplements and compliments the work of the home church. Rev. Sam Epp The Elements of Goof Sacred Music “Good sacred music” — What constitutes good sacred music ? Our wide range of “sacred” music shows people are not a- greed on this matter. One person says the only really good sacred music are the old chorales, while the next person claims modern songs like, The Man Upstairs, con¬ stitutes the good of our sacred music. The problem then is, how can we decide which is good and which is not good. All I can do in this short treatise, is give a few basic guiding points that we can employ in mak¬ ing our decisions. Our first guiding point can well be the test of endurance. Like a good painting, a good song will not easily be lost with the passage of time. The popular, shallow song, springs up one day and is lost the next. To prove this, you need only go to the files of the popular songs. How many of the popular songs of the past decade do you remember, and recognize as still occupying a place of popularity? There are virtually none! One of the most important elements in good music is the text (words) — music (accompaniment) correlation. Oh Sacred Head Now Wounded, is an excellent ex- Continued on page 40 13

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MR. I. J. WARKENTIN MATH. GR. XII, CHEMISTRY GR. XII On the Canvas of Time There are few works of art that are quite so impressive to the imaginative mind as a good painting. Never have I been privileg¬ ed to see rare creations like Da Vinci’s “Last Supper”, although many a time my mind’s eye has tried to fathom the depth of personality and life of which the painting must speak. However, at this time I do not intend to revel in the work of human genius, but in a work of far greater value, the work of the Master of Painters, bringing to divine perfection, on the canvas of time, a human life. This painting I would describe to you. In the heart of this picture is a stream of sparkling water, clear as crystal, gurg¬ ling and splashing its way over a bed of gray rock overlaid with moss. What a pic¬ ture of life it is; the very life of God, the Holy Spirit within a mortal frame! “For the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus, the law of our new being, has freed me from the law of sin and death.” On either side of the stream are trees, tall and straight. Their huge arms, be¬ decked with myriads of rustling leaves, stretch in all directions, forming a para¬ dise of shade. Thick roots have pushed their way downward, and from the river’s inexhaustable supply have come these manifestations of its life, the fruit of the Spirit — “love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, tem¬ perance.” As I peer, fascinated, into the forest Continued on page 40 Biography - Mr. IVarkentin Mr. Warkentin was bom in 1885 in the village of Hoffnungsfeld, near Winkler, Manitoba. He received most of his elemen¬ tary and high school education in Winkler, part of it in Gretna, and attended the University of Manitoba from 1908-1912 for higher education. In 1913 he went to Leip¬ zig, Germany to study Pedagogy. The outbreak of World War I prevented him from going back to Canada. During the earlier part of the war he was more or less at liberty except for six weeks spent in a Leipzig jail. In February of 1915 he was interned in Ruhleben Civilian Prisoners Camp, about 10 miles from Berlin. A month after the war ended he was again set free and returned home just before Christmas, 1918. Back in Canada he took Normal School training at Winnipeg, then taught for about forty years, mostly in Manitoba high schools, and in June 1955 retired from ac¬ tive service. He continues in semi-retire¬ ment teaching Chemistry and Mathematics Grade 12 at the Steinbach Bible Institute, and has for his hobbies studying Chemistry and gardening. MISS AGATHA FAST SECRETARY 15