Trevecca Nazarene University - Darda Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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It Is to such places as these that Trevecca ' s Christian workers go to carry the message of love to men and women whose souls are more tightly bound by sin than their phy- sical bodies can ever be bound by bars. Often the students who visit the jails and work houses go away rejoicing over the sol ' Is who have found the Lord as their Saviour. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. —John 3:16.

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GRAMMAR GRADES MILDRED CAMPBELL JAMES CARGILE JIMMY DOBSON LAWTON DRAKE TENNYSON HOWARD MRS. M. A. MACKEY, Principal MRS. ELIZABETH SPRUILL, Instructor THURSTON JOHNSON EVA FAY MACKEY NEVA GAY MACKEY MAE McLENDON MALCOLM JAMES NORTH HOWARD SPRUILL JAMES SPRUILL JEAN SPRUILL SARAH SPRUILL KATE STONE THOMAS STONE Snow at Trevecca

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CHRISTIAN WORKERS AT TREVECCA If Trevecca were only an educational Institu- tion it would be worthwhile, but it is more than that. Young men and women can get training at Trevecca which is not possible In everybody ' s college, and while they are getting this training they are doing a work which cannot be valued In dollars and cents. Throughout each week and over the week-ends one hundred or more of these boys and qlrls take part in carrying the gospel to approximately one thousand persons sick in body or soul. These students visit the penal institutions, hospitals, sanitariums, orphan- ages, and individual homes of the city, and hold street services regularly. To observe Trevecca students engaged In this regular Christian work and to see the passion they have for souls would convince anyone of their sincere consecration and possession of a vital experience of salvation. No one can estimate the value of this Chris- tian work to the city and state and nation. To help a criminal find the Christ who changes his life means saving the taxpayers ' money by cut- ting out court bil ls, jail expenses, and damage to public property, besides eliminating the dan- ger to the lives of Innocent people. These Christian workers do a work that ordi- nary Individuals would not do for money; yet they are happy In trying to give to others in part what they have received. At practically every service they see some mother ' s boy or girl profess faith In the Christ who said, Who- soever will may come and drink of the water of life freely. Every year they have from one thou- sand to eleven hundred converts. Only the white light of the ludgment can reveal the good Tre- vecca ' s Christian workers have done. A few weeks ago In the hospital a man who seemed to be very near death ' s door said to one of our preacher boys, I thank God for Trevecca students who take an Interest in carryinq thp nospel of salvation to places which are ordinarily forgotten, for It was in one of their services In the city iail that Christ qot hold of my heart and saved me. I ' m not afraid of death now. This and other similar statements more than repay Trevecca ' s Christian workers for all they do. The happiness they enjoy over a soul who finds Christ cannot compare with that which Is awaiting them on heaven ' s shore, for there will be many thev heloed to Christ shouting around the throne of God. hJo other power can mean as much toward making our country ' s living conditions better as the love of God in the hearts of Individuals. Nothing, not even education, can cause a per- son to hold his head up, take care of his family, and treat his fellow man honestly and squarely except Christ. Nashville has reason to be proud of what the Christian workers of Trevecca Col- lege are doing. Christian Workers Association