Tyndale University College and Seminary - Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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TffMt3llllilf9CllfClf tlEllHllA.lNlit?fllfBS Every organism maintains its life by change and adaptation. Our bodies continually undergo a process of adyustment to the environment. XVhen the writer came from Britain a few years ago he found that nature generously cared for the variation in season and climate by making certain definite adjustments to the new environ- ment, thus enabling the physical organism to continue to function without interruption in the new country, XY-'e have heard it stated that the laws of the Medes and Persians did not change, but they did not serve a living God. Nations, like indi- viduals, must adapt themselves to changing con- ditions or perish. Stability is not stagnation. The College, like every living thing, changes in numerous ways but, like the human body, it remains identically the same while it keeps on changing. lt perennially renews its strength, its spirit and its testimony without changing its principles or its message. Missionaries on furlough and other graduates returning to college after years of absence, find the same fellowship which they learned to appre- ciate during their undergraduate days. They find the college day still begins with the hour of prayer from H until 93 that each class period begins with prayerg that each Tuesday at 10, books are dropped, classes forgotten and othces closed, in order to permit the entire school family to gather for the weekly devotional hour. They find the XX'ednesday missionary meeting at 12 as well attended as everg that cabinet and committees function in the way they have done for years, and, when they vist the various lec- tures, while they may observe that the lecturer is a stranger to them, they immediately recog- nize that his message has the same emphasis as that which they learned to recognize as being distinctively typical of T.B.C. The year 1948 was a year of many changes at the College. Dr. Witters, who had laboured with patience. grace and faithfulness for over twenty years in the office of Registrar, retired to lighter duties in the ofhce of Medical Adviser. Mr. Shildrick, after over twenty years as Director of Music, found it necessary to relinquish his duties on account of the unsatisfactory condition of his health. Both of these gentlemen made an outstanding contribution to the development of the work in their respective departments. Their term of office will be known as the decades of XVaters and Shildrick. They will be greatly missed by the hundreds of students who came to know them and who prohted by their ministry and counsel. Mr. Vesey won a warm place for himself in the affection of a large part of our college con- stituency by his contacts on behalf of college maintenance, and Mrs. Lantz, by her careful attention to detail and her association with hundreds of graduates over a period of almost twenty years, endeared herself to many mem- bers of our College family. It is fitting that the Gateway of 19-19 should acknowledge the contribution made by these devoted servants of God to the developing and expanding ministry of T.B.C. and to the wider interests of the church and the kingdom. In the providence of God their places have been taken by younger men and women who are equally capable, equally devoted and who are imbued with the desire to maintain, strengthen and expand the ministry to which they have been called. The College ministry of the writer has been contemporaneous with that of those recently retired and those chosen to succeed them. He is overjoyed to be in a position to announce to the friends of the College every- where that for loyalty to revealed truth, for devotion to the Spirit of Christ, for qualities of leadership, for thoroughness of academic preparation for appreciation of the college min- istry, and for self-sacrificing service, the new members of the Faculty are not one whit behind their predecessors and not one bit inferior to their colleagues. Changes such as occurred in 19-LH are inevitable in every developing institu- tion, but to return to the thought with which we commenced this thumb-nail sketch, the Col- lege has again renewed its strength, chastened its spirit and enriched its testimony without changing its principles, its outlook or its mes- sage- still Holding forth the Wortl of Life. sem..

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