Vennard College - Vision Yearbook (University Park, IA)

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i 'i- 5-ra it LOOKING THROUGH THE TELESCOPE Cin reversej By Arthur F. Wesley Such it must be to describe our Christmas-New Year's trip over South America. The reader is asked to fill in the stars, star-dust, etc., which may be necessary, by using his imagination. The Wesleys were in the Super-Constellations and planes of a lesser brand soaring over mountains, plains, and seas, even whole continents at the dizzying pace of seven miles a minute for most of our 14,000 mile trip. We had for the whole rtip what is known as the Scriptural measure of blessing: filled up, pressed down, and running over, from the first generous co-operation on the part of the school authorities in permitting our prolonged absence for the so-called Christmas vacation, from both Vennard College and University Park Day School, to the end of our 35 days of journeying in South America. The way the Lord has opened so many closed doors is a story in itself. We could not have gone at all nor even con- tinued planning without these extra material proofs of His approval and aid. As I tell the family, Even though we have changed our address several times in these last four years, the Lord still knows where we live. We visited Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Uraguay, Argentina, and Chile. While in Brazil, we saw the Iguazu Falls which are the worlds largest cataracts, being two and one-half miles wide. We visited our own two families Q31 persons in allj in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as many members of our Christian family in and near Santiago, Chile. We also visited, although unwillingly and uncomfortably in sweltering heat, and during a city-wide strike of all transportation workers, the Police Department and adjacent shops for photos and documents in superabundance, made necessary by new Qand unknown to usj laws, evidently designed to tease and bother the traveling public and tie them up with rolls of bows and knots of unending red tape. For the children's benefit, that they might know at first hand something of the work their Dad did forty years ago and onward, we stopped in Montivideo, Uraguay fHouse of Friendshipj, Santiago, Chile QSweet Memorialj, and Buenos Aires, Argentina CBoca Missionjg the three institutional churches left as montunents in those three great capital cities. Two of these were founded by the girls' father, and the other, he built up into a larger and better institution. Of course, all these institutions are much more than brick and mortar buildings for us. We were also privileged to visit as an entire family, for the first time, my wife's family, on Christmas and New Year's days, and my married daughters' families on those same days. Naturally, we were visited by many former fellow-workers in the church, former students, neighbors, and friends in general, during these days and were made to feel again This fellowship of kindred minds is like to that above. Imagine, if you can, what all this meant to this old, old man, now out of things, and like the grasshopper mentioned in Ecclesiastes 5- dragging his foot! When our trip was but a dream, we kept up our hopes by adopting a theme-song: When we all get to Chile, what a day of rejoicing that will be. But while in the Brazilian jungle in 95 degree weather, we agreed to change our theme song to jingle Bells, which served us well when we reached Iowa, which was under a blanket of snow and ice. Our final theme song is Home, Sweet Home, and we turn the telescope around, look heavenward and remember The voice that calleth out the stars made all the promises. 60

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