Winkler Bible School - Morning Star Yearbook (Winkler, Manitoba Canada)

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Third Class Speaks In looking back at a year filled with blessings, we stop a moment and ask our¬ selves if it has been worthwhile. We say “yes” and not without reason: the members of the third class have learned to enjoy the fellowship of working together at a common task. This task has been to learn more about God, His Word, and His Work. We realize that without Divine help this is impossible, therefore every week the class has met for a short season of prayer. We have received strength and encouragement for our task through these weekly prayer meetings. All through the year the great work of Christian service has been presented to us in various forms. Our course of study, has led us into a consideration of the fields of Sunday School, Foreign Missions, Homiletics, and Personal Work. Sunday School, as we have seen, is of great importance, not only to our churches, hut also to society, because religion is being neglected in the public schools. In studying missions we have learned how men of God have followed Christ’s command to carry the Gospel to every creature. To know their problems, is a help in their intelligent prayer support. Personal Work was presented to us as a service open to every Christian, yet it is sadly neglected because some of us are so concerned about many souls at one time that we do not focus our attention on one at a time. We have enjoyed our year in Third Class. In working together we have become close friends. When one or another was forced to be absent, the rest of us noticed it immediately. It was as though a link were missing in the chain. In certain re¬ spects we are sorry to leave the school, but we realize that we must go out and put into practice the many things we have learned. May our class motto, I Corinthians 16:13, go with us, “Watch ye, stand fast, quit you like men, be strong.” Allan Labun.

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SPECIAL STUDENT HENRY A. HILDEBRAND, Winkler, Man. Temporarily gave up teaching to study God ' s Word. Conscien¬ tious. thoughtful and wise. Valedictory Again the time is rapidly approaching when we will have to say, “fare ye well” to our fellow students. It creates a mixed feeling in us to think that our time spent in this school is now drawing to an end. We are happy and rejoicing in the fact that we have acquired much in these past years. We have seen Jesus. Yet our hearts are saddened to think that we must part from our classmates and fellow students. Probably most of us will occasionally meet again in the various occupations which we will be entering. But for others it may be a lengthier parting. However, the time will come when we will meet again. In looking back at the four years spent in school, we say that truly the Lord gave grace sufficient for each day. Most of us were born again when we started out in school, but perhaps for some it was the place where they experienced a change from death to life. The days got better as we went along and we realized that in a way we all came here for the same purpose—to get the full assurance a child of God should have, to be grounded deeper in God’s Word, “and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.”—I Peter 3:15. Even though we realize that there is yet much to be drawn from God’s Word we know that we have stepped ahead in many things during these years. What the future has in store for us, we cannot tell. The signs of the times may make us tremble. However, with Christ in the vessel we can smile at the storm. Our prayer is that we may follow Jesus all the way, every day. For we know that as the Apostle Paul was sure of one thing we can also be sure of that same thing: “But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” May we, even though our plans may be set, be willing to follow Christ one step at a time. May the work that we do prove to be a fruitful one so that we need not appear empty-handed. May we do what the Apostle Paul urges the Philippians to do: “Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.”—Phil. 2:16. Abe Goertzen. 16

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Okaluuitpa of tltr § mtl)ay §duutl (Enwrap V 4 c - ! :i • i vv HeS ii 1 ■ ■ ■ “ placket, steiict tm Ojtlanluut, licit unit scilt stark! seiit marmt- - 1 liar, lit; 13 HENRY KRICKHAN, Winnipeg, Man. Actively contributes to class discussions. Serves his fellow students as assistant dean. ADINA GOERTZEN, Ste. Anne, Man. Our efficient assistant dean of girls is conscientious, studious, and sincere. 18