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And the privilege is ours today in our on going study of 2 Timothy to come to chapter 3, a new section, the second half of the chapter from verse 10 through 17. This is a great section of Scripture, a rich section of Scripture and one which deserves more than one week's attention and so I'm sure you'll agree with me as we begin, we'll be looking at it for a number of weeks. It's one of those passages that includes a favorite text, the familiar verses of 16 and 17, "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching and reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness that the man of God may be adequate equipped for every good work." Those two verses alone are going to demand a great deal of our attention just so that we will understand the essence of the inspired Scripture and its sufficiency for our lives. But that's for a couple of weeks away. For this morning we want to take a look at the first part of this section, verses 10 through 13. And then in the weeks ahead we'll look at 14 through 17 as the Lord directs. Let me give you just a little bit of a feeling for what is going on as the Apostle Paul writes to Timothy. Timothy is at Ephesus, as you know if you've been with us, he is assisting in setting that church straight. It had deviated doctrinally and it had deviated in terms of its living patterns into ungodly living. Paul left Timothy there and told him to set things right in the church. He writes back to him two epistles, 1 and 2 Timothy, to assist Timothy in knowing what to do and how to do it and challenging him to stick with the task no matter how difficult it might be.
As he begins chapter 3 the key is really in that first verse where Paul reminds Timothy that in the last days, that is the church age from the first coming of Christ until His Second coming, that's all the last days as we saw, perilous times will come upon the church. Timothy should not be surprised that he's enduring some perilous dangerous difficult times in Ephesus. That is to be expected throughout the whole of the church age. The church always lives in dangerous times. And the reason is given, the reason is because there are wicked men who attack the church who are impostors, who are spiritual frauds who endeavor to deceive and destroy the work of God. The church is always in danger from wicked men who are seducers and frauds and charlatans of religion who come against the work of God. Now we have been noting the perilous times in which we live even today. Last week I gave you a little bit of a look at church history and we saw some of the things that have been a great danger and continue to be a great danger to the church today. The onslaught against the church is just about endless. We talked about the danger of sacramentalism, that's the religion of ritual...the danger of rationalism, that's the religion that reduces everything to what the human mind can understand and explain...the religion of orthodoxism, the encroachment upon Christianity that has a dead, cold belief in biblical data that never touches life...we talked about the danger of politicism, where the church becomes the center of political activity rather than spiritual activity...we talked about the danger of ecumenism where doctrine is set aside and the crucial truths of God's Word are not the issue getting together and some kind of superficial unity is...we talked about experientialism where truth is determined by own experience...we talked about subjectivism where the focal point of all of Christian experiences to look inward and see what's going on in your own life and extrapolate out of that what is truth and what is important. We could add to those things cultism, the ever increasing bevy of cults that call themselves Christian that continue to add to their number. You are familiar with things like Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons and Christian Science and Unity Cult and things like that but you can hardly keep up with all of the wave of the new ones. I made a little list of new cults that are moving rapidly in our society like The River of Life Ministry, The Body of Christ is another one, Mispa(??) Brethren, The Community Chapel started in Seattle, The Family of Love, The Alamo Christian Church, the Church of Bible Understanding, The Love Family, The Church of Armageddon, Faith Assembly and The Church of the Living Word. And then The Christ Family, which is interesting because everybody changes their last name to Christ and so they're Bill Christ and Joe Christ and Mary Christ and so forth.
The onslaught of these kinds of isms is unending against the church. Now what Paul is saying to Timothy is, "It's true in my time, it's true in your time, it will be true through all the times and the seasons of the church that the church will be in grave danger and peril from the onslaught of those wicked people who come along masquerading as representatives of Christian truth but who deceive people.
Now Paul knows that it takes strong men to stand against that. He was one, he wanted Timothy to be one and certainly this became Scripture so that God might call us to be among those who take strong stands. There are very few who do, to be honest with you. There are a lot of people who are Christians relatively. There are a lot of pastors and leaders but there seem to be few who want to get involved as stalwart soldiers with an uncompromising resolute commitment to stand against the tide that flows against the truth. There seem to be so few. And if you take strong stands and if you're a non-compromising resolute kind of defender of the faith, the enemies of the faith attack you but some within the faith who are weak can't understand what you're so exercised about. They don't even understand the nature of the spiritual warfare and they treat the real fighters as if they were off- balance fanatics.
Now Paul knew that Timothy was to be a key leader in the church and that it would fall on Timothy to be the general of the army that would defend the faith. Beloved, in every generation God has to have people like that who hold the line who call for the preservation of the truth to get it passed on to the next generation. And there's never been a generation that has more need for that kind of character than this one. We're so far down the path of the last days toward the coming of Christ that evil has escalated and we have accumulated so many aberrations that this is a time and a season for strong men and women to take strong stands for the truth. It's always been vital to the life of the church, never more so than it is now.
Now Paul was that kind of a fighter. In fact, the whole epistle of 2 Timothy is a call for Timothy to be loyal and defend the faith...there in Ephesus and anywhere and everywhere else he might find himself. And Paul reminds him repeatedly in this epistle of his own strong stand of how he stood and suffered and was persecuted and endured for his uncompromising character when it came to the Word of God. He wants Timothy to be strong. He wants Timothy to hold the line. He wants Timothy to guard sound doctrine. He says that to him in the first epistle and again in the second epistle. He wants Timothy not to be influenced by the encroachment of false teaching. He wants Timothy not to be bought off or intimidated. He wants him to stand as a strong soldier against the attacks that come on the church. In the first half of 2 Timothy he articulated the fact that taking a stand is going to mean suffering. In the second half, the part we're in right now, he says a great deal of that suffering comes because of the false teachers and the false doctrine in the church. As he moves now toward the end of the epistle in verses 10 to 17, he calls for Timothy to be strong. And then in chapter 4 he says in that strength, go out and preach the Word, be instant in season and out of season.
So as we look at verses 10 to 17, Paul's focus here is on Timothy being strong and loyal as a defender of the faith. And what he does here implicit in this passage is give to Timothy and to us the three necessary ingredients in the character of a strong soldier of the faith. Okay? If a person is to be a strong soldier of the faith, there are three things that are usually true about them. Number one, they have a strong example as a mentor. Strong men tend to be the producers of other strong men. To reverse it, strong men tend to be the product of other strong men. And what Paul wants Timothy to recognize and us as well, is that Timothy has had a pattern of a strong man on which to trace his own life. That is vital to the building of a strong man. The second thing he says in this text is that the kind of men who stand true in an uncompromising way for the faith not only have a strong example as mentor but secondly, they have strong convictions built into their spiritual foundation. They have convictions built in to their spiritual foundation. Paul will refer not only to his own input into Timothy's life but the input of Timothy's mother and Timothy's grandmother which were all a part of building the strong foundation that gave him strong convictions that really are the reason why men stand strong.
And then thirdly, those who are the strong soldiers who defend the faith have a strong confidence in Scripture. They understand that Scripture is inspired by God and profitable and can make the man of God adequate, fully outfitted for every good work. Those are the three ingredients to tend to build strong men...a strong pattern to follow, a strong spiritual foundation and a strong confidence in the Word of God. We're going to be looking at those over the next couple of weeks. We'll also digress a bit when we get to verses 16 and 17 and I may prepare a message or two on the inspiration of Scripture so that we can understand fully what it means when it says "All Scripture is inspired by God."
Now what is Paul saying to Timothy? Timothy, you're going to have to be a general in the spiritual army. In other words, you've got to stem the tide, fight the battle, lead the troups. You have what it takes. You have had a strong spiritual example in me. You have had a strong set of convictions developed in your spiritual foundation by your mother, your grandmother and by me. And you understand by personal experience the tremendous sufficiency and authority of God's Word. When those things are part of your life, there is much to commend you to be a general, as it were, in the army that defends the faith. Let me say again, there are a lot of pastors, there are a lot of Christian leaders, there are a lot of good Christian lay people in the church but they're not many warriors for the truth who guard right doctrine, who cry out for uncompromising holiness. They are few and far between, certainly in this generation. And yet the church desperately needs them if we are to pass on a legacy of truth and conviction to the generation to follow.
Now for our time this morning I just want to look at the first point, verses 10 through 13, that tells us that strong defenders of the faith usually are produced by strong examples as their spiritual mentor. Verse 10, "But you followed my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my perseverance, my persecutions and my sufferings such has happened to me in Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra, what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me and indeed all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, but evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived."
Now the key thing that I want you to note there and underline, two words in verse 10, "you followed...you followed." And I want to expand on that as the major concept and thrust in this particular text. Timothy had a tremendous spiritual example, the epitome of patterns to trace your life on was Timothy's pattern, namely the Apostle Paul. And as I said, uncompromising champions of the truth usually have learned that at the feet of a stalwart defender of the faith. That was Timothy's case. Paul himself was the model. You followed...and then Paul lists all those things about himself that Timothy followed. You patterned your life after me. You followed the demonstration of uncompromising loyalty that was true of my life and you set your life in that same pattern. You saw that I suffered and that didn't deter me. You saw that I was persecuted and that didn't deflect my goal. You saw that I made the commitment whatever the price, you have had that pattern for your pattern. And several times in 2 Timothy he says you've got to suffer like I suffered, you've got to endure like I endured, you have to expect persecution like I got it...that's the pattern. You've seen it, you've followed it, you've traced your life on it, you know what it means to have a strong example.
And let me say just in a general sense before we look specifically at the passage, I am absolutely convinced that this is a tremendously important point. We are all copiers, we are all mimics, we are all imitators and who you pattern your life after is going to be who you turn out to be in great measure. You are marked by your models. You are marked by your mentors. You are marked by the patterns you choose to follow...your heroes, your examples mark you. That's why I tell young people all the time, it's so important whose ministry you sit under, what school you go to, particularly what seminary you go to because the people who influence your life will do that. They will mark you. They will mark you with their set of convictions, with their perceptions and perspectives. If Timothy is to be loyal and strong against apostasy, if he is to stand against heresy and all attacks on the church then he is going to be able to do that if he has learned to do that by patterning his life after someone who is like that. That's the challenge.
And Paul is concerned with Timothy's loyalty. And he is concerned that Timothy make the most of his privilege of having been patterned after the Apostle Paul himself.
Now in verses 1 to 9 as you remember, there is a blistering exposure and indictment of the false teachers who teach error and live in ungodly ways and how masquerade as if they belong to the church. But in contrast to that, coming to verse 10, Paul says, "But you," and that's in the emphatic position in the original language, "But you," on the other hand, in contrast to all the deceitful false teachers and wicked men, "You followed," and we'll just put the word "me" in there to sum up everything Paul says in verses 10 and 11. You had a pattern to follow to make you different. "You" is emphatic, pointing out that Timothy has had a very distinct training.
Let me talk a little about the word "followed," it's very important. It's not just a simple word that means to follow in some generic sense. It's a rich word that has some profound insight, parakolouthen(?) literally is to follow alongside. That's simply its literal meaning. But as you see how it's used in ancient times, it begins to open up in incredible ways. For example, the Stoic philosophers used the word as a technical term for the relationship between a disciple and his master, a student and his teacher, a very close relationship was expressed in this term. You followed not from afar, not at a distance, but you followed in an intimate relationship as a master and a disciple are connected. Some have translated it, for example, like this, "to study at close quarters," or "to carefully note with a view to reproducing," or "to take as an example." So let's take that middle meaning and read it this way, "But you carefully noted my life with a view to reproducing it." That's the essence of the word. You patterned after me. You began to think like I think, talk like I talk, walk like I walk, react like I react. You patterned your life after me.
It was Paul the Apostle and Timothy the disciple, Paul the father and Timothy the child, Paul the leader and Timothy the companion, Paul the head and Timothy the associate, Paul the leader and Timothy the follower, Paul the example and the friend. That's the way it went, Timothy the submissive learner and servant. Timothy was ever at his side, always at his side learning, learning, learning to imbibe the spirit of an uncompromising defender of the faith. There has never lived a greater defender of the faith than Paul. And Timothy had an inestimable privilege that none of us will ever have, to walk alongside that incredible man.
The aorist tense is used here which sums up all of Timothy's experience. You followed from the beginning of our time together to the present time you patterned your life after me. And, beloved, I want you to know that that is part of the necessary ingredients in a person who is a champion of the faith. You look for someone who has had a pattern to follow like that. And this really summarizes the whole of Timothy's experience. So much was Timothy in one sense a clone of the Apostle Paul that in 1 Corinthians 4, Paul...of course...is very upset with the Corinthian church and he says to them, "I exhort you therefore be imitators of me," verse 16. You need to pattern your life after me. Then he says, "For this reason, because I want you to be like me I have sent to you Timothy." Now if Paul wanted them to be like him, why did he send Timothy? He says, "Because he will remind you of my ways." He was a clone of Paul. He was a stalwart, he was strong. He was courageous. He had had that exposure and that opportunity. And yes he had moments when he was weak and when he struggled and when he vacillated and so did Paul. But nonetheless the pattern for that young man's life was this strong resolute uncompromising man of God, the Apostle Paul. And that kind of patterning tends to produce the same kind of person. And if you want to be that kind of person, you need to be with those kinds of people because they will mark you with their life. They'll mark you with their convictions.
Now I want to talk a little bit about the word "my," you have followed my teaching. I read it to you a few moments ago and you probably noted that even though it wasn't in your text I read the word "my," the possessive pronoun my, before everyone of those things in that list. Why? Because that's what the Greek calls for. In each case there is a definite article, the possessive pronoun at the beginning and then the definite article before each one of those qualities indicates that the repetition of the possessive pronoun is called for. And so it should be emphasized this way...my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my perseverance, my persecutions and my sufferings, such has happened to me. And what he's emphasizing is you patterned your life after me, you did what I did in this point, this point, this point, this point, this point.
Now sometimes you hear people say, "Oh man, that guy is just another clone of So-and-so." That's right. There's nothing wrong with that. Paul, as I read a moment again in 1 Corinthians 4:16, said to the whole Corinthian church, "Be imitators of me," that is to be expected, we will imitate somebody or somebodies, we might as well imitate people worthy to be imitated. It is not wrong to be a reproduction if you are a reproduction of the right person. And that was the case with Timothy. He had followed all those attributes of Paul. He was the pattern.
And, beloved, again I say this is what makes for strong spiritual leaders. They have to have strong spiritual leaders as patterns and models. That's been our goal in the church, that's our goal at the college, our goal at the seminary is to provide that kind of strong leadership so that we produce not just nice Christian people but defenders of the faith, defenders of the truth who are willing to live in dangerous times and at any cost hold up the banner of God's divine revelation.
Now we could divide this list, Paul loves lists and every time you come across a list of Paul it's helpful if you can kind of divide it up and get the flow of this thought, and there are really three areas in this list that Paul covers. And he says you have followed me in all these three areas. The first one is ministry duty...ministry duty. And that's the first place where you learn how to pattern your life after someone. How do they carry on their ministry? He divides his ministry duty into two things...teaching and conduct. You have followed my teaching, my conduct. Teaching, didaskalia simply means what it says, doctrine, teaching, divine truth, the basis of everything. He says, "Timothy, you followed my teaching of truth, you followed my instruction, God's revelation. You followed apostolic doctrine, you followed my doctrine. In chapter 2 verse 2, "The things you heard from me in the presence of many witnesses you are to pass on to someone else." You learned from me, someone else needs to learn from you. The passing on of the apostolic doctrine was vital.
So Paul had learned and imitated...rather Timothy had learned and imitated Paul, first of all, in the area of ministry duty with regard to teaching. He had learned and followed Paul's doctrine. When he taught, he taught what Paul had taught him. That's what he was to do. The things you heard from me, teach faithful men and so they'll teach others also and will keep passing down the unmitigated, unaltered truth. That was absolutely vital.
In chapter 4 he says to him in verse 2, "Preach the Word...preach the Word. The time is coming...verse 3...when they won't endure sound doctrine but you preach it. Pass it on just as you have received it." That was vital.
It's so important to have the right mentor because at the bottom line of that teaching process is the content. I say this so often to people, be careful who you listen to, be careful what you read, be careful who you learn from because that all goes in to the foundation of what you assume to be truth. You must be very cautious with what you expose your mind to. And what a privilege to have had the Apostle Paul whose teaching was not only true but it was inspired teaching. Timothy had a tremendous privilege...so important to have the right teacher. It does no one good service to sit under people teaching error, to listen to people teaching lies, to be exposed to things that aren't true, rather to follow that which is true, the Word of God. So Timothy then followed Paul in the area of his ministerial duties by teaching the very things that Paul had taught him, he followed that pattern.
Secondly, he followed Paul not only in teaching but in conduct. That word agoge means manner of life, pattern of behavior, life style. It's a simple word used only here in the New Testament, but it has to do with your daily living. Now what was wonderful about Paul, and this is a good good thought to keep in mind, what was wonderful about Paul was that his doctrine was in perfect harmony with his living. And that has such tremendous integrity that it has an overwhelming impact on someone. When you live what you teach, you have a powerful influence. And here was a man who taught truth and lived truth consistently. That is great integrity. Timothy followed the pattern of ministry.
Now ministry in its simplest way can be described in these two things...your ministry is what you teach and how you live. Those are the duties of ministry...to teach truth and live truth, to teach what is right and live what is right. And Timothy followed Paul. He knew the pattern of how to teach truth and how to live truth. Those basic duties of ministry Timothy followed. And those things are essential in the patterning process. What any of us in leadership communicate to people first and foremost is what we teach and the way we live. And if there is disparity and inconsistency, there is tremendous confusion and chaos, loss of integrity is tragic.
So the bottom-line ministerial duty, the bottom-line duty in spiritual mentoring, if we can use that term, is to make sure your teaching and your living are consistent. Paul did that in front of Timothy, Timothy was doing that in front of others. He learned to follow the pattern of Paul with regard to consistency and integrity in his doctrine and in his duty.
Secondly, a second category that Paul deals with here in his list, not only did Timothy follow the pattern of ministry duty but of personal quality, secondly, personal qualities. Look again at verse 10, he says, "You also followed my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love," those four things. You followed in my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, those are personal character qualities. You patterned your life after me. Now let me show you what he means by this. Purpose, that's the first quality to start with...motive. What's in your heart? What's the purpose? Boy, I'm telling you, this is what dictates a man's life...what is the driving passion of his heart. The word purpose means that. The inner motive, the driving passion, the consuming desire of his heart...what was it for Paul? I'll tell you what it was, 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verses 16 to 18, "Woe is unto me if I...what?...preach not the gospel." Acts chapter 20, "I do not count my life dear unto myself, I want to finish the ministry Christ gave to me," he says in Acts chapter 20. "I have not failed to declare unto you the whole counsel of God." "My hands...as it were...are clean from any blood, I have discharged my responsibility to proclaim Christ, teach God's Word."
He was even willing to be judged by God. In 1 Corinthians chapter 4 he says in verse 3, "To me it's a very small thing that I would be examined by you or by any human court, in fact I don't even examine myself, the one who examines me is the Lord." In other words, I will let God judge my motive in the day when the secret things of the heart are revealed, he says in verse 5. This man was a driven man. He had a deep-seated pre-meditated motive to spend his entire life proclaiming God's truth without compromise, without deflection. He was resolute, he was unwavering. He was single minded in his commitment.
Now this is the thing that I want you to understand. That is the driving force from within that creates a life of truth and duty. When you look at a person and you see great spiritual integrity, you see a person who teaches truth and lives truth, you can know they're driven by a great internal purpose, to be to the glory of God, the honor of God, to do the thing that God has gifted, called, commissioned them to do. And it didn't matter to Paul about creature comforts, "For to me to live is Christ, to die is...what?...gain," Philippians 1. "Far better to depart and be with Christ." With Paul he didn't care what happened to him. They kept telling him, as I mentioned a moment ago in Acts 20, they kept telling him he was going to get in trouble when he went to Jerusalem. He said, "None of these things move me because I do not consider my life dear to myself." I'm not in this deal for self-preservation, I'm not in it for self-promotion, I'm not in it for self-comfort. I have this compelling duty to fulfill. That's my purpose.
He says, "Timothy, you followed my purpose. You patterned your life after me." Timothy must have been a driven man, a consumed man, a passionate man, a man who was bent on accomplishing the purposes of God. Tremendous character quality that he learned from Paul.
Now what kind of people does it take to be defenders of the faith? Those who have that driving purpose for sure. And they've caught it from someone they've been patterning their life after.
The second thing he mentions in verse 10 is faith...my faith. It could be that he means here faith in God, that would certainly be a fair translation of pistis, it could mean that. It also could mean faithfulness or trustworthiness. The same term would be translated that way and usually in lists that Paul makes like Galatians 5, the list there, 1 Timothy 2:15, 1 Timothy 4:12, in the list it seems best to translate it faithfulness. So he may be saying you have followed my consummate faith and trust in God or you have followed my faithfulness, loyalty, trustworthiness with regard to the truth. In either case what he is saying is I never compromised, I never wavered in my trust toward God and I never wavered in my loyalty to His Word and His calling. You followed my faith, you followed my faithfulness. That's a tremendous thought. Faith begets faithfulness, if you really trust God you'll be faithful to His Word and His will. He stayed true to the purpose. So he says you followed my purpose and that meant you followed my faith and faithfulness, you stayed true to it because you were driven by that purpose. And even when things don't go right, he says, you followed my patience, makrothumia. What is that? That is the spirit that endures persecution from people. The steadfast spirit that never gives up and never gives in. It means patience with people even persecuting people.
So he says, "Timothy, you followed my purpose, that resolute uncompromising devotion to do the duty God had given you, to preach Christ, exalt His name, extend His Kingdom with no thought for comfort, no thought for personal success, you did it, you were committed to doing it. Your faith never wavered, your faithfulness and loyalty was exemplary and even when persecution came you endured that, you took it, you were patient with people, even to people who persecuted you. Then he adds a fourth characteristic, my love you followed. You loved, you loved God in it all, you never lost your love for Him. You loved the church that's why you were willing to do it and you loved the lost and you loved even your enemies who persecuted you. We can take love and stretch it at the most magnanimous point here, the agape volitional love of Paul was evident in every dimension. He loved God unwaveringly. He loved the world so much that his heart broke when he saw a city given to idolatry. He loved the church so much that he gave his life on their behalf. And he loved even his enemies, even his enemies to the point where his desire for those who persecuted him was salvation. He had love in its widest broadest sense.
Now do you see the flow of qualities? When a man has a driving purpose to fulfill God's will he will be faithful to that purpose. Faithful to that purpose even though he is persecuted and hated by those around him. And even though being persecuted and hated, never moves away from loving God, loving the church, loving the lost and loving even the persecutors. Virtue upon virtue marks out the greatness of the heart of Paul. And Timothy followed that. He patterned his life after that. Timothy had all the ingredients here to be a strong defender of the faith because of the pattern he was following. He learned to have a great purpose. He learned to be faithful to that purpose. He learned to be patient even with those who tested his patience. And he learned to love even his persecutors. So he followed Paul in his ministry duties and he followed Paul in his personal qualities. Thirdly, he followed Paul in his difficult experiences. He was even made stronger because he went through some of the same difficult things that Paul went through. You followed not only these things, but look at the end of verse 10, you followed my perseverance, persecutions and sufferings. The ones that happened to me like those at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, what persecutions I endured and out of them all the Lord delivered me.
Now Paul went through some very difficult experiences and Timothy understood that. He saw that. He learned from that. He benefited from that. The word "perseverance," hupomone means patience with circumstances, not patience with people like the other word, makrothumia but patience with circumstances. Paul had some circumstances with which he showed his true spiritual character, times in jail, a thorn in the flesh given to him by Satan but God wanted him to have it because it made him humble and in his humility God gave him strength. There were circumstances in his life, not just people, but circumstances that he had to demonstrate patience with. He had to remain under, which is what the word means, without compromising. He never compromised when he was having to be patient with people and he never compromised when he was having to be patient with circumstances. He had that virtue, that indomitable spirit never gives up, never gives in. People can't take it away, circumstances can't take it away, it's resolute, persevering, enduring. Timothy caught that virtue. He patterned his life after that. He learned that ability to endure negative circumstances, to live under it no matter how difficult. And he learned it from Paul.
And then he says you also followed my persecutions. That word, diogmos from dioko, to pursue, means persecution is defined here as pursuit, people who wanted his life, plots. He says in Acts 20 the Jews were always lying in wait to kill him, plotting against him, plot after plot after plot to take the life of the Apostle Paul. It was a way of life, absolutely constant persecution. He writes about it in 1 Timothy, he writes about it in 2 Timothy, the hardships that he had to endure, the suffering, the persecution. Timothy saw that. Timothy patterned his life after that. By the way, Timothy was even there during some of those times, even going through it with the Apostle Paul such as in Acts 17, he saw what was going on in that situation. Acts 17, two verses 13 and 14, "But when the Jews of Thessalonica found out that the Word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, there came there likewise agitating...they came there likewise agitating and stirring up the crowds and then immediately the brethren sent Paul out to go as far as the sea and Silas and Timothy remained there." Timothy was there when the persecution was hot on many occasions such as that one.
So he says you were there during my difficult experiences. You've learned from me ministry duty. You've learned from me personal quality. You've learned from me difficult circumstances and how to face them. And then he adds the word "my sufferings." Sometimes the persecution actually became suffering. That was routine for Paul. The word used here has in it the root of the idea of pathos, suffering, sorrow. Sometimes Paul really got it. It wasn't just persecution coming at him, it hit him...it hit him and it hit him hard. He suffered in his own body, "I bear in my body the marks of Christ," he said. It happened not just once but a myriad of times. In 2 Corinthians you look at chapter 11 verse 23 and Paul says, "I have been in far more labors and far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death. Five times I received from the Jews 39 lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. A night and a day I have spent in the deep. I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false brethren. I have been in labor and hardship through many sleepless nights in hunger and thirst, often without food and cold and exposure."
I mean, this is a chronicle of his life...routine stuff, sufferings that dear Apostle went through for the sake of proclaiming the gospel of Christ. He says in 2 Corinthians 1:6, "If we're afflicted it's for your comfort and salvation. If we're comforted, it's for your comfort which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer." We suffer for you. We suffer for the gospel. We suffer to get the message out.
So Paul reminds Timothy of sufferings and says, "Timothy, you know, you've been there, you've endured them, you've learned how to handle them with me." So he says you have followed in verse 11, all of these ending up with persecutions and sufferings such has happened to me. And then he reaches back at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra. Why? Let me tell you something. Why does he go back there? Because those three cities were in the province of Galatia and that was Timothy's home province. Lystra was Timothy's home town. Now that is also the first place where there was recorded hostility against Paul. So he's simply going back to the beginning. And he says, "Such has happened to me at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra." And that's where the persecution began on his first missionary journey, that's the first record of persecutions coming against the Apostle Paul.
In Acts 13, look at it for just a moment, we'll see a little bit of insight, tremendous insight into what happened. It says in verse 14 that they arrived at Antioch and on the Sabbath day went to the synagogue, sat down after the reading of the law and the prophets, the synagogue official sent to them saying, Brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it. So here is Paul, he's a guest in the synagogue. He's obviously a teacher from the Jews. So they read the Scripture and they say...All right, we've got a guest rabbi, you stand up, you have something to say, say it. So he stands up and says what he has to say and what he has to say is about the Messiah Jesus. And so here he is in a Jewish synagogue preaching the gospel. And what happens as a result, verse 42, "Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people kept begging these things might be spoken to them the next Sabbath. And when the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and the God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas who speaking to them were urging them to continue in the grace of God. And the next Sabbath nearly the whole city assembled to hear the Word of God but when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy, began contradicting the things spoken by Paul and they were blaspheming."
Drop down to verse 50, "The Jews aroused the devout women of prominence and the leading men of the city and instigated a persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district." Now this was the beginning. This was in Galatia, the province where Timothy's home town existed. So Timothy knew about this. This is way back to the early days, to the very spiritual roots of Timothy in terms of his experience with Paul.
Then Paul went to Iconium, chapter 14 says, they came into Iconium, they entered the synagogue of the Jews together, spoke in such a manner that a great multitude believed, both of Jews and of Greeks. But the Jews who disbelieved stirred up the minds of the Gentiles and embittered them against the brethren. And again you have this tremendous hostility. Verse 5, an attempt was made by the Gentiles and the Jews with their rulers to mistreat and stone them. So they couldn't stay in Antioch and now they can't stay in Iconium, so they head to Lystra. They come to Lystra in verse 8. Paul heals a man there, a miraculous healing of a cripple. The people don't like that. The response to that is that they stone Paul, verse 19, drag him out of the city supposing that he is dead, they throw him on the dump heap in Lystra.
Now that, no doubt, was Timothy's first meeting with Paul. He sees him heal this man. He hears him preach. He sees him stoned and thrown on the dump. Tremendously powerful impressions on young Timothy. This is his first understanding of Paul. Now even though these events happened before Paul takes Timothy with him, before chapter 16 where Paul links up with Timothy, certainly Timothy was aware of these events...if for no other reason Paul no doubt filled him in on all the details. So Timothy's first impression of Paul was as a man of tremendous courage, a man of tremendous resolution, uncompromising character who would give his life in the proclamation of the gospel. That was Timothy's first impression of Paul. What a tremendous legacy...what a tremendous legacy.
He experienced Paul's first sufferings vicariously and must have thought, "What a man...what an incredible man...what a strong man...what a courageous man!" And it's Paul's way of saying, "Timothy, you remember when in Lystra I was stoned. You can recall the kind of suffering I experienced from the start of your Christian life. You know what it's been like all along and you've learned how to respond to that. You followed that kind of pattern. You know what it is to be courageous."
Some Bible commentators have wondered why does Paul go back and rehearse these things that happened even before Timothy began. He does it because those are Timothy's roots and those would have been the first persecutions of Paul that Timothy would have known about. And from then it was one long long list of which he sums them up in the statement, "What persecutions I endured!" Affirming I've been through all of them imaginable, severe, bitter, difficult, life-threatening sufferings. And Timothy was there in some of them and vicariously there in all of them. So Paul reminds him of that.
And then I love the way he closes, verse 11, "And out of them all the Lord delivered me." Out of them all the Lord delivered me. You know that too, Timothy. You know the Lord preserved me out of them all. And he quotes really from Psalm 34:19, that's again his Old Testament background leaking through. Psalm 34:19, "But many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivers him out of them all." He almost quotes it verbatim. The Lord delivered him out of all of his trials, but isn't that what God promised to do? In 1 Thessalonians chapter 3 and verse 3, he says, "We have been destined for affliction, for indeed when we were with you we kept telling you in advance that we were going to suffer affliction and so it came to pass, as you know." It was a part of his life. It was a way of life. Timothy was there, he saw it, he learned it. But he also learned that out of all of them the Lord delivered him. That word delivered means to drag or rescue. God provided the rescue.
So what is Paul saying? He's saying, "Timothy, you have had a pattern to follow. You have a strong mentor relationship. You know the quality of life it takes. You know the ministry duties required. You know the inevitability of spiritual persecution and difficulty. You have had the ingredients to be a strong strong defender of the faith.
Then in verse 12 he adds that Timothy shouldn't be surprised by any of the persecution. Indeed, he says, it's a fact, it's really true that all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. And the reason is because evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. Timothy, it's never going to end. Timothy, it's not going to end for me until I'm gone. It's not going to end for you until you're gone. It's not going to end for the church until the church is gone. It's just the way it is. All believers should anticipate this difficulty. You've learned how to deal with it. You've patterned your life after one who endured more than most will ever know. And you know how to handle it. And you know how to endure it, with patience and also you know that God delivers you out of it. You've had tremendous training by virtue of the pattern of my own life, Paul says. And don't be surprised, he says, for the future because all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. There's no other way. That's how it has to be.
Now let me take that statement apart for just a moment. All will be persecuted. All Christians? No, not all Christians, all who desire to live godly. If you're a disobedient, weak, uninvolved, unconcerned, apathetic, inconsequential Christian, you may never be persecuted. You're not a problem. Satan's not going to waste his time with you, you're not doing anything.
But if you desire to live godly, the "who desire" there is literally a participle, the willing ones, the ones willing to live godly, not that you're going to be perfect but that's your cry, that's your desire. If you desire to live godly, you're going to get persecuted. But there's another qualifier here. Not even all those who desire to live godly will be persecuted but all those who desire to live godly in...whom?...Christ Jesus.
You know something? There are all kinds of religions people are trying to live up to. They want to be religious. They want to be reverent. They want to be godly as they understand that. But they can't be. They're not going to be able to be godly genuinely apart from Christ. And by the way, if all you want is to be godly and you're not concerned about Jesus Christ, you may never get persecuted either because you're no threat to the system, you're in the system. Yours is paganism. And paganism doesn't persecute paganism usually, although sometimes the demons get a bit confused about that.
But the point is, "all" qualifies itself, "who desires to live godly," qualifies itself, "in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution." Because when you desire to live godly by virtue of your union with Christ Jesus, then you are a threat to the system and you are a threat to the kingdom of darkness and you will be persecuted. That's a future passive, you will be persecuted. That's a guarantee, that's a promise.
So if you look at your life and you're not having a lot of persecution, maybe you haven't got a compassion for being godly. Maybe you're not desiring to be godly or maybe you're not in Christ Jesus. Now it doesn't mean you're going to be persecuted all the time at the maximum level, there will be varying times and seasons and varying degrees of persecution, but anyone who seeks to confront an ungodly society with a godly life in Christ Jesus is going to get some negative reaction. There will be hostility. Jesus said in John 15, "If they hated Me they'll hate you. In this world you shall have tribulation. Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." The Sermon on the Mount, all the way back when Jesus was first articulating the principles of salvation, "Blessed are you when men cast insults at you, persecute you, say all kinds of evil against you falsely on account of me, rejoice and be glad for your reward in heaven is great for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you." Count it a joy to be persecuted. They put you in good company. And the world will react to a godly life, they have to.
The persecution is going to come, Timothy...he says...you ought to be ready for it, you've had a pattern to follow, you know how to handle it. It's going to come on you and it's going to come on everybody who seeks to live godly in Christ Jesus during these last days. Why? Verse 13, "Because evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived." By the way, the evil men and impostors are the group described in verses 1 to 8. Verses 2 to 4 describes their evil. Verses 5 to 8 describes their impostoring. They are evil. That's poneros, it's used of Satan in Matthew 13:19, they're as malicious and wicked as he is. And then the second word translated here as "impostors" is translated many ways in Greek writing...diviners, wizards, magicians, sorcerers, swindlers, cheaters. It refers to the crafty tricky deceitful people like Jannes and Jambres in verse 8 who tried to deceive the people with their tricks into believing that what Moses was doing was not of God. These are the oppressors of the church. And because there will always be the wicked and the fakes and the frauds and the charlatans and the phonies and the swindlers, there's always going to be the persecution. And it says, please note this, they proceed from bad to worse. They advance toward the worse. Verse 9 says their work doesn't advance, it's limited. It won't progress where they'd like it to, God puts a boundary on their work. They'll not destroy His work. But internally they get worse and worse and their influence gets worse and worse.
Now Bible scholars debate over this idea of proceeding from bad to worse. Does this mean the evil men and the impostors internally get worse and worse or does it mean that cumulatively their effect gets worse and worse? And I take it that the answer is yes to both of those. The future tense means that in the future they are going to degenerate internally and they're going to have a degenerating deteriorating impact externally. Evil men get worse and worse and worse internally. Why? Because as they continue to live evil lives, the evil accumulating adds a degenerating element to their existence. You know what I'm saying? A 20-year-old wicked seducer isn't nearly as vile as a 70-year-old wicked seducer. Why? Because the constant compounding of that wickedness degenerates his own heart down down and down. But on the outside it is also true that the more wicked the men are, the more wicked the influence they have is. So there is an internal and an external accumulating vileness expressed here. And because men are getting more and more wicked, they're getting more and more hostile. And because the environment is more and more influenced by their wickedness, the environment gets more and more hostile. So the longer we go toward the Second Coming of Christ, the more the mystery of iniquity unfolds and the worse it gets. The godly are suffering through this church age and their suffering will escalate even until the terrible suffering that comes toward the end because evil men are getting worse internally and collectively their impact is worse externally.
And then he says of them they are deceiving, that's what they're trying to do, impostors misleading, deluding, leading people astray. And at the same time being deceived because their own sin, their own wretchedness blinds their own minds. Their own increasing evil makes them self-deceived and deceivers of others.
These are dangerous times...dangerous times. The closer we come to the time of our Lord's return, the worse men get. And the worse their influence gets and the accumulation of all the lies and false teaching mounts and escalates and we're in dangerous times. And dangerous times call for strong people. What kind of people is it going to take to stem the tide, to stand against it? Great champions for the truth. And what are the ingredients that make people strong? First ingredient, they have strong mentors to follow as their spiritual models. And so what I can say to you as we draw this to a conclusion, beloved, is make sure that you're patterning your life after spiritually strong people who with uncompromising resolution stand as defenders of God's truth. And some people will criticize you. In fact, they may criticize you somewhat relentlessly not only outside the church but even inside the church, but you know that the call of God is on the church to defend the faith, to guard the faith, to hold the treasure to pass it on to the next generation. And we live in a day when the church is sloppy in its self-defense, sloppy in its ability to stand against the tide of false teaching. It is not discerning. In some cases it doesn't even care to be discerning. It just opens its mind to every kind of thing and the church has a soft belly in which Satan can plunge the knife and bring about a severe wound. We need strong men, strong women who defend the faith who are discerning and resolute and uncompromising. And Paul says, "Timothy, you've got it going for you because you patterned your life after me." What a tremendous privilege. Well let's bow in prayer.
Father, much more to say and much more to learn in this great passage. Help us to grasp what it is Your Spirit has said to us this morning about the need for spiritual strength. We pray for the Savior's sake. Amen.
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Just a quick blog about Rsync on A CentOS 5.6 box. I'm currently using Rsync to backup our Samba Server – all 500 Gigs of it!!
It's going to take a few days but it will have an exact replica of the Samba server on the Rsync server and you don't have to have any clients installed on other machines for Rsync to work. All you need is administrative credentials on the machine you are going to Rsync with.
Once I've figured all of this out, I will be setting my Rsync box to start backing up automatically every night (full backup) and also, when a file is changed on the Samba Server. I'm going to try and figure out the latter as I haven't figured out how Rsync will be able to detect that a file has changed or been removed, etc. Once I have done so though I'm sure it's going to be very handy, also I'll be setting the Rsync box to backup all of the the user areas and profiles held on the DCs and also the users folder on the PCs.


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I got the wireless key-fob working:
Family and friends have been having a lot of fun driving it around.
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"Mom" Christianson and Loraine Lundberg give prospective stu-dents
Karen Olson and Irene Nelson (far left and far right respectively)
a picture of the campus through the Spire.
Prospective Students
"Getting Acquainted"
Our prospective students arrived on campus yesterday. After going
through the preliminaries of registering they had the opportunity to
"get acquainted" with the faculty and students.
Anderson Wins Essay Contest
The presidential campaigns of Glenn Ogren and Jack Tierney
close as the polls for Student Senate elections open tomorrow at 9 a.m.
Ballot boxes will be located in the student center lounge and the main
hall in the Seminary until 4 p.m.
Asked by the CLARION to outline their positions, candidates Glenn
and Jack submitted the statements which appear below.
Jack Tierney
Jack Tierney, sophomore, came
to Bethel immediately upon finish-ing
high school in 1954.
He has served as president of his
class this last year, and as a part
of the duties of this office has
taken part in the Student Senate
meetings. Besides participating in
student government, Jack has been
a member of the debate squad and
has received excellent ratings in
speech contests. He has also been
active in sports (football, B-squad
basketball and baseball) and is on
the Clarion staff.
In high school, Jack was a mem-ber
of the Senate three years, and
was elected to the presidency for
his senior year.
In junior high he was president
of the student council. Also while
in high school he was presi-dent
of his church youth group.
His Platform
There are four major spheres of
activity on campus — religious,
scholastic, cultural and social, and
athletic. Stop and think,. If I were
to ask each one of you if you were
perfectly content with the condi-tions
in these spheres what would
your answer be ? Undoubtedly you
would say no! This is good for a
certain element of discontent is
needed to promote progress. "I am
not content," you say," but what
can I do ?" This is where your
Student Senate should represent
you! It can be your voice. Do you
have a complaint, suggestion or
idea ? With the institution of a
complaint and improvement com-mittee
you would have somewhere
to turn and a voice to speak.
The Senate can continue to pro-mote
and expand student functions
as in the past and it can also
serve, enlighten and represent you
more in the future.
John F. Anderson won $40 in a
contest sponsored by The League
of Women Voters by writing an
essay on "Minnesota's need for
Constitutional Revision," it was
announced last Saturday by Wal-fred
Peterson assistant professor
Glenn Ogren
GlennOgren, junior, is a 1953
high school graduate. As vice
president of the Student Senate
this year, Glenn has acted as chair-man
of Frosh week and Prospec-tive
Student days. Last year he
served as president of the soph-omore
class. He was also business
manager for the College choir in
which he has sung for three years.
Glenn was senior class treasurer
in his Chicago high school and
served also as president of his Hi-
C club. At his church he has held
the offices of president and trea-surer
of his young people's group.
His Platform
Bethel can be thought of as a
peculiar Christian community and
therefore must care for the whole
life of each student nine months
of the year. I believe the purpose
of the Student Senate is to inte-grate
the co-curricular activities
of campus life, train leaders for
the present and future, as well as
encourage and promote Christian
scholarship. I realize the great
responsibility of the Senate presi-dent
to over-see and direct as
much as he is able campus student
In comparing our student gov-ernment
with those of equal sized
colleges we may boast a good
workable system. If I am elected,
I will seek God's help in contin-uing
the fine student leadership
Bethel has known in the past.
Above all, I desire that we as
individuals and as a student body
might become more like Jesus
in political science.
The contest was open to stu-dents
enrolled in the liberal arts
colleges of St. Paul.
Several other students from Mr.
Peterson's classes also competed.
Election Slate
Glenn Ogren
Jack Tierney
John Berg
Linden Magnuson
Marjory Peterson
Religious council chairman:
John Douhan
Lawrence Van Heerden
Recording secretary:
Marlene Durscher
Betty Mattson
Corresponding secretary:
Mary Lou Reycraft
Ardith Rust
Religious Council Secretary:
Gladys Johnson
Marilyn Junker
Beverly Voldseth
April 9 thru 13 is Vocations
Week at Bethel. The purpose of
the week is to encourage every
student to think seriously about
his future vocation in relation to
his purpose as P Christian. The
special emphasis program is sched-uled
for the same week as the St.
Thomas college Careers Festival,
in which Bethel is participating.
Chapel speakers for each day
are representatives of different vo-cational
fields. The general topic
of their messages is what my vo-cation
means to me as a Christian.
The speakers and their vocational
subject are as follows:
Monday: Dr. Orville Aftreck —
Tuesday: Miss Joy Phillips
Wednesday: Pres. Carl Lundquist
—Special message on vocational
Thursday: Dr. Wall — Medical
Friday: Dr. Harold Lundquist—
Social work.
Each chapel is planned for every-one
and not merely for those in-terested
in that particular field.
This is an opportunity for students
to get a view of the different vo-cations
from a Christian stand-point.
Chorus Tours
State, Canada
The Bethel male chorus will tour
Northern Minnesota and Canada
next week. Leaving immediately
after lunch on Monday, April 9,
the 34 fellows will present their
first concert at Alexandria that
Thursday, April 12, their itin-erary
will take them to Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada. The last con-cert
of the tour will be at Milaca,
Sunday evening, April 15.
The tour will be preceded by a
concert at Fourth Baptist Church
in Minneapolis Sunday evening,
April 8.
"St. Matthew's
Passion" To Be
Tomorrow Night
"St. Matthew Passion," a unique
motion picture which combines the
Bach oratorio with masterpieces
of European art, will be shown in
the college chapel tomorrow at
8 p.m.
The film, which is sponsored by
the cultural council, was produced
in Austria by Robert Flaherty, pro-ducer
of the film "The Titan"
which concerned Michelangelo. The
photographs were taken in mus-eums
in Rome, Florence, Munich,
Vienna, and London. The music was
recorded in Vienna, using the Vi-enna
Philharmonic symphony, the
choir of the Vienna Singverein, and
the Vienna Boys' choir.
"St. Matthew Passion" has won
critical praises for the remarkably
moving way in which Bach's reci-tatives
and chorales are harmon-ized
with pictures by such masters
as Titan, Raphael, da Vinci, Van
Eyck, Velasquez, Cranach, and
others. "The humanity of the per-sonage
is far more convincing than
could be achieved with actors . . .
The story itself, told by these mas-ters,
dominates their technical
skills and virtuosities."
Week at a Glance
March 28—St. Matthew's Passion,
cultural council film, 8 p.m.,
March 30—Easter vacation begins
April 3—Classes resume
April 4—Camera club, 7 p.m., Room
Prayer Fellowship, 7-8 p.m., Sem-inary
April 5—F.M.F., 7-8 p.m., Semin-ary
April 6—Tract Teams, 7-8 p.m.,
Room 3, Seminary
April 7—Athletic Banquet
April 9—Student Wives, 8 p.m.,
Dining Hall
Radio club, 6:45, Physics room
April 10—Swedish club, 7:30 p.m.
Careers Festival, St. Thomas
both a girls' and a boys' basketball
team, quickly organized by the pro-spective
students, challenged a
girls' team from Bethel and the
varsity squad.
This morning, the visitors are
having an opportunity to visit the
classes and to share in the morning
chapel hour, with Dr. Paul Grabill
as the speaker.
The "Coffee Cantata", to be pre-sented
this afternoon in the chapel,
portrays a group of peasants act-ing
out a play for the lord and lady
of their manor. As the play pro-ceeds,
the disobedierit daughter in-forms
her father, that even though
it is disgraceful and against his
commands, she must have and will
have her coffee. The father, at-tempting
to command obedience,
deprives her of her cherished privi-leges,
all to no avail. But, when the
choice becomes one of coffee or a
husband, the daughter must give
in. However, the play ends on a
happy note. The father is proud
that he has won, and the daughter
is delighted with the idea of a
rich, handsome husband, of whom
she will secretly demand her cof-fee.
Following the cantata, the visi-tors
will meet the faculty and Stu-dent
Senate members at a recep-tion
in the dining hall.
This evening the music organiza-tions
on campus, including the
choir, the male quartet, and the
male chorus, will present a formal
musical program, "Echoes of
Spring." President Carl Lundquist
will be the speaker.
Before leaving tomorrow, the
prospective students will .hear Dr.
"Bob" Smith speak in chapel.
Catalog Ready,
Changes Listed
The school catalog, to be ready
for distribution by the end of this
month, lists a few changes in next
year's curriculum. Advanced Com-position
will be known as Journal-ism
and Article Writing. Fiction
Writing and a Creative Writing
Seminar will be added as upper
division courses.
A music major, with emphasis
on church music will also be of-fered.
This does not mean a modi-fied
major but only a different
approach to meeting the major.
New courses to be offered are
Hymnology, Music and Worship,
and Choral Literature.
the CLARION
Vol. X XXIII—No. 15 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Tuesday, March 27, 1956
Tierney, Ogren Head Slate
For Tomorrow's Election
Last night in the field house,
Vocations Week To
Begin April 9
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the CLARION
Tuesday, March 27, 1956
Welcome Prospectives
For three days this is your campus. We're glad you've come. We
want you to feel at home.
We're proud of what Bethel has to offer. We have a steadily ex-panding
curriculum, a fast-growing library, and a big building program,
not to mention a faculty that's collecting Ph.D.'s by the hatful—all
this with a positive evangelical emphasis.
But don't miss the things that really make Bethel our school. Try
to get in a dormitory bull session or hen session, or a popcorn party,
or a few rounds of ping-pong or bucketball. Join some of our local
philosophers in the coffee shop in discussing politics, or culture, or the
new girls on campus, or the baseball team. Have patience with the
long meal lines too; you can have some interesting conversations there.
If you can, get in one of the dorm prayer meetings where Christian
fellowship helps to create spiritual unity among us.
Make some friends while you're here. One thing we will never
forget from our college days is the friendships we've made here;
the long, intimate talks; the companionship shared; the new ideas
We hope you'll like the three frantic days you spend in our com-pany.
And we hope many of you will decide that Bethel is your kind
of school.
Kid's Stuff
Once upon a time there was a kindergarten that had a problem
just like our library's. You know how kids are: everything was disor-ganized—
kids trotting all over the place and arguments in every
Most of the students enjoyed their games. But there were times
when tempers flared. Once a marble rolled under a rope jumper's foot
just when she was about to set a record. The situation came to a real
head when the din of the marbles caused several hobby horses to go
out of control. Clearly something had to be done. The student leaders
formed a committee to investigate the problem.
After careful inquiry and a complete survey they decided that the
solution lay in insulating the marbles, oiling the hobby horses, and
removing the cleats from all shoes.
It was unanimously decided that this was the answer, but there
was still some conflict. In some respects the situation was aggravated.
The noiseless marbles sneaked upon the rope jumpers unawares. Some-thing
remained to be done.
The real solution to the problem came quite suddenly. The situa-tion
came to the attention of the county school board through the con-fession
of a former marbles player (former because he had lost all his
marbles). The board quickly removed all marbles, hobby horses, and
jump ropes; and hired two private detectives to enforce the approved
curriculum of pasting, number-writing and nap-taking.
That kindergarten has been quiet ever since.
Zetteta to tie E &ten
(Editor's note: Two of the fol-lowing
letters are in regard to
last week's editorial. They were
chosen because it was felt that
they most clearly stated their
Dear Editor;
In reply to your editorial, last
issue of the Clarion, I would like
to contribute this personal note of
criticism. (By the way, the letter
to the editor on "Criticism" by
WHP was tops!)
Personality has a great deal to
do with the elections here at
Bethel. Personality isolated from
policy would not perhaps be a
determinent in typical elections
but personality necessarily oper-ates
as a decisive criteria of apti-tude
and ability here at Bethel.
This is true because policy here on
campus is, for the most part,
codified. Therefore, the typical
student is not so much concerned
about what innovations will come
into being next year, but which
of the qualified candidates will
further. what I think to be the
most important philosophy of edu-cation.
(Here at school this would
be a Christ-centered education;
Christ-centered community life
and activity.) In this case who
the candidate is will determine
what policy he will formulate. We
already know both are qualified
or else they would not have been
nominated. I think personality is
just as important as policy in
"Bethel elections"; further, it is
not personality vs. policy but per-sonality
plus policy, personality
given the favor of the two.
I might add that every year the
leaved coat,
Dear Editor;
Your last editorial I wish to
compliment as the finest analysis
of student politics I have seen in
my four Bethel years.
For lack of purpose the Student
Senate seems to have devoted it-self
to creating an unwieldy bur-eaucracy.
For example, a typical
senate meeting takes close to three
hours to listen to council reports,
treasurer reports, minutes, and to
vote on a committee to look into
library noise.
The end of the Student Senate
seems to be to continually organ-ize
programs for students, and
then advertise the programs to
urge the students to attend. A
typical example, the cultural coun-cil
spent $300 this year to
get Suzanne Bloch to our school.
Yet at the intermission in her
program about half those of those
in attendance for the program,
their curiosity satisfied, called it
an evening and Miss Bloch finish-ed
her program to a half full
I have two suggestions for fut-ure
student government. 1. Get
rid of the councils as planning
and promotional groups. It is stu-pid
to have the athletic council
cry for participants to its organ-ized
contests. If some persons on
campus want to play football,
etc., let them get together but
don't try to force the rest of the
campus to play. 2. Let student in-terest
initiate its own programs.
There are many worthwhile acti-vities
put on in the Twin Cities
each year by business minded out-fits.
These programs cater to in-dividuals.
Let our students as in-dividuals
seek what they want.
Among the chief attributes ex-pected
of a college person is an
ability to lead. This means that
every student on campus should be
encouraged to plan and regulate
his life and develop his personal-ity.
The Student Senate too often
is taking over this area of a stu-dent's
life. The Senate is working
against the ends of a college edu-cation
when it attempts to make
the campus social, cultural, ath-letic
It has always been a valid poli-tical
principle to have as little
governmental machinery as can do
a job well, do the job. The only
reasonable purpose for Student
Senate is to carry to the admini-stration
worthwhile student criti-cism.
Let's cut the Senate down
to its rightful size, about five peo-ple.
Donn Goss
Dear editor:
I am a college student who has
for the last two weeks been study-ing,
or trying to study, on the
seminary side fo the library. Don't
ever tell me that it is we college
students who cause most of the
noise in the library. Of course we
college students talk in the library
and as loudly as the seminary stu-dents,
but do we carry on semin-ars
? At this moment, while I am
writing this letter, four seminary
"men" are discussing rather open-ly
the relative merits of the study
of Greek in the seminary. This
discussion has continued now for
over 20 minutes. I have heard other
such discussions as loud and as
long; ones dealing with predesti-nation,
baptism, eternal security—
subjects which are generally con-versational
and undidactical. Now
"gentlemen" of the seminary, are
they necessary? You, being the
graduate students of our school
and the future leaders of our con-ference,
are the example to which
the undergraduate students look.
What kind of example are you in
the library ?
Perfect Paradox
by Dr. Paul Grabill
"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ?" I nominate these
as at once the most tragic and the most triumphant words ever
spoken. At the moment that Christ uttered them His personality was
literally torn in half for love's sake. And yet God mysteriously through
grace used this moment to complete man's redemption.
The Apostle's Creed asserts that Christ "descended into hell." I
think this happened as He uttered these words. He who had been
perfectly one with God in a creative and vital union was here severed
from Him completely. Through the dark, desolate hours of the cross,
Christ hung alone—forsaken alike by the men He's come to re-create
and by the God of whom He had been always a part.
Surely here He suffered the agonies of the hell experince: the
life of the self all alone, the life without God, the living death. The
man who was also God suffered this. And would not a single moment
of this for Him—the eternal One—be an eternity? Christ here
suffered eternal hell.
And but for the empty tomb, the cross on which He hung alone
would have been forever the symbol of the highest human tragedy—
the place where God turned His back, the man whom God forgot.
Instead the cross has stood for twenty centuries as the symbol not
of God's wrath and harshness and death, but of life everlasting, a
symbol not of desolation and loneliness, but of fellowship and love
beyond compare.
But don't think of the resurrection as God's triumphant reversal
of a tragic error. Don't think of Easter morning as God's victory over
the powers of darkness that nailed Christ to the cross. It was God
nailing God to the cross; it was God who chose to be cut off from God—
for our sakes. It was God who chose hell that we might choose heaven.
It was God that wanted the cross because it was the only way to the
empty tomb.
Thoughts On Easter
Christ's Victory
Complete Forever.
by Emily Mattson
Easter is a reminder to me of
Christ's complete power over all
things. Living here on earth for
some thirty years, Jesus success-fully
faced the problems that now
confront me, as well as those that
are yet to come.
By His death and resurrection
He not only gave me a new life, but
also promised to help me live hour
by hour for Him. This means that
I can have victory over my bad
habits, and get all of the right
answers to my problems, whether
they are insignificant or seemingly
Wise Cultural Acktir
by Marjory Peterson
Yesterday it really hit me. I should have suspected that culture
was here to stay after the Renaissance Festival, but when the girl
turned down a date to go to a boxing match with me, to go to a concert
with the girls, then I knew for sure.
This is terrible for me. Where I come from, the cultural event of
the year is when the local cowboys get together and put on a horse
opera. All year I've been trying to cultivate a taste for the "finer
things" but it's awfully slow coming. However, I've learned a few
shortcuts that cover my ignorance while my taste tries to catch up.
Since there is the possibility that some other unenlightened souls may
have a similar deficiency, let me give you a few tips on how to put
up a cultural front. (Do-it-yourself, of course.)
The first trick is to gather a few facts about art or music or
literature. Don't bother with the fundamentals. Everyone knows them
anyway. Much more impressive are isolated bits like: "Did you know
that Bach's Fugue in A Minor contains 39 staccato notes?" or "Isn't
it amazing that chiaroscuro began before the Renaissance?"
Then you must pick the proper moments to give out with these
choice remarks. Of course, in any serious conversation it is best to
say nothing, merely look interested and wise. But at any lull in another
discussion these items are easily introduced by saying, "Speaking of
strange things, did you know . . ."
You can also make good use of the cultural activities bulletin board.
Spend much time exclaiming over announcements of new art exhibits
and future concerts. Then in the coffee shop describe the events with
enthusiasm and say, "Wouldn't it be great if we could get a bunch of
kids and all go together!" When the time comes, of course you'll have
a test the next day and a good excuse for not going.
If you do go to a concert, don't be afraid to criticize. This immed-iately
sets you up as an expert. Let people know this doesn't measure
up to your standards. Here again concentrate on minor points. Comment
on the absence of shine on the conductor's baton, or the harpist's
long fingernails. It's always safe to say the cymbals were a shade off
the beat, or the violins (especially the third one from the left) were
a trifle sharp on the seventeenth measure.
(Culture—Page 4)
presidential candidates give a
brief campaign speech in Chapel
at which time they express their
"aims". They will do so again this
Apparently you missed the
point about chapel attendance at
a recent meeting of the Student
Senate. We all recognize that com-pulsory
chapel is out of the ques-tion.
But this fine distinction be-tween
compulsory attendance and
being expected to be there is a
vital one. With the same idea in
mind that Bethel does not demand
students refrain from smoking,
drinking, dancing, etc. the spirit
of Bethel does not expect that
those individuals will find a fra-ternity
here. The same goes with
Chapel. If there are students who
think too much is expected of them
to attend chapel for 25 minutes
a day, then let them attend a
school that aligns with their
ideals. And it is a beneficial disci-pline
to have to hear the less tal-ented
speakers because when we
return to our typical home-town
situations it is not expected that
we will not attend church if the
preacher "hasn't got it". Chances
are, we will be spoiled if we will
only listen to the best. (And it is
debatable who the best really are.)
Let's not hit the extremes; per-sonality
vs. politics, and compul-sory
chapel attendance vs. non-compulsory
but approach the solu-tion
to these problems from the
standpoint of how we should do
it here at Bethel and what would
be the best attitude for "Bethel-ites."
by Ed Erickson
For me the meaning of Easter
is not found in the fact of the
resurrection alone. Christ's triumph
began when he encountered Gol-gotha.
It is in the crucifixion that
I see the real test of a Christian
life. If I am willing to live through
dying then in my own heart I have
come to realize the resurrection
message. These works of Jesus
hold for me the meaning of Easter:
"Except a corn of wheat fall into
the ground and die, it abideth alone,
but if it die it bringeth forth much
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Page 3
Dave's Strands
The day of reckoning for the scoffers at the last "B" club initiation
is fast approaching. The new candidates or victims, will be dressed
"fit to kill" as well they might be. Note to all prospective students:
Those strangely dressed creatures wandering around campus with the
worried looks on their faces aren't really as crazy as they look.
It has been rumored that there are special consequences for those
who seemed to enjoy the proceedings so thoroughly at the last initiation.
Things may get worse than the little fire extinguishing ceremony at
the last one. Oh yes. For those planning to escape to some far away
place, such as Mound, there is no escape.
* * * *
Everyone is urged to support the intramural program which the
athletic council has planned. This should provide something for those
who continually say there is nothing to do.
* * * *
The warm weather has brought the opening of the baseball season
closer. The Bethel nine will play their first game on April 13, against
Hamline. * * * *
From personal observation it seems that the student body, par-ticularly
the fellows, could cooperate with the athletic department in
clearing the fieldhouse when they are asked to. The crowded conditions
are only made worse when those who are working out must watch out
for someone who has no business on the floor during practice hours.
It would seem that with baseballS going off their course, no offense,
that self-preservation would enter into the picture.
At baseball practice the other night everyone began to wonder
who the new member of the team was. Upon careful scrutiny, it was
discovered that John Berg had acquired a new pair of glasses.
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The four horse tournament, part
of the intramural program, ended
Wednesday, March 21, with Ed
Brunzell defeating Eric Borgeson
for the title.
The field of about ten enterants
was narrowed rapidly as many of
the contestants drew byes to gain
an advanced spot.
The final pairing Wednesday
night saw the faculty representa-tive,
Eric Borgeson, defeated by
Ed Brunzell. Eric, who is noted for
his dead eye in four horse games,
was almost helpless against Brun-zell.
In a special interview with the
loser, Eric stated that no one could
have beaten Ed. To put it in Eric's
words, "That's just the way it goes
Spring I-M
The spring intramural program
for 1956 was set up at a meeting
of the athletic council. This year's
program is intended to include the
majority of those who wish to par-ticipate.
This year's program will include
softball, badminton and tennis. The
softball league will be organized
along much the same lines as was
the intramural basketball program.
The Illinois, East, Minnesota and
West are among the participants.
The season will be relatively short
so there should be plenty of action.
The tennis and badminton tour-naments
will feature both singles
and doubles. The tennis tourna-ments
will begin as soon as the
court are sufficiently dry.
I-M On State
Grounds Tried
Intramural activities this spring
will be carried on in an area rough-ly
northwest of the seminary build-ing
in the fairgrounds it was an-nounced
Thursday. The Minnesota
state fairgrounds officials have of-fered
Bethel the use of this area to
be used on a rent-free trial basis.
Among the factors governing the
continued use of these grounds are
the general treatment of the pro-perty
and the resulting condition
at the end of the school year. If
conditions are favorable, a long-term
lease may be arranged.
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Highlight of the annual athletic
banquet on April 21 will be the
announcement of captains for next
year's football and basketball
teams. Athletic director Del Ray
Peterson will give the results of a
previous vote by members of the
team. The banquet will be in the
form of a "smorgasbord" at Schu-nemann's
River room.
The banquet, sponsored by the
"B" club, is given for all letter-men
from this year's football and
basketball teams, and from last
year's spring sports, and their
guests. Invitations have also been
sent to coaches Lundin and Healy,
and faculty athletic committee
members, Dr. Conrad, Mrs. Sjor-dahl,
Mr. Nichols, and Dr. Fager-strom.
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Same Old Story
(ACD) The following appeared in a Miami Hurricane sports column, by-lined
by Brian Sheehan. While it's not an editorial in the strictest
sense, we thought it was worth passing along because it's an interesting
commentary on a much-discussed subject:
George wasn't much different from all the other frosh football
players who every year influxed the campus of College Town, U.S.A.
He was from a small hick whistle-stop near the eastern seaboard
of Georgia and was a rather interesting individual. He made better-than-
average grades and generally kept out of trouble.
Oh sure, there were a couple of scraps around campus, and he
got bawled-out by the coach, but everything else was all right.
George was awfully excited when he first came to College Town.
Getting to play college football is something big, especially when you
are from a small town, and George had visions of stardom . . . someday.
It was while George was in high school that some men came to
visit him, and offered him a four-year football scholarship. He was
offered a lot of scholarships, but he attended College Town because
he got free board, meals, and a little spending money to boot.
During his first college semester, George played football fairly
well. He had a few bad days, and it bothered him. George heard that
you got kicked out of the College Town if you didn't produce.
It was a chill January afternoon when George got a message at
the dorm to report to the football office.
George was called into a room, asked to sit down. Some men had
odd expressions on their faces, and George sensed something was wrong.
"George," one of them said, "we're going to have to let you go.
You don't play heads-up football all the time, and we think it's best
you leave College Town."
George felt sick at his stomach. "But," he asked, "what about
that contract I signed?"
"There were some loopholes in the contract," one of the men
said. "We're sorry, but you won't be able to enroll next semester."
A few days later George packed his bags, took one last look, long-ing
look at the dorm, and crumpled up his grade sheet which read
three A's, two B's. He threw it away in disgust.
No, George isn't at College Town, U.S.A. anymore. He's going to
try to enter a smaller college where competition isn't so tough but
that won't be until next year sometime.
George thinks he can get an education at that school. He won't
get paid as much to play football, but he will get an education.
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Tuesday, March 27, 1956
Track Team
A Key Group
But Unsung
On Bethel's campus there exists
a branch of the Christ service de-partment
that very rarely exercises
its purpose without spreading the
Gospel Of Jesus Christ. This branch
consists of the tract teams organ-ized
by our Christian service office
at the beginning of the school
The teams are three in number
and are led by Warren Nelson,
Richard Moberg and Richard Var-berg.
Each of the teams has from
five to eight members who go out
on tract missions every two weeks.
Many tracts are distributed that
produce no immediate effect on
the receiver but the prayers and
faith backing the distribution make
the team members feel that very
few tracts are distributed which
are entirely unheeded or useless.
Tract distribution presents many
challenging and interesting exper-iences.
Some ideas and lessons
gained by team members and lead-ers
include ideas like these: It is
best to pass tracts to those who
aren't going anywhere because it
gives a better opportunity to talk
to them; use a method in distri-bution;
tract distribution is an easy
way to spread the Gospel; make a
point to talk to the tract recipients
rather than tossing tracts about
For anyone who is interested in
joining the team for this last quar-ter
there is the assurance that new
members are welcome and may ap-ply
at the Christian service office
or speak to one of the team mem-bers.
by Lois Larson
At this season of the year, our
thoughts are turned towards Easter
finery, and our more serious
thoughts meditate on Christ's sac-rifice
for us.
Tomorrow, a special Easter mis-sionary
offering will be taken in
the morning chapel service. Envel-opes
for this purpose will be plac-ed
in the post office boxes.
Realizing just how fortunate we
are to know of His wonderful sal-vation,
perhaps we will want to
use this opportunity to give more
so that others might hear too.
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by Allan Hubin
I've been looking all over campus for the overly ambitious artesian
well that must exist somewhere around here. All the water that's been
running playfully over the area for the past week or two would have
taken all the snow in Siberia. Or has the St. Paul water department
started using our campus for a reservoir ? (I knew there was something
wrong with the tap water around here—I knew it as soon as that
rather battered football cleat came out of the faucet.)
Three students have been missing from classes for the past three
days—they were last seen taking a shortcut across Lake Eric a few
days ago. The hierarchy says grappling hooks will be used later in the
week. Someone should erect a memorial���things like that are done in
cases like this, aren't they?
The water alone isn't what bothers me so tremendously (I can
swim), it's the endless billows of mud—that oozing, slimy, treacherous,
sticky, unkempt, and largely undesirable substance which proudly decor-ates
our area. Can't this be scooped and sold for war surplus at reduced
prices ? Or sold by the ton to the two major political parties. Or it
can be frozen, sawed into chunks, and used for building material. The
possibilities are infinite.
Maybe the mud and I could co-exist peacefully, if it wasn't for the
fact that the first time in three months I shined my shoes, I was
forced to traverse our beloved campus. And it wasn't only the fact
that I had to throw away my shoes that irritated me. I had to have
my shirt drycleaned and my hair cut.
Being broadminded about the whole thing, one must admit there
are things that can be said on mud's behalf. For one thing, it might
be a matter of pride. After all, what school in the Twin Cities has a
muddier campus ? We stand unrivaled. And then there's the ten per-cent
commission the school gets from the various dry-cleaners in the
We can also point with a certain understandable pride at the fact
that we are indubitably the only school in the state with a significantly
large lake situated right on campus. It is so conveniently placed that
one cannot miss it if one walks from the dining hall to the college
Maybe someone should toss in a few minnows—they could hiber-nate
during the summer, be preserved in ice during the winter, and
we'd have grand fishing next spring. This might be a project for the
botony department—or whoever it is that's concerned with fish and
such like.
It is this writer's suggestion that the campus be tipped on an
edge (this would be a good job for Eric), all the water be allowed to
run off and the mud dry completely, and then large steel columns be
put underneath to prop up the center so it's about three feet higher
than the edges. Why should we collect all the water for blocks around?
Let's let the neighbors have ours for a while.
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T. S. Eliot Lectures
At Northrup Apr.30
T. S. Eliot, noted literary critic
and poet, will lecture at a convo-cation
at 8:30 p.m. on April 30 at
Northrop auditorium in Minneapo-lis.
His lecture entitled "Frontiers
of Criticism" will be the third in a
series given in connection with the
Gideon D. Seymore memorial lec-ture
series. Mr. Eliot is traveling
to the U.S. from England for this
one lecture. There is no admission
Mr. Eliot, who received the Nobel
Prize in 1948, has written several
books which contain such noted
poems as "The Waste Land," and
"The Sacred Wood." At present he
Anyone interested is invited to is director of Fabor and Fabor
attend the meeting. Ltd. of London.
Dorm Applications For
'56-57 Now Being Taken
Applications for dormitory rooms
for next year may be filed with
Miss Edith Larson in the business
office. Judging from applications
and the number of prospective stu-dents
the business office expects
an even larger enrollment for next
year. This will limit on-campus
housing, therefore it is urged that
applications be made soon.
Culture emit.
At an art exhibit never call a painting "interesting." This is a
naughty word. Instead say, "Look at the way he uses light!" In case
you come across a very difficult piece of modern art, for variety try
viewing this silently, approaching it from various angles and assum-ing
strange stances. If your companions are admittedly ignorant, say,
"He really achieves his purpose here doesn't he ?" No one will dare
One final tip for pseudo-literary experts—try quoting frequently
from Proverbs or Poor Richard and call it Shakespeare.
These are only a few of the ways I have of covering up for my
cultureless background. However, if I gave out any of the finer points,
I'd really be giving myself away. But this will give you something
to start on, and who knows ? . . . you too may be standing in the aisles
shouting "Bravissimo!"
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L. Lindquist
Will Host
Spanish Club
The Spanish club will meet at
7:30 p.m. April 7 at Lareau Lind-quist's
home. Mr. Berge Hoogasian,
a Bethel seminary student, will
show slides on his trip to Central
America. He will also speak about
conditions in Central America.
Wives Will
Hear SPBI
Dean's Wife
The Student Wives will hold their
meeting in the dining hall at 8
p.m., April 9. Mrs. Wineinger, wife
of the dean of the St. Paul Bible
institute, will speak on various
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The Elephant Coast has a number of exquisite golden beaches - three of them near Hluhluwe.
The warm Indian Ocean forms the eastern border of the region and this protected area, with its long empty beaches and sand dunes covered by coastal forest, is truly remarkable.
One of the richest reef ecosystems in the world exists here with over 1250 fish species, 95 identified species of coral and a vast array of plant life. Here you will also find one of the world's few remaining breeding grounds for the rare Leatherback and Loggerhead turtles.
The water is clear (visibility is generally over 20m) and water temperatures range from around 29°C in mid-summer (December/January) to around 19°C in mid-winter (June/July).
You can dive the numerous reefs, snorkel among some of the rocky outcrops close to shore, swim in the surf or enjoy some fishing.
The Sodwana Bay beach is one of South Africa's best known ski-boat and diving attractions and is an hour's easy drive north of Malala on tarred roads. A small entrance fee is payable at the main entrance.
Sodwana Bay contains the world's southern most coral reef which is renowned for its crystal clear water and the array of colourful sub-tropical fish, sharks, rays and many fascinating invertebrates that can be seen within the 50km reef complex - providing excellent diving and snorkelling opportunities.
At low tide children and adults alike can snorkel in the shallows around the rocks.
Diving courses are available at Sodwana, and visitors with a 4x4 vehicle can explore the surrounding countryside. The area has mammals such as Reedbuck and Red Duiker, and there is a short self-guided hiking trail through the coastal dunes as well as a longer nature trail to the Ngoboseleni Lake.
Cape Vidal is a popular scenic bay known for its sport fishing and snorkelling at low tide and is also about an hour's drive from Malala. A small entrance fee is payable at the main entrance.
Cape Vidal is situated north of the Eastern Shores in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park and is a relatively safe area for swimming due to the protection offered by the reef.
This area also boasts access to the Eastern Shores of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park where there is a wide variety of wildlife as well as spectacular water, forest and grassland birds.
The marine habitat is frequented by Humpback Whales, and in December the rare Loggerhead and Leatherback turtles come onto the beach to lay their eggs.