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Twenty-one students from both
the College and Seminary are
graduating with honors at the
Commencement exercises which
will be held May 26 at 3 p.m. in
the fieldhouse.
"The Three R's of Higher Edu-cation"
is the topic of the com-mencement
address which will be
given by Dr. William C. Lang,
chairman of the department of
Social Science of Iowa State tea-chers
college at Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Dr. Lang is active in Baptist cir-cles
in the midwest and in com-munity
Providing the music will be the
college choir under the direction
of Professor C. Howard Smith.
V. Elving Anderson, dean of
students, will present the 51 jun-ior
and senior college graduates
and Edwin Omark, dean of the
seminary, will present the 18 sem-inary
President Carl Lundquist will
confer the degrees.
Following the commencement
exercises a reception will be held
in honor of the graduates in the
dining hall. Families and friends
of the graduates, students, faculty
and staff are invited to attend
this reception.
Those graduating from the col-lege
with highest honors are: Wil-liam
Conrad, Linden Magnuson
(salutatorian) Helen Moberg, Mar-jory
Peterson (valedictorian) and
Ardith Rust.
J. Robert Carlson, Marie Mag-nuson
and Fred Schindeler are
graduating with high honors.
Graduating with honors are
Marjorie Block, Nils Friberg, Al-fred
Glenn, Vivian Johnson, and
Allan Mesko.
Those graduating from the sem-inary
with highest honors are
Charles Anderson (valedictorian)
and Robert Erickson (salutator-ian).
Lawrence Seiffert is graduating
with high honors and Milton Chris-tensen,
George S. Johnson, Ernest
Kratofil, and Oscar M. Lee are
graduating with honors from the
Following the delivery of their valedictory addresses Charles
Anderson and Marjory Peterson discuss the Honor Convocation program.
Music Organizations
Present Program Friday
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Vol. XXXIV—No. 18 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Tuesday, May 21, 1957
21 Grads Receive Honors ;
Lang To Speak At Exercises
Van Heerlen Outlines
Cultural Council Plans
"For next year a new approach
is being planned by the Cultural
Councill", announced Lawrence
Van Heerden, newly elected chair-man
of the Cultural Council.
The council is attempting to or-ganize
several "cultural clubs"
which will promote an aspect of
culture and work under the aus-pices
of the Cultural Council.
Already an art club has been
, rganiged M1.1 97(' Ond film
clubs are being organized.
Vice President
Committee Formed
Five members comprising the
vice president's standing commit-tee
for 1957-58 have recently been
selected by Bob Reed, newly elect-ed
Senate vice president.
Lynn Weaver, sophomore, was
appointed to serve a second term
on the committee. Others are Al
Christensen, sophomore; Marge
Donahue, freshman; Bryan Harris,
sophomore; and Evan Rogers,
These students were chosen ac-cording
to their interests and abil-ities,
stated Reed.
The purpose of this committee is
mainly to assist the vice-president
in planning freshmen week and
prospective students days.
Reed said that plans for the
freshmen retreat next fall are now
under way.
Mr. Van Heerden expressed the
hope that enough interest can be
generated on campus to organize
both a drama and a science club.
He asks that interested students
contact him.
The fourth Wednesday of each
month will be set aside for cul-tural
activities. By working with
the various clubs the Cultural
Council hopes to plan a variety,
of musical, artistic and film even-ings.
Mr. Van Heerden also announced
that by next fall there should also
be provision for the relay of ap-propriate
music in the bookstore
and the coffee shop.
On Exhibit
The paintings on exhibition in
the student lounge represent the
work of this year's art depart-ment.
The pictures which are both
abstract and realistic include still
life subjects, and portraits. Each
one is the result of at least four
weeks work. For many, this has
been their first experience in oil
painting. Among those whose
works are being shown are: Jim
Shelton, Andrew Julie, Gordon
Becker, Les Funk, Lois Howat,
Loraine Lundberg, Arlene Lund-berg,
and Rita Balzarini.
Newly appointed chairman of
the athletic council for next year's
Student Senate is Robert Johnson,
college sophomore, from Seattle,
Chosen as council members thus
far for the coming year are Stu
Luckman, Les Borms, Joel Stolte,
and Marilyn Junker. Two places
are left open, one for a freshman
and one for a cheerleader. These
will be filled next fall.
When asked to make a state-ment
concerning next year's ob-jectives
Bob stated that, "The pri-mary
concern of the Athletic Coun-
Choir Auditions
This Week
Friday evening, May 24, the
music department will present a
music festival in the fieldhouse at
8 p.m.
Numbers on the program will in-clude
selections by the college
choir, the male chorus, and the
concert band.
Guest soloist will be Phillip
Gustafson, instructor in voice, and
his wife. They will sing sev-eral
duets including "I Waited for
the Lord" by Mendelssohn and
"When My Caravan Has Rested"
by Herman Lohr.
C. Howard Smith, chairman of
the festival, said the climax of the
evening will be a combined number,
"A Mighty Fortress IS Our God,"
cil for the coming academic year
shall be to strive for increased in-terest
and participating in our
schools' fine athletic program, and
to as much as is possible attempt,
not necessarily on a grandiose
scale, to achieve a significantly ex-tended
development of a much
neglected area of athletic endea-vor,
the intramural program."
Bob transferred to Bethel last
fall from the University of Wash-ington.
He has been active this
year on the basketball and track
which will be sung by the choir
and male chorus and accompanied
by the band under the direction of
Charles Erickson.
This is the third music festival
of its kind to be held on campus.
A free-will offering will be taken.
Sem Grads
To Be Honored
The first Hooding ceremony for
Bethel seminarians will take place
Sunday at 10 a.m. in the seminary
chapel. The investiture is in rec-ognition
of the work completed by
the graduating seniors.
Edwin Omark, dean of the sem-inary,
a.nd the seminary faculty
will have charge of the service.
The families and close friends of
the 18 graduates that are to par-ticipate
are invited to the occasion.
In addition to bearing the colors
of the school, each hood carries
a crimson border, the color sym-bolizing
the Divinity degree. A
red band will also be worn around
the neck.
Veep Holm
Quotes Pogo
"In the words of the immortal
Pogo, 'I'm for vice, what are you
for ?' " vociferated the new vice-president
of the junior class, Roger
At the final class meeting of
the year Roger was approved to
fill the vacancy left by Dave Morin
who will not be returning to
Bethel next year.
Bob Johnson Heads
Athletic Council
Bethel Education Program
Approved By Examiners
Demonstrating the techniques used in art, Les Funk explains his
painting to June Sparling.
Auditions for next year's col-lege
choir have been scheduled
for Wednesday and Thursday, May
22 and 23, in room 209 of the
college building from 1:30 to 3:30
All interested students are urg-ed
to audition, stated C. Howard
Smith, choir director.
Campus Calendar
May 24—Music Festival, field-house,
8 p.m.
25—graduation practice
—All School picnic
—Alumni banquet, dining hall,
6 p.m.
26—Hooding ceremony, semin-ary
chapel, 10 a.m.
—Baccalaureate, college chapel
11 a.m.
—Commencement, fieldhouse,
3 p.m.
—Reception for graduates
Upon the recommendation of ment of education. And, according
representatives who visited the to Pres. Lundquist, ". . . the pro-campus
May 9 and 10, the second- gram is now fully launched and
ary teacher education program approved."
wsoitlal bstea tper ebsoeanrdte odf t eod tuhcea Mtioinn nfoer- Next year art, music, natural
approval for a five-year period
on June 5.
Spokesman for the group eval-uating
this year's program at
Bethel was F. E. Heinemann, dir-ector
of teach certification for the The secondary teacher training
state department of education. program was initiated at Bethel
Other members of the seven-man on a year's trial basis, under the
examining team represented the supervision of the department of
University of Minnesota, Macal- education, last fall, and has been
ester college, Gustavus Adolphus under the direction of Royal
college, and other nearby institu- Bloom, chairman of the depart-tions.
ment of education and psychology,
This informal approval of the and Sheldon Fardig, the director
program, signified by the recom- of student teaching. To be gradu-mendation
of the examining team, ated under this program, a stu-insures
the seven students being dent must have 27 credits in edu-graduated
from the first-year pro- cation besides the usual credit re-gram
this month of receiving their quirements for an academic major
certificates from the state depart- and minor.
be added
as areas
and social sciences will
to history and literature
in which the secondary
certificate may be re-
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the CLARION Tuesday, May 21, 1957
Before We Conclude
We are in the midst of another finals week; the time for evalua-tion
of the efforts that have been exerted over the quarter by the
student and instructor. With a year's end comes an evaluation of the
total program of the school.
This has been a dramatic year for Bethel. Changes that will have
lasting importance to the school have been made.
In the academic realm the secondary education training program
and the political science major seem particularly important. The physi-cal
plant of the school is being continually worked with and the addi-tions
to the dormitories are an important advancement. The student
activities program has seen beneficial improvement in the sports pro-gram
as Bethel helped form the new conference and as a compara-tively
large number of athletes have participated for four years. The
student assembly has made changes in their constitution that will
provide for more effective government. Important changes in personnel
have been made. Several fine instructors have been added but the
school is losing the stimulating and inspiring leadership of others.
These are a few of the events that seem significant now, but it
is only over a period of time that we can appreciate the total effect
of each.
Also this year there has arisen sharp differences of opinion on
important subjects. With these differences have come aroused emo-tions
but also a rethinking of the particular ideas and ways. There
has been reorganization of our own and desires for better understand-ing
of other's views. Perhaps in all cases not the best decisions were
made but we must not try to limit the freedom of expression and
the differences of opinion that are at the core of the learning experience.
Christian Liberal Arts
by Marjorie Peterson
That our particular denomination approves training for its leaders
is evidenced by the existence of this school. The seminary and the
college were established to equip Christians with tools by which they
might better serve the Christ they have promised to obey. Our consti-tuency
expects that courses in Bible, music, and how to run a Sunday
School will train a Christian for his place in the local church.
However, for some reason, this school has developed into some-thing
more than a training school—it has become a liberal arts college
as well. And it may come as a surprise to some that the liberal arts
program is concerned with producing a changed individual.
This change will come because the liberal arts education teaches
a student to think for himself.
To Christians who think that the truth was settled once and for
all by the council of Nicaea or by John Alexis Edgren or at the last
meeting of the board of education, it sounds like heresy to say that
students should be encouraged to think for themselves. After all, think-ing
may be dangerous, unsettling; necessarily it involves a change in
the student. But I believe that it produces changes in the Christian
individual which are significant and vital.
First, then, education should bring the Christian to a clearer under-standing
of the difference between faith and reason. The ignorant man
is the one who tries to prove logically that God exists. Nothing dis-credits
Christianity faster than trying to prove the truth of faith
by poor or false reasoning.
The Christian who is ignorant of his own limitations also brings
discredit to the Christian faith. All of us have heard the well-meaning
but ignorant believer loudly expounding some question which he
simply is not equipped to discuss. Education will not give a man any-thing
of eternal significance to say to our world—that message is
from God. But in an educated culture, the Christian cannot be too
careful that his ignorance does not spoil the effectiveness of that
message to thinking people.
The other area in which I believe education should produce a
change in the individual is in his ability to live a creative life.
It is essential that each Christian examine what he believes to
see if it is truth or merely something another man has told him. Edu-cation
will foster in the student a longing for truth and an unwilling-ness
to take another's answer as his own until it actually becomes his
own. No doubt it came as a shock to most of you as it did to me the
first time I realized that my pastor was fallible. As great a shock
came when I heard two of our seminary professors on opposite sides
of an argument about the nature of inspiration. Apparently one of
them had to be wrong—or perhaps both—and I began to see more
clearly the complex nature of truth. When the Christian begins to
think and seek for himself truth becomes part of him, not something
which he merely parrots after someone else.
The creative student may learn to express himself through music,
art, writing, or speaking. A look at the average Sunday School paper
will show the need for creative and inspiring writing in the Christian
sphere. Our churches are glutted with music which lacks emotional
depth and impact—music which sets the feet tapping rather than in-spires
the soul.
But to be creative requires much training and hard work. Curiously,
many ignorant Christians expect God to do this work for them. The
glib prayer, "0 Lord, bless now our efforts for Thee," is idle mockery
when there has been little or no effort. Education will teach a Christian
what his creative ability can produce if he is willing to do the hard
work it requires.
These changes which the liberal arts education should produce in
the Christian individual may not please those who did not expect them.
It was recently announced in a message as a dependable fact
that Bethel students often do not fit into their local churches when
they return. If this is true, I consider it one of the highest compliments
that could be paid this institution.
When I return to my church perhaps I won't fit perfectly into
the traditional mold—I hope not! And I hope none of us will for we
should have been reshaped by the liberal arts education into individuals
—being more able to use all our abilities and efforts to serve our God.
Zeteeta to
die Edeten
•Christians in Action
Dear Editor:
How can a person tell a Chris-tian
when he sees one ? Is the
only way Christians can be recog-nized,
the fact that they DON'T
smoke, drink, swear, dance or
go to the show. Great Christian
leaders say Christianity is a posi-tive
thing; it is a way of life.
Yet a stranger on Bethel's cam-pus
would doubt that this school
was "the house of God".
I agree that the students DON'T
indulge in worldly habits like
smoking, drinking, etc., but what
do they do in their spare time ?
Is the way time is spent in the
dorms, "just chatting" the way a
Christians should utilize his spare
time ? Haven't we, the Christian
students at Bethel, a moral and
spiritual responsibility to spend
our time more profitably than
"just chatting"? Isn't it the duty
of all Christians "to tell others
what Christ has done for them ?
Isn't the time spent "just chat-ting",
time which could be used
in the Lord's Service ? Are we,
the students of Bethel college
really striving to make our school,
"the house of God", to all who
come in contact with the school,
or are we using the excuse "Chris-tians
are human", and living just
about how we please ? I don't
know the answers to these ques-tions
but I certainly would like to
and I am turning to you, the Fac-ulty
and Students of Bethel Col-lege
for the answer.
°Band Awards?
Dear Editor:
I realized that this may be a
biased opinion because I am a
band member, but I feel there
should be some awards given for
student activity in the band.
It is evident that the band is
rated along with the male chorus
and choir because we are to ap-pear
in the program the last day
of school along with the two music
groups which did receive activity
There may be some very good
reasons for this not being done,
and if there are, I am certainly
interested in knowing what they
Wayne Henry
(ed. note: Dean Anderson ex-plained
the reason band members
did not receive awards was an
oversight. He added that others
who deserved awards failed to be
recognized because of this same
reason. Plans are being made to
reorganize the awards system.)
by Dick Bibler
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A Matter Of Time
(from the Gustavian Weekly)
"It is time that makes distinctions."—Aristotle
Time is running out on another year, and with the approaching
end we are again very conscious of the passage of time.
It seems that we as Americans and as college students might be
called `late-clock-watchers'—that is, we are not aware of time passing
until we near the end of a period or year. Until late, time for us does
nothing more than perhaps fight at a standstill. (It is amazing to note
how lawmakers can pass laws to conserve daylight, yet terrifying to
realize that not even the highest court in the land can extend the day-light
of a person's life.)
What we as `late-clock-watchers' do not realize is that time is a
movement towards an end. Time is not simply the continuance of
disconnected experiences, for time has a direction. Furthermore we are
accountable for every moment in time—a moment which has passed
and cannot be recovered—a moment from which God must rescue us.
Time, as Aristotle said, also makes distinctions. Each moment in
time is an opportunity for development. For although man does not
have control over creation he does have control of how he develops him-self.
When one becomes conscious of the urgency of the moment in the
movement of time, distinctions concerning proper choice of actions
must inevitably be made. Time then becomes the continuance of urgent
moments toward the end—which to the Christian is the spiritual union
of the individual with Christ.
Bells Are Tolling
by Astrid Barbins
Have you ever lived in a land
robbed of liberty ? Have you seen
free men turned into prisoners ?
Have you talked to honorable citi-zens
who have been reduced to
animal level, existing only on the
bare essentials of life ? Have you
ever thought that you could be
stripped of the robes of civiliza-tion
and culture and left alone in
a world of terror and fear ? If you
had been pushed down that far,
would any price be too great to
pay for a chance that you might
be free again ?
Many of us do not even consider
such a possibility. Those things
always happen to other people.
We read in newspapers and hear
ear reports of the vast number of
Hungarian people who went thru
these very experiences. Thousands
won their way to freedom, but
thousands like swine are shipped
to cold Siberia.
What can we do ? People are
tired of hearing clever statements,
they need understanding and love.
They must feel that there are
others who support freedom and
the rights of the individual. Do
we ignore their knocking because
our own problems are so big that
they demand our attention, or are
we so buried in insignificant mat-ters
that we miss our opportuni-ties
It would surely hurt us if some-started
hacking off our arms. Does
it hurt us when other Christian
suffer We are one body in Christ.
"Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in man-kind,
and therefore never send to
know for whom the bell tolls; it
tolls for thee."
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I was sitting there pondering,
thinking deep philosophical
thoughts—thoughts that probably
would have astounded Einstein to
such a degree that he would be
too humbled to come into my pre-sence.
My thoughts were of a
realm that was higher than a mere
mortal could ever comprehend. My
perspective was in such a scope
that I could perceive no one in the
same proximity as I. However, I
was brought quickly back to real-ity
when the book I was studying
dropped to the floor.
(ed. note : This was intended to
be humorous but the author was
in a melancholy mood.)
A tense moment at the dugout in the Bethel - River Falls game.
Royals Drop Last
Macalester Wins 17-7
John Berg's and Jock Tierney's
home runs made a slight effect on
the game last Thursday as the
hard hitting Macalester boys
slammed the ball all over the park
to trump Bethel 17-7.
Stahnke fizziled out in the first
inning as the Scots piled up eight
runs. Pommerenke, taking over
was unable to stop them either.
Macalester ended the game with
twelve hits to Bethels ten.
The bright spot came for the
Royals in the seventh as they
scored four runs with Tierney
sending Borms around and Berg
hitting a homer after Albright
The day before was not the
brightest for Bethel either when
at Dunning field Brunzell gave up
ten hits to allow River Falls eight
runs to the Royals four.
The Royals gained only four
singles, Baurel hitting two. The
home team played the ball well,
making no errors to the other
team's four.
On May 13, Northwestern lacked
almost everything Bethel had in
hitting power as the team scored
19 runs with 17 hits against six
runs with four hits. After walking
four in the first, Borms settled
down to a fine game. Boosts came
along with a homer by Reynolds
and triples by Tierney and Erick-son.
Stahnke and Pommerenke pitch-ed
the first while Brunzell did the
second when on May 11, the Royals
took a double header from Beth-any
college 10-7 and 7-1.
Team Batting Averages 1957
Baurle 47 20 .426
Brunzell 49 20 .409
Albright 50 20 .345
Borms 45 14 .311
Tierney 55 16 .291
Berg 50 13 .260
Thomas 26 6 .231
McNaughton 36 8 .222
Larson 36 6 .167
Pommerenke 24 4 .167
Reynolds 12 6 .500
Stahnke 11 5 .455
Erickson 9 2 .222
Nerstad 8 1 .125
Team 466 141 .302
Games 1957
Won 7
Lost 6
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Three Teams Travel
To Conf. Invitational
Is Most
Just before the season closed
last Thursday the baseball squad
elected Ed Brunzell as the "most
valuable player" of the year.
Ed, a senior from Chicago, Ill.,
has been on the team for four
years. Playing in the catcher posi-tion
for two years, in a tight clutch
last year he took over the mound.
Since then he has played at both
positions, concentrating upon pitch-ing
this year. Ed has maintained
an excellent batting average, get-ting
20 hits for 49 at bats for a
.409 percentage this year. Besides
baseball, Ed played quarter back
on the football squad during his
years at Bethel.
Elected at the same time are
next years co-captains, Jack Tier-ney
and DeanBaurle. Jack played
center field this year while Dean
played first base.
Win, Loss, Tie
Ends Season's
Tennis Meets
Northwestern college bowed to
the Bethel tennis team in a lively
match on May 9, 5-3. Winning for
Bethel were Sension, Graham, Ben-ert
and Holtzhouse in singles and
a Pederson-Sension double team.
On May 13 Augsburg college
triumphed completely over our net
men with a score of 4-0.
Bethel's tennis team tied one
and lost one in the matches on the
May 4 and 6. In an abbreviated
match with Augsburg on May 6,
the team fared better. Only five
matches instead of the usual seven
or nine were played, with Bethel
winning two of them and gaining
a third point by forfeit to tie the
score at 3-3. Sension won easily
with a 6-1, 6-1 score, while Ben-ert
took his 6-4, 6-4.
On the fisrt date, Luther Col-lege
at New Ulm gained revenge
for their defeat at Bethel in an
earlier match when the Royals fell
at a 6-3 score. Winning though for
Bethel were doubles teams of Ben-ert
and Sension and in the single
matches, Holtzhouse and Benert.
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Trackmen Second
Bethel's 1957 track season which
was concluded last Friday at Ply-mouth,
Wis. where the Royal's
placed a clase second in team com-petition
in a five school meet, will
go down in the records as its most
successful since Bethel first enter-ed
competition in this sport.
8 Blankets
Given Seniors
In recognition of their exten-sive
participation in varsity ath-letics
during the last four years,
eight men were presented blankets
at the awards assembly on May
Receiving the award were John
Berg, Paul Berg, Edwin Brunzell,
Henry Pedersen, and David Sea-quist
for football; William Conrad
for basketball; and Dale Larson
and Allan Stahnke for baseball.
Sweaters were awarded for
those who have participated three
years. These were given to Joel
Stolte in football, Howard Rekstad
in basketball, Jack Tierney in
baseball, and Bill Larson in golf.
Cindermen Take
Easy Second
Coach Fredrickson's track char-ges
gained a sold second place
team ranking in a four school
meet held at Hamline May 10. In
competition with much larger
schools, the Royals compiled a
total of 52 1/2 points—second only
to the Hamline Pipers' 73. Gusta-vus
Adolphus and Augsburg com-pleted
the rankings with 41 and
24 1/2 points respectively.
Jim Reinoldt, Bethel's distance
speedster, captured second in the
two-mile contest. Beryl Munson,
running his best time of 2:06.4,
took first in the 880 and repeated
with a 4:50 mile in that event.
Becker's 132' discus throw was
good for second, while Jackson
took second in the 220 and Al
Christenson first in the pole vault.
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The track team finished their
season at a Conference Invitation-al
meet at Lakeland college in Wis.
Their 4 points placed them second
as Lakeland gained 69 1/2 , North-western
(Minn.) 44 1/2 , Milton 19 1/2,
and Northwestern (Wis.) 9.
Jackson, Becker, Munson, Chris-tenson,
Henry, and the Olsons
starred for the Royals. The cinder-men
gained six first places as
Bethel ran outstandingly in almost
every event.
Golfers Hampered
Under terrible weather condi-tions,
with rain and 40 degree
temperatures, the Bethel golf
squad participated in a meet with
Rockford, Milton, and Lakeland
colleges at the Riverdale Country
club near Sheboygan, Wis.
Milton scoring 355 as the low
total of its four players took first
place, Rockford came second with
361, Bethel third with 373 and
Lakeland last with 440. Dave
Davies scored lowest for Bethel
with an 82.
Netmen Score 7 1/2
At the new conference meet in
Sheboygan, Wis., Bethel's net men
gained only 7 1/2 points to place
third in a four team match.
Other colleges participating in
the meet were Northwestern of
Minneapolis, winning with 13 1/2
points; Milton, second with 12;
and Lakeland last with 3.
Making points for Bethel were
Tegenfeldt, 6 points, and Benert
2 1h. Sension and Pederson also
Golf Team Ends
Season With Loss
At a three school meet at Como
golf course on May 9, the Bethel
team took last place with 5 points.
Winning the meet was LaCrosse
teacher's college with 30 points,
while Augsburg college gained 10.
On May 7, at Keller golf course
Hamline college gained 11 points
to win over Bethel, 11-4.
Final results of the games this
year show Bethel winning two
and losing two, while taking a
third place in one quadrangular
meet and third place in a triangu-lar
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Tuesday, May 21, 1957
Astrid Barbins Takes
Oath For Citizenship
Alumni Banquet
Held May 25
Graduates will be welcomed into
the alumni association at the
Alumni banquet which will be held
in the dining hall at 6 p.m. on
Saturday, May 25.
Alumni graduating in years
ending in two and seven will be
Rev. Donald Gangstrom, pastor
of the Riverview Baptist church
will be the speaker.
Providing music will be Mrs.
Clarence Krotzer, violinist, and
Mrs. Emory Nelson.
President of the Alumni assoc-iation,
Rev. Robert Daley will be
the Master of Ceremonies.
18 To Graduate
From Seminary
This year there are eighteen
graduating Seminary students, all
with B.D. degrees with the excep-tion
of one Th.B.
Of the eighteen, eight have
definite plans for the future. Ro-bert
Erickson will have a pastorate
in Hillside, Illinois.
George Johnson will
continue in the service
of the foreign board; August
Limkemann is expecting an ap-pointment
as an Army chaplain.
Wallace Olson will be at work on
the Nett Lake Indian Reservation.
Joseph Sanders will have a pas-torate
in Carp, Minnesota, Law-ence
Seiffert in Glenwood, Min-nesota,
Arlen Svare in Coon
Rapids, Minnesota, and Allen Tra-vaille
in Forest Lake, Minnesota.
L. Weaver Installed
As Bodien Prexy
Lynn Weaver, sophomore, was
installed as next year's Bodien
Dormitory Council president at a
recent dormitory breakfast.
Also accepting their offices at
that time were Sylvia Jackson,
junior, vice president; Annette
Burgess, freshman, secretary;
Dorine Wessman, freshman, assist-ant
secretary; Elaine Johnson,
freshman, treasurer; Janice Matt-son,
freshman, assistant treasurer;
Terry Brown, freshman, and Mar-jorie
Dubs, freshman, freshmen
representatives;, Judy Powell,
freshman, and Mary Ellen Olson,
freshman, sophomore representa-tives.
"Education for the Brave New
World" an original oration by Mar-jory
Peterson was awarded the
$25 first prize for the oratory
contest, which was held May 14,
in the seminary chapel.
Jack Tierney received the $15
second place award in the oratory
contest, and Beverly Voldseth re-ceived
the $10 third place award
for "The Eternal Question."
In the poetry reading contest
Beverly Voldseth was given the
$20 first prize for a reading of
"Patterns" by Amy Lowell.
The $15 second place award
went to Priscilla Knapp and the
$10 third place award went to
Karen Christiansen.
Judges for both contests were
President Carl Lundquist; Anton
Pearson, seminary professor of
Old Testament language and lit-erature;
Paul Grabill, assistant
professor of English; Mrs. Al
Glenn, Bethel alumna; and Don
Richardson, seminary student.
Each year the prizes for the
oratory contest are donated by Dr.
Alford Hanson, a dentist in Or-tonville,
Minnesota. Dr. Martin
Ericsson, a physician in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa annually donates the
poetry contest awards.
The awards were presented at
Smiling broadly after receiving her
a book out of the library.
Winners of the Student Library
contest conducted by the book-store
were: 1st prize ($40.00 in
books), Ben Bertel; 2nd prize
($25.00 in books), Paul Schlueter;
and 3rd prize ($15.00 in books),
Ben Cording _and Al Stahnke.
vaann Heerden, book-store
manager stated that the con-test
was well contested by Bethel
students. He said that all thirteen
entries indicated an attempt on
the part of the contestant to im-prove
his library.
Prizes were awarded on the
basis of both quality and quan-tity.
Students who bought at least
half of their books through the
bookstore were given preference.
Judges of the contest were Dr.
Virginia Grabill, Chairman of the
English department; David Guston,
the Honors convocation on May
15, by President Lundquist.
Senate Powwow
Declared 'Success'
Mrs. Wally Peterson declared
the Student Senate powwow on
May 16, at Phalen Park, "a burn-ing
success, with a hot time had
by all."
Following the steak fry and
corn roast, which was attended by
Senate members and advisors
Wally Peterson and Elving An-derson,
the final senate meeting
was held.
The approximately $250 left in
the treasury was designated for
purchase of stage lighting equip-ment
next fall.
Nils Friberg, financial secretary,
reported that $3,693.00 has been
collected in the weekly missionary
Robert D. Johnson was approved
as Athletic Council chairman.
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citizenship, "Ozzie" Barbins checks
assistant librarian; and Lawrence
van Heerden.
Lawrence announced that next
year's contest will be open only to
college students. The amount of
money spent will also be limited.
Lawrence stated that the empha-sis
will then be on the "all-around"
subject material of the books
bought. He added that textbooks
will not be counted on the contest.
Royal Glee Men
To Be Formed
Formation of a new male vocal
group, the Royal Glee Men, has
been announced by Sheldon Far-dig,
assistant professor of music
and education.
According to Mr. Fardig, this
ensemble is being organized to
add variety and flexibility to the
concerts given by the male chorus.
Besides being a part of the regu-lar
male chorus program, the
group will also appear at functions
in the Twin City area.
The twelve men who will make
up this group are to be selected
from the present male chorus
members and those auditioning
for next year's male chorus.
The auditions for the male chor-us
will continue through this
Tentative plans for the male
chorus trip to California next year
are being formulated, but no spe-cific
information is available now,
Mr. Fardig. stated.
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Standing before a district court
judge last Wednesday, Astrid Bar-bins,
college sophomore, took an
oath of allegiance, her last step
in becoming a United States citi-zen.
The citizenship papers which
"Ozzie" received are the result of
a process which began in Sept.,
1949, when she and her parents
and three brothers and sisters ar-rived
in Boston from Germany.
There her father had been pastor
in displaced persons' camps for
six years, following the escape of
the family, with the exception of
a brother in the service, from Lat-via.
After coming to the States,
"Ozzie" lived in North Carolina for
a 'year. But her home for the past
six years has been Cleveland,
where her father is pastor of a
Latvian Baptist church.
Her amazement at her fortune
to come to America has not worn
off. "I don't understand why I
was among the chosen people to
come to this land, while others like
me remained behind the Iron Cur-tain
with no hope at all," she says.
"I don't know why I should be al-lowed
to taste the goodness of
America, while others hunger for
a slice of bread and work in slave
labor camps."
All Frosh, Sophs
To Stay In Dorms
All full-time freshmen and so-phomores
will be required to stay
in the dorm next year unless other
arrangements are approved, stated
Elving Anderson, dean of stu-dents.
At the beginning of the next
school year the new dorm wings
are scheduled to be ready for oc-cupancy.
Upperclassmen and part-time
students may apply for the remain-ing
rooms, Dean Anderson said.
Reservations for dorm rooms
can be made with Miss Edith Lar-son
in the Business Office now.
Other questions students have will
be handled in the Students Affairs
office, Dean Anderson concluded.
Art Club Elects
First Officers
Newest club on campus, the art
club, met May 12 to elect officers
and formulate a purpose.
Officers are Jim Sheldon, jun-ior,
president; Carl Holmgren,
freshman, vice president; Terry
Benz, freshman, secretary; and
Rita Balzarini, junior, treasurer.
President Jim Sheldon stated
that the purpose of the club is to
stimulate an interest in art.
Membership, he added, is open
to those interested in art on var-ious
Advisor to the organization is
Eugene Johnson, Assistant Pro-fessor
of Art.
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But she admits that, though ap-preciating
the great abundance of
things in this country, she had to
face a period of adjustment to a
new and in some ways unpleasant
way of life. And her citizenship
papers symbolize a oneness she
has gradually come to feel with
the American people.
At first, she says, she felt un-willing
to keep up with the rapid
pace of American life, and that
standards here were different. But,
she says, "I had to adjust my
values. I discovered that people
are all basically the same every-where.
They all gather and squan•
der and love and hate. Perhaps
the expression is the only differ-ence."
"Ozzie's" plans include continu-ing
her education and becoming a
`The Face,' Alien
Win $25 Prizes
In Frosh Contest
Jack McNutt's short story "The
Face" and Herb Schlossberg's short
story "Alien" were awarded the
$25 first prize awards in the
freshman writing contest.
Two five dollar second prizes
went to Arthur Coombes for "So-cial
Pressure," an exposition, and
"Father was an Artist," a short
Also winning five dollars second
place awards were Dick Benert
for his short story, "Father
Knows," and Herb Schlossberg for
a description, "First Jump."
Mrs. Catherine Brandt, a St.
Paul free-lance writer, and Drs.
Paul and Virginia Grabill of the
English department served as con-test
BWA Plan
Fall Banquet
Next fall a big-little sis banquet
honoring the little sisters will be
the major BWA activity, the old
and new BWA cabinets decided at
a combined meeting on May 17.
In the spring a commencement
tea in honor of the women gradu-ates
will replace the customary
spring banquet. The change was
made because of the large number
of formal banquets held in the
spring, retiring president Lois Lar-son
Plans are underway to have the
returning "big sisters" write wel-coming
letters this summer to
their "little sisters."
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Editor's note: Warren has announced that his son Matthew on Friday, April 5, 2013, died due to suicide after a long struggle with depression.
Rick Warren is going to the moon. Over ten years ago, the pastor of Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, authored The Purpose Driven Life, a book he wrote in about seven months while on sabbatical.
More than 32 million copies of the book have since been sold, making it the best-selling nonfiction hardback in history and catapulting the 59-year-old Southern Baptist onto the global media stage. He's been anointed as the next Billy Graham—as well as pilloried in the media as antigay, a schmoozer with dictators, and a false teacher.
This year, Warren is republishing The Purpose Driven Life with fresh material, and launching a public campaign based on the book's subtitle: "What on earth am I here for?" Warren describes his Peace Plan, the global outreach effort connected to the book, as the equivalent of President Kennedy's moon shot—putting a man on the moon within a decade. Warren's focus is the 3,400 people groups without Christians or a Bible in their own language.
Warren has set the deadline for reaching these 3,400 groups at the end of his final decade as Saddleback's senior pastor. In 1980, Warren vowed to retire in 2020, after 40 years in the pulpit. He spoke recently with Christianity Today senior editor, global journalism Timothy C. Morgan.
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On August 28, 1995, Larry L. Buell was appointed Acting Director of OSC Networking of the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). In this position, Buell is responsible for the day-to-day operations of OSC Networking. Buell succeeds Alison A. Brown and Jeffrey Ritter, who served as Director and Acting Director, respectively.
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Columbus, Ohio -- July 28, 1995 -- Edward H. Jennings, president emeritus and finance professor at The Ohio State University, will discuss the framework for the United States' higher education system at a seminar in Hanoi, Vietnam Aug. 1-3.
Jennings, who was president of Ohio State from 1981-1990, will address a group of officials from the Vietnamese higher education system and education department at the seminar, which is sponsored by the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities, Inc. (MUCIA).
Columbus, OH -- July 28, 1995 - Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) and the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA) announce their upcoming seminar entitled "U.S. Education Into the Twenty-First Century." This joint program, to be presented at Hanoi's West Lake Village on July 31 and August 1, features three prominent speakers from leading universities in the United States and senior level MOET officials.
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At the 47th Annual State Science Day on April 22, 1995, the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), Columbus, recognized Upper Arlington ninth grader Ho-Sheng Hsiao for Outstanding Application of Computational Methods for his State Science Day Research Project. Hsiao's project, Path finding: Behavior of Artificial Neural Network, garnered the top OSC award.
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Well, tonight I want to draw your attention to a passage that really sort of allows me to say what's on my heart. As I mentioned this morning, you have showered me with so much blessing in my life, you have made my life so rich and so full. And if I could sum up in one simple statement why that is true, it is because of the way in which you respond to the ministry that God has given me here.
I know I'm not deserving of that kind of response. There's nothing humanly that I could do to gain that kind of response. But God, in his grace, and God in his mercy, and God in his sovereign purpose has bestowed upon my life, a congregation of people who respond the way a pastor would hope and pray and wish they would respond.
I think back and some of the biographies that I have read about men who poured their life into churches that in the end devastated them. The Apostle Paul certainly had that experience with the church at Corinth who had a sad, tragic response to his faithful ministry.
I remember reading one time when I was flying over to Australia to minister the story Arthur Pink, the great mind, gifted preacher, Bible student whose ministry was one tragedy after another, so that in the end of his life he found himself in some seaside village in Scotland, a recluse who wouldn't even go out the door, he had been so deeply grieved and wounded and hurt by people.
I think about Charles Spurgeon who after all the power of his ministry was basically voted out of the Baptist Convention and had a broken heart and a grieving spirit 'til his life ended. Jonathan Edwards, in our own country, who was voted out of his church at the height of the great, great preaching ministry that probably had no equal in our history.
Not everyone is blessed with a congregation that responds the way you respond, and I believe the way God would have you respond. As we come to a Shepherd's Conference this week, of course, we'll be talking a lot about the pastor's duty, a lot about our responsibility, and the Bible does say a lot about it. It's almost a part of every facet of the Epistles of the New Testament.
The most serious task that any man could ever be given would be to be a pastor. That is the highest calling imaginable, the one with the greatest demand for excellence, and the greatest level of accountability. That's why James said, "Stop being so many teachers, for theirs is a greater condemnation." It's a very serious duty. It's a very formidable duty. Humanly speaking, it's an impossible one. And that's why Scripture has so very, very much to say about it.
That instruction begins even in the Gospels as Jesus instructs the disciples in what He expects from them as they go out really to be the first wave of pastors and evangelists and shepherds of His flock. It continues in the Book of Acts where the responsibilities for leadership in the church are continually delineated. And then it goes right on through the Epistles, to finally the Pastoral Epistles themselves. 2 Timothy in Titus.
And then there was even pastoral instruction as far as the shepherd's responsibility is concerned in 1 Peter, as the shepherd is the undershepherd of Christ, he is basically given instruction as to his character and the nature of his ministry. That kind of ministry even continues on into 2 Peter as he has the responsibility to warn his people of err.
And you come even into the Book of Jude and it follows there. You go into the Epistles of John and you see a pastor, namely John, endeavoring to work with his flock. We get into the Book of Revelation and you have instruction for seven churches, and accountability for that instruction being disseminated and bound, as it were, on the minds and hearts of the people by those who are their shepherds.
The New Testament is filled with that instruction. And because of the precision of that instruction and because of the clarity of that instruction, much is made of our obligation as pastors to fulfill that duty. And we are rightly held up to a very high standard. And we are disqualified if we fall short of that standard.
Paul said that his great fear, 1 Corinthians 9:27, was that in preaching to others, he, himself would be disqualified. We understand that. And as I said, I preach a lot on that because there's a lot of it in the New Testament. We, through the years, have said much about the church and much about the ministry in expositing the New Testament because there's so much there. And it's also good for my own heart and for all our pastors to know this and to be continually held to the standard.
And it's good for you to know the standard and to know it well so that you can hold us to that standard. But there's the other side of this relationship as well, and that is the instruction that God has given for you, as the people, in how you respond to the pastor. I have unquestionably, a serious, demanding, formidable duty before God, a duty that I need to fulfill, for which I am held accountable.
You, also, have a duty to fulfill in response. And Scripture does have a lot of say, also, about your responsibility and your duty as you respond to the ministry that God puts before you. For example, in Philippians 2:29, Paul tells the Philippians about Epaphroditus, who was a fellow servant with Paul. And he says to the Philippians in Verse 29, "Receive him in the Lord with all joy, and hold men like him in high regard."
There is unquestionably a responsibility on the part of a congregation to have high regard for faithful pastors, faithful leaders. "Receive him in the Lord." That is embrace him because of your common knowledge of the Lord, your common life in Christ. "Do so with all joy and hold men like him in high regard."
In Hebrews 13, again, in Verse 7, it says, "Remember those who led you," that would be your shepherds, your pastors, "who spoke the Word of God to you. Imitate their faith," it says. "Imitate their faith." Receive them in the Lord with joy. Regard them highly. Imitate their faith. In Verse 17 of the same chapter, Chapter 13 of Hebrews it says, "Obey your leaders. Submit to them for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. And do your submitting and your obeying with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you."
You don't want to cause your pastor grief, because then that hurts his effectiveness, which restricts his ministry for your benefit. Perhaps the most familiar text dealing with your response is in 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13. "We request of you, brethren, that you appreciate those who diligently labor among you and have charge over you in the Lord and give you instruction. And that you esteem them highly, very highly in love because of their work."
This is all about regarding them highly, about submitting to them, obeying them, imitating the example of their faith, appreciating them, esteeming them very highly in love because of their work. Because it is the Lord's work that we do, because we are the undershepherds of Christ, not because of personality, not because of personal charm or attraction, but because of an objective evaluation of the centrality of the gospel of the utter importance and priority of the work of the pastor, we are to honor, respect, love, support, appreciate, submit, obey, and follow their example.
And when pastors are faithful to their responsibility and people are faithful to their responsibility, then the church is blessed and the church is powerful. Now this very issue is in the mind of the Apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians 3, and I want you to turn to it. That's the text that we'll just briefly mention tonight.
"You can feel the shepherd's heart," in Paul, "the heart that he has for his people as he unfolds what he expects from them." Listen to the first five verses of 2 Thessalonians 3. "Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, just as it did also with you, and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil men; for not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one. And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you're doing and will continue to do what we command you. And may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ."
What you have here, again with such a magnificent economy of words, is a summary of everything a pastor would ever want from his people. Really when you've said what's in this five verses, you've summed it all up. It's just an immense, immense text in terms of its implications. You would read it probably in reading through 2 Thessalonians and you might just skip by it and not think deeply about it, but certainly, we ought to, and I trust we will for a few moments tonight.
In this text Paul lays out what he wants from his people, what he has a right to expect, because this would be the will of God. As a shepherd, first of all, he desires to have them prayerful. And I'm piggybacking on Paul tonight. This would be my desire as well. The shepherd wants the prayers of his flock. "Finally brethren," Verse 1, "pray for us. When all has been said and done, in the end, pray for us." Now just think about it. The human assumption would be that if anybody could function without prayer, Paul could. He was immensely gifted, a brilliant mind, the finest possible training in Judaism. He had direct revelation from God, something none of us have outside of Scripture, of course.
We don't have God revealing his Word in our minds, as he did. He was powerful. His preaching was effective. Whole cities were influenced by his sermons to faith and sometimes hostility against the Gospel. He had great, great ability. He had great courage. He had great determination. He had great self-discipline. He had great clear strategy. But with all of his natural ability and all of his ministry opportunity and all of his formidable education and all the revelation that God gave to him and all of his experience and all his refined skills, he could say that that is not the source of my power. That is not the key to effectiveness.
In Colossians 1:29 he says, "For this purpose also," for the purpose of building up the saints, "I labor," he works to the point of exhaustion, "striving according to His power, which mightily works within me." Now you can't feel that power. I can't feel the power of God. People always ask me, "Do you feel the power of God? Do you experience God?" No, I don't feel God. There's no physical way to know that God is working. I know he's working because I see the effect.
It's like the Holy Spirit in John 3. I can't feel the Holy Spirit. He's like the wind. He comes and goes and I don't know where it comes from or where it goes. There's no physical, there's no experiential awareness of that. But I see the effect in transformed lives. Paul saw the impact of the power of God flowing through his life. He was dependent on the Lord entirely for every aspect of his ministry. His frequent pleas for people to pray for him, which he does repeatedly in his Epistles, underline who strongly he leaned on Divine power.
Certainly, the Thessalonians church, to which he's writing here, prayed for him. They were concerned to pray for him, and he wants them to continue to do that. After all, he had prayed for them. He prayed for them frequently, as he did for all of his beloved. Chapter 1 Verse 3, "We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting." Much of his prayer was prayers of thanks.
In Verses 16 and 17 of Chapter 2, he actually gives a prayer, "May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word." That's a prayer. He prayed for them. He greatly longed that they would pray for him.
Chapter 1 Verse 4, he was concerned about their perseverance in the midst of persecution and affliction. And I'm sure that was part of his prayers. Verse 11 of Chapter 1, he says it. "To this end also we pray for you always, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power." He prayed for his people.
Certainly, Acts 6 says that we're called to the ministry of prayer and the ministry of the Word. Paul needed their intersession as they needed his. His life was very hard. It was a hard life. It was a difficult life. It was solitary in many ways. It was dangerous. He was always exposed to the plots of both Jews and Gentiles who wanted to take his life. He was usually self-supporting. He preached where he was not wanted, to people who didn't want to hear what he said.
He didn't come into a nice place like this to a bunch of lovely people who came to hear him because they wanted to hear him because they believed in his message. He, inevitably, everywhere he went, preached to people who didn't want to hear him, a message that they resented. He could only succeed in the power of the Lord. That power was granted to him in the course of answering the prayers of his people.
The term "finally" here literally for the rest, loypeson, the Greek, it may, but doesn't have to, mean that the end has come. It could be translated "besides that," as it is in 1 Corinthians 1:16. Beside everything else I've said, beside all that, let me transition into a practical section which concludes the letter. And the first thing I want to say as I conclude this practical section is, "Brethren pray for us.
Literally: pray, parry, periphery, peripheral. It means "around." Pray around us. Surround us with prayer. Boy, what a great injunction that is. Surround me with prayer. Present tense; continually pray, continually surround me with prayer. Pray around me continually. Here is the most spiritually strong man, the most courageous, the most devout, the most self-disciplined, the most gifted, with the greatest volume of instruction, the Word of God, both that which had been written in the Old Testament and that which was being revealed in the New. He was used by God above all others and yet he shows his meekness and his humility in his dependence.
And he asks for the prayers of the Thessalonians, who in some ways would be the weakest of saints. And the reason being, Thessalonica was a baby church. It was just a baby church; just new believers. It's a wonderful reminder, isn't it, that the strongest of the strong need the prayers of the weak. You may think, "Well what purpose is there for me to pray? The pastor is strong. He's certainly stronger than I am."
People sometimes come to me and say, "I'd like you to pray for this and this because I know that your prayers are stronger than mine." That's not true. My God isn't any stronger than your God, and He's not more disposed to hear my prayers than He is yours. And here is Paul, the strongest of the strong, asking for the weak to pay for him. Here he is, this mature man, this mature apostle, asking for a group of new believers, just babies in the faith, to hold him up in prayer.
Here really lies the true greatness of Paul, preeminently gifted and yet utterly dependent on the prayers of his flock, deeply conscious of his personal inadequacy, deeply conscious of his dependence on the power of God which was gained in his behalf by the prayers of his friends. And he has two specific requests. And I understand these, "Pray for us." And these are the two things I'd like you to focus on: Number 1, that the Word of the Lord may spread rapidly. First of all, pray for the success of the message. Pray for the success of the message.
People often ask me, "I'd like to pray for you, but what shall I pray?" I get asked that all the time. "What do I need to pray for?" Answer? Pray for the success of the message. Pray that the Word of the Lord will spread rapidly. The Word of the Lord, by the way, is a phrase used hundreds of times in the Old Testament and numerous times in the New Testament. And it refers to the revelation from God. It refers to Scripture, God's revelation.
It's used also in 1 Thessalonians 4:15 in regard to the rapture, the Word of the Lord is used there. It's God's revelation. What Paul is saying is just pray that the Word of God when preached may spread rapidly and be glorified. His passion was for the success of the Word. I understand that. That's my passion. Somebody said to me this morning, "You always seem to just say the truth and speak the truth and you don't hold back and you just kinda let it go and let it fall where it may." It isn't just that. It isn't that you just preach and let it fall where it may.
You preach with this constant prayer that it may spread rapidly and be glorified, not that it'll just land willy-nilly, but that it'll penetrate effectively. "That it may spread rapidly is from the Greek verb, "trecco," which is the normal Greek word for "run." Pray that the Word of the Lord will run. It reminds me of Psalm 147-15, "He sends forth His command to the earth; His Word runs very swiftly." Well if ever there was a day in the history of the world when the Word of God could run far and wide, it's today, isn't it? Isn't it amazing?
I preach a message here and Serge hears it on the radio station. Somebody in New Zealand hears it on a tape, or somebody in Singapore hears it on a tape, or somebody in Europe hears is over the radio. Somebody in South Africa hears it over the radio. If ever there was time in the history of the world when the message could run, it's today. And God is truly sending forth His words and they're running swiftly over the earth.
That was Paul's prayer. He wanted the Word, the saving Word, the sanctifying Word to move swiftly, to run, to keep moving, running like a strong runner, swiftly moving over the land without obstruction and without hindrance, making rapid progress. It's essentially the very same thing he had in mind in Ephesians 6:19, "Pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel of which I am an ambassador. Pray for me that I might open my mouth and the Word might go forth with all of its penetrating force."
At the fourth chapter of Colossians, he says, "Pray," Verse 3, "that God may open to us a door for the Word, that that we may speak forth the mystery of Christ," always concerned that the Word go forth, that it go forth with power. 2 Timothy 2:9, you remember Paul said to Timothy, "The Word of God is not bound."
Like any true preacher, he longed for the Word of the Lord to sweep powerfully through the land, to sweep powerfully through the hearts of people, to run as far and wide as it could go. That's the reason you do what you do, the reason you write books so that the Word can run to places where you're not hear. The reason you do radio and tapes or anything like that is that the Word may run, that it may run to the ends of the earth.
And the key, that it would be glorified. What does that mean? That it would honored by those who hear it. That's the prayer. That it would run unhindered, making progress rapidly far and wide and be honored, admired, accepted, extolled, received with joy and thanks. Believed like a great, powerful, swift runner, the Word moving swiftly to victory, to triumph, to be crowned with the winner's crown.
He's really praying that it would be accepted, that it would be heard and mixed with faith, that it would be believed. In Acts 13 down in Verse 44, "The next Sabbath nearly the whole city assembled to hear the Word of God. When the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy and began contradicting the things spoken by Paul and they were blaspheming. Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, 'It was necessary that the Word of God should be spoken to you first; since you repudiate it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we're turning to the Gentiles.'"
That's not what Paul wanted to see. He had a heart's desire for Israel. He didn't want to see them rejected. He wanted to see them rejected. He wanted to see them accepted. So he prays and he asked his people to pray that the Word of God would run swiftly and be received and glorified just as it did also with you. That everywhere it goes the response would be the way it was with you. I understand that prayer. I understand that prayer.
I pray that as the Word of God goes forth it will do all over the world, all over this country wherever it goes, the very same thing it has done in your life. And you need to pray to that end as well. You need to pray constantly, regularly, faithfully that the Word of God will go forth rapidly and be honored, treated with respect, believed, and obeyed. Paul wanted to see the Gospel penetrate and change lives; a second request.
The first request was for the success of the message. The second request is for the safety of the messengers. In Verse 2, "And pray this, that we may be delivered from perverse and evil men, for not all have faith." At the same time that you're praying for the success of the message, pray for the safety of the messengers. Deliverance is necessarily. This is not for self-preservation. This is not for personal comfort.
Paul himself admitted, "Far better to depart and be with Christ." This is simply a necessary protection so that the ministry can go on and the message not be hindered. There was such great hostility to Paul, such great hostility. I don't really experience that kind of great hostility; although occasionally I do.
Some years ago, not too many, there were some threats being made on my life. The elders of the church went out and secured for me a bulletproof vest, feeling that I was under some threat, and asked me wear that bulletproof vest because they were afraid of what might happen. Nothing has happened. I don't wear a bulletproof vest, in case you're wondering. (Laughter)I've never worn it. It's hanging up there as a mute testimony to their affection for me. (Laughter)
But Paul had some serious, serious enemies, and so did other messengers of the Gospel, and I'm sure, so do I, and so do all of us. And Paul just prays that the people will petition God for the safety of the preacher, that they would be safe from harm; in this case, be delivered from perverse and evil men. He has in mind probably the situation in Corinth where there was serious Jewish opposition against him.
Perverse is a word that means "out of place," used only hear by the way of people. It usually means something that's out of place, something that's improper, something that's morally insane, that's irrational. And he calls them not only out of place and irrational, but evil. It's a word for malignant, aggressive, wickedness. So Paul wants prayer. He wants prayer for the success of the message and the safety of the messengers, and that means praying for their protection.
Although I was not subject life threatening from some human enemy, it was very encouraging to me when I was going through this life-threatening illness some months ago, to know that you were all praying that God, in His mercy, would spare me. In particular, though, with Paul, he says, "You have to pray that we'll be delivered from perverse and evil men for not all have faith." That's hard to believe, I think, sometimes for new Christians. And the Thessalonians, they were so transformed and so thrilled with the gospel, they might have assumed that everybody would react to it the way did. It was so wonderful and so life changing and so glorious. But not everybody was like that.
Not everybody is like that. Not all have faith. Not everybody's gonna respond to the truth like you do. There are life-threatening persecutors. Pray for the safety of the messenger. Simply, pray for the preacher. Pray for the success of this message. And pray for the ongoing safety of his ministry. That's what a preacher desires. And I confess to you that you have given me that, and I praise God for it.
Secondly, a pastor wants his people not only to be prayerful, but trusting, trusting. Verse 3, "That the Lord is faithful and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil one." This the balance here. You pray for them because there are enemies, not all have faith. There are perverse and evil men who would want to tear down, who would want to destroy. If they don't attack you physically, they attack your reputation. They try to destroy you.
Again, I heard just this morning of some things that were said about me which are utterly untrue, totally untrue. They would be said in an effort to discredit me. They have nothing to do with reality, completely untrue. I made the comment, "When I hear these things I wonder how many other hundreds of things are said about me that I never hear that are untrue?" But in all of this we can be trusting that the Lord is faithful and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.
Remember that when you're praying, you don't want to become anxious. You don't want to become overburdened. You don't want to become fearful, because you want to trust in God and in the faithfulness of God. This is the wonderful balance that's always there. In our prayers is also trust. So we don't pray in panic. We pray in obedience, trusting God to do His perfect will and express His power.
Paul knew by personal experience that God was faithful. He knew by personal experience that the Lord would strengthen and comfort His own in the midst of serious trials. He knew that. And he wanted to remind them of that. They need to trust. They need to believe in the loyalty of the Lord to His own, the loyalty of the Lord to His servants, to His shepherds, to His flock. And furthermore, no matter what happens to Paul the Lord will still protect them.
I think sometimes people must have thought, "If we lose Paul, everything's lost." That's not true. God buries his ministers. But his ministry goes on. And there was a day when Paul died and the Kingdom went on. And so Paul is saying, "In the end you can trust God. You don't have to fear or be in panic or be in despair or despondency or worry. You can leave it with God. The Lord is faithful. Whatever happens to me, He's there. He will strengthen and He will protect you."
You should never be asking, "What's gonna happen to us something happens to Paul? What's gonna happen to us if something happens to John? What's gonna happen to us if something happens to the pastor?" The Lord is there to strength -- that's a good word, "steridzo." That means to establish, to make firm, strong. He's there to strengthen. And he's there also to protect.
In other words, He's never gonna allow the enemy to come against you without protecting you. He's gonna make you strong and He's gonna put a wall around you to guard you from the evil one. That's inner security, strength, and outer security, protection. Here's a great statement, isn't it? The faithful Lord guards His own, strengthening them internally and walling them off externally. He guards them from the enemy. So while Paul wants them prayerful, he doesn't want them panicked, because they have a faithful, faithful God.
What does the pastor then desire for his people? He desires that they be prayerful. He desires that they be trusting. Thirdly, he desires that they be obedient, that they be obedient. Obviously, and I was saying this to our seminary students in chapel this week -- I speak to them in chapel occasionally, and I was addressing the fact that "You, who are preparing for ministry, must realize that you're being called to a proclaiming function." That's what we do. We are proclaimers. That's what we do. We are not CEOs. We are not entrepreneurs. We are not businessmen. We are not fundraisers. We are not public relations agents. We are proclaimers of Divine truth. That's what we do.
I remember one time I was at a certain well-known church and a gentleman was commenting on the ministry of a well-known pastor who had a God-blessed ministry. And he said with some derision, "This is an illustration of what happens to a church when all the pastor does is preach and teach." (Laughter)and I stepped back like, "There's something else?"
I reminded our seminary students this week, "You're being trained to be a proclaimer. That's what we do. That's what we do." And because that dominates our life -- because my life is spent in the preparation of preaching and the preparation of teaching, because that's what I do, the response to that becomes critical to me. And the response most desired is indicated by Paul in Verse 4. He desired his people be obedient.
Verse 4, "And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you that you are doing and willing continue to do what we command." Paul says, "I'm confident about you." This is a positive approach based on their past obedience and on the confidence that they were truly in Christ. He says, "We have confidence in the Lord concerning you." He's saying, "We know you're genuinely in Christ. You are real believers."
It's not a vote of confidence in their human nature. It's not a vote of confidence in whatever little group was sort of living leadership to the church. It's not a vote of confidence in the cleverness of their constitution. It's a vote of confidence in the Lord, who dwelled in them really and truly. It's a vote of confidence in the honesty and integrity of their faith. "I'm confident," he says. "I'm confident because of what the Lord is doing in you, that you're doing and will continue to do what we command."
He is simply saying that, "I'm greatly blessed. I'm greatly encouraged because I believe you're gonna hear and obey what I've taught you." Paul could command. We all command because we have delegated authority. I have no right to command you to do what I want, but I do have a right to command you to do what God says, right?
And Paul had a clear sense of his delegated authority. He understood that he was speaking on behalf of God, the Word of God, and he could speak it with authority. 1 Thessalonians 4:2, he says, "You know what commands we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus." And when the preacher comes before the people, he comes with the authority of the Lord if he speaks the Word of God. What really made Paul's heart glad was an obedient congregation who would do and continue to do what he commanded them from God. That gave him great joy and satisfaction. And that's what ministry is.
Jesus said to the disciples in Matthew 28, "Teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commended you." I don't know where that got lost. But preachers nowadays are reluctant to command. They're reluctant to speak with authority. This is a day of cool communication. This is a day when everybody's opinion is supposed to be as valid as everybody else's opinion. And many preachers have become wimpy. Maybe it's because they don't have any convictions. But in many cases, they do. They're just afraid to articulate them for fear of being rebuffed. We are commanders.
Paul was instructing Timothy, he said to him, "These things command and teach." And the proper response to a command is what? Obedience. The duty of the people to the pastor is to obey the Word of the Lord that he brings to them. And I, again, will confess, and gratefully so, that it would be hard to imagine a congregation more responsive to the Word of God than this one. In fact, that's true of the extended congregation beyond these walls who hear the preaching and teaching here through tape or radio or some other way. It's so thrilling to me to see the right kind of heart response to the truth of God. You have filled these 30 years here at this church with that kind of response.
Oh of course, there are those who along the way are rebellious or stubborn or obstinate. But for the most part, for the great part, of all the years of ministry here God has blessed this church with an obedient people. What a great, great blessing. The duty of the people then to the pastor's ministry, the right response is to be prayerful, to pray for the success of the message and the safety of the messenger.
To be trusting, that is to believe that God is faithful. And even though something may happen to the shepherd, a faithful God will strengthen you on the inside and protect you on the outside because you belong to him. And then to be obedient when the Word of God is brought to you, to respond by doing and continuing to do everything that is commanded.
There's one more issue here, and that comes in Verse 5, "And may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ." This is the fourth thing we pray for. This is the fourth thing we desire to see out of the congregation. This is the fourth appropriate response and we can simply call it growth or maturity.
Directing your heart into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ is just putting you deeper and deeper in to your relationship with God and Christ. That's what we want to see, spiritual growth, spiritual growth. Sad situation when you see a church where this doesn't happen. Where because of shallow teaching or because they continually get different pastors who maybe go over the same things and there's no long-term depth of ministry, there's all kinds of things that can cause that spiritual immaturity that is so common.
But it's such a wonderful blessing to be in a church where you can watch spiritual maturation taking place, and spiritual growth occurring as intake of the Word, application of the Word, obedience to the Word generates that spiritual growth in the power of the spirit. Paul expected it. "I expect," he says. And that's why I pronounced this benediction that the Lord is gonna direct your hearts into the love of God. In other words, you're gonna become deeper and deeper in terms of your affection for God. You're gonna love God more and more and more and more, moving toward loving God the way He demands to be loved, and He demands to be loved with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength.
Now that's a maturing process. And also, not only that the Lord, you may be directed into the love of God, but that you may be directed into the steadfastness of Christ, that you may become strong like He is. Steadfastness: What does that mean? Endurance, perseverance. You're gonna grow in love for God. You're gonna grow in perseverance and endurance. That's an indication of strength.
For example, I used to be involved in athletics. We used to have football practice would always start in the summer. And to be honest, during the summer we would all languish and loaf and do little of nothing to get prepared. And then we'd hit that August football camp in preparation for the season. And we were weak by physical standards. And everything we did was a maximum effort. And you'd get sick and your muscles would ache. And you would get injured and you have all these aches and pains. I remember it was almost impossible for me to sleep because of the soreness of muscles, and even in your youth when you think you can recover rapidly.
And as the year would go on and the weeks would go on in these preparation-training camps, you would become stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger. And the way it would show up was in endurance. Early on, you couldn't even make it through practice without collapsing. And then you'd become stronger and stronger until you could go through, in some cases, in full strength undiminished. And that was all preparation for what was gonna happen when you got into the fourth quarter.
And in those days, there were four or five of us on our team that played 60 minutes of the football game, and that's a pretty wearying thing. It doesn't happen much nowadays. And you had to have what it took at the end of the game. That was what you were working for. You were working for endurance to be able to endure all of the physical exigencies of that experience for as long as was necessary.
And that's spiritually what Paul longs to see in the lives of his people, an increasing affection for God, an increasing love for God, an increasing desire for God's honor and God's glory. At the same time, increased endurance, increased strength so that you become as steadfast as Christ, against temptation, against trials, against suffering, against disappointment, against sorrow, whatever it might be. That's spiritual growth, spiritual development, getting stronger and stronger and stronger and able to endure more difficult challenges, more difficult temptation. That's what Paul wanted from his people. And you know folks, that really sums it up. Having said that, there's really not much else to say.
Any pastor who will follow the Biblical model would say, "Give me a people who are prayerful. Give me a people who constantly intercede on my behalf for the success of the message and the safety of the messenger. Give me a people who in the midst of this intercession and prayer are trusting God to hear and answer those prayers, and believing that no matter what may happen God will never abandon them, but He'll always be there to strengthen them on the inside and protect them on the outside. Give me a people who don't panic in their prayers, but who are anchored to a faithful God."
That's a worshiping people, a trusting people. "And give me a people who hear the Word of God and do it. Give me a people who are obedient, and give me a people who are growing, who are loving God more and more and more and more, and who are becoming increasingly more like Christ in their spiritual maturity." And as I said, when you are blessed with such a congregation as that then ministry becomes joy upon joy. You have been, as I said this morning, so kind to me in pouring out your love to me, this is my card back to you.
This is how I view you, as a prayerful, trusting, obedient, and growing congregation, and therein is the supreme joy in ministry. And I say from the depths of my heart, "Thank you for allowing this great joy to me and for submitting to the work of the Spirit in your life to the end that you have fulfilled these desires." I am, and always will be, grateful.
"Father, it's been such a joy to be together tonight. Our hearts have been so enriched throughout the day and culminating in this time in the Word. We're so blessed to be a part of this church, of your church worldwide, your true church. But particularly, this local congregation has been such an immense blessing and we thank you and we give you the glory and the praise for the church.
"Yours is all the credit. Whatever has been done here of any spiritual value, You have done it by Your power and through Your truth. Whatever has been accomplished in any life in regard to salvation and sanctification, You have done it. Were it not for grace, nothing would be done. So we give you the honor and the glory. But we're so thankful that You have been specially gracious to us.
"You have blessed us so abundantly and therefore You have called forth from us a more abundant praise, a greater gratitude, a louder thanksgiving which we want to offer to You. Thank you for this blessed and beloved people, and I pray that You would continue to direct them in the path of being prayerful and trusting and obedient, that they would respond to the truth that is commanded from Your Word. And in the responding, they would grow in grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Pray in His name, Amen.
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staying isolated isnt possible these days, and people no longer care about Israel and US what they care about is what effects them, food prices, health, schooling and standard of living, Egypt policy hasnt changed towards Israel even after the revolution so i guess people dont care too much about foreign policy
with facebook and twitter information moves fast, today there were demontrations in Latakia and also small parts in Damascus, and after the shootings on the protesters more people are joining the cause
I agree Asad might ride this one out, Syrians dont want to get ride of him like Gaddafi, but at the least they want is reform and change to come to Syria
Syrian people are very nice and alot of them are highly educated and know what they are doing
Commenting on the highlighted bit in your post above - totally agree with you on this.
I think the whole world is moving to a new era - and the freedom to access, distribute and obtain information has put REAL power into people's hands ....
The time of dictatorships is over. If not today then tomorrow. The time when any minority could forcibly control any majority is over.
The sooner the dictators see this - the better. If they don't, it won't stop the inevitable, but simply increase the suffering and bloodshed.
At the end the people en masse will always win.
There will be those who will see conspiracy theories and other agenda in what is happening in the middle east ..... but I guess that is simply how they personally view things through their own lenses ....
I think it is all very simple .... as a teacher of mine once said .... the simplest answer is almost always the most correct when it comes to group actions or dynamics ....
People are seeing what others in the region are doing, they are getting inspired, and already being frustrated and fed-up for all kinds of reasons, they are rising up against their respective dictatorial regimes.
That is a good thing in the long run.
Finally, there is an awakening.
The dictators can kill, but how much can they kill? Eventually, they will fall.


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Campaign finance reform has been getting a substantial black eye at the hand of the Court lately, and the McComish case will most likely cause this trend to continue. The effect of these cases on public opinion hasn't yet been definitively measured, but these cases have forced states such as Connecticut to rethink their approach to public financing. And if the Arizona law is struck down in McComish, a number of states around the country will be forced to take legislative action to replace or abandon similar provisions in their public financing schemes. With each change, political leaders are forced to resubmit their argument to the electorate for why public financing of campaigns is a worthy cause in an environment of increasingly high-profile criticism compounding severe budgetary concerns.
The particular variety of public financing at issue in McComish provides a grant of government funds to a candidate in exchange for a ban on private contributions to that candidate, effectively creating a spending limit as the candidate is not permitted any other source of campaign funds. For over thirty years, virtually all of our presidential campaigns have been funded this way. But President Obama opted out of the public financing system in the 2008 election, and is likely to opt out once again in 2012, because the amount of the grant has not kept pace with the cost of campaigning. The Arizona matching funds provision is one response to this problem: Rather than providing a larger grant, the government provides additional 1-to-1 matches for every dollar spent by an opponent over the amount of the initial grant. Like the Millionaire's Amendment, this approach attempts to deal with the competitive limitations of public financing only in the event that an opponent takes advantage of this limitation. It is the reactive nature of these provisions which has led to all of the trouble public financing has had with the Constitution.
The prospect of being outspent by an opponent is a real threat to the attractiveness of a public financing program. And if participation is viewed as a disadvantage, that could mean the end public financing since it is a voluntary program (the Supreme Court has long held that spending limits are only constitutional if voluntary). But attempts at addressing this shortcoming on a candidate-by-candidate basis, rather than rethinking the system itself, have proven counterproductive. In the case of both the Millionaire's Amendment and Arizona's matching funds, the result has been unstable public financing regimes which ultimately cause embarrassment in the highest court in the land. It is becoming clear that selectively using government grants to compensate for the spending disadvantage inherent in such a public financing program will not pass constitutional muster. The answer lies in rethinking public financing systems entirely to bake competitiveness right in.
Mechanisms for financing campaigns which rely on public grants alone suffer from an additional infirmity: They do not promote participation in the political process among the citizenry. It is convenient, then, that there is (at least) one common solution to both problems. Permitting candidates to receive a mixture of both public and private funding prevents corruption and gives non-traditional candidates the boost they need in public grants — either in the form of a lump sum payment or as matching funds for small-dollar private contributions — while also avoiding the potential competitive disadvantage. Public matching funds for small-dollar contributions to a publicly funded candidate (as opposed to matching the spending of a privately funded opponent) gives all publicly funded candidates the means to be competitive, and leaves it to the candidate to decide whether to increasing her spending in the event of a well-funded challenger. The sponsors of the Fair Elections Now Act, which would provide for public financing of congressional campaigns, have embraced just such a solution, as have many states and municipalities around the country. And the Supreme Court has already given the constitutional stamp of approval to just such a matching funds provision in the presidential public financing program, so there is little likelihood that this approach is vulnerable to a court challenge.
Public funds used to match private small-dollar contributions increases the impact of private funding by ordinary citizens without any risk of corruption. This encourages more participation by those citizens and solves the competitiveness problem. More profoundly, this hybrid approach does not foreclose one of the most meaningful avenues citizens may employ to express their opinions on matters of public concern, such as collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin, defending the legitimacy of our first African-American president, and marriage equality. Incorporating private campaign contributions into a system of public financing — or rather, not walling publicly funded candidates off entirely from non-corrupting forms of private financing is the best way to ensure that campaign finance reform will no longer be kicked around by the Supreme Court. Fortunately, it will also make public financing a more perfect system, incorporating the best of both worlds.