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When we come to a time around the Lord's table such as this, our...our minds are drawn to those themes of Scripture which relate to the cross and to our salvation. And in all the years that I've been here, of course, I've preached hundreds and hundreds of messages around the Lord's table, and yet have come nowhere close to exhausting all the possibilities of understanding the glories of the cross. This morning, I wanna draw your attention to Hebrews chapter 8. Hebrews chapter 8. When I'm here week in and week out, I am focused on the very small details of the text and working through the exposition of every text. But typically, when I go away, and I think maybe in broader terms, and I get away from the daily kind of discipline of the text, and I begin to think about big themes. I come back with maybe a...a sort of more general approach to the Biblical truth. And I hope it's helpful for you this morning, because that's exactly what I wanna do. But I wanna base it on the 8th chapter of Hebrews and a...a text that I will not deal with in detail, but at least it contains some of the key elements that I wanna present to you. Starting in verse 6 of Hebrews chapter 8. And, here, the writer of Hebrews says, "But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises...Then...For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second. For finding fault with them, He says, 'Behold, days are coming,' says the Lord, 'when I will effect a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand and led them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not care for them,' says the Lord. 'For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,' says the Lord, 'I will put My laws into their minds, and I will write them upon their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen, and everyone his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know Me, from the least to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and I will remember sins no more.' When He said, 'A new covenant,' He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear."
Now, when we come to the Lord's table, we come here to remember the new covenant. The new covenant in Christ's blood. The better covenant enacted on better promises that replaced the first covenant that was obviously not faultless, or there would have been no occasion for a second, as the writer says. The first covenant was obsolete and disappeared. We come to celebrate the new covenant in Christ's blood. Christ shed His blood to provide forgiveness for all the sins of those who repent and believe the Gospel. And we celebrate that salvation through the work of Christ on the cross.
Now a covenant is a promise. And the new covenant is God's promise to forgive the sins of those who trust in Christ. That's what it is. God promises to forgive our sins and give us eternal life and the glory of Heaven forever if we trust in His Son as our Savior and sacrifice for sins. The new covenant, which is God's promise to forgive sin, is ratified by the blood of Christ on the cross. So we come to the cross as the point at which Jesus ratified the promise of God to forgive sin. God could have desired to forgive sin, but without the cross, there would have been no way for Him to forgive, because sin has to be punished. But when Christ was punished, God was free to forgive the sinner who repents and embraces Christ. So we come to this table to celebrate a better covenant, a new covenant that replaces the old one. Our joy, however, I think, and our gratitude, and the degree of our celebration is dependent on something. And it isn't just dependent on the cross. We all know the story of the cross. It isn't just dependent on understanding grace or mercy or God's love demonstrated in the gift of Jesus Christ. Our real joy and gratitude for the cross is dependent on our understanding of the law of God and how we have violated it. It is dependent upon our understanding of the law of God and how we have violated. Simply put, you cannot understand how great your forgiveness is unless you understand how deep your guilt was. You cannot enjoy what God has done for you to deliver you, unless you understand the condemnation in which you existed.
So coming to the Lord's table for a true believer is not just a time of gratitude for the cross. It's not that thin. It's not that superficial. It's not just saying, "Thank You, Jesus, for dying for my sins," and leaving it at that. We come to the Lord's table, not just with an attitude of joy and thankfulness over the cross, but we come with a sense of sadness and sorrow, burdened by the weight of our sins and the violations of the law of God. It is important, then, for us, as we come to the Lord's table today, to...to be in a communion attitude. To understand to some degree the law and how we have violated it, and how God has dealt with those violations. And that's what I wanna talk to you about. In our contemporary evangelical culture, the law is rarely talked about. More rarely written about. Preached about. Sinners, even, are asked to believe in Jesus Christ for salvation with no reference to the law of God that they have violated. Little, if any, reference to the guilt and condemnation in which they stand for those violations. Sinners are simply asked to pray a prayer and believe in Jesus and that's it. Law is not a feature in our modern evangelism, and, consequently, we have a deficient Gospel and deficient converts. But it is also true that the law of God is rarely discussed among Christians. We are OD'd on grace. We don't talk about the law of God. But the law is at the heart of salvation, and it's the heart of sanctification...A nonbeliever must understand that he has lived an entire life in violation of the law of God for which he is personally guilty and deserves eternal torment. And the believer must understand that, though forgiven and promised eternal life, sin is still a breach of the law of God, which not only disturbs God, but should deeply disturb our own souls. Now some people are gonna say, "Well, we're not under the law. We're under grace. Why do we have to deal with the law? Isn't the law obsolete? Doesn't verse 13 say that? That because there's a new covenant, He's made the first obsolete? And as verse 5 says, isn't the law just a shadow, or just a copy of heavenly things? And now we have substance?" It's important to understand the role of the law, and to understand whether the law, in fact, is obsolete. Now, lemme see if I can't clarify that for you. The old covenant has passed away. The old covenant is obsolete. The old covenant was a shadow. The old covenant contained the law of God, but was not equal to the law of God. The old covenant was the Mosaic law. It had the moral law of God, which is a reflection of God's holy nature, which never changes, because God never changes. But it also contained social stipulations, ceremonial observances, which passed away, because they were only temporary for purposes fulfilled in the past. The old covenant, that stage of the law, that form of the law, that embodiment of the law, that sort of container of the moral law of God, is obsolete. The moral law of God will never be obsolete...because the moral law of God is simply a reflection of His nature. And He is immutable and unchanging and His nature's always the same. And that which pleases Him, always pleases Him, and that which displeases Him, always displeases Him, and there never will be any alteration of that.
It is important to understand that the law of God never passes away. It always is what God desires, what God wants, and always what His creatures should render to Him as obedience to that law. It is critical for us to know the law of God and to obey it. What is obsolete is not the moral law of God, but the embodiment of that law in the Mosaic economy. Now, for my purpose today, I wanna show you the role of the law in redemptive history. To give you an overview so you understand its role in our lives today. I want you to have the big picture. The holy law of God never changes, because God never changes, and God's laws are merely a manifestation of His holy nature. But the stages and the forms in which God reveals that law have changed and changed dramatically. Sinclair Ferguson, my friend, certainly an unwilling dispensationalist...says, "God designed the role of the law in a series of unique stages." And he's right. And he says, "Stage one was before the Fall. Stage two was the law at Sinai. And stage three is in Christ and the new covenant." The law never changes, but the forms change. The embodiment of that law changes. And reluctant as he and other reform theologians may be to accept the implications of this idea of stages of the law, it is true that God revealed His holy will in different forms, in different stages. If you will, in different administrations or different dispensations. Before the Fall, for example, in the perfect Garden of Eden, where there was no sin, lived Adam. Adam was a pure reflection of the law of God. There was no written law in the Garden, right? Adam didn't have a book. He didn't have tablets of stone. He didn't have a scroll. There's no indication in Genesis that God gave him a long list of things to do verbally. There was no need for a written law, because the law of God was written where? On his heart. Because Adam was created in the image of God, and before the Fall, the image was uncorrupted, the most natural thing for Adam to do was imitate God. He imitated God naturally. God's holy law dominated his mind. God's holy law produced only that behavior, that conversation, and those thoughts that fully pleased God. God could say about Adam, "He is holy, harmless, and undefiled." God could say about Adam, "This is My beloved son in whom I am well pleased." Because God had written His law on Adam's heart. But Adam had the potentiality to sin, and that potentiality became reality. After the Fall, you say was the law of God still on the heart? In a measure. In a measure. Romans chapter 2 says, "God has written His law on the heart of every man," but the problem is it's diminished. It's covered. It's dominated by another factor, and that is sin. After the Fall, man's heart was darkened by evil, and what is natural to man now is what? Sin. Not righteousness. The most natural expression of human behavior, thought, and speech is evil. There is buried down there in the residual image of God in man a knowledge of God's moral law, which is totally dominated and overpowered by evil. And so man did not naturally obey God's law. He couldn't even find it, as it were, tucked down in the recesses of his being, even though he's responsible for it...And so God had to write His law again, and this time He wrote it in stone. And there on Mount Sinai, God wrote the law on tablets of stone, and the accompanying revelation of that law that we know as the Mosaic covenant. Not on the heart this time, but on stone. And not positive. In Adam, it had been positive. The law of God was written there. There were no restraints and restrictions and threats, except one isolated warning about a Tree of Life and not to eat of it. Everything else was positive, because it was natural for Adam to live in imitation of the holiness of God...
But, now, when the law was written in stone, it was negative. It threatened and threatened and threatened and promised death and destruction and damnation and judgment. So first written on the heart, and then written on stone. And God chose another son. The first son of His Creation was Adam, and he wrote the law on his heart. And the next son of His Creation is the son that He called out of Egypt, Israel. And to that son, Israel, a people, but nonetheless, His son in a broad sense. God gave His written law. But this son, Israel, like everybody else, experienced only the dominating power of sin. The heart is black. The soul is dead. The eyes are blind. The ears are deaf. The mind cannot understand, and man can only do evil. After the Fall, you remember, God looked at the world and said, "They're only doing evil continually," and drowned the whole human race with the exception of eight people. Evil became normal. Evil became natural, because the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. And no man can do what is right. There is none righteous, no, not one. So men no longer imitated God naturally. God wrote down His law then to tell them of every single violation, even though they wouldn't have known about it until then. They were still being held guilty for it. They were still dying. They were still going to hell. And God gave them the moral law, which they were violating. And after He gave the law, they continued to violate it. You read the history of Israel. If you're reading through the Bible with us, you read it again and again and again. They did evil. They did evil. They did evil. They did evil. They did. Because that's all they could do. Obedience for the fallen is unnatural. It's alien. It's foreign. It's impossible. And the old covenant did absolutely nothing to write the law on the heart. It only wrote the law on cold, hard stone. Stone that crushed them. Threatening them with death and damnation. And the written law still does that. It still does that...By that external form, no flesh can know God. No soul can be justified by the law. The law is just a...a tutor to lead you to Christ. The law came so that transgression might be manifest. "The law came...Paul says...and I thought was alive, and then I saw the law of God, and I died. It killed me." That form of the law was insufficient. So the first stage of the law written on the heart of Adam was only for a brief time. The second stage of the law written on stone was only for a brief time. And you have to come to the next stage of the law. Again, Sinclair Ferguson says, "The form the law took in the Mosaic covenant was never intended to be permanent. In it's very nature, the Mosaic administration was as collapsible as the tabernacle." And he's right. It was just for a time, and then it was obsolete. Its purpose, to show Israel how sinful they were. To lay out every moral demand that God had in specifics, so that they could see how wretched they were, and desperately in need of another covenant that could write the law of God on their hearts as it has once been in Adam's heart. The law couldn't do that. And so the law was replaced.
The next stage is Christ. And this is remarkable to understand. The next stage of the revealed law appears in Christ. Say what do you mean by that? Jesus Christ was the embodiment of the law of God. He lived the law of God perfectly. In fact, He was a better example of the law than the written law. Clearly, He was a more understandable, a more comprehensible, a more vivid demonstration of God's holiness than the written law. In Him, the law of God was lived out in perfection. It wasn't just a written law about what you say and about what you do and about how you think. It was a thinking, speaking, acting, living illustration of perfect divine holiness. That was what was seen in Christ. In fact, in Matthew 5:7, it says He came to fulfill the law. In Matthew 3:15, He says that He had to fulfill all righteousness. He was the law personified. The third phase. And that, because it was written in His heart, unhindered, unfettered, uncorrupted. He, God, in human flesh, lived the perfect law of God before man. Every divine precept was manifest in Him. Perfect obedience, flawless, sinless. And so man had the supreme revelation of the law of God. Moses came down from an earthly mount to bring the law in stone...which neither he nor anyone else could obey perfectly. And Moses had a reflection of God's glory. It was only reflective, and it faded away. On the other hand, Jesus came down from the heavenly mount to bring the law in flesh, which He obeyed perfectly. And His was an enduring glory, unreflected and unfading. And that's why the Father said, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased." So if you wanna see the law of God, you don't look at the Mosaic law. You look at Christ. There it is in absolute perfection lived. And Jesus even raises the standard. He even elevates the standard. Doesn't change the law of God. It can't be changed, but He raises our understanding of what's intended by it, and He did that in the Sermon on the Mount at the very outset of His ministry when He said this, "You have heard it said. You have heard it said. You have heard it said, but I say. But I say. But I say." And what was He doing? He was taking the law inside, wasn't He? "You've heard it said don't murder. I'm telling you don't hate. You've heard it said don't commit adultery. I'm saying if you look on a woman to lust after her, you've committed adultery in your heart." And Jesus was giving them not a...a law in simple written form, but a law in living reality. But, even so, even though Jesus was a better example of law, He was purer, clearer, more dynamic manifestation and embodiment of the law of God, a better pattern to follow, that didn't help either...because we can't follow His life. We can't live the way He lived. To have a perfect example may make the law more clear, but that only makes us more guilty. Right? You know, those Jews living under the Old Testament law, they tolerated the law. They didn't try to obliterate the law. They adjusted it. They tweaked it. They changed it. They altered it. They amended it. They added to it. Took away from it. Massaged it. Manipulated it, and got it into a comfortable zone. And then they credited themselves for keeping it. Right? This was the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees. And then Jesus came along and just obliterated their comfort zone. "Do you think you're keeping the law? You're not. If you're gonna enter into God's Kingdom, you're gonna have to have a righteousness that exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees...You're gonna have to be as perfect as God in Heaven is perfect, and I'm gonna redefine your idea of perfect. It's not about not killing, it's about not hating also. It's not about not committing adultery, it's about not thinking about it." And He went on from there. And He was more intimidating. They could tolerate and tweak the written law. They couldn't tolerate and tweak Jesus, so they killed Him. Too intimidating. Too confrontive. The perfection of Christ was more disturbing, more distressing, more intimidating. His perfection forced on everyone, and it forces on us, a higher view of the law than we could ever know by reading the Old Testament. He defines the true view of obedience, holiness, and righteousness. And He is so disturbing...in His holy obedience to God that He intimidates the superficial legalists to the point that they...they want Him dead. Either Jesus makes you repent, or He makes you angry. See, that's why our society today doesn't want Jesus in the public discourse. No, they want a watered-down, washed-out sort of nice guy Jesus, but they don't want the Jesus of the Bible. They don't want the Bible. They don't want the Jesus of the New Testament, because He's even more intimidating than the Mosaic law. Our culture doesn't want the Mosaic law imposed upon them. Our culture doesn't want us holding them to Old Testament morality. But they would sooner take that than they would take Jesus...So the embodiment of the law in its third stage comes in Jesus. And this is the purest, noblest, and perfect revelation of the law. But the reality is a perfect example is useless to us, because we not only can't keep Moses' law, we can't live like Jesus. What hope do we have then for fellowship with God? How are we ever gonna get back somewhere near where Adam once was before he fell? Well, the answer then comes in the cross, doesn't it? Because notice in this new covenant text, and you see in...in Hebrews 8, back to our text, if you have a Bible that shows Old Testament passages set apart sometimes in capital letters, this is taken out of a new covenant text of Jeremiah 31. And there, the new covenant is promised. And I want you to notice the character of this covenant by looking at verse 10.
"This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord...Here's the difference...I will put My laws into their minds. I will write them upon their hearts." This is what has to happen. Having the law written outside of us, having the law lived perfectly outside of us doesn't help us. How do we get it written on our hearts? Well, that's the new covenant, and Jesus comes to His disciples in the upper room, and He said, "I'm gonna shed My blood, and it's the blood of a new covenant." On the cross, Jesus dies. He ratifies the new covenant, which makes the new covenant effective, because He bears the sins of all who will ever believe. And God then can forgive our sins, transform us, and write His law on our hearts.
Down in verse 12 is that other dimension. "I will be merciful to their iniquities. I will remember their sins no more." The new covenant has two elements. The forgiveness of all our sins, and the writing of the law of God on our hearts. And it all works through the cross. As Jesus goes to the cross and pays the penalty for our sins, God forgives us, and then regenerates us. That is, He writes His law on our new hearts. We have a new mind, a new heart, a new love for God's law. What is it that characterizes a Christian then? He has this that Adam had. He delights in the law of God. He loves the law of God. All of a sudden now, it becomes natural to him. Natural in a supernatural sense. It becomes natural to him to obey the law of God. This is defining a believer. Someone who is a new covenant believer, and there are no other kind, is someone who now has God's law written on the mind and heart. That is to say he loves the law of God, delights in the law of God, understands the law of God, does not rebel against the law of God, does not resist the law of God in his inner man. The law in Adam's heart was loved and...and obeyed and delighted in until he sinned. The law in Moses' stone, however, was a burden and produced guilt and shame and rebellion. The law in Christ's life, perfect obedience. And yet His perfection is offensive to sinners. It's intimidating. It's indicting. And the more sinful a culture becomes, the more it hates the sinlessness of Christ. So we can't live up to the law of Moses. We can't live up to the example of Christ. We can't live like Adam lived before the Fall, because we're all corrupted. But we can come to the cross. We can come to Christ and accept His new covenant sacrifice for our sins.
And then, all of a sudden, sin yields its control, and sin no longer has dominion over us. But the law of God dominates us. Oh, we still sin, because this new creation that loves the law of God is incarcerated in our physical, unredeemed humanness. But it is still characteristic of a Christian to love the law of God. David, Psalm 119:97, "O, how I love Your law!" It was his delight. The Apostle Paul, "The law is holy, just, and good, and I see in me a...a principle, a law working, and it's righteous, and it's good. But there's another principle in me, and the things I wanna do, I don't do. And the things I don't wanna do, I do. O, wretched man that I am." And he understood the battle of having a soul, a transformed inner person that loves the law of God and delights in it, and unredeemed flesh that still loves sin. But the heart has been changed in a Christian. If you ask me what is characteristic of a Christian? What is it that makes the difference? It is this. New covenant defines all Christians. They have received the promise of God, which involves the forgiveness of sin and the writing of the law of God in their new hearts. That's why people sometimes say to me, "You know, you preach so strongly. You preach Biblically. You...you preach all these kinds of things. Don't people get offended at this?" You know, on one hand, nonbelievers might get offended, but until they're severely offended, they'll never repent and believe, right? So you have to offend those people. On the other hand, Christians never get offended at the law of God, because they love it, because they delight in it. And if you rebel against what it is that God wants you to do, if the purest and truest expression of your heart is to hate and resist and rebel that, then you don't have the love of the law, and it's not written in your heart. But if you, like a true believer, are saying, "I love the law of God. I delight in that law. It is written in my heart. It is what I long to do. It is the truest expression of my desire. And, yet, I struggle and stumble and fail because of sin, and I long for the glory of Heaven." Then you understand what it is to be a Christian. So the law today is written on the heart. And, truthfully, I don't need to go run back to the Mosaic law, in one sense, to know what to do. I understand God's law written in my heart. Even when I read it in Scripture, it's not like, "Oh, you mean I can't do that? I didn't know that." There's something in me that the Spirit of God has written on my heart that knows what is right. And for my model, I don't go to the Mosaic law. To whom do I go? I go to Christ, right? That's why Paul equated sanctification, not with mastering the Mosaic law, but with becoming like whom? Like Christ. Like Christ. Paul says, "That I may know Him. That I may know Him. That I may know Him." Because there is the model of the law...lived. To be like Christ. "O, to be like Thee, dear Jesus, my plea, just to know Thou art formed fully in me." That's what Paul prayed for the Galatians, that Christ would be fully formed in them. The...the prize of the upward call is Christ likeness. Paul says, "That's...that's the goal for which I pursue." So we have God's law written in our hearts. The Spirit of God convicting us, driving us toward Christ likeness. There's the final stage for the law, and it's greater than any of these. The law was first embodied in Adam, and then it was embodied in the Mosaic structure, and then it was embodied in Christ. But the final stage for the law, as far as we're concerned, will be greater than any other. It will be embodied in us in perfection. Not in this life, but in the life to come. We'll not only obey from the heart, but with our glorified bodies. We will live in limitless and absolute perfection. Now when you think about the Bible talks about, "You'll be like Him, for you see Him as He is," all those passages that tell us we're gonna be like Christ. And there are many of them. We're gonna have a body like unto His body. We're gonna be transformed, 1 Corinthians 15; Romans 8, we're gonna be conformed to the image of His Son; 1 John 2:28 to 3:3, we'll be made like Christ. It's not that we're gonna have His nose and His ears and His mouth. It's not that. It's that we're gonna have His adherence to the holy law of God. What is Heaven? Heaven is gonna be perfect obedience forever, which means perfect joy, which means perfect delight, which means perfect fulfillment. All that God ever intended in the original Creation to give to man created in His image, multiplied in the glories of our eternal existence. What is truest about Heaven is that the law of God will be written on your hearts as it is now, but unhindered, unrestrained, uncorrupted. So the law never changes. We'll spend forever obeying the law, and I don't think you'll have to run to the library to see what the rules are, if there is a heavenly library. I can't imagine why there would be one, since we'll know as we're known. We're not gonna need some information. There aren't gonna be commands posted all around the New Jerusalem. Not gonna be reminders of obedience, because it's gonna be the truest and purest expression of who you are. That's what Christ likeness is. It's not about the outside, except that your body will be a glorified body like His. It's about the inside. It's about Christ likeness in the sense of eternal holy perfection. This is only possible because of the cross. If we were left to be condemned to look at the example of Adam and what a sad story that is, at the example of the Mosaic law. What a sad story that is. And the example of Christ, and what a sad story that is. They killed Christ, and He still intimidates sinners with His holiness. And we would be among the intimidated were it not for the cross. Wherein He dies to pay the penalty for our sins, and in the new covenant sacrifice of Christ, we receive forgiveness and a new heart and a new love for His law. And this is only a foretaste of the glory to come when we will, loving that law, delighting in that law, keep that law perfectly forever in the glory of Heaven. And all of this is made possible because of the cross. Father, now as we come to this table to close our service today, we...we are stunned at Your grace. You would have every reason to crush us for our violations of Your law. Every righteous and holy reason to punish us forever in hell. But You have sought to redeem us in a most amazing way by sending Your own Son to bear the punishment for our horrendous violations of Your law, which still go on as long as we live in this world. You have given us a Savior and a sacrifice, so that someday...we will keep Your law perfectly forever. Not like Adam...who...kept Your law, but had the potential to sin. We will keep Your law without the potential for sin ever. Sin having forever been destroyed. But until then, Lord, we come to Your table sorrowful, for we, again, have lost that battle, loving Your law. Knowing it's written in our hearts, we yet violate it. And we come again need Your cleansing and Your washing. Help us now to confess our sins and to acknowledge the violations of Your holy law and all that did not please You and ask that You would wash us...as we think to the cross.
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Lt. Governor Goetz (Rep.) will speak on "The Gap" at the
opening convocation next Tuesday.
Board members
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Vol. XLIV—No. 4
Apparently last week's chapel
sponsored by the student senate
has begun to accomplish what it
set out to do — increase interaction
between students and their sen-ators.
Following the appointment of
Bruce Otto as Election Board
Chairman and the formal estab-lishment
of a Food Services Com-mittee
headed by Steve Lambrides,
the senate moved into a discussion
period which lasted nearly two
Among the topics of discus-sion
was Student Association
President, Dave Shupe's proposal
that senators begin to involve them-selves
in areas of the Bethel Com-munity
that need examination.
It was felt that such a program
of involvement would increase in-teraction
between senators and stu-dents,
increase interest in senate
affairs and create a greater in-volvement
on the part of students
in the issues of the campus.
Senators agreed to think the matter
over for a week and draw up a
list of the areas they felt needed
The issue of improper use of
military apparel was also brought
The Vietnam Moratorium, a ser-ies
of national, escalating anti-war
actions, will begin October 15. Stu-dents
at more than 500 colleges are
already committed to spending the
day in the community with door-to-
door campaigns, teach-ins, ral-lies
and vigils.
Accompanying the campus-based
actions will be organized efforts
by businessmen, clergymen, com-munity
groups and labor. All ac-tivities
are directed against con-tinuing
United States action in
The Moratorium has the endorse-ment
of the National Americans
for Democratic Actions, the Na-tional
Student Association, the
New Mobilization Committee, and
the National New Democratic Co-alition.
Coordinated by a Washington
office, the one-day October action
would be expanded to two days
in November, three days in Decem-ber,
and so on, escalating until
the war is ended.
The national office is staffed
with veterans of the McCarthy and
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn.
up. Several students on campus
have been seen wearing army fa-tigue
jackets which still have in-signias
attached. Not only is this
practice offensive to some, but
President Shupe pointed out that
it is a federal offense. No official
action was decided upon, but sen-ators
agreed to speak to the per-sons
Next was the possibility of
Bethel's involvement in the Viet-nam
Moratorium. It was suggested
that a special chapel speaker for
that day might be appropriate and
that students interested in parti-cipating
could join in the activities
planned by Hamline and Macalester
—which include Mulford Q. Sibley
from the University of Minnesota
as one of the speakers.
The Senate also touched upon
the issue of an improved roster—
one with larger pictures. Shupe
reported that with the proper stu-dent
assistance, the roster should
be out by homecoming.
Included in the complaint de-partment
of the discussion were
the questions of the amount and
quality of coverage students re-ceive
through the required health
insurance policies, the equitable
Kennedy campaigns. Among them
are Sam Brown, 26, one of the
principle organizers of the youth
wing of the McCarthy campaign;
David Mixner, 24, another Mc-
Carthy staffer who currently serves
on the Democratic party reform
commission headed by Senator
George McGovern; David Hawk,
26, a draft resister and former
southern civil rights worker who
was an all-American diver at Cor-nell;
Marge Sklencar, 23, the for-mer
student body president at
Mundelein College who is a vet-eran
of numerous political cam-paigns.
Rejecting recent announcements
by administration spokesmen of
token troop withdrawals, the co-ordinators
said, "The announced
displacement of 25,000 and 35,000
American troops would bring the
total to 60,000 the number former
President Johnson said could be
brought home without damaging
the war effort. We will continue
to work against the war until
United States policies have changed
and the war is ended."
Friday, September 26, 1969
rents for inequitable facilities in
manor apartments, and meal ticket
policies and prices.
Included in the senate's new
business was discussion and ap-proval
of the remainder of the
budget for this year which was
concerned with the allocation of
funds of senate committees.
Before adjourning, the senate
moved to investigate the prices of
coffee shop lunches and to seek
increases for students with coffee
shop lunch tickets. A motion to
allot the Soccer Club $100 travel-ing
expenses was tabled for fur-ther
consideration and investiga-tion.
Lt. Gov. James B. Goetz will
address the opening convocation
on Tues., Sept. 30. His address will
deal with "the gap" — not the
generation gap, but the gap in
Increased interest in students'
and faculty opinions and their in-volvement
in decision-making pro-cesses
characterized the Board of
Education's first meeting of the
1969-70 academic year.
One of the major issues of in-terest
which was discussed and
acted upon was the formalization
and expansion of a general policy
of student representation at the
board's meetings. Members of the
board voted to invite two repre-sentatives
from the student body
and faculty — a total of four —
to regularly attend the board meet-ings.
The student representatives
are to be picked by the Student
Association and will attend the
meetings with the power of voice
but not vote. For the one meeting
each year that is held out of the
Twin Cities, the board agreed to
pay for half of the student's ex-penses
entailed in attending that
According to President Lundquist
there was no official policy on
student attendance or representa-tion
at the Board of Education
meetings. For the past two years,
however, the Student Association
President has been present when-ever
invited and possible.
The President stated that the
board had been "favorably im-pressed
by the significant contri-butions
made in the discussions
by the presidents of the college
and seminary student bodies."
Lundquist felt that the general
consensus of the board was that the
expression of the student view-communications
caused by our
technical society.
Jim Goetz was elected Lt. Gov.
of Minn. in 1966 at age 30 for a
term of four years.
point gave them greater insight
into the questions they were fac-ing.
Also under discussion at the
meeting were the architectural and
relocation plans for the new cam-pus.
The decision was made to
explore the feasability of a phased
moved or the possibility of simply
waiting another year to begin
The former goal of full relo-cation
by 1971 was apparently dis-regarded.
Accelerated building
costs and the freezing of federal
funds for campus housing were
the major participants in this move.
The board stated that they would
be seeking student and faculty
opinions on whether to wait an-other
year or have a phased move.
Also under consideration by
members of the board was the re-quest
for exploration into the pos-sibility
of association with the
Bible Institute in Vancouver, Bri-tish
Columbia. The suggestion was
that the two schools have a joint
board of education and some or-ganic
Lundquist stated that the pro-posal
held advantages for both
schools in that it would upgrade
the academic program at Vancouv-er
and give Bethel an international
The board also decided to make
data on budgeting available and
solicit student and faculty sugges-tions
for savings on campus.
The next meeting of the Board
of Education will be in the first
week of December at Waukeegon,
Illinois where they will meet with
various other boards of the Con-ference.
As Lt. Gov., he serves as Presi-dent
of the State Senate and assists
the Gov. in his official and cere-monial
duties. Lt. Gov. Goetz is
chairman of the Advisory Commit-tee
to the State Planning Agency
and Chairman of the Governor's
2ouncil on Children and Youth.
He is a vice chairman of the
National Conference of Lt. Govern-ors
and is chairman of the midwest
region for that group.
During the 1969 legislative ses-sion,
the Lt. Gov. was instrumental
in achieving passage of legislation
establishing regional government
in Minn. as well as reoganization
of state government at the execu-tive
He is widely traveled, both in
governmental and political capa-cities.
In 1967 he participated in a
Young Political Leaders Study Mis-sion
to Europe, during which time
he was one of fifteen delegates
representing the United States at
the Atlantic Treaty Association
Convention in Luxembourg.
For his many achievements in
his civic and public activities, he
has been recognized and honored
as one of the Ten Outstanding
Young Men of Minnesota for 1965.
Jim Goetz is a broadcaster by
profession. At present, he is co-owner
and President of station
KAGE in Winona, Minn. He re-sides
in Lakeland Shores with his
wife and two sons.
Vietnam Moratorium will
escalate anti-war action
discusses Vietnam Moratorium
Senate sees increased interaction
Lt. Gov. Goetz will address opening
academic convocation next Tuesday
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the CLARION Friday, September 26, 1969
Editor's note: The following letter was received by one of the
members of the Clarion staff from a former student who was a
freshman at Bethel last year and a member of the Bo Conrad Spit
Band. Steve Marquardt is presently attending the University of
Iowa at Iowa City. The letter is printed in its entirety, in spite of
its length, because the issues of which he speaks are still, and will
continue to be, relevant to Bethel students.
Dear Clarion Editor;
Solely for the melioration of however much Christian concern for
harmony we have within the Bethel milieu, and not as a reparation for
an injustice, I should like to present the opinion of the Bo Conrad Spit
Band concerning its performance at the 1969 All-School Banquet, while
attempting, furthermore, to call into question the general attitude
which conceived an atmosphere of antagonism, among our audience,
during and after the singing of our last selection, "What a Friend We
Have in Jesus."
Until a friend alerted me later in the evening, I had no premonition
that our admittedly unusual performance had in any way represented,
to some of our audience, an unjustified invasion of spiritual provinces.
I had no precursory defense whatever, verbally stated or otherwise,
for my participation in a musically innovative rendition of a traditionally
religious song — and I can speak sincerely for the entire group's pro-found
innocence in this respect.
If our performance was truly incompatible with conservative evan-gelical
behavior, I will only admit this fact indicates again the rather
widely observed revolution of parental values by the present "student
generation," but I insist we (the BCS band) were accommodating our
own religious traditions to our own sense of God, and were sincere in
that we harbored no intention whatever to satirize the particular media
in question, or those who happen to hold as sacred its original, or at
least customary, form.
Some of our audience, I undersand, felt our performance was typical-ly
It certainly is predictable, and, therefore, I suppose, "typical," for
creative persons, by their very nature, to behave in an unpredictable
and therefore, as a rule, culturally disturbing manner; but to insist
that this diversity is irreligious or blasphemous may, in this case, prove
too harsh an anathema.
I am inclined to think those persons most emotively agitated by our
irregular (for them) production were also the most removed from us
individually and in "life style;" and, perhaps for that reason, were
the most harshly judgmental of our production.
Creative deviation has a most attractive, for us, rejuvenatory effect
on tradition. While admitting openly the distinct possibility that those
most disturbed by our rendition are actually correct in thinking they
have reserved a seat closer to the Savior, I am also suggesting, and
admittedly with somewhat more emphasis, that perhaps they are
only closer tied to familiar rhythms of the verse "What a Friend We
Have in Jesus."
While sentimentality is a functional ingredient in the preservation
and transition of culture (which includes religious traditions), senti-mentality
must not (and cannot) be redefined by passion as communion
with God, for this would amount to nothing more dependable than a
sophistic ignorande, and leave us all as celestially absurd as a chancel
choir of grinning marionettes saluting a barbaric orthodoxy.
The BCS Band naively said something long overdue about tradi-tional
hymnology: that careless stomping after the same old tunes has
served to ritualize quite admirable religious verse right out of our
intellectual grasp and into the lap of the sacred, and to attempt to
restore this "sacrament" to a human level via sincere innovation has
somehow come to equal an unauthorized intrusion into the Holy-of-holies
and, ultimately, an open insurrection against the Almighty Himself.
If those who defended the traditional rendition against the "sac-rilege"
of the BCS Band responded out of fear for their own relation-ships
with the Almighty and each other, then I shall suggest that those
persons are singing a doctrine of culturally-inspired guilt, and it's
they who are the heroic marionettes of a stale monotony, and not I.
I do not wish to deny that traditional renderings of memorized
verses has a place in the preservation of Protestant tradition, or even
that these traditions are devoid of a certain vibrancy; but I do deny
that singing "religiously" to piano in a grim, four-part harmony should
be worshipped so habitually that any other type of rhythm is automatical-ly
and irreversibly made inconsistent with Godliness.
To depart from these rather basic criticisms of evangelical thought,
let us reconvene at another point: the simple question of whether the
BCS Band members were "serious" when we sang. The truth of the
matter is that we feel this question, though amicable enough, is quite
purely irrelevant, and, except for the matter of Christian fraternity,
I feel tempted to just as amicably refuse an answer — and my reasons,
again spring from a deep positivity.
If people ordinarily must inquire personally of a singer, whether
he sang seriously, before they allow themselves to feel a blessing,
why would I have to struggle against the general flow of bodies to
reach the church's chancel after Sunday's sermon to ask a single member
of the choir whether he meant what I thought he meant (or what I
thought he "should" have meant) in singing
No, people generally express the opinion by their behavior that
it matters less "how" he sang than what the singing meant to the
listener, and this is quite as it should be. The beauty (and ugliness) lies
in the mind of the listener.
Realizing scientifically that birds "sing" out of instinctual property
defense, and that if you do not respect their demands, they may fly
in your face, does not of necessity detract from the beauty of their
notes, or from your aesthetic and religious satisfactions.
The fact remains, however, that many people actually do feel a
need to believe that everyone who sounds like them musically must
sound like them theologically and, I fear, what is far worse, vice versa:
that everyone with whom they harmonize theologically must sound like
them musically. But the fact remains that a mockingbird may sound
very theologically correct in his warblings and still fly in your face.
Given: I make my way to the front of the church and ask a member
of the choir whether he was "serious" when he sang. Perhaps he would
It's not Elvis Presley and his group, but the Bo Conrad
Spit Band doing their thing to the tune, "We'll be fine."
reply that, yes, he agreed with me and loved Jesus very much, that he,
indeed, was Jesus' friend; and perhaps he would be quite honest and
correct. Nonetheless, his saying that is not his singing it, and perhaps
as he sang, his deepest meditations strayed from the habitual current
of the song to his young wife, and the sparkle in his eye observed from
the back row of the audience was a what's-for-dinner anticipation of his
hungry biology.
Given: on this particular Sunday I was not thinking of dinner myself.
In what way would the thoughts in our choir member's head affect the
spiritual food I could receive? This question must be answered by each
of us, individually and very seriously, but as for myself, I would not
forfeit a Canadian nickel to hear any musician's theology, because we
have priests and preacher's for that kind of thing, and music is quite
I do not claim to be a musician or a bird, however, and neither,
I think, does Bo Conrad, and so I will give you an answer.
I have seldom meant a hymn more deeply than when we sang
"What a Friend We Have in Jesus" at the All-School Banquet, and I
meant it rationally and instructively.
Perhaps the more psychologically and culturally educated in our
audience put one and one together and came up with two: put the
words of our song together with our rather tortured alienation from
tradition and realized our performance amounted to nothing less than
a demand, on our part, for an addition into the church's liturgy of
humanity, or else a total revolution of its content, and not guilt-driven
puppets of maniac fear.
Without judging anyone else on the program or behind it favorably
or unfavorably, I feel obliged to examine the further misunderstanding
that one or two persons must take full responsibility for all insults the
program may seem to have liberally distributed.
Since "sacred" and "secular," and "blasphemy" and "worship,"
continually manage to evade our precarious attempts at categorization,
I suggest that attitude may speak louder than performance with God,
if He has an ear for our confusion at all; and that — regardless of
Almighty eves-dropping for the moment — we may see from this
experience alone that exterior performance is, indeed, a rather pre-cariuos
pivot from which to judge a person's intentions of Godliness.
At any rate, we may go up and we may go down, but it all comes
out in the end that we each will be judged by our insides, if we are
judged at all, and the criticisms of all the world's contentions will not
amount to a tittle in God's proverbial record, as each person's individual
attitudes must determine the validity of his behavior — and this goes
for you, the reader, and me, as well as our hardworking 1969 master
of ceremonies.
In short, we accept the responsibilty for our own performance
gladly, but renounce emphatically any group conspiracy resulting in
any "thread of vulgarity tying the whole."
We would like to thank Chuck Myrbo and Barry Anderson for their
energy and initiative in planning the 1969 All-School Banquet, and,
especially, to humbly thank the:n for employing our questionable musical
Steve Marquardt
The Bo Conrad Spit Band
P.S. If this traetise has consumed too many pages, so have the dread
and superstitions which have bred its necessity.
by Marg Erickson
The 1969-70 national intercol-legiate
debate topic has been se-lected
and the real work is be-ginning
for debaters.
Bethel's debate squad shows good
prospects for a winning season this
year with six returning varsity
debaters and eight freshman de-baters
joining the squad. Several
of the frosh debaters come to in-tercollegiate
debate with a strong
background in high school debate
while others have displayed a keen
desire to learn from and experience
competitive speaking.
Coach Whitney has begun to
line up tournaments which will
include trips to the Universities
of North Dakota, South Dakota,
Iowa, Nebraska, Bradley Univer-sity
and several other schools.
Several of the scheduled tour-naments
will include other speak-ing
events as well as debate. The
Bethel squad is again hoping for
a strong Forensic Team with sev-eral
of last year's winners return-ing.
Other areas of speaking are
radio newscasting, extemporaneous
speaking, oratory, oral interpreta-tion,
rhetorical criticism and read-ers
The first debate tournament will
be held October 3-4 in Whitewater,
Wisconsin with Julie Palen and El-don
Elseth, and Joyce Bristow and
Earlene Trude defending the reso-lution
"That the federal govern-ment
should grant annually a speci-fic
percentage of its income tax
revenue to the state governments."
Marg Erickson and Carol Shimmer,
and Bob Elliott and Barb Hanson
will seek to defeat the resolution.
The team will be traveling to
Sioux Falls, South Dakota the fol-lowing
weekend for a workshop
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oteed4edifteda aid
Both the Clarion and the Spire
are looking for someone to handle
business and advertising for their
publications. The Communications
Board has considered the possibili-ty
of the two positions being filled
by the same person. There is a
commission on all advertising in-volved.
It is an opportunity for
a good part-time job. Anyone who
is interested in one or both of
the positions should contact Dave
Shupe or Pat Faxon. The situation
is getting desperate!
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Former student defends Spit Band life style forensics expect
winning season
The extent of racism in America
by Tom Ford
Three hundred and fifty years ago, the first boatload of blacks
arrived at Jamestown, Virginia. One hundred years after the end of
his servitude, the black American is still subject to a cruel bondage.
It is this bondage that "keeps the Negro in his place" — keeps
him out of the suburbs, white-collar jobs, the professions, and the col-leges
and universities of this land. This bondage, White Racism, has
effectively outlived its parent, Slavery.
Despite three post-Civil War Amendments to our Constitution,
this country made no significant progress in the field of Civil Rights
until a Supreme Court decision in 1954 held segregated seating in
busses to be unconstitutional.
The people of the United States will not forget such a scene as
airborne soldiers enforcing a desegregation order at a Little Rock
high school. Nor will they forget the enrollment of James Meredith at
"Ole Miss" with the aid of U.S. marshalls or George Wallace's defiance
of his own National Guard which was acting under Presidential authority
and a Federal Court order.
Racism is imbedded in every level of American life. Building trade
unions refuse to admit blacks, regardless of qualifications, ghetto living
is the only choice for most blacks in the North.
In southern states lynchings and white citizens councils still main-tain
two separate standards of justice. Blacks are either unable to move
into better neighborhoods or, once they are in, watch their white neigh-bors
flee to "safer" areas.
Christian churches throughout this nation still bar the Negro from
membership. And despite the urgings and pressure of the Federal
Government, the overwhelming majority of the southern school dis-tricts
still maintain two separate and very unequal school systems.
There are adequate laws existing today to insure the Black Ameri-can
a job, a home, the right to vote, an education, and nearly all of the
services he desires. But despite our legislative activity, little has actually
changed. Flagrant violations of our Civil Rights laws go unchecked.
The basic fact is that laws in this country cannot be enforced when they
are broken or opposed by the majority of the people. Effective enforce-ment
would require a virtual police state.
The problem, then, isn't the lack of laws, but rather it is the lack
of adherence to the laws.
Science hhas disproved the supposed mental inferiority of the Negro.
In response, the racist rationale' has changed its attack. Its contentions
today are: the Negro is basically lazy, is living off society, doesn't
want or cannot keep a job, has no pride in himself or his property,
is responsible for the major portion of our crime, and lacks a definite
sense of morality.
It seems to matter very little that the black community has been
forced into its present mold by welfare and other institutions of our
Racism, particularly white racism, is responsible for the widening
breech in this nation. If America is to survive intact, racism must be
eliminated from the hearts of all Americans. But this must be done on
the personal level. Laws will not change convictions: Morality cannot
be legislated.
Next week the series on racism continues with a look at Black
'49er's make current history
Jane Ahlquist creating a musical picture while singing
"Windmills of your Mind."
A folk group, consisting of Jon Nordstrom, Chris Froelich,
Tom Carlson, and Bonnie Schoenfelder, started the Moods
program off.
Model of the new Suzanne Kohn Gallery, designed by
Robert C. Nelson which will be opening November 15.
by Carol Leach & Lin Enchelmayer
Sponsored by the Institute of
Paddle Dynamics (Brownlee and
Wilson, Inc.) forty-nine hardy (well,
some not so hardy) landlubbers
set out at 8 a.m. last Saturday
to brave the churning waters of
the St. Croix River in canoes.
Those who had been on the same
trip the previous year from Taylors
Falls to O'Brien, Wis. remembered
a relaxing five-hour trip in placid
waters. This year, however, adven-turers
were met with high winds,
higher waves, and the lowest water
in the history of the St. Croix
canoers by
by Jan Ullberg and Jan Urspringer
Robert Nelson, associate profes-sor
of art, is currently involved in
establishing and operating the new
Suzanne Kohn Gallery, 15 South
First Street, The Towers, Minnea-polis.
Nelson has redesigned what were
formerly offices to accomodate the
new gallery. He will be in charge
of all advertising, including the
designing and distribution of post-ers.
Acting also as an artistic
consultant to owner Suzanne Kohn,
Nelson will help decide which
works will be shown at the gallery.
The Kohn Gallery will exhibit
paintings and prints by twelve to
twenty professional midwest ar-tists.
The works will vary every
few months. Works of six New
York artists will also be brought
in. By exhibiting their paintings,
Suzanne Kohn will become the
artists's agent. A featured guest
artist whose work will be shown
in the main exhibit room, will be
featured each month.
The gallery will open November
15 with the showing of Corita
Kent's collection of seventy-three
recent circus and signal flag prints.
This collection, entitled "Damn Ev-erything
But The Circus," will run
until December 15. Hopefully, Cor-by
Marjorie Rusche
There was a little bit of every-thing
at Moods to please a little
bit of everyone's taste. It was un-fortunate
the faculty dinner was
held the same night. They missed
a fine program.
The chairmen of the program
achieved their objective of putting
the audience into varying moods.
Most of the performers were good,
some were excellent, some were
The musical parts of the pro-gram
were the most effective in
setting their various moods. Chris
Froelich, Tom Carlson, Bonnie
Schoenfelder, and Jon Nordstrom
set an informal tone for the even-ing
with their well-blended, ear-pleasing
folk music selections. Both
Friday, September 26, 1969
ita Kent, a resident of Boston,
will be able to be at the Gallery
for its opening.
Among the various displays, the
gallery has reserved a special sil-ver
mirrored area for modern tech-nological
art forms, which include
mirror reflected light sculptures
and other new forms of art.
This spring Nelson will be the
featured artist. His paintings will
be exhibited in either February
or March.
Jane Ahlquist and Dave Waite, if
they wanted to, could make it big
in nightclubs. Each of them sang
their blues-pop selections with
great sensitivity and interpretation.
Gail Klemetti, one of the finest
amatuer flutists I have ever heard,
did a Debussy piece. Unfortunate-ly
the number had to be prerecord-ed,
which killed some of the vi-brancy
and aliveness of Gail's flute
tone. Lynette Port rippled off a
floaty, ethereal piano piece,
a Chopin etude. Dave Shupe led
an audience-participation number,
Day is Done. I didn't realize we
had a singing student body presi-dent.
As a finale to the first section
of the program, the rock band,
Sun, played. Denny Olson, singer,
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"Minneapolis needs more small
art galleries of this sort; more ex-hibits
of established artists need
to be shown. Too many have fold-ed
and there are none to replace
them," stated Professor Nelson.
This is the second Suzanne Kohn
art gallery in this area. Her first
gallery, which was started five
years ago, is located at 1690 Grand
Avenue in St. Paul. Both Galleries
will be open from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m., Monday through Saturday.
Dean Oberg, lead guitar, Mike
Glewwe, bass guitar, Doug Mayer,
drums, bombarded • the ears and
eyes of the audience with their
hard rock psychadelic style. The
band was "together" rhythmically
and had a united sound. Unfortu-nately,
they were having technical
difficulties during their second
The singer of the band announc-ed
from the stage that the songs
had a message. I'll have to take his
word for it. I missed the message
along with the words.
By far the most exciting and in-volving
performers, the ones who
elicited the most audience response
—an encore, and almost another
encore were the Bo Conrad Spit
One member of the audience
expressed, "I feel right at home
with that group. I can't sing
either." I disagree with that re-mark.
The Spit Band is musical,
in their own style.
Maybe the whole issue of the
Bo Conrad Spit Band's authenticity
and musical ability is beside the
point. Because when they got on
the stage at Moods, a lot of peo-ple
felt just a little bit better.
And by the time the band was
done, a lot of people felt a whole
lot better.
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by Pastor Maurice Lawson
Nineteen young people from
Cameroon, Africa, will visit our
campus on Monday. Students at
the Baptist Teachers Training Col-lege
and the Saker Baptist College,
they are organized into the Col-lege
Singers with the principal,
Donald Witt as their director. Our
own Ruby Fomunyam formerly
sang in this choir.
Minnesota's Lieutenant Governor
James Goetz will be the speaker
at the academic convocation on
Tuesday. On Wednesday the time
will be divided between a program
of contemporary music arranged
by Tom Carlson and a meditation
by the pastor, "Look Who's Talk-ing."
On Thursday, in line with
the desire to bring relevent sub-jects
to our attention, thhe dis-cussion
will be on the use of
Arthur Blesset from Hollywood,
who made a significant impact on
our campus last year, will be the
speaker at the Friday chapel.
River. Those who thought it hard
to paddle found pushing or pulling
their canoes much easier, as the
water was approximately five feet
lower than usual. Some were towed
by sympathetic speed boats.
It took almost everyone two
hours longer than was predicted
to finish the route. Of course,
when you take time out to swim
and waterski it takes a little long-er.
Canoers were met at the docks
in full battle array as Carmen
Sheppard led her fellow bomba-diers
into the water near the
canoes at the finish line.
Nelson climbs ashore after greeting the other
diving into the river from a bridge (near their
as they passed under it.
Nelson designs Kohn art gallery
Moods performersenchantaudience
Most folks don't eat at the Arden Inn to save money.
But it makes good cents.
Inn 2131 N. Snelling/Across from Her-Mar/Phone 631-1414
J. Leonard Carroll, Pastor
C. Bruce Anderson, Asst. Pastor
BUS LEAVES EACH SUNDAY: 9:25 A.M. and 6:4') P.M.
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by Jack Campbell
The Bethel Royals fell to Dakota
Wesleyan this past Saturday by a
score of 32-6.
Bethel received on the first kick-off
and was almost immediately
stymied by the Dakota defense.
Forced into a punting situation
they gave the ball to the Method-ists
who promptly marched down
the field on a series of power off-tackle
plays that riddled Bethel's
left defensive line.
So it went throughout the even-ing
with Wesleyan scoring twice
in the first quarter from 2 and
22 yards. In the second quarter
Bethel's defense picked up some-what
but not enough to keep the
Tigers from scoring again with
little time on the clock.
Then it began to happen. A punt,
good initial coverage, a clip, an-other,
and yet another outright
clip that left Don Brandsma in a
Intramural Football Results
Sept. 20, 1969
Falcon vs Faculty 1-0
Second Old vs New Dorm 12-8
Off Campus vs Pit 26-0
Second New vs Third Old 21-0
First Floor vs Third New 1-0
Team Win Lost Tie
1. Off Campus 2 0 0
2. Falcon 2 0 0
3. Second New 1 0 0
4. Second Old 1 0 0
5. Faculty 1 1 0
6. First Floor 1 1 0
7. Pit 1 1 0
8. Third Old 0 2 0
9. New Dorm 0 2 0
10. Third New 0 2 0
Friday, September 26, 1969
daze for the rest of the night .
None of the violations caught the
referee's eyes until one player men-tioned
that he had been clipped.
In a similar instance during the
third quarter, a penalty was called
for illegal downfield receiver. The
home coach complained to the
"home refs" saying "I wouldn't
have run the play if it was illegal."
The legality here was not in ques-tion
but the procedure.
True, they had successfully run
the play two times the first half
but on this occasion an illegal re-ceiver
was downfield. The referee
called a penalty, was reprimanded
by the home coach, then reminded
by a visiting player that a "card
laid is a card played". The home
coach won out, and the penalty
was, how shall I say it, retracted?
The scoring high light for Bethel
came in the final period, with a
by Frosty Peterson
The cross-country team opened
their 1969 season last Saturday
at River Falls, capturing third
place in a field of four teams. The
final scores were: River Falls, 22;
Stout, 63; Bethel, 70; Eau Claire,
Coach Gene Glader is pleased
with the fact that there are eleven
or perhaps twelve members on
the team this year: Two veterans,
Dwight Carlson and Rich Swanson,
led the Royals by taking third and
seventh in th race respectively.
Mark Anderson and Paul Young-quist,
two promising freshmen
from Minneapolis Washburn follow-
Hasselblad to Pound pass that cov-ered
40 yards.
The remainder of Dakota's scor-ing
was 2 TD's. A good "team"
effort on defense dumped Gary
Hasselblad for long losses to keep
Bethel's usually effective passing
attack from getting off the ground.
For Bethel, commendable efforts
were put out by Gary Hasselblad,
Perry Johnston, and Barry Ander-son.
Bob Olsen and Greg Ekbom
with some help from Keith Jung
kept the score from being a repeat
of the Macalester game.
Next week? From a personal
iew point I'm gonna give 'em
%%. No amount of if's or
but's can help us. Four weeks ago
we needed fifty more guys out for
the squad, now we need a miracle.
It is my firm belief that miracles
are made and not prayed. We'll
make one.
ed in the eighteenth and nineteenth
positions respectively. In Bethel's
fifth and sixth places were Tom
Mesaros and Dave Greener, follow-ed
by Frosh Gary Speakman. Oth-ers
who participated were Brad
Olson, Robert Downley, Larry
Treleven and Robert Pepper.
A change of pace will be ex-perienced
by the team as they
fly to Bemidji on Saturday for a
meet with Bemidji State College
and the U of M, Duluth. The team
members will be paying the dif-ference,
but this fact is offset by
the fact that an hour plane ride is
much more desirable than several
hours in a car.
The Column
by Tim Weko
In previous years, this column has been known by many names:
"A Moment of Sports," "Sports Lab," and most recently "Sideline
Symposium." My predecessors seemed moved to change the name of
the column to one which might better reflect their own personal sport-ing
preferences, and this sports editor, too, is so inclined.
Thus, from henceforth and hereafter, until my overthhrow by some
unknown successor, the sports column will be know as simply that—
"The Column." Although the whole scope of what "The Column" will
be cannot be anticipated at this stage of the game, it will primarily be
used as a sounding-board for my personal opinions, players opinions,
and coaches' opinions, as well as offering a fans-eye view of Bethel
sports (as seen through 20-600 lenses).
I will write both from the "inside" of Bethel's sports scene as well
as from the "outside." I hope to always be kind where kindness is due,
but firmness will be my motto. If something needs to be said, it will
be said, even though someone may be temporarily offended. There will
be little or no compromise. However, this will not be a Don Riley
Anyone who wishes to state an opinion or a fact will find that I will
be happy to listen — provided it has something to do with sports.
Pacing Bethel's harriers in their first meet was Dwight
Team falls to Dakota Wesleyan;
player wants to make miracle
/*elame(4414 Cross-country team finishes third;
flies to meet against Bemidji State
Soccer team takes first; Fielcihockeygirls
socks-It-to Pillsbury to play St. Kate's
by Wally Borner
It was the Lions three, the
Christians nothing. The Bethel Col-lege
soccer team pulled off their
first shut out in their short his-tory,
avenging last year's opening
day defeat by the hands of the
same Pillsbury Comets.
Bethel showed their potential as
they scored three times in the
first half while choking off sev-eral
offensive thrusts by the Corn-ets.
The first two Bethel goals were
a bit on the unusual side. About
one third of the way through the
first half, halfback Denny Peterson
shot from just inside the midfield
stripe and put the ball towards
the upper right hand corner where
the goalie got his hands on it but
could not hang on.
One minute later, Lee Granlund
shot from the corner. The ball hit
Jon Lewis and bounced toward the
goal. A Pillsbury player tried to
guide it to his goalie, but was
only successful in helping the ball
into the net.
The third Royal goal came with
about 8 minutes left in the half.
Bethel had the pressure on around
the goal when a Pillsbury defense-man
touched the ball with his
hand. Joel Goff took the penalty
kick and booted it into the right
hand corner.
The second half was played more
evenly, with each team getting
several good chances to score. Jon
Nordstrom came up with two shots
that looked like sure goals.
The Bethel defense played an
aggressive game, coming up with
booming kicks which destroyed the
Pillsbury attack.
With the opening game under
their belts, the squad now knows
what its strengths and weaknesses
are. Neither team suffered any
injuries, though some came close.
In fact, the only fatality was
Coach Abraham's car which never
did make it to Owatonna.
Monday, September 29, will open
the field hockey season for Bethel
coeds. Their first game will be
played against St. Catherine's at
Como Park.
Although field hockey has been
offered as a gym course for girls
for some time, the extramural
team has been organized for only
two years.
The team is almost entirely new
this year, being made up of mostly
freshmen. It also has a new coach,
Mrs. Wilson, who joined the physi-cal
education department this year.
Despite the turn-over handicap
and the fact that the team has
managed to work in only three
pratices together, the girls are
optimistic about the season.
Rummage sale
Get your things together and
pick out some rummage for resist-ance.
Sat., Oct. 4, the Twin Cities
Draft Information Center is holding
a rummage sale to raise funds for
the operation of the center. The
sale will be held across from the
TCDIC at 5th and Cedar St. from
11 a.m. to 6 p.m. In case of bad
weather it will be held at the
Cyclo Shop, next to Mama Rosa's.
Bring all your old clothing, new
clothing you don't want, homemade
cookies, brownies, bread, etc. to
the TCDIC as soon as possible. The
people over there are friendly and
will appreciate your efforts.
Vedeekot &Area &And
Bus Stops at Bodien — 9:15 a.m.
Small Bus for Evening Service — 6:30 p.m.
Pastor—Robert Featherstone
Assistant Pastor—Bill Malam
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