THE BETHEL CLARION
Volume XVI, No. 5 BETHEL INSTITUTE, ST. PAUL, MINN. December 16, 1936
Wishing You a Merry Christmas
PRESIDENTIAL
LIFE PICTURED
BY W. NEWTON
Carl Lundquist Elected
College Club President
A first-hand glance of White House
life was given at College Club, Wed-nesday
evening, December 2, by Hon.
Walter H. Newton, secretary to the
president during the Hoover adminis-tration.
Except for the first half hour of the
morning, the president had no time
for recreation or relaxation, according
to Mr. Newton. Mealtimes were taken
up by talking shop. As Mr. Hoover's
secretary, the speaker had more op-portunity
than anyone, perhaps, to see
the chief executive in action.
Mrs. Robert Klingberg favored the
club with two vocal numbers, Maxwell
Franzen read scripture and led in
prayer.
Officers of the society for the second
semester were chosen, with Carl Lund-quist
selected as president. The new
vice president will be Martha Olson.
Other officers are Wilma Hartley, sec-retary;
John Valine, treasurer; and
Ruth Fredine, pianist.
MORE TIME GIVEN
FOR WRITING OF
A SCHOOL SONG
In order to give more time for the
composers among Bethel's students and
alumni to become inspired, the dead-line
for the contest for a new school
song has been extended to March 1,
1937.
A prize of $10.00 will be given to
the one selected as best by the judges.
The contest is open to all students and
alumni of Bethel. Music may be sub-mitted
also but the prize will be award-ed
on the basis of the words only.
There is a great need for a definite
song for use at the various school func-tions.
It is hoped that this contest will
supply that need. The song should
not be too "collegiate - but still suit-able
for social gatherings. It should
suggest the all around spirit of Bethel,
spiritually, intellectually, and socially.
Sixteen Students Report
For Orchestra Practice
Various intonations issued from the
Seminary Chapel Tuesday evening, De-cember
8, when a number of students
reported for the initial orchestra prac-tice.
The group led by Maxwell Fran-zen
and accompanied by Ruth Fredine,
consists of fifteen pieces; Trumpets;
Pierre Tangent, Olive Stanford, War-ren
Eklund, and Kermit Johnson; clar-inets,
Sam Schultz, Bob Persons; vio-lins,
Sophy Parfin, Rawlin Johnson,
Verna Englund; Earl Sherman, Saxo-phone,
and Don Peterson, bass viol.
The group had lunch in the Semin-ary
Dining hall following the practice.
"The only vessels God can fill are
empty ones. -
A
CHRISTMAS
GREETING
Pres. G. Arvid Hagstrom
At least three times a year every
male member of Israel was to appear
at Jerusalem for the celebration of one
of the Holy Feasts. This was one of
the requirements which God placed
upon Israel. Equal in significance with
any of these feasts is the Yule tide fes-tival
celebrating the birth of the Christ
child at Bethlehem, who came to be a
Saviour, Lord of Lords and King of
Kings. Though our modern age has,
to an unwarranted extent, commer-cialized
this holy feast, yet there is
room for a spirit of joy, peace, and
good will. Christmas should be a joy
bringer. Someone has represented JOY
as: Jesus, Others, You, making of the
first letters of each, the word "JOY".
Real joy has its origin in Jesus and
His coming into a sin darkened world.
His coming brought joy because He
Facts About the "Messiah"
By Clarence S. Olson
This inspired oratorio was begun
August 22, 1741; the first part com-pleted
August 28; second part Septem-ber
6 third part September 12, scoring
of instrumentation on September 24;
in all only twenty-four days were re-quired!
Completing this work in only twen-ty-
four days argues for inspiration of
the highest and most concentrated
form when one takes into consideration
that the "Messiah" is one of the Han-ders
finest works.
The libretto is adapted from the
Bible by Charles Jennens.
Five hours are required to give the
work in its entirety.
It was first performed in Dublin as
a benefit concert for the Society of Re-lieving
Prisoners, the Charitable In-firmary,
and Mercer's Hospital.
The "Messiah" is a great work ar-chitecturally.
The three parts follow
one another gathering impetus as they
move along and finally culminate in a
grand climax.
Handel wrote twenty-six oratorios
and forty operas besides volumes of
great instrumental works, cantatas,
odes, and concertos.
Some other well-known oratorios are
"Saul", -Sampson- , "Israel in Egypt"
and "Judas Maccabaeus".
"Hitch your wagon to a star
Trust the Lord and there you are".
Rev. Clifford Lewis.
came for others, and when you and I
proclaim Him to others, it creates a
joyful spirit in our own hearts. There-fore,
may our Christmas joy at this
season be permeated with the Christ
spirit, vii., the spirit of doing for others,
living for them, and giving to help the
needy. He who said: "Inasmuch as you
have done it unto one of the least of
these, my brothers, you have done it
unto me," assures the reward for such
a service, so that your own heart will
overflow with joy and happiness. May
every Bethelite, as well as every reader
of the Clarion, be a sharer in this joy
this Christmas season! To that end
may the prayer of each be:
"0 Holy Child of Bethlehem!
Descend to us, we pray!
Cast out our sin, and enter in;
Be born in us today
DR. GORDH HOLDS "PARTY"
Unique, in that it proved to be the
"surprise party" of the critic, Dr. Ar-vid
Gordh, was the Alexis meeting of
December 9. The main event of the
program was the declamatory contest,
which was open to all Alexis members.
Taking part in the contest were six
students, all of whom showed the great-est
of enthusiasm. Hilding Lind read
as his selection, "The Damnation of
Dr. Faustus"; Ethel Sjoberg read "The
Sign of the Cross"; Alrick Blomquist,
"An Order for a Picture"; Violet An-derson,
"The Mother of Men"; Pierre
Tangent, "No. 3 on the Docket"; and
Gustaf Ferre, "Rizpah - .
Dr. Gordh in his closing remarks as
critic disclosed for the first time the
fact that this meeting was his "surprise
party". As a part of his surprise he
rewarded the three winning contest-ants.
Violet Anderson, in first place,
was given the sum of seven dollars.
Hilding Lind, second, received five dol-lars,
and Ethel Sjoberg, third, received
three dollars.
Judges of the contest were Dr. G.
Arvid Hagstrom, Professor H. C. Wing-blade,
and Everett Backlin.
Presiding over the meeting was
Leonard Turnquist, Alexis president.
Gordon Anderson led in devotions. Car-olyn
Nelson sang a solo, and Kermit
Johnson rendered a trumpet solo, pro-viding
the musical portion of the pro-gram.
Refreshments, a part of Dr. Gordh's
"surprise", were served at the close of
the program.
'Twas The Night
Before Christmas
By Henrietta DeCamp
In the sea coast city of New Kings-ton
there was a perfect setting for a
Christmas eve. The snow had fallen
until it was almost a foot deep, and the
wind was doing its best to sweep it up
into all of the corners. The business
district was alive with last minute shop-pers,
and every street car was packed
to overflowing. Everything seemed to
add to the Christmas season; colored
lights, placed in so many novel ways,
the Santa Claus' on every corner ring-ing
their bells, the elaborately decor-ated
stores, each in itself a fairyland,
and the smell of evergreen to add the
finishing touch.
If one had time, it would have been
possible to find every type, age, and
nationality of people in the throng in
a very short time. These were old, bent
and ragged men, hard, strong working
people, finely dressed women, small,
hungry looking children, young people,
children who looked as if they attended
private schools—all imagining what
Christmas would bring. Over all the
noise of voices, bells, crunching snow,
cold automobile motors and street
cars, there seemed to rest the spirit
that makes Christmas, "Peace on earth
good will toward men."
Amid the people pushing past a
large counter in a department store was
a woman. It was hard to judge how old
she was, for her hair that could be
seen from under her hat was slightly
grey, and yet it curled becomingly
around her face. Her eyes were deep
brown with a twinkle in them, but at
times there could be seen a far away,
painful look. She was dressed with
good taste, in fact, from the tip of her
goloshes to her brown hat that match-ed,
she looked as though she might be
a lady of a fine aristocratic home. She
smiled at everyone, and as she did so
the wrinkles vanished in kindness and
sympathy. Soon her own little girl
came running up to her.
"Mommie, I heard a little girl say
that she didn't have a daddy and her
mother didn't make very much. Mother,
could I get her somepin' 'cause Christ-mas
without anything isn't very nice."
"Yes, dear, you can pick out some
little thing. I'll be there in a moment."
As the mother walked over to the
children's clothing department, that far
away look filled her eyes. From that
look, and the interest she showed in
other people less fortunate than her-self,
it appeared as if she knew what
suffring meant.
"Could I help you please?" came
the familiar question across the coun-ter.
"Yes, I would like to see some snow-suits
for girls." As the transaction
took place, the mother seemed to know
at a glance which suit was the best
material, size and color.
"It is a pleasure to wait on you. You
know exactly what you want when
most people, especially at this season,
have no idea."
"Perhaps it is because last Christ-mas
I was still clerking, and I know
what it means."
(Continued on page 3)
Page Two THE BETHEL CLARION December 16, 1936
The Bethel Clarion
BETHEL INSTITUTE
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Official School Paper of Bethel Institute. Published by
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Richard Werner Editor-in-Chief
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Harold Wilson Managing Editor
John Bergeson
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Everett Johnson
Hilding Lind
Carl Lundquist
CONTRIBUTORS
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BUSINESS STAFF
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ADVISERS
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Entered as second-class matter October 9, 1935 at the post-office
at St. Paul, Minnesota under the act of March 3, 1879.
AT CHRISTMAS TIME
Silently the snow flakes fall clothing the earth in a
"silence deep and white". The coming of snow is await-ed,
for it hides the dirtiness and drabness of earth. It
seems providential that the earth should be covered, now
that summer's color has departed from the withered
stalks and they stand in their brown nakedness.
The advent of snow means ice skating, tobogganing,
and sleighing in the clear, crisp, wintry air. Youth glories
in its calm coldness. Cheeks glow. We gain vigor and
enthusiasm.
Winter's whiteness brings the thought of Christmas
with its green and red striving to radiate through the
hoar frost of the window panes and the descending snow
flakes. Happy scenes of home, and friends arise in our
minds.
The coming of the snow means the coming of Christ-mas
and best of all, the celebration of the birth of our
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Let us give Him first place
in our thoughts and plans at Christmas Time. Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!
THE SIN OF PRAYERLESSNESS
Perhaps the prevailing sin of this age in the church
of today is the sin of prayerlessness. At the close of the
nineteenth century, Andrew Murray was burdened for
the people of that time for the same reason. Yet in the
twenty or thirty years since then this sin has increased
and ensnared more Christians than ever before. We are
all guilty of it, as our hearts and our consciences bear
witness to ourselves.
And what are the causes of this sin? Of the several we
might think of the outstanding ones would be: When we
do pray, we don't really pray, it is just form or duty
with us. We don't get the great joy out of praying that
real men and women of prayer in the past have ex-perienced.
The Holy Spirit, who is the Spirit of Prayer,
does not control our lives, or we would pray more. Fin-ally,
we are too busy to pray. We don't seem to have
learned the lesson of Judson, who, with Luther, felt that
the more work that had to be done, the more time that
must be spent in prayer.
James wrote "Ye have not because ye ask not", and
that is the key to our lack of power in the Church as
individual Christians. "In spiritual work EVERYTHING
depends upon prayer" wrote Murray. Are we not failing
today because we do not pray enough? We do not inter-.
cede for those things and those people in whom we are
so vitally interested—and how can they be blessed? Oh,
that God might open our eyes and our hearts to make
this sin in ourselves right!
Anonymous
House Warming Party
Held in Olson Home
Members of the faculty met at Pro-fessor
and Mrs. Adolf Olson's new
home for a house warming party Tues-day
evening, December I. Short mes-sages
were brought by Deans Karlson
and Johnson, and Reuben Nelson. Pro-fessors
Bergman and Hurtgren enter-tained
with musical selections and Mrs.
Reuben Nelson and Miss Effie Nelson
sang a duet.
Twin lamps were presented to Mr.
and Mrs. Olson. Afterwards refresh-ments
were served by the women of
the faculty.
School Treasurer Has Birthday
Faculty members and students sent
a floral bouquet to Mr. John Englund,
treasurer of the school board, to ex-press
their good wishes to him on his
76th birthday.
Mr. Englund has been a member of
the board since its organization in
1913. He has always been a generous
supporter of the school financially and
otherwise.
MARK TYME
In Appreciation
The persistence of Bethel is a tribute
to the continuing idealism of its faculty
and administration. This is true in a
unique sense for in the case of groups
where there have been several schools
there is not the need for any particular
school such as this. If one disappears
there is yet another. But Bethel is the
only school of a certain religious and
national tradition. The ones who are
sacrificing here are the ones who be-lieve
in this tradition and who are
obviously willing to give their best for
its perpetuation.
It is not easy to have the only school
of a denomination as one's ward. If
there were more schools each peculiar
type of theology or practice could find
an educational home. But this institu-tion
must do something for all groups
and yet not be weak and colorless, for
through this place flows the life of the
denomination. Its strength must really
be strength or else there is general
weakness.
The administration and faculty must
bear the criticism, must receive the
brunt of it. While being criticised, the
ideal of service even to the critics must
be maintained. That requires real
idealism. Sometimes the criticism
comes from one side, sometimes from
another but the rules of the game for-bid
striking back. There must be a
quiet persistence and recognition of
duty.
That some of the criticism is at least
partly justified does not make it easier
to bear. But it must be borne.
If the educators were receiving large
salaries for their services it would not
be so difficult. But the call to sacrifice
more is ever being reiterated to them
and they never attain comparative af-fluence.
They have retained their buoyancy,
they are still hopeful of each incoming
class, patient with the foibles of the
middle classes, and encouraging to
each departing group.
Together with the students the fac-ulty
members must listen to challenge
after challenge to youth thrust forward
by chapel speakers. They must watch
the recurring processes of waxing and
waning of interests.
At the same time new suggestions
are constantly being made and dealt
with, new problems are appearing, and
the constant cry for sacrifice.
Really remarkable is the devotion to
idealism by our faculty and adminis-tration.
And this is done in spite of
the lack of much visible reward in
gratitude or remuneration.
A. H. L.
LENS LESSONS
By Ralph Johnson
The final word has not been said when your pic-tures
come back from the drug store for there is
still something you can do to improve them. You
can improve them by mounting them. There are
several methods. Here is one:
First trim the print. Don't cut off anything un-til
you have decided exactly what to cut. An easy
way to determine this is to make two "L-shaped"
pieces of cardboard, arrange them on the face of
the picture to form an adjustable rectangle or
square, and rearrange them until you find the corn-position
which is most pleasing. When you have
determined what to keep cut off the rest. For this
us a steel edged rule and a razor blade. Most pic-tures
have a glossy finish. They will be easier to
mount and will have a richer appearance if this is
removed. This is done by soaking the print in
water for half an hour, removing the excess water
with a soft cloth, placing the print face down on
waxed paper, covering it with a blotter, weighting
it and placing it in a warm place to dry. White
cardboard of medium weight and soft surface
makes a good mount. The relative size of the
mount depends upon the size and shape of the
picture. (A 3 1/2 x4 1/2 in. picture will take about a
6x8 in. mount.) The margins at the top and sides
of the print should be equal, but the bottom mar-gin
a little wider. Use the "L-shaped" cardboards
to determine the width of margins that best "set
off" the picture. Paste or glue may be used to
fasten the print but paper cement has two advan-tages:
It does not curl the picture and you need
not worry about "smearing" for when it has dried
the excess cement rubs off easily cleaning the pa-per
at the same time. When the print has been
mounted draw a border around it. Black India
ink is best for this. The distance from the edge of
the print to this border is equal at the top and
sides but greater at the bottom. You may place
these pictures in your album or file them in a
drawer or cabinet. Some of them you will want
to frame.
* * *
In keeping with the season: The December "Pic-ture"
suggests that this year's picture may make
a good subject for next year's Christmas card.
You may now have cards made from your snap-shot
for about a dime each .. . Someone said "You
can buy a camera for any price from 'two-bits' to
'two-grand—. Either extreme is not advised but
a dollar camera takes good pictures and there is a
fifty dollar one that any amateur would be proud
to own . . . A new album incorporating the loose
leaf notebook principle and large l Ox 1 2 inch pages
costs fifty cents . . . "Elementary Photography,"
a recent books, sells for a dollar and is a good
dollar's worth . . . Nothing would be more wel-comed
by the amateur than a subscription to a
good photography magazine of which Camera,
American Journal of Photography, and Camera-craft
are leaders (They're about two-fifty each).
No less welcome would be one of the new photog-raphy
annuals that sell for about a dollar and a
half . . . A streamlined tripod, an exposure meter,
a paper cutter; in a word, just about anything in a
photo store will be sure to please any - one inter-ested
in this, the greatest of hobbies.
(Dear Santa Claus, I have been a good boy.)
SNOW
As I sit here by the window watching the light, airy,
flakes of snow sifting through the clear, cool wintry air,
I begin to meditate. The bare ground, the naked trees,
the dark roofs are all covered with this blanket of white.
As the snow continues to fall, the blanket becomes
thicker, covering more and more of the drabness of the
world and making that world appear clean and pure.
Just as the snow in a literal sense purifies the earth
and makes it more beautiful, even so Christ's redeeming
blood cleanses us and makes us pure and beautiful in his
sight. Likewise, just as the snow falls harder and covers
more of the earth's blemishes so a deeper faith in Christ
and a fuller trust in Him will remove more of our in-dividual
sins and faults and makes our lives richer bless-ings
to our fellowmen.
FIGHT
TUBERCULOSIS
Buy and Use
CHRISTMAS
SEALS
"It Pays To Look Well"
LABON'S
BARBER SHOP
1199 Snelling Ave. St. Paul
The snow inspired a group of Col-lege
students to come out and play the
old game, "fox and geese" one day last
week.
Several students were invited to Rev.
and Mrs. Walfred Holmberg's home in
Minneapolis in honor of Peggy Larson
Tuesday evening, December 1.
-Pepper- Martin had his tonsils re-moved
Friday, December 4.
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THE BETHEL CLARION Page Three
Santa Symbol of Health
And what could be a
better symbol of
health than the age-less
personification
of the spirit of
Chrsitmas? That is
what the tuberculo-sis
associations of
the country thought,
so with his cheeks
like roses and his
nose like a cherry,
the jolly face of San-ta
Claus appears this
year on the Christ-mas
Seal.
From Thanksgiving through Christ-mas
the penny Christmas Seals are
being sold by the National Tuberculo-sis
Association and its 1981 affiliated
tuberculosis associations to support the
year-round educational campaign to
control tuberculosis. The funds raised
are used in the states where the seals
are sold with the exception of five per
cent which goes to the National Tu-berculosis
Association, headquarters
for the organized work. This is their
thirtieth annual Christmas Seal sale
and this is the tenth time that the face
of Old St. Nick has been used as the
symbol of health.
Santa Claus on the 1936 gay red
and green seal, however, has been
treated in the modern cartoon manner
and this is fitting. Why? Because the
thirtieth seal has a new message, more
optimistic than in former years. The
death rate from tuberculosis is stead-ily
though slowly declining and well-known
health authorities believe that
tuberculosis can and will be eliminated.
From being the highest cause of death
it has now become the seventh. In other
words, in 1907, when the first Christ-mas
Seals were sold, the death rate
from tuberculosis was 179 for every
100,000 of the population; it is now
less than 60. Modern health methods
have done much to force this rate
down and Santa in modern style may
well call attention to that fact.
Yet this is no time to rest compla-cently,
for nearly 70,000 persons are
dying from tuberculosis each year and
of that number considerably more than
half occur among men and women
from 15 to 45. There is still much to
be done if we are to wipe out tuber-culosis
in the next thirty years.
Santa Claus, symbolizing health,
therefore, has a big order to fill As
we see that rosy, eternally blooming
face on the penny Christmas Seals we
buy and use we shall be glad to know
we are sharing in that true Christmas
gift without which the world can never
be filled with peace and good will to-ward
man—the gift of good health.
DR. ENTZMINGER ENDS
LECTURES TO STUDENTS
Stressing the importance of teaching
the "whole Bible for the whole school",
Dr. Louis Entzminger closed his series
of three lectures before the class in
Religious Education on December 2,
1936. He stressed the fact that in the
past sixty or sixty-five years less than
one-fourth of the whole Bible has been
studied in Sunday Schools.
Dr. Entzminger has developed va-rious
record systems for the Sunday
School and written many books dealing
with its problems. One of the best
known of these is "The Sunday School
Transformed'',
Hjalmer Ekblad '25 Lost
Reports have come to the school
that Hjalmer Ekblad, Seminary '25,
located in Kweisui, Fuiyam, North
China, has not beeen heard from for
some time. He has frequently been
harassed Ey bandits and it is feared
that he may be held captive by them.
Christmas Among the Garos
By Fern Rold
There is not much which we asso-ciate
with Christmas in the world of
Nature to tell a person it is Christmas
in Assam. There is no snow or ice; no
evergreen trees for Christmas trees;
instead the day is as balmy as an Oc-tober
Indian summer day. Everyone
wears summer clothes with only a light
wrap for evening. The only thing that
reminds one of Christmas in the out-side
world is the splash of red that one
sees wherever he looks. These are the
red poinsettias which grow and bloom
so lavishly there. How beautiful they
are!
Yet among the children there is the
same air of excitement there is among
their brothers and sisters of Amrica.
Thir black eyes snap and shine and
they glance with longing eyes at the
packages which their Sunday School
teacher has brought into the church.
They are sure some of the packages
are for them for they have been work-ing
for weeks selling the Memsahib's
old tins and bottles to get a few pice to
buy a gift for someone in another Sun-day
School class and are sure that some
other class did the same for them. While
they worked hard it did not seem like
hard work for it was so much fun
thinking of what they were going to
buy and wondering who would get it.
Christmas begins about midnight of
Christmas Eve when one is awakened
by boys and girls singing the old Christ-mas
songs, the same as ours except
that the words are in a foreign lang-uage.
The voices are so strong and
sweet and true that one is carried in
imagination to the little town of Bethle-hem.
The sky is full of bright, beauti-ful
stars, and it is so light one can easi-ly
picture the scene of the first Christ-mas
when the shepherds watched their
flocks.
Early the next morning everyone
goes to church to offer their thanks
to God for the gift of His Son. They
work so hard to make this a beautiful
service and it moves one to see how
earnest and sincere so many of them
are in their thanks.
After this service they go to their
homes and begin preparations for their
feast. All the Christians plan a big
feast on the Mission playground and
invite all the poor people to come as
their guests. They make small stoves
by piling up stones and setting the big
pots of rice on them to cook. In still
other cooking pots there are savory
mixtures of beef, pork, and vegetables
cooking. These are spiced and pep-pered
until it makes little boys and
girls very hungry to smell them cook-ing.
The pig and cow were butchered
that morning and cut up for cooking.
Everyone seems to be cook, for as each
one passes the numerous fireplaces he
gives each on a stir. Every face is
bright and happy and there is much
laughter among them.
At about four o'clock there is a
great bustle among the cooks. "Mi
minaha," "Rice is done, - they call.
Just as this call sounds forth a group
of young boys come from the jungle
bearing huge armfuls of banana leaves,
which they place carefully in front of
the one in charge of the feast. The pots
are carefully lifted off the fires and
carried to the same spot. They all
gather together and while they wait the
pastor asks a blessing on the food.
Then each one gets his plate which is
a piece of a banana leaf and they sit
down in orderly lines and some of the
men pass among them giving to each
a generous supply of rice on the leaf
which he has placed in front of him.
Following him come other men with
the meat and curried vegetables. These
are put on top of the rice and each
one squats down, mixes his rice and
curry with his right hand and with
sighs of satisfaction begins to eat.
After everyone is full to repletion,
so it is packed up and taken to the
there is still rice and curry remaining
lepers who are kept in a colony near
Tura and to the kale azar hospital
where there are some who are well
enough to share in the feast. These
people are very happy to be remem-bered
but I think their enjoyment is
not as great as that of those who pro-vided
the feast. Besides providing the
feast for themselves and the poor, the
church gives a gift of money to the
poor families.
They usually spend the evening sit-ting
around bonfires in groups singing
hymns and telling stories. It is a plea-sure
to pass from one group to another
entering into their singing and listen-ing
to their stories, exchanging words
and stories with them.
When one thinks that only sixty
years ago they knew nothing of Christ
and His birth, he can only marvel at
the mighty work God has performed
among them and thank Him for the
many who are able to take part in a
Christmas celebration and enter into it
with that fulness and sincerity that
comes only when they know Christ as
their personal Saviour and Lord.
(Miss Fern Rold is a returned mis-sionary
from Assam, India. She is com-pleting
her studies in Bethel Institute.)
CAMPUS NOTES
Harry Aronson preached the Swed-ish
sermon at First Swedish Baptist
Church, St. Paul, Sunday, December 6.
A large group of Bethelites were
guests of First Swedish Baptist Church,
Minneapolis, on Bethel Day, December
6. Professor Henry Wingblade and Dr.
G. Arvid Gordh spoke at the morning
services. In the afternoon and evening
services Bruce Fleming, Ed. Nelson,
and Ned Holmgren gave messages. Sev-eral
musical numbers were given by
Bethelites. All students were guests in
homes between the morning and after-noon
services.
Poor Ruth F. (Pianist)
Dean Johnson-- orchestra practice
will be held this evening. Your instru-ment
will be your admittance card. -
A few students have been seen re-trating
from the campus with ice skates
slung across their shoulders. Soon . .
Bob sled parties and tobogganing.
Oh, my.
A lady walked up to Phyllis Bohne
and Peggy Larson recently and ad-dressing
Peggy said, "Are you Bohne?"
(bony)?
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As the two suits were wrapped, the
older woman remarked more to herself
than to the clerk, "Yes, a year can
change things."
Later in the evening, in the same
city, an old seaman was crunching
through the snow. He was slightly
bent, and he had a sailor's unusual
walk. His overcoat was shabby and it
was held together in a number of places
by safety pins. He was not so old, per-haps
forty, but his unshaven face and
long hair might lead one to think he
was much older. As he traveled along
in the dark, he was happily mumbling
to himself.
—Twon't be long fer l've reached
the block. Yet—it is years ago—ten
years ago tonight since I traveled away
from this town. Must be the baby's
growed up by now. Well, I was a fool;
should have known better than to go to
sea when she didn't want me to, but
a sailor's that way I reckon. I couldn't
give her the things she was used to, or
the things she wanted. It was again my
pride, so I jest acted mean about it.
Not a soul but what thinks I'm dead.
Well, I'll show 'ern I can act decent.
Yes—that's the number—nice and
cozy lookin'—good to get home.
He slipped up to the window and
looked in. The Christmas tree was
lighted, and a little girl had just finish-ed
opening her gifts. Her mother sat
close by enjoying the thrill of the little
girl's pleasure. Ah, yes it was her face,
older but sweeter. The voice of the
little girl came floating out to him in
the silence of the night.
"Daddy, will you take us over to
give these gifts to a little girl?"
No one seemed to notice the extra
fresh tracks across the lawn Christmas
morning.
"If the Lord could whip the devil
with three verses of Deuteronomy we
ought to be able to beat him with the
whole Bible."
Rev. Vance Hav-ner.
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A DIARY SCRAP
November 27, Thanksgiving Day:
Up betimes and out with my little
cling-dong bell for to rouse dormitory
dormice, and having done my duty,
down for my morning ablutions and up
again all a-tingle with the three "v's"
and "rarin' to go (classes being dis-continued).
Off to breakfast ravenous-ly
hungry, but inhaled lightly and
sparingly with an eye to the day's fu-ture.
Whiled away morning strenuously
endeavoring to irritate my appetite.
Hand ball and such tom-fooleries con-suming
my precious protoplasm.
Come dinner!! aeiouy! Shades of
Heliogabalus and banquet boards of
Petronius. Would that my palate were
poetical. Kings and Emperors have
come and dined, but never have ap-proached
a festive board like ours.
Roast turkey, dressing and giblet stew,
Mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes and
gravy brew.
Carrot salad, fruit salad, and cran-berry
jell,
Squaw corn, hot rolls with freshly bak-ed
smell
Pumpkin pie smothered 'neath a moun-tain
of cream,
Piping hot coffee, ah, 'tis a savoury
dream
Appetizing, delicious, what's the name?
Ambrosial, delectable are much too
tame.
The muse deserts me, but no matter,
it was a swell spread.
Come afternoon there is to be a
wedding in our chapel and I look for-ward
eagerly to the event, but after
dinner I am drowsy for no good reason,
and will lie down for three and a half
winks. When I wake the deed is done
and it is almost time to go to bed, so
I sit and meditate before retiring. And
so to bed.
In a more serious vein:
DORM WINDOW PICTURES
Nocturne
Silvery fingers of the moon pushing
through a gaunt old tree, laughing and
dancing eerily with the shadows on the
walls and floor of my room. The earth's
barrenness is hidden beneath an in-terminable
hush of white. The night
is coldly lonely. Is there happiness in
silence?
Matin
Darkness, greyness, then a dull
light; slowly the dawn approaches as
though some tired Titan would de-tain
its inevitable cycle. Suddenly the
mantle of dark purple clouds gathered
on the sky-line is ripped apart disclos-ing
a beautiful argent lining. The in-terior
of the rifted clouds now seems
to glow with roseate, violet, and orange
hues of growing splendor. No cock's
crow announces the sun's coming but
now it rears its regal head and the day
begins.
Hultgren is Soloist
At the initial performance this year
of the newly organized Aberdeen Sym-phony
Orchestra, at Aberdeen, South
Dakota, Professor George G. Hult-gren
appeared as soloist, singing the
first two arias of Handers "Messiah".
He also sang a group of solos including
"My Lady Walks in Loveliness" and
Verdi's "La Donna E' Mobile".
Trio Advertises Concert
A Trio consisting of John Valine,
Herbert Franck, and Raymond Olson
has been doing some publicity work for
the "Messiah" concert in addition to
bringing the gospel message in song in
churches recently. The group has vis-ited
First Swedish Baptist Church, St.
Paul, and Temple Baptist Church, St.
Paul.
1936
Anton Pearson, who has been serv-ing
the church of Oakland, Nebraska,
since June, was ordained in that place
on December.
George Hause, besides his pastoral
duties in Glen Flora, Wisconsin, is
working in the state relief offices in
St. Paul, Minnesota. He states that his
work is very interesting, and that he
misses Bethel a great deal.
Curtis B. Akenson, pastor of the
Prospect Park Baptist church of St.
Paul, writes that his work is very en-couraging.
Muriel Bjorklund, after doing mis-sionary
work in the Rocky Mountains
during the summer, is now working in
the Twin Cities.
Melvin Kasen is now working in a
lumber camp in northern Michigan.
1935
Albin Carlson closed his work in
Jessie Lake, Minnesota, and is now
serving as pastor of the Pillager, Min-nesota,
Baptist Church.
Elmer Backlund, writing from his
pastorate in Highland Park, Canada,
about encouraging results, greets "the
Bethel family and wish God's richest
blessing upon them".
John Lindbeck, president of the
senior class at Gustavus Adolphus col-
CHAPEL NOTES
"Christian Leadership" was the sub-ject
forced home vividly to the student
body by Clifford Lewis, president of
the National Youth Fellowship League,
on November 25, 1936. The ten pre-requisites
to christian leadership are:
through preparation; vision; divine en-ergy;
executive ability at God's dis-posal;
divine wisdom; unselfishness;
conviction —
what you believe and tell it"; passion
for lost souls; consecration.
Rev. Mr. Lewis is traveling across
the states at present stirring the young
people to action. He is anticipating a
four year trip around the world in the
near future when he will reach the
young people abroad in the interest of
christian leadership.
"Human vacuity, heavenly vitality
and happy victory" constituted the
three divisions of a stirring message on
the life of Sampson by Rev. Vance
Havner on December 2, 1936. "Our
part is not wielding but yielding" in
effective christian service. The speaker
closed his campaign in the First Bap-tist
Church of Minneapolis on Wednes-day,
December 3rd.
"We have reason to believe that the
churches of Minneapolis and of the
United States care nothing for the Mex-icans",
was the challenging opening
statement of Rev. Samuel Cushing's
message to the student body on De-cember
3, 1936. The speaker related
how his sister had been used of God
to start the Spanish Mission in Minne-apolis
and how marvelously the Lord
had led him here from the East to con-tinue
the task.
Last summer the local mission was
permanently organized and the Lord
has worked marvelously according to
Mr. Cushing. In the Twin Cities there
are 2,500 Mexicans without the word
of God.
Bergeson Chosen Manager
John Bergeson, Junior College fresh-man,
was chosen as manager for the
basketball squad for 1936-37. His du-ties
are to take charge of the equip-ment
for the team, attend to minor in-juries,
and make arrangements for the
games,
lege, is one of the three Minnesotans
eligible to take the examination this
year for the Rhodes scholarship.
Rev. Victor Ernest has just closed
a series of meetings in his church in
Bottineau, North Dakota. Rev. Monnes
was the evangelist. Mrs. Ernest visited
Bethel a few days last week, and gave
us glowing accounts of the work in
their church.
1934
May Barbisch, a former student in
the B.M.T., and Clarence Benson, were
united in marriage in the Seminary
chapel on Thanksgiving Day, Novem-ber
26. Dr. Hagstrom performed the
ceremony. Donald Clover, '34, and
Ruby Laven, '35, served as witnesses.
Earl Widen is alert at his new pas-torate
in St. Cloud and has interested
the Baptist young people attending the
St. Cloud Teachers College in meeting
with his young people.
Nels Hedstrom,, pastor in Milaca
since his graduation, was ordained to
the Gospel ministry recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Sherling were
welcomed into membership of the First
Swedish Baptist church of Minneapolis
on "Bethel Sunday". He is caretaker
of the Minnesota apartments, which
houses many of the University of Min-nesota
students.
Recreational Club Selects
Officers; Presents Activities
The Bethel Recreational Club,
youngest organization on the campus,
held its first meeting Monday noon,
Dec. 7, with an election of officers and
presentation of activities for the year.
Elmer John, sophomore, was elected
president, with Carl Lundquist, also a
sophomore, serving as vice-president.
Ralph Holr-sort and Robcrt Wirtgblad-were
chosen secretary-treasurer and
custodian of the club equipment re-spectively.
The new organization is open only
to the men students of Bethel and will
promote intra-mural recreational tour-naments
during the winter and spring.
Chess, checkers, ping-pong, and horse-shoe
will receive major emphasis. A
special Men's Club room is being equip-ped
on the third floor of the Junior
College building and will be open to
the boys each day after chapel. The
scholastic requirements bar any per-son
from membership who is doing F
work in any class.
A series of recreational meetings is
being planned for every third Monday
evening in the club room, the first one
being held December 14. These meet-ings
will be devoted to recreational in-struction
in ping-pong and chess, and
will offer all the club room facilities to
the members.
Boarding Club Boosts
"Penny-A-Meal" Campaign
Bethel Boarding Club jingled pen-nies
into -penny-a-meal' . boxes to the
Lune of $66.83 in the recent campaign
sponsored to raise funds for Bethel
Institute. A contest had been arranged
in which the table raising the largest
amount was to receive a special treat
in the form of a turkey dinner. Tables
reaching their quota consoled them-selves
with apple pie a la mode as a
special while the others were served
the usual fare.
STUDENTS TOUR PLACES
OF INTEREST IN CITIES
Friday afternoon, December 4, a
number of students visited the Pills-bury
Flour Mills in Minneapolis. These
mills, located on the Mississippi at St.
Anthony Falls, are the largest flour
mills in the world. They are capable
of producing 14,000 barrels of flour
a day. Beside the mill stand the huge
elevators which have a capacity of
4,000,000 bushels.
This was the second tour the stu-dents
have taken as a body. The first
tour was a trip to the Minnesota State
Penitentiary at Stillwater. A bus was
chartered for this occasion. There a
guard escorted the students through
the cellhouses, dining halls, machine
factory, and twine plant.
Dean Johnson, who arranged these
two tours, has also arranged two more
to be taken in the near future. The
first one will be to the Minnesota state
capitol building and the Museum of the
Historical Society of Minnesota. The
other trip is to be to the Minneapolis
Museum of Arts.
Near Centenarian Contributes
Recently the business office received
a substantial donation from a loyal
contributor to Bethel who is outside of
our Swedish Baptist denomination. This
staunch friend of our school is the
veteran Minnesota Baptist, Mr. Levi A.
Day of Farmington. On December 8,
Mr. Day celebrated his 99th birthday.
First Swedish
BAPTIST CHURCH
8th and 13th Avenue S.
REV. A. E. SJOLUND
Minneapolis Minnesota
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH
Roy an.:? Shie'l St.
REV. ERIC ANDERSON
St. Paul Minnesota
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2359 Territorial Road
10:00a.m., S. S. — 5:30p.m., Y. P.
11 :00a.m., Worship
7:45p.m., Worship
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24th St. and 28th Ave. S.
Rev. Walfred Holmberg
Minneapolis, Minn.
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St. Paul
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