| Summary: | Page Two THE CONCORDIAN Friday, March 12, 1937. Will we be 'adventurous disciples'? /CONGRATULATIONS to everyone who helped to \J make the recent LSU convention a success. Without dispute it was the largest and most repre-sentative LSU conference yet participated. We Cobbers were unusually blest by this occa-sion— in that Concordat was the guest college of the convention. With a panel of such brilliant speakers, master minds in our church, it may well be said that everyone experienced days on the "mount of trans-figuration" such as will not be lived for some time. Forgetting the feudalism of personalities let us ever carry with us the lessons of the conference—that we as students of Christian institutions, not individual competing colleges, better might reflect the spirit of He who said, "Ye should be my disciples." With a spirit of unity in Christ, it illustrated so effectively the aim of the Master when He said, "We shall be one fold and one Shepherd." Let us launch out with a more definite tread on our "Adventurous Discipleship." Does our etiquette reflect college spirit? ARATHER interesting experiment is carried on by Marquette university's basketball coach, Wil-liam Chandler, in regard to table manners and general dining-room etiquette. Table manners are a part of the basketball cur-riculum at Marquette and Coach Chandler allows his men, while on trips and in private dining rooms, to take turns in doing something wrong at the dinner table so that the others may improve their etiquette. Are we improving our table etiquette at the ex-pense of someone else's mistakes? As students at a Christian college we should cultivate a deep rever-ence for the gifts that are daily given us, to the ex-tent that we abhor untimely behavior in the dining hall. We Cobbers should take the example initiated at a secular institution and imply it to our case. As a result we would have etiquette more characteristic of stu-dents really grateful to God for i4daily bread." Remove rubbish from around campus buildings WITH the beauty of winter's "white robe" gradu-ally disappearing from the campus, there are oertaln undesirable things that attract our attention. Students have recently commented on heaps of rubbish that are lying near certain campus buildings. And since these plans are frequently visited by stu-dents as well as strangers, it assumes a rather unfor-tunate angle. We doubt the ashes from the Bookstore could be removed to more seemly places than the near prox-imities of Music hall. Other rubbish emanating from the former place could also be summarily dealt with, thus making the general appearance of that part of the college campus much neater. Our equipment is, after all, as good as we try to make it We must aim at law and justice Students might just as well strike for better weath-er as engage in peace strikes, is the assertion of Dr. Frank Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore college. "World peace must be a by-product of justice and cannot come from negative protests against diplomats and munition makers," he asserted. "Aim at peace alone and you will never achieve it." "We must aim at the rule of law and justice be-tween all nations, direct our efforts to that end, plan our institutions for that purpose, pay the necessary price of submission to law and of reason, and on top of many other blessings we will have peace." Contorbtan PobHvbed weekly durinv th« school r**r «xc«pt daring tbt vacation, holiday and examination periods, by •tndcnu of Conoordlm Colltg*. MoorhMd Ulnnwota. Entered ai ieeond elau matter at the postofftoe Uoorhead. 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MELVIN MOE •THE DRAWING POWER OF CHRIST1 "And I, if 1 be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me."—John 12:32. In the case of most men, death ends their work, and after death their influence as a rule diminishes. Not so with Christ. He became a world power through His death. And what a drawing power Christ has! First, He has the power to draw and lift men out of the depths of sin and degradation. No other power in the world is able to do this. No other religion is able to do it. Only the religion of Christ can lift men out of sin. The cross of Christ is like a mighty crane that reaches down and lifts up the wrecks of humanity from the paths in which they have been crushed, and Christ pieces the broken parts together—rebuilds them. Secondly, Christ has the power to lift men unto Himself—home to Heaven. Someone has defined the cross as being a ladder on which we can climb into Heaven. Because Christ was lifted up on the cross and because His love is continually drawing us, we may climb upward step by step until we reach our everlasting home above. Dear reader, how are you responding to the draw-ing of Clirist's love? Many resist. Christ draws them, but they refuse to be drawn to Him. Woe be unto all such! For while they resist the drawing of Christ's love, they are unwittingly drawn down into the place of eternal torment. Let the love of Christ draw you upward to Him-self, so that He may pardon your sins and save your soul. He died for you on the cross. Doesn't that draw you? He lives now to bless you. Doesn't that draw you? He loves you with an unchanging, eternal love. Doesn't that draw you? He says, "Come unto Me, and I will give you rest" Doesn't that draw you? Let Him draw you! Then, in your dying hour, Christ Himself will reach down and lift you into the very presence of God. Sunday Thoughts By FLORENCE LARSON "Somewhere in the Cup of Suffering that Christ drank are the sins labeled with my name. And he drank it to the dregs." None but God could conceive of the divine plan of salvation, Vicarious Atonement. It is a magnificent truth that Christ died for the sins of the whole world. But it is an awful reality—this knowledge that my sins crucified Him! "But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and with His stripes we are healed." Substitute your own name for each pronoun in the first person included in that verse. Now read it again. Seeing Jesus take that journey upon "Via Dole— rosa," or "The Way of Suffering," can we stand by in our pitiful self-righteousness and ignore the look in His eyes—suffering, pleading, love, command? O, Cobbers, if we know that glorious salvation through Christ, can't we do something about it! Let's pray for grace to tell it—to live it! O, God, make us Ad-venturous Disciples. Soli Deo By ELEANOR BORCHERT If some problem or besetting sin is perplexing you, tell a Christian friend about it. Paul says, "Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be healed." Only in Christ is there forgiveness and salvation, but as human beings we are privileged to confide in fellow human beings. Those who have experienced Christian fellowship know what a strengthening power it has in spiritual life. One of the best exercises for a Christian is intercessory prayer. In a recent sermon the speaker said, "There is Christian fellowship when two or three Christians come together and pray for each other. What is wrong with Christians today is that individuals have troubles but do not tell one another about them. As long as we keep our special problems and sins to our-selves we have a secret pact with the devil, who re-turns again and again to tempt us. But when we tell we betray the devil." If we come together in the fellowship of prayer it will be less easy to find fault with others. We will more fully realize that we have all come short of the glory of God and are in need of forgiveness and mercy. The Press "Life With Father* BY CLARENCE DAY life with father proved to be a chore to everyone in his family but himself. He had strong feelings and did not hesitate to express them vocally. In spite of the awful respect in which Vinnie held her husband she managed to twist him around her finger by tiring him out When the bills went up she couldn't be to blame because she had to keep house and had no time for bookkeeping, and where the bills Went unexpectedly and surprisingly down she claimed the money she must have saved him. In this hurly-burly of life Clarence was the prov-ing ground for his father's experiments on how to bring up his sons. His father could not understand how a son of his provided with a violin, teacher and perseverance could fail to learn the technique of playing. But father, absorbed in the business of mov-ing to the country soon, forgot his defeat and remem-bered only the success of his second son at the piano. With all this, father was loved and very much respected by his family and associates. And his son has now written an easily read, but revealing tribute, that surpasses in understanding and sincerity more scholarly biographies. The book was publish ed*aj a whole by Alfred A. Knoff in 1935 and had gone through 12 printing by 1S36. (Reviewed by from a REPOR TE/P'S NOTEBOOK ^Ju One loquacious campus politician was described by a student on the other side of the political fence as being "so dumb that he thinks the Mexican bor-der pays rent." At another occasion this vigorous exponent of the coopera-tive commonwealth was eloquently ex-pounding his favorite theory that wo-men talk too much. From a dear sky a five-foot lass said, "You're the most feministic man I've seen." • e e Often this educational process seems to be a farce. I went to a class the other day where no less than six were looking out the window all period, ten were writing letters, four were asleep, one was sewing, and two—who* seemed strangely out of place—were taking half-hearted notes. The afternoon sun was beating in warmly and snugly; it and the soothing lullaby of the instructors sotto voce droning on and on numbed my senses and Morpheus overcame me. I dimly heard re-ference to an intelligent cow, a new car and some vague mention of an author who was supposed to be in the day's assignment. An after class talk with the pedagog provoked the following query, "Are yon registered in this course?" That after sue weeks of constant class attendence. Ah, the beautifying effect of the perpetual aah heap by the conservatory! It has the definite effect of enhancing Agony hall, making the edifice appear gorgeous by comparison. According to Dr. Leo Rockwell, director of the school of languages and literature at Colgate university, college students should not be blamed too much for murdering the English language. He says it's the language's fault, because English is one of the most treacherous of our social tools, changing its mean-ing every time the words are used. He continues saying that students waste 90 much time learning the worst spelling system in the world that they haven't enough time for really import-ant things. Dr. Rockwell concludes with the bombshell, *'Too many people know too much about English and what they know is wrong." That should be balm of Gilead to many a would-be gram-marian. • • • Plaudits to Margaret Rorem of Pacific Lutheran! Alone as a repre-sentative of onr far-western sister college, she nobly met the chal-lenge offered by large delegations who sang their school songs. Orchids to yon! If you are in a worried tantrum for fear you will over-tax your cranium and possibly suffer a mental collapse, compare your vacancy with the fact that it took Norborg just four nights, working from nightfall till his eight o'clock morning classes to pen "What is Christianity". He thought the big trouble is, "We Americans eat too much, sleep too much and think too little!" He once worked thirty nights before he turned out a book on psychiatry (although he spent eight years in preparatory study.) He plans to write two more books this summer, is interested in teaching the Hindus in India and may do so later on. There is a certain warmth in his atti-tude that gives a conversation with him an easy, interesting and appealing trend: "When I was a kid we were not sent to school—we were dragged there. And then when I came home with all those A's—there were thirteen of them —then I felt big!" As for Norborg himself, he is a man chuck full of human nature. His bril-liant thinking, the simplicity of expres-sion of his inner thoughts mingled with his pleasant humor made his discus-sions appealing. I Dr. Preus, Go wan Speak To Students At Week's Chapel Dr. J. C. K. Preus, educational direc-tor of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, spoke Monday, on Matthew 17:1-9. He emphasized that although we met Christ on the spiritual moun-tain tops of the LSXJ convention, He would follow us down the mountain sides to be with us in our everyday life. Galatians 2:20, "I am crucified with Christ," was the verse used yesterday by the Rev. Carl B. Ylvisakcr to show-how we can personally appropriate what Christ did for us in His suffering and death. Seven rules for mental hygiene were pointed out by Dr. L. R. Gowan of Duluth, in chapel Wednesday. Dr. Gowan also indicated that a normal in-dividual must be able to adjust him-self to everyday conditions. "Before the missionaries came, the native was groping for contact with a higher power," she concluded, "and he has now become as perfect before God as the white man." Mrs. Esther Fuglestad, a missionary from the Sudan Mission, Africa, on Tuesday told of her experience in bringing the gospel to the African negro. Today, the Rev. Thomas_ Amfcrson of Perley presented the chapel talk. 'President Must Leave Court Alone' Columnist Maintains By FREEMAN HOLMER And the executive "horse" of our governmental "team" continues to think that the field should be plowed in the path he wants to go—instead of following the old lines of the field or asking the farmer what he thinks of changng the direction of the furrows. If there is any overworked phrase if a the one—"nine old men." Who cares about them. They are only doing theJr duty as they see it—to declare whether federal and state statutes are within or without the constitution. The question isn't whether the Su-preme Court justices are making the right decisions, it's whether the field which our government is plowing should be enlarged. The sooner the president gets that through his hacd, the sooner hell realize that his proposal for the reorganization of the court's personnel will not accomplish any real lasting good. Only when the Constitution is explicit on a given point can we be sure that there will not be controversy on It. Enlarging the court won't solve the basic problem of the narrowness of the LSA Is The Work Of Hortense Hage "Lutheran Students association work has moved forward rapidly under her direction," said Rev. Fredrik Schiotz, pastor of Trinity Lutheran church, in speaking of Miss Hortense Hage, Min-neapolis, student secretary of the NLCA, who Is attending the LSU convention at Concordia this weekend. It is through her work that the LSA has become a recognized force on the University of Minnesota campus and has increased its membership, making it necessary now to hold the organiza-tion's meetings in larger quarters. Miss Hage, assistant to Dr. J. C K. Preus, educational secretary of the church, spends a great deal of her time every summer serving as dean of women in Bible camps. Known for her hospitality, Miss Hage has made her home in Minne-apolis a center of student gatherings. Among her guests three years ago was Mrs. Alexander Dixon of Birmingham. Eng'and, founder of ifr? Pocket Testa-ment lea^e. v»'.'^':v-vv;i;-4.;v.^'.lii>''-V,.viv,;: Constitution. If the people are so over-whelmingly in favor of the AAA, BBB, COC, etc., ad infinitum, why not pre-sent an amendment to the people for their passage—explicitly* But, says the President, the amend-ment is tedious and cumbersome. Granted! Doesn't that seem to indicate the direction in which reform is need-ed? If the people want a second NRA, six more justices won't help the Presi-dent. The only thing six justices would do would be to increase the number declaring it unconstitutional to fifteen No, the real need is for an enlarged constitution and one which can more easily be enlarged in the future. The process of amendment can, perhaps ought to, be liberalized to permit its freer use but leave the Supreme Court alone! * • • Governor Benson has wheedled rest-ing places for 150,000 Farmer-Laborites from WPAdministrator Hopkins. Now if he can get pillows for the shovels, Minnesota can go back to sleep. Not to be outdone, North Dakota's dawdling legislators dragged on into a special session, which did little but waste the "peepuls" money and tax them royally for It On other campuses: oddities—bits of j life student viewpoints Cagers* Table Manners Table manners are a part of the bas-ketball curriculum at Marquette uni-versity. On trips and in private dining rooms, coach Bill Chandler allows his huskies to take turns in doing some-thing wrong at the dinner table so that the others may tune up their etiquette. (ACP) Exchange Dinner A recent exchange dinner at which 38 women ate in the men's dorm and S8 men ate in the women's has met either demands for an encore by St. Lawrence university students. (ACP) To Take Cruise Fourteen students of Oklahoma Agri-cultural and Mechanical college will take a Carribcan cruise this summer and get six hours of college credit for H. Accompanied by R. W. Lynch, professor of geography, they will study life in the tropics. (ACP) Long-lived Strawberries In treating strawberries with carbon dioxide, three experimenters at the Uni-versity of Minnesota farm have found a way to lengthen their saleable life. (ACP) Campus Bank A campus bank at Rutgers university makes small loans to students at about one-third the legal rate of interest. It is run by undergraduates in the money and banking course for practical expe-rience. (ACP) Farther North Farther north than any other college in the world is the University of Alaska with its latitude of 64 degrees in that direction. (ACP) Unpleasant Words Phlegmatic, crunch, uatulent, caca-phony, treachery, sap, jazz, plutocrat, gripe and plumb are the ten most un-pleasant words in the English language, says the National Association of Teach-ers of Speech. (ACP) Youthful Professor A University of Iowa professor who planned to go on a bob-slelghlng party with students had to stay at home be-cause his mother wouldn't let him go. She claimed such a party b not digni-fied for a professor. (ACP) 'LSU Convention Is Inspirational, Challenging/ Opinion Of Students Visitors to the 1SU convention were unanimous in their decision that the recent meeting was rich In blessing and fellowship. The following are a few reactions as they were gleaned by the Inquiring Reporter from visitors and delegates. Luther: "Not only was the theme beautifully and forcefully portrayed, but the strengthening of faith by Chris-tian fellowship helped to yield lives to Christ". Pacific Lutheran college: "I shall never forget the blessed days that I have been privileged to spend at the LSU convention. It has been a glori-ous adventure. Would that all of Pa-cific Lutheran students could have had this opportunity to attend these sessions, to enjoy this fellowship, and above all this challenge to Adventurous Disciple-ship". • r f*~n»,»Tviiiv-): <(Tf>A Tnventfnn I* leav-ing a challenge which cannot be honestly faced without a whole hearted desire to adventure with Christ". Waldorf Junior college: "Dr. Sverre Norborg and the other speakers have given a real challenge to the adven-turous as well as a new understanding and interest in discipleship". Chicago Deaconess; "The convention has been a great inspiration to me. I feel that I have been blessed spiritually and also feel that students from all schools should be encouraged to attend these conventions". Luther Theological Seminary-. 'Tills convention has more than justified its purpose. A living discipleship with Christ has challenged our hearts to a greater desire to serve God". Concordia: "The convention was out-standing because it was so Christo-centric. Christ was made real, living, and personal to us as the Savior. It was the spirit of God through the Word that worked among us."
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