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November, 1955 THE PILOT Page Three Mr. Turkey is captivated by three of Gardner-Webb’s cutest Freshmen. Left of turkey is Miss Vonne Gwatney of Gastonia; on top, Miss Faye Branch of Valdese; and to the right, Miss Sarah Hardin of Belmont. OBSERVANCE OF THANKSGIVING By JOHN S. FARRAR The approach of Thanksgiving Day brings to our minds that 334 years ago, after the Plymouth settlers had spent a winter and summer in the New World, Governor William Brad ford proclaimed a three-day feasting and sporting holiday. Thanksgiving Day in this nation has had many ups and downs, but since 1863 our land has observed a national Thanks giving Day. The emphasis upon the proper celebration has varied from time to time, including reunion of families, feast ing with friends around a bountiful table, turkey shoots, sporting events, harvest celebrations and religious services. In what spirit and to what end should Thanksgiving be commemorated in our time? One of the gravest responsibili ties facing each of us is to be conscious of the many ways in which favor and privilege are constantly our common lot. It is easy for us to accept advantage and bounty as though B. S. U. FALL CONVENTION By JIMMY SIDES On Friday, November 4, twenty-three students and four faculty members left for the First Baptist Church in Greens boro for the B. S. U. Fall Convention. Choir members had to leave before lunch, but the remaining students left about 1:30 Friday afternoon. The four faculty members were Miss Davis, Mrs. Barnett, Mrs. Dorothy Hamrick, and Miss Copeland. Miss Davis and Mrs. Hamrick are the B. S. U. faculty advisors. All four of these ladies helped alleviate the transportation problem by taking their cars. Thank you very much. After we arrived at the church, we were rather stiff and tired because of the long trip. However, we found that our tiredness had just begun, because the registration line was very long and moving very slowly. After an hour in line we secured our home assignments and were ready to go meet our hostesses. these were due us. We acknowledge that the harvest is in and the nation’s pantry is full. In the human heart there cannot be ingratitude, for both muscle and machine have joined to cooperate with God’s good season and the earth has borne her fruit. The freedom we have dictates the response of praise and honor to the Almighty Father. Apart from His Provid ence all human efforts would be worthless. Thankful people cause joy to dwell in the heart of God and the unquestioned spirit for our commemoration of Thanksgiving 1955 is precisely gratitude and honor unto Him. As a united people with limitless resources of land and tools it is our responsibility to serve as the cupboard of the world or for that part of the world that has empty cupboards. The end of our Thanksgiving gratitude is to present anew the whole life to God. Thanksgiving inevitably culminates in consecra tion. Some people come to this season with a festive air and when all is over there has been only a celebration. A benevolent God de mands obedience from His children. The life which is “given” to God will be enabled the whole year ’round to lift the song of praise and Thanksgiving. The devoted life can State Training Union Secretary Addresses Students Mr. James P. Morgan, State Ti'aining Union Secretary, spoke in chapel November 9. He discussed getting the most out of life by giving of yourself in service. He also said that giving should be accompanied by kindness, friendliness, and en thusiasm. He concluded by saying that your business in life is “your life”. find ways and means of easing ten sions and bringing the power of Christ to bear upon all the world. Yours is the privilege of seeing what good things God has shared and of making known to Him your awareness of such. May we with the writer of the Psalm say; “With my whole heart I will praise Thee.” While waiting in the registration line we met many of our former schoolmates and several friends we had during previous conventions. Many former “Gardner-Webbians” were there including Horace Broom, Leona Lamm, Janet Walker, Bar bara Wall, and Ector Hamrick. Meeting these people made the wait ing a great deal more enjoyable. Two of our students stayed with the pastor of the church. Dr. Bowen. Two of the students have been brag ging about theii- stay at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Bland. They had a private room with its own bath, large antique bed with a twin- control electric blanket, full closet, and a dresser with a marble top. The Blands picked them up after every session, took them home for their meals. “They made us feel like we were at home, and we seem ed just like a part of the family,” said one of the boys. The Blands are symbolic of a majority of the hostesses. Miss Welthy Fisher spoke Friday evening about foreign missions, especially those fields in the Far East. She emphasized the students role in this world by saying that the world is looking to the youth of to day for the carrying of God’s word and Christ to all the world. She told about her work in the Far East which showed the need of missions and consecrated missionaries for that field. Rev. Doug Aldridge gave a short devotional before each session. There were five sessions in all. He cen tered his theme around looking at the world through a telescope and the job we must do, through the same telescope. That telescope was most probably the love of God. The Saturday address was deliver ed by Dr. J. P. Allen, pastor of the First Baptist Church at Charlottes ville, Va. His address was entitled “My Life — Redeemed.” It would be useless to try to say in a few short sentences what he said in fifty minutes. Every statement he made brought out a new idea. He drove home the points that God is Love; God cannot help loving us because it is His nature to love us; when we are regenerated through Christ, He must have our life in total; redemp tion changes and is not a “was” but an “is”, present into past; we must get together with Christ by living day by day and year by year with Him; Christ gets in our lives through our experiences; emotion is the drive stuff of life; therefore, put just as much emotion in re ligion as there is in you, or in other words, just be yourself in relation to emotion; you get married with Jesus to live together, and if you need emotion use it; and Jesus would have died for you, an individual, if you had been the only on earth. Miss Jane Ray Bean also brought an address Saturday morning en titled “My Life and Strategic Mis sions.” She made us realize the im portance of witnessing to and loving the foreign students on our camp us, because they are going to be the leaders in their countries and will take back what they learned from us as well as from their intellectual advancement. She said, “Like salt we must try to create thirst; thirst for Christ. Our lives must be per meated with Crist.” Miss Bean works with the Baptist Sunday School Board in Nashville, Tenn. Dr. Claude U. Broach, pastor of the St. John’s Baptist Church in Charlotte, brought the Saturday af ternoon address, “My Life — A Missionary Enterprise.” He said that every person is reaching for either: (1) having a good time, (2) being a success, (3) living the good life, or (4) being a missionary enterprise. He said that the good life, in many people’s minds, was to be a respect able church member, reasonable successful in business, have chil dren and have them marry well, and have good, normal personalities. He then stated four ways to be a MISSIONARY ON MAIN STREET —(1) Use our professions as avenues for building the Kingdom of God, (2) Accept community responsibili ties, (3) Be an active church mem ber, and (4) Let our life show Christ living inside of us. He said that life is a reaching process. Saturday morning and afternoon we also filled with discussion groups on agriculture, business, education al work, government, homemaking, law, medicine, military service, min istry, missions, science, social work, and teaching. Experts and Christ ian leaders in each of these fields led the discussions and told us stu dents how we could find witness in our chosen profession. Every one of us were tremendously blessed by the groups. Saturday evening, Tommie Canipe, a Bowman Gray medical student, gave a report on his missionary work in Corn Island this past summer. Ector Hamrick, Wake Forest stu dent, and Juanita Garris, former East Carolina student and now ele mentary school teacher in Golds boro, gave a program on their sum mer work in Jamaica. Their pro gram was also centered around the Listen campaign. They spoke Sun day morning. The State B. S. U. Choir sang two very inspiring and beautiful songs, and then Dr. Bowen gave the morning worship address “Agape— The Impelling Motivation.” Agape means God kind of Love. After his message, Ken Freeman, State B. S. U. President, closed the 1955 B. S. U. Fall Convention by saying “I’ll see you at the Spring Retreat.” "MAN TO MAN" Q. What is God’s will for the investment of your life? God’s call to foreign mission service comes to many young people. His call may come to you. A. Why should you give up the advantages of home to go to a far away place? There are millions of people over the world who have never heard the gospel. WTiile the harvest is great the laborers are few. If God wants you on the mission field, it is the only work that will bring joy to you. The primary pur pose for going to the mission field is to share the “good news” of Jesus Clu-ist with those who do not know What could you do on the mission field? There is a need on the mis sion field for doctors, general field workers, teachers, nurses, homemak ers, and agriculturists, as well as for preachers. HOW DOES CHEATING AFFECT YOU? Have you ever taken time to analyze and discover what cheat ing is and what is does to your character? Here are some of the derogatory characteristics of cheating. It is underhand; it kills self-respect and destroys character. Cheating is de ception; it cultivates intentional dis honesty. Cheating is fraudulence; it makes of a person a counterfeit. Cheating is compromise; it is stoop ing to disgrace. Cheating is lying; falsely asserts an unpossessed know ledge. Cheating is theft; it gets value falsely, without the price thereof. Cheating is sin; it is a willful violation of the will of God. Now take the points with which you might argue for cheating. Compare these and find out if cheating is actually worth the worry of being discovered, and knowing that you are a cheat by building yourself up to something you are not. WHY LIVE? Did you ever think WHY you want to live? What do you plan to accomplish in this life? We asked that question of a number of different people and here are some of the answers. 1. FOR MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. Then if he had no children or grandchildren he would not want to live. Many folks live useful lives who have no chil dren. 2. TO MAKE some: MONEY. Then those who do not make much money should not want to live. Many great works have been done by those who made very little money. 4. TO SEE GOD’S BEAUTY. To enjoy God’s love. To live for God’s hope beyond this life. BUT some folks don’t have that outlook. WHY should THEY want to live? 5. TO SERVE MY FELLOW MAN AND GOD. BUT some folks want to use ALL their powers for SELF. Should they WANT to live? What has this to do with KNOT HOLES? You can tell what folks are by why they want to live. What is YOUR purpose in living? What are YOU getting out of life that is really worth while? What do you hope to have accomplished when you are through with THIS life? Do you consider yourself a success, if the answer you give to this question is your real thought about life? There is YOUR KNOT HOLE of life. All your actions of life will be guided by what you give as an answer to this question. Just WHY do you want to live? THE AFTER YEARS The after years bring peaceful dreams of quiet lakes And whispering pines and honeysuckle scented paths. A searching glance into the sky to see a mail plane In its lofty flight glide past—No danger there— We think no more—nor wish to think Of death’s dark hand that crept along a silent trench. And snatched our nation’s brave away. No frantic cry of “Medic” wakes us in our restful sleep. The after years bring hopes renewed of stopping Hell’s Floodgate of war and inviting peace to spread The marble stillness of moonlight’s quiet hour. On land and sea, on village, church and home. —Harold Long.
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