the Rose of Sharon Prayer Chapel, and other structures. The master plan calls for the erection of additional buildings within the next few years. On the eastern side of the campus lie the athletic fields . Included are a crushed brick quarter mile track, an excellent baseball diamond, and tennis courts. Additional recreational facilities are available in the La Mirada Regional Park, across La Mirada Boulevard from the campus. THE NATURE AND STANDARDS OF BIOLA COLLEGE Biota College serves a broad spectrum of evangelical churches among which there are differences of opinion as to what practices are acceptable for Christians. A student of Biola College is expected to conduct himself according to the highest Christian standards of honesty, integrity, responsibility and love toward his brethren in Christ. In harmony with the principles of Romans 14, I Corinthians 10 and 13 and II Corinthians 6, the rule by which he lives is the conscious striving for God's approval and the conscious protection of his Christian testimony. Biola is for earnest Christians who are sensitive to the many principles of Christian living that are found in the Bible. The college also imposes certain specific guidelines for the conduct of faculty, staff and students. Although such man-made regulations cannot improve upon our standing in Christ, they can strengthen the life and testimony of both the individual and the college. To this end, Biola expects its faculty, staff, and students to refrain from the use of alcoholic beverages and tobacco, and from gambling and dancing. Further, Biola deplores the morally degrading elements that are now found in virtually all forms of the theatre , the entertainment media, and literature; Biolans are expected to abstain from all aspects of such that morally degrade. Biola College does not presume to be a censoring agency for all activities; it does , however, expect tangible evidence of maturing Christian convictions and discerning judgment. Biola reserves the right to dismiss a student who, in its judgment, does not conform either to the stated regulations governing student conduct or to the expressed principles, policies, and programs of the college. Inasmuch as the College is interdenominational and yet theologically conservative, the Articles of Incorporation contain a doctrinal statement, an abridgement of which is given below: "The Bible, consisting of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, is the Word of God, a supernaturally given revelation without error or misstatement in moral and spiritual teachings and record of historical facts. "There is one God, eternally existing and manifesting Himself to us in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. "Our Lord Jesus Christ was supernaturally conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, lived and taught and wrought mighty works and wonders and signs exactly as recorded in the four Gospels, was put to death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate, was raised from the dead in the body that had been nailed to the cross, now sits at the Father's right hand from whence He is coming again personally, bodily, and visibly to this earth to inaugurate His millennial reign . In His pre-existent state He was with God, and of His own choice laid aside His divine glory and took upon Himself the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men. He became in every respect a real man, possessed of all the essential characteristics of human nature. By His death upon the cross, the Lord Jesus Christ made a perfect atonement for sin, redeeming us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse in our place. "The Holy Spirit is a Person , is God, and is possessed of all the distinctively divine attributes; He indwells all believers, having baptized them into the body of Christ at the time of regeneration. "Man was created in the image of God, but the whole human race fell in the sin of the first Adam, and apart from Christ is spiritually dead and lost. Men are justified on the simple and single ground of the shed blood of Christ and upon the simple and single condition of faith in Him who shed the blood, and are born again by the Holy Spirit, through the instrumentality of the Word of God. All those who receive Jesus Christ as their Saviour and their Lord, and who confess Him as such before their fellow men become heirs of God and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ; and at death their spirits depart to be with Christ in conscious blessedness; and at the second coming of Christ their bodies shall be raised and transformed into the likeness of the body of His glory. All those who persistently reject Jesus Christ in the present life shall be raised from the dead and throughout eternity exist in a state of conscious and endless torment. "The Church consists of all those who, in this present dispensation , truly believe on Jesus Christ and is the body and bride of Christ, which Christ loves and for which He has given Himself. "There is a personal devil , a being of great cunning who can exert vast power only so far as God suffers him to do so , and who shall ultimately be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone ." THE OBJECTIVES OF THE COLLEGE Academic Objectives: The College seeks to provide thorough training and sound scholarship in all the areas provided in its curriculum. It further seeks to create in the students a thirst for knowledge and to teach effective methods of investigation whereby such knowledge may be obtained during the course of study and in the years following their formal period of training. Civic Objectives: The College holds to the conviction that the good Christian is likewise a good citizen of the State. It teaches , both by precept and example, that good citizens respect authority, submit to the laws of the land, and seek constructive change through legal channels. The College encourages the students to participate actively, while in college and throughout life, in the development of the general welfare of their fellowmen , both in community and national life. It further seeks to instill a genuine concern for the general welfare of mankind and and the world around. Cultural Objectives: The College seeks to provide students with a wholesome cultural program which will inculcate an appreciation for the finer things of life as expressed in the fine arts, literature, history, and the civilizations of peoples and nations both past and present. Social Objectives: The College seeks to provide the students with a well-rounded social program that will develop personality and fit them in a normal and wholesome manner to take their places in the home , local church, and community. The program is further designed to develop and maintain high moral standards in the lives of the students, for their own benefit and in order that they might serve as
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