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the blessed invitation of the Son of God for us to become yokefellows with Him, partners in this business of living and serving. I understand that on the farm, the farmer will work two horses together— one anf old, experienced, steady horse, the other a young, active, and impetu ous one. The one acts as a Check On the other. He takes the greater part of the load; he teaches the younger to pull evenly and steadily; he trains him in the best way to pull the load so that it does not increase the burden or cause a strain. So it must be in our work with Christ. We must allow ourselves to be yokefellows with -Him if victory and success are to attend our way. It is our firm conviction that in the life of each member of this graduating I N MY evangelistic work which has taken me into all sections of the United States and into a number of foreign lands, I have met many young people who were reared in Christian homes, and who went away to a college or a university and came back home with their faith shattered and in some cases with their morals wrecked. Please re member that a college is not necessarily a Christian institution because it is a church school. I have met more young people who lost their faith while attend ing denominational schools than those who had the same experience while at tending state institutions. When a young person goes to a state institution, his pa rents can explainvto him that in the United States we have separation of church and state, and that he will have to look out after his own religion. When parents send their sons and daughters to their denominational school, natur ally these young people expect to receive Christian training, and when they re ceive false and unchristian teaching in stead, their faith is usually shattered. No parent has any right to sacrifice the faith of a child on the altar of a false church loyalty. An institution, to’ Ife Christian, of course must definitely accept an ortho dox Christian creed. But it is possible to give mental assent to orthodox the ology and at the same time to reject the Christian philosophy. The “ School” Christ Founded The Lord Jesus Christ, measured by the best standards of pedagogy, was the greatest Teacher the world ever knew. Jesus knew His subject, He knew His *Founder of Bob Jonet College, Cleveland, Tenn.
class of 1940 these four truths even now play a very dominant part. Each of us is in Christ’s stead as a living miracle. We need no other dynamic than that of the indwelling Person of the Holy Spirit. We are in Christ’s stead with an impelling motive; the love of Christ constrains us. We are in Christ’s stead with a glorious message of reconcilia tion. And we are in Christ’s stead, working together with One who never has lost a battle. May the blessing of God rest upon us. If we never meet again until we reach the other shore, may we gather then with a song in our hearts and upon our lips, knowing that we have faithfully performed- our God- given task, that by His matchless grace we have been good ambassadors in Christ’s stead. pupil, and He lived what He taught. Ha founded a “small school” in which He enrolled only twelve students. He set up high standards of living. He was training leaders and, therefore, did not wish to build a big school. He had no intercollegiate athletics. The only en dowment He had was the money He got out of a fish’s mouth when He had to pay taxes. His classroom was a dusty highway, a seashore, and a mountain top. His library was the Old Testament and the birds, the flowers, the fish in the sea, and the other commonplace things which are in men’s daily 'lives. He told those who enrolled in His school that He had no dormitories. He said, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” When some one wanted to enroll in the school which Jesus established, He said, in ef fect, “Get a cross, and come on and die with Me.” He taught that is better to die for something than it is to live for nothing. As careful as Jesus was? He got one bad student, Judas Iscariot, who had to be “shipped” and who ended his life a suicide. This left eleven pupils who were graduated from the school that the Lord Jesus founded—eleven men who turned the current of history and shook the foundations of empires. Jesus taught the importance of the right kind of creed. He said, “If ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.” He taught, in addition to this, a philosophy of self-denial, self- control, self-restraint. Many of the eafly school teachers Of America were Christians. But, of course, some were not. However, even those who did not accept the Christian theology accepted [i Continued on Page 317]
—a message portrayed In 2 Corinthians 5:18-20: “And all things are of God, *ft ho hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their tres passes unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye recon ciled to God.” Several years ago, while I was driv ing across the beautiful Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco, an occupant of my car told me an amazing thing about the bridge. He said that one part of that engineering marvel was begun on one side of the mainland, and the other half on the other side of the channel at the same time. The workmen built until those two halves were brought together over the' center of the huge expanse. So carefully and accurately was the work done that there was only a fraction of an inch of deviation when the two masses of steel and cable merged. This account-brought to my mind the story of a far greater “engineering feat” than this o f the Golden Gate. Back in eternity, God, the Master En gineer, worked out a plan of redemp tion that would link a lost and fallen world with Himself. There was God, away- over on one part of the main land, and here, separated by an im passable gulf of human sin, was man. The Lord Jesus came and died, and by His matchless sacrifice erected, not a Golden Gate, but, thank God, He tore down a gate and erected a golden lad der, a ladder that stretches from this sin-cursed world to thè very throne and heart of God. Jesus Christ is the only means of access into the favor and the presence of God. No one else could ever say, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture” (John 10:9). An Unfailing Master The fourth and last truth which we wish to stress is that we are in Christ’s stead with an unfailing Master. In 2 Corinthians 6:1 this truth is pointed out in a beautiful way. The inspired writer uses the words, “workers togeth er with him.” There is a tremendous need in the church today, not of work done for Christ, but ot work done with Chfist. I do not know of any truth that ought to be emphasized more strongly and more frequently in our thinking, as we face a life of ambassadorship for Christ, than the truth expressed in the words of the Son of God: “Apart from me ye can do nothing" (John 15:5, ft.V.). No effort put forth is worth the expenditure of energy unless the Lord Jesus Christ is in it. We have
Why Attend a Christian College? % By BOB JONES*
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