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I competed in Norway, Yugo slavia, Germany. I guess the wildest thrill o f the 14 international com petitions I entered on this trip came at Oberstdorf, Germany. The jump there is the largest in the world. And it’s high. The peak stands some 600 feet above the outrun o f the jump. I was told 80,000 people were on hand to watch me jump. I plummeted down the icy run at an electronically clocked 85 miles an hour. I had to fjght to force my senses to keep pace with the scream o f the wind and the blur o f trees and snow and sky. L ean in g fo rw a rd , arms out stretched, I suddenly cleared the run. I was hurtling through thin, cold air. I had the feeling o f being in another world. Then it was over. The next day sports pages were headlining the story o f how I had jumped 416 feet. It set a new rec ord for Americans at Oberstdorf. Victory has a sweet smell. But afterwards it can be bitterly empty. I found it that way. When I allowed myself to think about it I knew that for me life had no real meaning. Through my mind kept running a jabbing question: What is the an swer to life? Back in America I visited my brother in Southern California. He took me to a Bible conference for college students at a place called Forest Home. I hated every minute o f it. Then on the last evening o f the conference the last speaker spoke one phrase that electrified me. It was, " Do you want to know the answer? Try Jesus, try Jesus." I don’t remember another thing the speaker said. I left the meeting confused. Alone I wandered for hours up the moun tainside. Finally I stopped, exhaust ed, under the mountain sky, bat tling against that voice, "Try Jesus, try Jesus.” Feeling like one who has been hunted and at last apprehended, I relaxed and there I did try Jesus. It’s been five years since that night high in the San Bernardino Moun tains, I have found in a very real, experimental way that Jesus Christ has satisfied the deep longings o f my heart. For me He has become the answer to life. END.
TO TRAIN FOR TEACHING POSITIONS IN CALIFORNIA
S Christian Day The trend toward Christian Day Schools in California is approaching the proportion of. a tidal wave! Christian parents are beginning to awaken to the fact that to educate their children without religious train ing is to train them with a purely secular perspective. The result of secularism is a generation of youth without moral truths and attitudes. No nation can stand long without this fountainhead of strength. In the wake of this movement toward Christian Day Schools is a tremen dous need for Christian teachers. Los Angeles Pacific College, realiz ing this need, has taken steps to ^ P u b l i c Schools LAPC is a full liberal arts college whose graduates are qualified for teaching credentials in the California public schools. Here, too, is an un precedented challenge. For many stu dents, the only moral influence they will ever receive will be from con tact with their Christian public school teachers. LAPC with her strong education department offers unlimited opportunity for those look ing forward to this career.
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meet this emergency. Beginning with the fall term of the 1957-58 school year LAPC is adding to its curricu lum a special education department for the express purpose of preparing youth to fill these teaching positions in the Christian School. This pro gram is being developed in coopera tion with interdenominational Chris tian day school leaders. Graduates of this program are guaranteed positions in Christian Schools. This is truly a wonderful opportun ity to study for a worthwhile voca tion—and all this in the storybook setting of sunny California.
LAPC STUDENTS ore received for graduate study in the leading universities of the world. Investigate today this challenging opportunity. m a j o r s in .. . Education Pre- Social Sciences engineering Humanities Pre-medicine Mathematics Philosophy and Science Psychology Music Religion
For more complete description of courses and entrance requirements write to registrar. Los Angeles Pacific College 62 5 Coleman Avenue Los Angeles 42, California
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