Faculty offices may be provided for a sum of $2500. Classrooms in this building will range in cost from $5,000 to $10,000. A beautiful Shantz organ will be placed in the re cital hall. The organ will be used almost continuously throughout each day as the music students practice to prepare themselves for dedicated lives of Christian service especially in the field of music. The organ will cost approximately $36,000. The class room-auditorium, seating 450, will cost approximately $60,000. A gift covering any of these units will make a beautiful and lasting memorial to a loved one. All such memorial gifts will be appropriately recognized by a per manent plaque. Contributions to this building will be a source of great blessing to the school. Such gifts will also provide a deep and lasting sense of satisfac tion and blessing to the donors as they realize the tremendous significance that music has in the life of the Chris tian church and the part that they are having in the training of these dedi cated and talented young people. Your prayers and gifts in behalf of this continuing developmental pro gram will be greatly appreciated by all identified with BIOLA. Then looking in, I saw upon the floor, Old hammers worn with beating years of time. "How many anvils have you had," said I, "To wear and batter all these ham mers so?" "Just one," said he, and then with twinkling eye, "The anvil wears the hammers out you know." "And so," I thought, "the anvil of God's Word For ages skeptics' blows have beat upon, Yet though the noise of falling blows was heard The anvil is unmarred, the hammers gone." — John Clifford THE ANVIL OF GOD'S WORD Last eve I paused beside a black smith's door And heard the anvil ring the vesper chime;
About the cover . . . When BIOLA first moved to the La Mirada campus there were a suf ficient number of buildings to meet the minimum requirements for the operation of the school. One of the sorely needed buildings for which we did not have sufficient funds to erect at that time was the Classroom-Music Building. This is an all-purpoSe struc ture to take care of the expanding needs of the Music Department as well as to provide additional rooms for other classes. Because there was room in one end of the Library (that section of the Library where the books are kept on the shelves), it was decided to erect temporary partitions and put the Music Department head quarters in the Library building. Since we have been on the campus the student body has gfown considerably, the Library holdings have grown ap preciably and the Music Department has developed to a marked degree. This makes it imperative that the building be erected in time for the opening of school next September. Funds are still needed in order to construct this building free of debt. Thank God for you, good friend of mine, Seldom is friendship such as thine; How very much I wish to be As helpful as you've been to me — Thank God for you. When I recall from time' to time How you inspired this heart of mine, I find myself inclined to pray, "God bless my friend this very day"— Thank God for you. Of many prayer quests, one thou art On whom I ask God to impart Rich blessings from His storehouse rare, And grant to you His gracious care— Thank God for you. So often at the throne of grace There comes a picture of your face, And then instinctively I pray That God may guide you all the way— Thank God for you! THANK GOD FOR YOU
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