Seek them not." What I learned at Biola as a student is true. There is no limit to the success you can achieve if you do not care who gets the glory for it. Scripture tells us, "God has chosen the foolish, the weak, the base, the despised, that no flesh should glory in His presence." It is a little one who shall become a thousand! The second requirement is that we believe God! The battle is the fight of faith. It is through faith that men conquer kingdoms, gain ing the victory and receiving the precious promises. There is a price to pay for fruitfulness. Jesus said, "Except a grain of wheat falls into the ground and die, it abides alone. But if it dies, it bringeth forth much fruit." That wheat on that museum checkerboard will never grow un less it falls into the ground and dies. In order to multiply we, too, must die. When we quit dying, we quit multiplying. It is just that simple and just that difficult. May we be willing to re-dedicate our selves to the promises of God, will ing to pay whatever price is neces sary to be used of the Lord to multiply laborers for Christ.
dents but, as he grew older, he seemed to be less interested in spiritual things. Principally he was concerned with gambling, drink ing and carousing. Through prayer, at the age of 20, that young man was converted. He was given a Sunday school class of six junior high boys. Beginning with them this new teacher started a boys club that grew to 200 during the next two years. Then he was put in touch with a sailor aboard a battleship in the Long Beach har bor. Beginning with that one ser viceman, the laborers for Christ on the ship multiplied until there were 125. That was the beginning of the Navigators' work. It has now grown to being worldwide in scope. That young man's name was Dawson Trotman. He died at the age of 50 in the act of successfully rescuing a person from drowning. At his funeral Billy Graham testified, "I believe that Dawson Trotman touched more lives for Christ than any man I have ever known. One of those lives he touched was mine!" During my days in Biola, I be came his Timothy. These two school teachers I consider my grandmothers in Christ. One of them, Miss Lora Thomas, is now in heaven. The other, Miss Irene Mills, is here at commencement today. I fully believe that you and I, if we are willing to pay the price, can also multiply and become a thousand. The fact is we must do this because the harvest is so (plenteous and the laborers are so few. The requirements are simple but not easy. The first is that we become least or a nobody. "Seek- est thou great things for thyself.
An honorary Doctor of Divinity from Talbot Seminary was con ferred upon Dr. Sanny during the 1972 Biola Commencement exer cises.
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