The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-05-28
Christianity Is Citadel
Of Democracy College
Speaker States
Continued from page IL
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
In pointing out the special need
for Christian education at this par
ticular moment, Pres. Schwalm in
dicated that the country has under
gone a spiritual disintegration and
that aesthetic and moral values have
been replaced by the desire for ma
terial gain. Evangelical secularism
has taken the place of evangelical
Christianity.
American culture is essentially a
sensate culture stressing those things
that appeal primarily to the senses.
Accumulation of things rather than
the cultivation of enduring values of
the spirit has dominated the actions
of the country, the speaker contin-
ued in his indictment of the Amer
lean scene.
PRIVATE COLLEGES
Historically the Christian college
has played an important role in the
life of this country for the past 300
years. Despite the rise of the state
university, 65 per cent of all college
are private institutions with 40 per
cent of all of the students still en-
rolled in the privately endowed in
stitutions of higher learning.
Someone has said that fact is a
fact whether you learn it at a state
university or at a private college.
The private church college, however,
can go bit farther than the state
college in giving a Christian inter
probation to the facts of scholarship
instead of mechanistic and material
istic approaches.
STABLE SOCIETY
Only as the Christian approach to
social, economic and political prob
lens is given, will there be any hope
for the stable society of the future
The Christian college is peculiarly
equipped for this special function
the speaker pointed out.
Students are fired with a zeal tc
build the better world only insofar
as they gain the inspiration from
dynamic teachers who are able tt
inspire their students. The faculty
is the incarnation of the ideal fol
which the college stands, DR.
Schwalm stated.
EVERYTHING EDUCATES
Education in a college comes not
only from the classroom but every
thing about the college is an educat-
i've force whether it be the athletic
field, the dramatic club or the "bull
session..
While scholarship is of great i'm
portance the primary concern should
be the development of attitudes con-
sistent with the desire for social i'm
provement.
Christian education will continue
as a great force in this country be-
cause in it lies the hope of develop
ing the leadership for the social ord
er permeated by Christian relation
ships, the speaker said in conclusion.
SO DEGREES
Degrees were presented to the fol-
lowing seniors:
Bachelor of Arts-Margaret Berky,
Dale Good, Delbert Gratz, Bertran
Smucker, Evan Soash, David Yoder,
Marcille Steiner, George Swank,
Bluffton; John Boehr, Evelyn Hilty,
Pandora; Thelma Daily, Warren
Minard Deeds, Rawson; James Ha-
begger, Berne, Ind; Wilton Hartz-
Ter, Carlock, Ill.,; Ruth Henderson,
Columbus Grove; Raymond Holcomb,
Wadsworth; Mark HORSEPOWER, Bow
Pa; Betty Keeney, East
Pa; Margaret Olivet,
Chicago, Illinois.
Russell Oyer, Congerville, ILL.,;
Lesson, Bethany; James
North Robinson; Lucille
Tschantz, Dalton; Richard Weaver,
Goshen, Ind; Frances Ramseyer,
Smithville.
Bachelor of School Music-Dorothy
Burner, Findlay; Pauline Springer,
Lima; Lucille Steiner, Eugene Weed,
Bluffton.
Summer school graduates-Alvin
Beachy, Fairfield, Pa; John Elwood,
Bellaire; Leland Lehman, Berne,
Ind; James Leidich, Painesville;
Lena Boyer, Biglerville, Pa; Milburn
Diller, Everett Hiestand, Bluffton.
Bachelor of Arts as of August,
L941-William Burbick, Newton
Falls; Chloe Dell Routson, McComb.
Bachelor of School Music as of