Proceedings of the Inauguration 
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Prayer, closing with the Lord’s Prayer— Dean Colwell 
Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for 
the blessings of the life which now is and for the hopes of that 
which is to come. Help us to use and enjoy the one in Thy 
fear and to look forward in devout confidence to glorious fuF 
fillment of the other. 
We thank Thee for a Christian college and all the blessings 
that accompany it. We thank Thee that sturdy men of God 
in the days that are gone were moved by Thy Spirit to lay in 
this community the foundations of a Christian school. We 
bless Thee for the lives which they lived, the tasks which they 
performed so well, and for the foundation which they laid. 
We are grateful to Thee that they possessed the wisdom to 
look forward into the future and to see the need which was 
sure to come for the Christian education of young people. 
We thank Thee that with confidence in Thy word and faitn in 
Thy truth they laid foundations deep and strong, upon which 
in the years that followed there could be builded an institu- 
tion which should do faithful work for Thy cause and kingdom 
in preparing young people for their life work in the fear of 
God. We thank Thee that their work has gone out into all 
the earth, and that in this nation and in many nations there 
are to be found many who, trained here in the nurture and 
admonition of the Lord, are serving Thee and their genera- 
tion with greater efficiency because of that training. 
We bless Thee for the glorious influence for righteousness, 
for God and the truth, which has emanated so broadly from 
this institution; and we are grateful that we, the successors 
of these servants of Thine who labored here in past years, are 
permitted to have our small part in the accomplishment of 
Thy work in the world. Help us to remember that Thine eye 
is upon us, and that Thou art ready to supplement our defi- 
ciencies and grant us all needed grace that we may accomplish 
our tasks in a way which will meet with Thine approval. Help 
us to recogni'ze our need and Thy sufficiency, that we may be 
of a teachable spirit as well as filled with a Godly zeal. Grant 
us Thy guidance without which all efforts of man must fail. 
And give us, 0 God, as we look out into the future great 
faith in Thee and the power of Thy truth. Gird us with Thy 
