1962 Miracle Yearbook

Spring Bible Lectures Reverend Rooke, perusing the shelves of our Book- store, smiles for our cameraman. President Jeremiah confers with Mr. Rooke prior to the start of the Tuesday evening service. With his initial greeting to the student body on Monday morning, Pastor Rooke made known to all his southern up-bringing. 174 Rev. Wilbur Rooke, pastor of the Central Avenue Baptist Church of Gary, Indiana, spoke, at the Spring Bible Lectures which were held from February 11 through February 16. In the morning chapel services Pastor Rooke brought a series of messages from the Sermon on the Mount, con- centrating particularly on the fifth chapter of Matthew. Each evening he addressed the students from the parable of the Prodigal Son in the fifteenth chapter of Luke. Combining southern home-like sense of humor with the unadulterated teaching of the Word of God, he instilled within every heart his favorite motto: "0 that there may arise a man in me that the man I am may cease to be." 1