THE AYCOCK LECTURES
TWO occasions of the school year at Bethany-Peniel College which hold much interest for the student body are the two series of Aycock Lectures. The series of lectures were founded five years ago by Reverend Jarrette E. Aycock who has shown a true interest in the future of the college and its students. Since the beginning of the lecture series, Reverend I. C. Mathis and Reverend Mack Anderson have also assisted in providing the lecturers for the occasion. Twice each year leaders in Christian service, and leaders in the Church of the Nazarene bring to the college, and more especially to the ministerial students, messages concerning the doctrines and basic principles of the church. Lessons in the various phases of Christian work gained from years of experience and observation are 1n this way made available to the students by the lecturers. The speaker for the tenth series of lectures was Rev . Roy Smee, superintendent of the Northern California district. Rev. Smee drew from twenty years of active work in the ministry when he delivered the practical messages of this series, October 3-7 . At the 路 chapel services each morning, Rev. Smee brought out many gospel truths which were both spiritual and enlightening. In the afternoons he spoke to the ministerial group on the different phases and duties of the minister's life. The speaker for the second semester lectures was Rev. Hugh Benner, pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene at Spokane, Washington. Both the morning and afternoon messages were characterized by the enthusiasm and the scholarly manner in which the speaker presented them . Among the chapel messages were "Christ or Chaos" and "The Key to the Puzzle of Life." The afternoon messages were based on the duties and responsibilities of the leadership of the ministry.