Proving a point. While addressing a crowd on HUF, Terry Edwards, director of the program, makes a crucial point. - photo by Sheila Underwood. The man from the HUF hill I t is indeed a pleasure to have the chance to address you this morning. Less than a decade ago, I sat in your seat ... and I know how important it is that what is called "short chapel" be respected. I believe someone felt the need to have me stand up here after I was held for questioning by campus security on my last visit here two years ago. The officer could not quite bring himself to accept my statement that I was truly a faculty member and not an Ethiopian terrorist, and therefore had the right to be using the phone in the Administration Building. They said I had to come out ofanonymity, and this was the way. So, endure with me as I make myselfpublic. I have been hiding out something near to six thousand miles away, on a hill that overlooks the splendid city ofFlorence, Italy ... So began professor Terry Edward<; , as he addressed for the first time ever the entire student body of Harding University. The majority of students probably did see the resemblance to a terrorist , as they were unaccustomed to seeing any member of the kosher faculty wearing a full beard. But to those of us who knew him, who had spent a part of our lives hiding out on that same hill , his was a very familiar face , and seeing it again filled us with a joy we couldn't express to those sitting next to us who didn't know the man ... A new HUF group is pulling in on the "Holland Express" in the early afternoon at Santa Maria Novella train station today. Forty-five new faces that have crossed the Atlantic coming from distant Searcy, Arkansas, will climb "The Hill" today for the first time ... We remembered that moment. Stepping off the train into this strange, new bustling city, we couldn't help but feel a litle uneasy. Then a slender-framed man whose very movements exuded ceaseless energy and whose eyes radiated warmth called to us, welcoming us with his resounding tenor ; and with that welcome, the city began to feel like home ... This city is beautiful, I find myself thinking, as I pass by a main square with its cafes, fashionable women sipping their tea , and old gentlemen with canes reading newspapers ... Florence was beautiful , and we would never forget it. The art , the history, the music , the timelessness of that sophisticated center of culture nestled in the gentle hills of Tuscany - we fell under its spell. We drank it in , never getting our fill , and secretly making the resolve that someday, somehow, we would reiurn ... But it is the people that I have truly fallen for, it is their great art of seeming happy with the small things of life, an art which embraces and inspires all who visit Italy. The Italians show an eagerness and zest in most everything they do; it is contagious. They seem at times to have understood things which still perplex other peoples ... If it were contagious , then Terry Edwards had caught it. And we fell for him. Secretly we called him "the Jesus man ," not only because of his bearded face which resembled a Byzantine mosaic of the Christ , but because of his selfless life-style which made him stand out as a man who knew the real Christ and strove daily to follow after Him. " The Jesus man" wouldn't have approved of the nickname we gave him, but his humil ity only emphasized to us that here was a modern-day man after God's own heart , and we left Italy with more than a semester of cultural experience and travel. We felt a deeper commitment to the Father, and we had gotten a glimpse of what that commitment could mean in a life, and we could never thank that man enough for what he had shown us ... Accept my invitation to come and meet these people, come live in their incredible city for a while ... 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