THE ELON COLLEGE WEEKLY.
VoL IL New Series. Greensboro, N. C., Friday, March 15, 1912 No
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LOCALS AUB PERSONALS.
p]verybody busy during the past week
with examinations. Now for a breathing
space
Mr. Sj)encer Williams, of Norfolk, Vir
ginia. formerly a student here, spent Sun
day intown \isiting his old frie.id and
college mate, Mr. K. Henry Barnes. Mr.
Williams was prominent in Society cir
cles while in college and has a host of
friends to wel™me his return.
A pleasant 'caller at West Dormitory
Ku' day was Miss EHie Nley. wl: > was
: pins V ih a si.-tcr, 5ri s Marg lerite, of
tl'e Colk _£>. Mi.s ' :eley graduated from
"linn Colic ”c in 1 '04 and sii'.ce her gradu
ation 'ii!tn trach'
*!r. Heniy who j.'i I cen at
homo for the past several weeks on ac
count of a se\ere attack of ’glippe, left
this week for Eastern North Carolina
and parts of Sontli (’arolina in the inter
ests of the 0. B. Barnes Safe Co., witli
which firm he is connected in tlie capaci-
fy of traveling salesman.
Miss Mary Etliel Clements, Linda
Barnes and Mary Lou Pitt spent the week
end in Durham, N. (;. \isiting Mrs. 1{. ,J.
Kernodle. All repoitod a most pleasant
Irip, on their return Monday morning.
Others of tlie college who spent Sunday
out of town were Misses Nellie Davis and
Eva Chrisman at Burlington and Miss
•\nnie Kippey .\ltamahaw.
Y. W. C. A.
We had a very interesting meeting last
Sunday afternoon in our Y. W. C. A.
M’le subject for the afternoon was the
life of Solomon. Miss Pearl Kosleman.
the leader of the meeting, gave us a very
interesting paper on the life of Solomon,
emphasizing the busy side of his life.
Each n-irl gave her favorite verse from
the writings of this man; which caused
the meeting to be of great interest. All
left the meeting knowing more about the
life of this great man, Solomon. We
hope the girls will realize the good they
will receive by coming to the meetings on
Sunday afternoon, and will come and
take part each time. Annie Bagwell.
THE BAND ELECTS OFFICERS.
The annual election of officers for the
college band was held in the band hall
on Tuesday afternoon, March S, 1912.
This resulted in Mr. 0. M. Barnes be-
insr chosen as President, S. C. Spt>on. sec
retary and Librarian. S. S. Myrick, treas
urer. M. Aycock. Vice-President. R. FI.
l.incoln, property man, J. M>. Murry, as
sistant director and R. A. (’ampbell, di
rector.
The band now has a room for exclu
sive use and a “home sweet home” of
its ottn. having taken for rehearsal a.id
storasre the one vacated when the art stu
dio was moved to West Dormitory.
There is also a move on foot to secure
uniforms for the coming season, which,
if successful, will enhance the ensemble
appearance of our “wind jammers,” con
siderably.
^ SUNDAY SERVICE.
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^rhe preacher for the eleven o’clock
'J4 vice Sunday was Dr. J. U. Newman,
l"gin of the Faculty. He used as his sub-
jt^ : “How God Deals With Those Who
F.^o.” based on the Scripture found in
L;^ 5. 3-5: “And he entered into one of
the ships, which was Sinum's, and jirayed
him that he would thrust out a little
from the land. And he sat down and
taught the people out of the ship. Now
when he had left speaking he said unto
Simon, launch out into tlie deep, and let
down your nets for a draught. And Si
mon answering said unto him, Master,
we ha\e toilerl all (lie night, and have
taken nothing: neverthless at thy wora
1 will let down the net.”
The following are some of the truths
and applications brought out in the dis
course :
In the account of the event mentioned
ill the text, there were four men, Simon,
Peter, .James, and .John, engaged in tish-
inir. That was their business, and one in
which they succeeded. At this time they
bad fished all night with a constant and
a continuous effort, and had caught .loth-
ing. These were experienced fishermen
with well e,quip|)ed boats, still they had
failed and gt>ne i.o the shore to wash their
nets.
While they were washing or mending
their nets, Christ passed a:id asked Peter
to take him into the boat and carry hiii:
a little way from tlie shore. Then Christ
s]>oke to the crowd on the shore a while
and then told Peter to go out into deep
\'ater an! cast out his net. This was a
(halleuire to Peter’s faith. For no ex
perienced fishermen would attempt to fish
in the deep water. Peter did not see any
reason for the going, but he went, using
the little faith he had. He told (’hrist
that they had done their best and failed,
so he saw no use of trying again. But
when they cast their net out, they en
closed a great multitude of fishes, and
their nets brake. When Peter saw that,
he realized that he was in the ]>resence
of the Lord, and he cried out. “0 Lord,
1 am not fit to he in thy presence.” The
Lord’s reply was, “Follow me,”
From this event we may get three rem
edies that Christ used in helping man.
First, the presence of .Jesus; second, the
command of -Jesus; and third, the call
of .Jesus,
We know what if is to fail and be dis
couraged. We know what it is to come
to the [xiint where seemingly it is not
worth while to try again. At such a
lime we are tempted to go to the shore
and live just a moral life and give up
o'r work in the church and the ki.ig.lom
of God. At just such a time .Jesus came
to those fishermen. In like manner He
comes to us when W'e feel that we are a
failure in ourselve.s. At man's extremi
ty comes God’s opportunity. So what we
need when things become dark is not to
srive up, but let Jesus come into our lives,
hearts and homes, and drive away the
gloom a;id despair that overshadows our
lives. Tho.se hours of failure and gloom
make us ready to follow Jesus.
W by do we give up? We belong to the
church, but we are not happy. The trou.
ble is we stay too near the shore. I.aiineh
out into the great truths of the Bible and
they will mean much for you. If the
church has not meant much to you, launch
out info service and let the soul commune
with God. Some will say, 1 have tried
to be a faithful member of the church,
but have failed. I have toiled twenty or
thirty years in the church and have nev
er received much. What is the trouble?
on ha'e cast your net on the wrong
side. You have tried to live a Christian
in your own way.
Sometimes men say, I have worked in
the church and it does not seem to do
much good. Then we might ask ourselves
if we are doing the special service unto
which (rod calls us. Life is a failure for
the man who chooses his own profes
sion, \ ou have cast your net on the
wrong side. Why do so many intelligent
business men take to drink an.d ruin their
lives? It is because they got into a vo-
caticm that did not satisfy them. They
have made a ship wreck of their li\es
just because they got in the wrong pro
fession. This led to drink, ojvMm ,n,
^.nuinh.ng lo ease tiieir dissatisfaction.
The greatest thing in the world is the
religion of -our Lori and Christ. It
meets all the needs of the body and soul.
Let men and women take time to launch
out into the deej)er thinps of life, then be
sure you let (jod tell you into what pro
fession you cast your net. And when
,vou do that God will let His blessing rest
upon you in all your work. (!od has a
w'ork for each one of us. and our life will
be a failure unless we do that work.
I.aunch out into deep water and cast your
net on the right and you shall be blessed.
J. S. Truitt.
MISSION STUDY.
The winter term is coming to a close.
At our last meeting we finished the stu
dy of Mr. John R. Mott’s book “The De
cisive Hour of Christian Missions.”
The book was studied by the class with
much enthusiasm and interest. It im
pressed us in every chapter and tojiic the
title, “Now is the decisive hour.”
When opportunity knocks then is the
time to oi>en the door and give to those
that kn(»w Him not the life-sa\'ing power.
Are we in unity? Are we. College men
and women, opening our doors to the hea
then call; to the mission call? By the
study of Mr, Mott’s book we have begun
to know w’hat the mission field means and
what is being done in mi.ssion fields at
present and what can be done in the fu
ture, if we strike the iron while it is hot.
Next Sunday we take up the study of
Home Missions and solve the initiative
problems that hav'e bafHed our predecess
ors.
Also, we are going to increase our mem
bership next Sunday by the hearty wel
come that we are going to give one young
lady and one young gentleman.
\\ ill you come and see who these new
members are. and then join us yourself?
Tlie only admission fee that we ask of
you is work. e want your co-operation
and work. ("or. Sec.
MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION.
The niiiiisfcrial students enjo.ved a meet
ing ol their Association Wednesday eve
ning. .Mr. S. S. Myrick, of the Eastern
Ivorth ( arolina Methodist Conference, was
the leader. He used tlie “i'ower of
Prayer” as his subject. Mr. Mvrick gave
the .’^jJowing story: An engineer’s wife
would take him by the hand each morning
and say. “God will keep you today, be
cause [ will pray for you, John.” And
tor many years He did protect the eiisi-
neer. One dav as tlie wife was lying on
her death-bed, she told the engineer that
if such a thing were j'ossilile, she would
he his ffuardian angel. For thirty years
everything ran smoothly. One day the
engine was being dri\en at a _n'eat sj>ee.l
down a long mountain grade. The wheels
almost sang. The engine was doing its
best, rile hand of the now aged engineer
\'as on the throttle. Something seized
his stro:ig arm. Nothing could be seen,
it -; i','('d and seized arn* it
lf»ne by an unseen hand. Engineer was
"reaflv dist:’rbed. He closed the throt
tle and the brakes had just l.rought the
train to a standstill when a great wash
out was seen in the track ahead. Thus
prayer had been answered.
The President. Rev. J. F, Morgan, of
the V, estern N, Carolina Christian Con
ference. (ailed a business meeting in
whic h the following men were elected as
delegates to an inter-collegiate Ministe
rial Association of the State to be held in
the M. ('. A. Hall at Durham, April
the twentieth and twenty-first: Messrs.
C. B. Ridlle. of the Western North Car
olina ('hristian Conference, and J. C.
Stuart, of the Eastern North Carolina
('hristian ('onference; alteri;ates: Messrs.
( . -J, lelton, of the Eastern Virginia
(''hristian Conference and J. (!. Truitt,
of the North Carolina and Virxinia Chris
tian Conference. J. G. Truitt.
PROVERBS AND PHRASER
To apprehend contempt is to have de
served it already.—Pierre Ix)ti.
Gooi maxims are germs of all good;
finely impressed on the memory they
no'irish the will.—Anon.
A prosjierous fool is a grievous burden.
—Aeschylus.
Moderation is the, noblest gift of hea
ven.—Enrinides.
I^et thy speech be better than thy si
lence, else keep silent.—Dionysi:is the El
der.
^Vhen a woman has gone out of my life
I have alwavs risen, opened the door
for her, bowed, shut the door again and
gone back, quite content to my pipe and
book.—Thompson.