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jHaroon anb #ol VOLUME III E'LON COLLEGE, N. C,, SEPTEMBER 16, 1921 NUMBER 1 PRESIDENT HARPER STIRS STUDENTS WITH OPENING ADDRESS SUNDAY MORNING The Uplifting Power of Christ is Theme of Deeply Spiritual Subject—Declares Millennium is Being Born Before Our Eyes In delivering his opening address to the student body Sunday morning, Presi dent Harper discussed ‘‘Jesus as a Ijeader.*-’ • “The leadership of Jesus,’’ lie said, ■“is unique in the world. Born amid the ■cattle, cradled in the trough from which they ate, with never a place of His own during all His life on which He could lay His head, crucified with thieves, buried in a tomb belonging to another, this Man east out and rejected by the rulers of the day has become the dating point for all history. But the unique ness of His leadership is not discerned in these facts, marvelous as they are. He gave the world a new idea of leader ship, a new viewpoint from which to estimate men and movements, a new spirit in which to live, a new powe-r to rise to closer fellowship with God and brothermen. “Jesus was no scientist and yet He understood tlie interpretation of science as no scientist ever did. He saw to the heart of things and interpreted the facts of life in terms of His Father's will and purpose. To Darwin life was com petition, a struggle between the strong .and the we-ak, with the finest «»nrviviug. To Malthus the increase of population l^uld be relieved of the direful conso- uipnopi? of '^nly di sease, pestilence, famine, and wars. The sad thing about these scientists, one of them a preacher, is that they arrived at their irrational and distressing con clusions after Jesus had given us the proper interpretation of the facts of life that drove them to folly and mad ness. No one can doubt that biological ly the strong have survived the weak and that disease and war hav'e on oc casions thinned out the population of the world. On these points Christ agrees with Darwin and Malthus. But these men understood these facts which they had observed to be the inevitablb and unchanging laws of life. Jesus knew better. He knew His Father’s design in the creation of man. He knew that the weak as well as tht. strong are equally dear to God and that there is no respect of persons with Him. In terms of that knowledge He interpreted life not as competition bu* as brotherhood, and the ills of life noi as inevitable consequences, but as the denial of that brotherhood, and the goal of life not as the survival of the fittest, but as the uplift ftf all. ‘And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, ^ He declared, ‘will draw all men unto me.' “He was lifted up, lifted up on the cross, and He has bee-n drawing men to Himself ever since. As the Leader of men, He lifts them up to higher place?. We who have imbibed His spirit and adopted His viewpoint look upon the in- eqalities of life as rebukes to our own sinfulness and are driven by the sense of brotherhood striving within our hearts to remove those inequalities by lifting our brothers out of them and up to our standard and vantage-ground of life. And most marvelous of all, He has imparted to us and will to all the power to achieve the things our hearts ^sure us are right and which they im- to undertake. • problem of suffering has always ^d the human heart, and appalled a loved ones have suffered. Why there be suffering and sorrow in ‘It is the process by which the survive,' says Darwin. ‘It is the method by which the surplus in popula tion is eliminated,’ answers Brother Malthus. ‘It is the oppportnnity to prove our brotherhood and the challenge to men to make progress by removing the causes of sorrow and suffering,’ teaches the Christ. And we instinctive ly know He is right. The same facts, but a new insight. The same facts, but a new interpretation. The same facts, but a new spur to progress. The same facts, but those very facts become the 0]>portunity to achieve the goal of hu manity, the lifting up of the weak to the level of the strong and the bringing of all mankind into the high estate of citizenship in the democracy of Go«. Christ has been lifted up, and behold the miracles He has during these twenry centuries wrought in the lives and or ganizations and attititdes of men!’’ “It would therefore be more appro priate to call Jesus the lifter of men ajid all that ministers to man.” the speaker urged, and ther showoH how Jesus had lifted women, children, the laborin nan. prisoners, medical science, scholarship, governments, and the in- dividurl soul that trusts Him. In concluding President Harper de clared that “the millennium is yet to come, but it is coming. It is being born before our verv eyns apd wp ar^ nrlvt- It'^ed to hasten its full realization among men. The millennium is not something to be dropped down out of the sky upon men. It is a state of bliss possible of realization through the lift ing power of Christ, assisted by His fol lowers on the earth. Just as He has lifted wome-n and children from their low estate to where they now are, with larger promise for the future; just as He has touched the lives of the poor and the prisoner with hope and cheer and lifted them up; just as He has creates for uplift to men medical science and scholarship; just as He has touched the individual man with newness of life and power and everywhere made him a king and priest unto God; just so He is able to toucli all of life and every institutioi. that ministers to life, and the social or der in even its remotest and most min ute details, and lift them up to Himself. STUDENTS ATTEND ANNUAL RECEPTION GIVEN BY FACULTY NEW ORGANIZATION TO FACILITATE RE LIGIOUS WORK Correlation of Religious Organizations to Cre ate Efficiency First Event of Social Sea son Warms the Hearts of New Students— Many Alumni Present Tne Annual Faculty Reception was held in W’^est Dormitory Saturday even ing, September 10th. To assist in tlu business of getting acquainted, each r.tudent had displayed a card bearing his or her name. Members of the faculty lined them selves up in the reception hall prepara tory to receiving the students. Dr. Harper with his usual broad smile head the line. The young women of the college arranged themselves in a siugh’ file which began in the hall of the sec ond floor and extended down the stait (Continued on page three) The Religious Activities Organization which is now being planned for the College is one of the latest ventures li» the religious world. The scheme was born with the Religious Education De partment of the College late last spring. The plan proposes the coordination and correlation of all the activities of the college in such a way as to facilitate their cooperation and to prevent dupli cation of effort. Under the present plan all the or ganizations will meet at the same time each Sunday evening. To make this possible the Church has kindly consent ed to eliminate the Sunday evening service. The plan provides further that there shall be a meeting of the entire Religious Activities Organization on th« third Sunday evening of each month. Each of the organizations now ex* isting in the College will retain its idenity and conduct its business through its cabinet which will be a department of the new organization. Any of the young men who belong to the prayer groups will be counted as Y. M. C. A. members and reported to Xational Organization as such. Tlie same will be true of the Y. W. C. A., and Christian Endeavor. As at pre-sent worked out by the group meeting com- lulttoc there will be five prayer groups two for Christian Endeavor; two for the Y. W. C. A., and one for the Y. M. C. A. Since no one of the group me-etings an accommodate more than forty mem bers, provision has been made for s sixth group if needed. Under the present plans the organiza tion proposes to care for the social life of . the studeiits through its social com mittee. An estimate of all the expen ditures of all the departments of the new organization has been secured and made into a budget in such a way that eacli student may know just what ho is doing when subscribing to this but»- get. It is the purpose of the budget Committee to ask no student to make more than one pledge. In that pledge will be included all of his obligations to every religious organization in tlio college. The College Sunday school will be- •nme the teoching agency of tlie new organization, and through it study courses for the various departments will be arranged. It is believed that such a plan will solve a problem that has so long confronted the organizations, and meet the requirements for efficient leadership in each of the departments. Due to the conservation of time and energy heretofore expended in dupll- cnted effort, it is believed that a defi nite program of community sirvice can lie put into effect, and a committee on 'Community Service is now working such a program. A week day Religious Education School at the graded school ■^or the children of the town has already been begun. Plans for supervised play, piitertainments for the Orphanage chil dren, and some form of definite service nmong the colored people of the town will be other features of the Community Service program. On September 9, in accordance wit» the constitution, the cabinets of the • nrioiis activities of the college met and olected the following officers for the Religious Activities Organization; “W, R. Moon. President of the Christian Endeavor was chosen president of the (Continued on page three) MARRIAGE CEREMONY IS WITNESSED BY STUDENTS IN COLLEGE AUDITORIUM The Most Unique Event in Annals of Student Life Occurs When Marriage Ceremony Takes Place of Morning Chapel Service The most unique event in the annal of student life at Elon occurred Wed nesday morning, Septembe-r 14, at 10:3(1 o ’clock, when the marriage of Misa Leona Stockard Hinton to Mr. James Farley Reynolds took the place of the regular morning chapel exercise. The college chapel was tastefully decorated. The colors used were white and green. The pulpit and rear of the room were a mass of white roses and asters, ferns, palms and smilax. Profe-ssor Edwin M. Betts presided at the pipe organ, and before the ceremony Professor FlojM G. Alexander sang “1 Love Thee”, by Gregg, after which Mrs. Catharine Sturm, dressed in lovely pink georgette, wearing a corsage ol white asters, rendered a violin solo, “Salut d’Amour”, by Elgar. For the wedding n^arch the proces sional from Lohengrin and wedding march from “Midsummer Night’s Dream”, by Mendelssohn for reces sional, and “Chant d’Amour”, by GiT- let were softly played during^ the cere mony. The ring ceremony was used by Dr, N. G. Newman, pastor of the hride. The bridal party entered the chapel as follows: Tlie ushers^ Warren Mc- Cullo^’h. of Greensboro, wole, of Oak Ridge, N. G. Newman, of Elon College, E. A. Hauser, of Greens boro, entered the r-hapel from opposite aisle« and formed themselves in groups of two oneach side of the steps. Fol lowing them came the bridesmaids and groomsmen in couples entering from opposite aisles and meeting and cross ing in front of the altar, forming a pyramid on the steps of the pulpit. Tho bridesmaids carried lovely bouquets or white asters and fern. The ushers and groomsmen wore white boutonniere® from the bride’s bouquet. The attend ants entered as follows: Miss Nina Clendenin, of Washington, D. C., in white organdie, with hat to match, with Luther L. Gobbel, of Greensboro; Miss Eunime Stockard, of Raleigh, in wMte organdy with hat to match, with Paul V. Hinton, of Greensboro, and also brother of the bride. Next came the maid of honor , Miss Mabel Hinton, sis ter of the bride, charmingly dressed in Nile green organdy, made basque effect with green poke bonnet to match and carrying an armful of white rose buds. The little flowe-r girls were Eleanor Doris Brown and Sarah Virginia Hook, who were daintily clad in fluted dresses of white crepe de chine with tulle trim* mings and carrying baskets of Bride roses. Immediately preceding the bride came dainty little Catherine Dickey exquisitely dressed in white fluted crepe de chine, carrying the ring in the heart of a full blown rose. The bride entered with her father, who gave her in marriage. The bride, a charming brunette, was lovely in a midnight blue walking drees of mau'’e twiP wore a navy blue hat, with gray flow, ing veil, sandal strap''patent pumps7 inUl^''**w‘iTTL ”gray^^aUo*’ gray gloves antj lovely gray squirrel chokei. She carried a shower bouquet of Bride roses, showered with rose buds. The bride was met at the altar by the bridegroom and his best man, Ben Dixon MacNMl, of Raleigh. PRACTICAL WORK IN TEACHER TRAIN ING FOR STUDENTS Educational Department Offers Practical Experi ence Under Supervisor A Course in Directed Teaching in the Elon CoUege Graded School As announced last spring, a course is licing offered in directed teaching for tlie students in Education, in the Elon Graded School. This course is open to Seniors in the Department of Education who are expecting to enter the teaching profession, and to Juniors in the same Department who are not expecting to r..'turn for their senior year. The work of the stuaents will be supervised by the staff of supervising teachers employed by the Graded School iJoard: Mr. C. Humphreys, former Superintendent of Schools at Haw River, N. C., graduate student at Col umbia University, Miss A. E. Tripp of tlie North jH^olinn. College for Women, Miss Ruth McDow o. ^ollego. South Carolinp,, and Miss aj* j.j.. " cksoij^ of Lewisburg Seminary. At the present time fifteen students enrolled for this course taking work in teaching and observation in the High School Department. Commencing witli the second week of the scliool year, (Continued on page three) J' NEW BOOK BY DR. HARPER SOON TO COME FROM PRESS ‘‘The Church in the Pres ent Crisis” is Subject^ of Fourth Book- in Series / The Fleming H. Revell Co., the well i’.nown publishers of religious books l ave just announced a fourth volume it* ■•The New Trunk Series”, of whic^* Elon’s president is the author. The title of this new volume is “The Church n the Present Crisis.” The book itself will be placed on the market in the early fall and Maroon and j Gold will then review it at length, j fthall content ourselves now in quoting , a paragraph from the introduction to the i book which has been written by the Rev i Peter Ainslie of Baltimore, so favorably i known to Elon. Dr. Ainslie sayn, i ^ ‘ President Harper, has honored me in i r-sking me to stand in the gateway or I this volume, opening its pages to mul- I titudes for their perusal. He needs no I one to introduce him, however, for his j '^ormer volumes have taken a perma- 1 ne^^^Jjg^ein the thought of our time I . ■ the best of all in its thorough and reve.X^itial discussion of many subjects havin'j’*?^--with our national life and spiritual poaij^bilities.j “This stirring volume will that larger understanding of th^ (Continued on page thre-e)y
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