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Page Two MAROON AND GOLD September 9, g^aroon ant) (^olt) Published Weekly by tbe Students of £lon College Members of the North Carolina Colle giate Press Association Entered at the Post-Oifice at Elon Coi- lege, N. C., as second-class matter. Two Dollars Per College Year H. Kichanlson Editor Henry Peel Managing Editor L. L. Ezell Athletic Editor C. E. Newman Business Manager J. A. Walker Ass’t. Bus. Manager A. B. Fogleman Adv. Manager D. W. Jones Ass’t Adv. Manager E. W. Auman ....Circulation Manager Paul Braxton Ass’t. Cir. Manager Wiley Stout Ass’t Cir. Manager S. D. Woody Ass’t Cir. Manager Sallie K. Ingram. .. Ass't Cir. Manager W. J. Gotten Faculty Advisor Advertising Rates Upon Request Beat Davidson, or bust! YOUNG PEOPLE AND SERVICE IS SUBJECT OF OPENING ADDRESS BY PRES. HARPER (Continued from Page 1) It is claimed by some, who have experienced this date arrange ment, that it would be a very popular fad. "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow the sun will shine again.” In short, dry weather has run the course of its popularity. Seat assignments have become so popular this year that it has been suggested by some of the more experienced upper-classmen that it would be w^ell if the re spective Deans get together and make date assignments for Sun day social hours. SPIRIT The college calendar brings around no other season of the year, when school spirit can rise to the heights as it does in the fall. All athletics require school spirit to keep them going, but it might be said of football that it requires spirit and that spirit re quires it. We are only one week removed from the first test of a new foot ball team—a team that has never experienced victory and has never experienced defeat. But it is Elon’s best, and let it be said that we believe Elon's best to be good enough to make them all sit up and take notice. Now, if your team is out to beat Da\idson or bust, you get out with it. Your best wmII not be any better than the team’s best, no matter how hard you try. In brief, let’s begin to talk it up. A few pep meeting's would do no one any harm. PLAY SQUARE Much has been said of the man who, in his eagerness to help him self along in the world, fails to see that he has incurred a debt, or that he become a debtor to any of the many sources from which men are helped into whatever position they may chance to oc cupy in the world. Much has been said of the debt that this person owes to his country, his state, his town, and his school, but not too much can be said of the debt that we owe to our homes. From this source we can easily see the foundation from which we have been permitted to get as far as we have in life. For this, we can easily see, we owe an almost un-repayable debt. Those people who are in col lege. are in the best position of any to see that they owe a debt to their home. The very fact that they are permitted to be here shows that evidence of debt. Then it would seem that the col lege students, above many others, should play square with their homes. If we are honest we must come clear in this one thing. Hence, it behooves us to be our selves and be what our home training prompts us to be. the Christian religion. Given the rev elation of Go‘d in Jesus Christ and the Hc'ly Spirit as the interpreter and guide into a completer understanding of the divine will and purpose, and you have the essence of a universally satisfying spiritual religion. No other religion thus provides for growth and development in its fundamental con ceptions as does the Christian faith. It is this feature of our faith which makes us absolutely sure that all men will accept it as satisfying, when once they comprehend it. Jesus was unique also in His concep tion of the spiritual life. The spiritual life, according to this Teacher, is the most normal thing in the w'orld. It is the natural life lived in a new way. The natural life is selfish, but Jesus taught unselfishness. His gospel trans formed the ife of men by substituting altruistic for individualistic motives. The natural life is bent on securing its rights, hut Jesus taught that men should be exercised only to perform their own duties. The Christian man has one supreme right, to see that every other man in the world gets his rights. Here again Jesus transformed the life of men by substituting a new motive, the motive of unselfishness in the place of the motive of selfislmess. The na tural man is inclined to exercise author ity over others, but the spiritual man aspires to serve others. Jesus declared that He came not to be ministered un to, but to minister. He also taught the disciples that the one of them who most served his brothermen should be the greatest of all. Here again Jesus transformed the life of men by a change of motive. The natural man is inclined to believe that his ow'n advantage is surest to be served by overcoming his fellows in the competition of life, but Jesus taught a different principle, that life is best served by fellow&hip in co operation. E-eal satisfaction of life comes, according to this spiritual Seer, not wheu wo rise in, triumph over the crushed and bleeding forms of our com petitors, but when w’e look in love upOTi a w^eak anl discouraged brother wiio has been made strong and vigorous and hopeful in life by the assistance we in our strength and through our willing co operation have been enabled to extend him. Here again Jesus transforms the life of men by substituting a new and a more uplifting motive, the motive of sacrificial service lovingly enlisted in the cause of humanity. Jesus referred to His disciples as salt w'ith saving pOAver; as light with jiuri- fying power; and as leaven with the capacity of rapid and unlimited power of increase and expansion. It is dif ficult to understand how' it is possible to deduce from these teachings the doc trine that Jesus is interested primarily in the individual soul. It is true that He declared the soul of an individual man to be of more worth than all the wealth of the material universe, but He was thinking undoubtedly of the in dividual soul ripened in all its mani fold powers. According to His con ception, no soul could be considered ripened apart from the obligations it owed to other souls. The social gospel is, therefore, inextricably involved in the individual gospel. Jesus would save the individual that he may be the means of bringing salvation to" others. To be satisfied, therefore, with one’s own salvation alone is, according to Jesus, to be lost. The salt that has lost its savor is to be cast out and trodden under the foot of man. The light that is individual and not social is hidden under a bushed and is of no use to any one. The leaven that does not multiply is devoid of life. The obigation to serve, therefore, is primary in the Christian program. Christian service is the real and the true fund amentalism, for w’hich all the followers of Christ should whole-hartedly con tend. Jesus ha4 an enthusiasm for human ity. He regards man as a vast res- would waste away. He believed this spiritual force could be liberated, and when it should be liberated, it w'ould clothe man with .-plendid virtue® and expand his being until he should ap proach the very dimensions of the Divine. He did not believe this capacity was limited to any special sec tion or segment of society. He vvas a true spiritual democrat and believe'l that every nian is capablei of immeasur able spiritual enlargement. He, th-'ire- fore, believed that the w'orld is uot only worth saving, but that it is cap able of being mved. He was, there fore, the supreme optimist of human history. The New Testament brings us into- an atmosphere characteristically its ow’u. How different it is from the at mosphere of the Psalms! “The Lord is my Shepherd’’ declares the best known and best loved Psalm of them all. It is the atmosphere of personal religion. But w^hen we come into the New^ Testament and say “Our Father” we have entered the realm of social religion. In the Lord’s Prayer no singular pronouns signifying human persons are used. All the pronouns referring to persons are plural an! so cial. It is “Our Father.’’ We are to pray that God will give “us our daily breal,” that He will “forgive us our trespasses,” that He will “lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. ’ ’ What delightful spiritual climate this social atmcsphere of the Christian Gospel brings to us! Jesus was no ascetic. He loved life and He loved it in its social manifesta- Mons. The human body, according to His view', was not something to be escaped from nor held under, but to be used in the service of God and brothermen. He dignified the human body by declaring it to be the Temple of God. And w’hile He did not express ly say it, His teachings warrant ns in thinking of the world as the temple in which human beings dwell. It is cer tainly our privilege to transform the world into a temple, ministering to the sj^iritual necessities of our human life. We may erect houses for worehip, but God made the whole universe to be His dwelling place. The w'orld is, therefore, a true temple. Jesus said this in effect to the woman at the well. There- can be no doubt that Jesus be lieved that all life is capable of spirit ual use and edification. There can like wise be no doubt that He aspired to have every energy of the human heart and life expand itself in such a way as to promote the spiritual interests of nmnkind. He delighted to draw^ the metaphors and similes of His teachings from the ordinary every-day experi ences of men. His parables abound in references to normal living. It is clear that the Master Teacher intended us to understand tliat every experience of life is capable of spiritual utilization. And what He believed w^ith reference to the life of men. He believed with reference to the institutions that serve their life, that they too shouhl bo permeated with the spirit and ideal of serv'ice to humanity. The basic institu tions of our social order readily lend themselves to this view. The home cer tainly exists to promote the life of man. Industry too and" education as well as government and religion, to say nothing of the institutions that essay to direct and conserve the leisure hours through play and amusement, have the only justification of their existence in that they serve and promote the life of man in an uplifting way. 1 may be pardoned for saying that you have the right to expect that your College will be the servant of your life. Colleges do not exist to mnke money but to make men and w^omen, men and women of high Ideals, of noble altruism. It is estimated that the College student pays about 'one-third the cost of his education. The other two-thirds are borne by the College itself through its endowment, the money invested in its plant, and the generous donations oP large-hearted men and women. Your College is glad to be able in this whole some and uplifting way to exemplify to you in your youthful years th? spirit of service and of sacrifice in ser- ervoir of spiritual force, a force that j vice, which the whole life of Christ and unless it were developed and used every teaching of Christ make obliga tory upon the men and’ institutions that aspire to be Ohristian to embody in their aims and practices. Were colleges ever to assume the attitude that stu dents should pay fully the cost) of their education, they would cease at that time to be Christian institutions. They must give far more than they receive in order to be able to’ claim for them selves the honor to represent Christ in the realm of education. Remember that every dollar you shall this year pay vour College she is matching with two, and gadly doing it. I always like to speak to young peo- pe in regard to service, because they are eager to* serve and have their w’hole life spread out before them. In view of what has been said in reg-ard to the teaching andj program of Jesus, I think it is entirely proper at this opening w^orship service of the College year to be definitely practical in suggesting the bases according to which Christian voung men and W'omen should select their life work. If all life is spiritual and all service should be rendered as unto God, what difference does it make, you may inquire, as to the manner in which the intlividual soul shall invest itself? Is not one calling as worthy as another? Yes and no. It all de pends upon the individual questioner, for before any young life can be fully assured that it is investing itself in such a way as to bear the largest fruit age in the service of humanity, certain heart-searching questions need to be personally faced. Let me enumerate these questions: Does the calling that is contemplated challenge the worthiest in me? Is it a calling that is temporary or that will furnish me an avenue of ser vice throughout all my life? Does it offer me the opportunity of four-fold development, physically, men tally, so'cially and spiritually? Am I situated so that I can make the preparation required for best ser vice in this calling? Are the duties of this calling such as to be congenial to my nature and dis position? What type of manhood and w'oman- hood does this profession province in the case of those who pursue it? Is the service which this calling of fers me the opportunity to contribute such as to promote the happiness of human-kind? Is this calling already over-erowded? Am I being influenced in my desire to eiiter this calling by the hope of financial reward or by the desire to serve ? Am I satisfied in my heart that God will approve my entering upon this call- ing? Your life lies out before yoU; You are anxious to find an avenue of ser vice worthy of your altruistic desire to serve the best interests of humanity and of the Kingdom of God. You should, therefore, face these ten ques tions, and when your heart is satisfied W'ith reference to them, no matter what the vocation you may choose may be, you may rest assured that in it you will be serving God and pleasing Christ in the life that you shall live and the work that you shall do. We dare not vie any calling unclea-n or unworthy with respect to which these questions have been satisfyingly answered, and in the pursuit of which w'e shall con scientiously feel we are doing the w’ill and purpose of God. Every service rendered with the motive of helping and uplifting the life of men we may be sure is service to God, and we may be equally sure that He will bless us in its performance. This age needs young people of prophetic vision, able to understand the Christian program of life. But this ago needs more in its young people than prophetic vision. It must exact at their hands also capacity for generalship, the ability to organize the forces of nature and of life in such a way as to achieve their prophetic visions and make them uplifting realities in the life of men. This age also needs young people who w’ill undertake* thi-i general ship of life and its forces in the spirit of joyous service. It is further in need of young people of fertile personality, fertile because they have heard the voice of God speaking unmistakably to them and so enriching their expc-ri^, and qualifying them for a lar^'er $ vice. And most essential of al! |j age needs young people who -R’in, operate with God, young people \ wall search the Scriptures aud record of human history and the dt.|, of their own hearts in order to , cover the mind and will and pur^ of God for them and for the raco men. At the very beginning of your ( lege year, and for many of you at; very beginning of your College cart I summon you to a life of Chriji service as the highest vocation which the human heart may dedij itself. In the spirit in which Cin went about in the diay in whicJi lived and in the spirit in which served the life of men and saciiij Himself for them, in that spirit L upon you to enter upon your life this College, this year, promising, every encouragement possible in noble endeavor thus to invest y life. And 1 guarantee tb'every on; you who w'ill enter upon the Colij year in this spirit of service to 6 and man, a most happy and rewar.|i experience in the things' which kind most needs and your- own hei will abundantly approve. PATRONIZE O U R AD. MGR. WHEN JN-EUELINiiaro Come To See Us We carry a complete line of Toilet Articles, Stationery, Eastman Ko* and Supplies, Parker and Conklin Pens.i Pencils. Agents for WMtman’s Candies ACME DRUG CO. Opposite Post Office. Washington Cai REGULAR DINNER, 401 PRICES REDUCED ON EVEM ITEM ON OUR MENU Burlington, N. C. DR. FRANK E. GILLIAl DENTIST Over Rouse Jewery Store Telephone 992 Burlington, N. C. DR. L. M. FOUSHEE Dentist BURLINGTON, N. 0. Office near Freeman Drug Co, Phone 21 When In Burlington, Stop At SANITARY BARBER SHO For First-Class Barber Work AUSLEY BROS., Prop. FREE 5 Tube Radio Se FREE Send Self-Addressed, Stamped E velope—For FuU Particulars Regal* Ing This OFFER. Radiotex Company 296 Broadway, New York, N. '
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