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Page Two. MAROON AND GOLD March 13, 1931. iHaronn auii PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF ELON COLLEGE Entered at the Post-Office at Elon College, N. C., as Second-Class Matter. ADVERTISING RATES UPON REQUEST TWO DOLLARS PER COLLEGE YEAR AU artlcltB for publication must be in the hands of the Managing Editor by 12:00 M., Tuesday. Articles received from an unknown source will not be published. J. Howard Smith N. II. Cameron Charlie Roberts ... K. B. Dofflemyer Mabel Coghill ... R. W. Morphia C. R. Key Ruth Smith STAFF Editorial Staff I BUSINESS STAFF Editor-in-chief Business Manager Managing Editor Assistant Managing Editor Social Editor Sports Editor Jokes Editor Co-ed Editor II. N. Truitt Advertising Manager M. Capo Assistant Advertising Manager W. G. Lewis Circulation Manager W. E, Brill Assistant Circulation Manager Prof. J. W. Barney Faculty Adviser Head Reporter, Viola Worsley Mary Rudd Charlie Howell Alta Dick J- R- Parks Mildred Steed E. E. Copeland Patricia Holden J. R. Dickens Marguerite Harris Fred Miller F-Ie is a Cliristiaii who follows Christ, who measures all thing's by the standard of His approbation, who wotdd not willinj^ly say a word which he wouhl not like to have C hrist hear, nor do an act which he would not like to have C hrist see. He is a Christian who tries to be the kind of neighbor Christ would be, and who asks himself in all the alternatives of his business life, and his social life, and his personal life, what would the Master do in this case? I'he l)est Christian is he who most reminds the jieople whom he lives of the Lord Jesus Christ.—(ieorge Hodges. THE COMING EASTER HOLIDAYS All of us are looking forward with pleasant antici])ations to the coming Kaster holidays: We are busy planning what to do with our time. 'I'lie students of Elon have never had the opportunity of enjoying a holiday like this before at Easter. All of us as stu dents should be grateful to the Faculty Committee who saw fit to give us sTich a vacation. This period of rest ought to make ns study harder and try to improve in our studies when we come back as a means of showing our appreciation. Come on, fellow students, let’s work together with our teachers and make this year a success. CO-OPERATION I Fellow-students, let us show more co-operation in this matter of making the campus look more attractive than we are showing. For example, cutting across the campus on the grass and walking »cross the corners of the sidewalks on the grass. Many corners of ihe campus adjoining the sidewalks look bad where students have ■Walked across so much that the grass is almost destroyed. We ^ill not waste enough time to amount to anything if we will just take a few seconds longer and go around on the sidewalk; and the g;rass looks too pretty to be destroyed by careless and indifferent Students. We could improve the looks of the campus much more i)f we would not do these things. Just imagine that you are the per son responsible for how everything looks around the campus. I ►m sure you would want the hearty co-operation of the students in helping you make the campus look pretty and attractive. So let’s give our hearty support and co-operation ia this matter. ' Another thfrig, some students take the wrong attitude toward certain teachers. There is much unnecessary criticism in regard to feachers. Here is a tested principle that applies to this. To keep silent about my own feelings, experiences, and opinions. Much talk ing about these things weakens one’s position. This rule applies jo those who criticize when they have no need to do so. Let me ask this question. How much good does it do us to criticize our teachers? We cannot change the condition of things. We are only weaking our position and harming ourselves when we do so If our teachers have some little habits or characteristics that we do not like, let us overlook these and look for their good qualities. Let’s get down to our work and take an interest in it, and maybe we will not think so much about criticism. If we cannot say any thing good about a person, we certainly ought not to say anything bad about one. W'e students can better the attitudes of many other students toward teachers if we will not say anything destructive about them Speak well of our teachers, or keep silent. In this way many stu dents will come to like their teachers much better, as well as take a greater interest in their work. All is needed is just a little co operation and support on our part and we will succeed. Co-opera- tion! That’s what it is! Success in this world comes mainly through co-operation. So fellow-students, let’s use whatever talents we have in helping to better conditions here on the campus. —Robert M. Kimball. DR. J. O. ATKINSON SPEAKS ON MISSIONS (Continued from Page 1) Teh—‘’I’ve made some money, Prof.j Newsboy—“Buy Kdgar Guests’s lat- Martin, and I want to do something forjost work, sir?’’ mv college. Do you remember in what^ •tudie., I oxcelledf” Gentleman--\o! ” I’m Edgar Guest , himself.” Prof. Martin—“In mr elass you slept most of the time.” IXewsboy—“Well, buy “Man in Lower fob “I’m, well; I’ll endow a dormi-;Tin. “ You ain’t Mary Robert’s Rine- M hart, are you?” And yet no note in any book is more em phatic of ultimate triumph and a.ssured victory, than the Book of Revelation. It is the Book of song and of certainty. It is the Book of vision and of voice, and in it both the vision and the voice reveal clearly the ultimate and assured victory in the task to which our Lord had set Himself and towards which the ages move. The writer says, “And lo a great multi tude which no man could number of all nations and kindreds and people and ton gues stood before the throne and before tht* Lamb;” for declares the writer fur ther. “There are on the East three gates, on the North three gates, on the South three* gates, and on tlie West three gates,” -showing tliat men and women from all corners of the earth have admittance and slinll b- admitted to tlint City that hath foundations. In tlif* Bibh% sin, wickedness, depravity, ;ire not lookod ui>on as conquering foes and forces, but as inviting fields for ser vice and oi»i»ortunity. When Jesus looked out over th(‘ multitudes of wicked and sinning peoj»le lie did not raise a A'oic(* of desj>air, but sounded a note of hoi)e, and calh'd that multitude a harvest. •‘Truly the hnrvest is pU'nteous, and the laborers are few, pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest that He will send forth laborers into His harvest.” Where- e\ er the wicked and the sinning, tlio down cast and the do\vn-ti*odden are there is a hai’vest ricli and ripe for the service of the Lord. One recalls in this connection that when Paul looked out and meditated upon a similar scene, “A great door, and an ef- fe*t\ial, is oj>en unto me, AXI) tliere are adversaries.” Observe that Paul counted the adversaries as a part of the challenge ind coordinate with the open door, AXI) there are adversaries. .\ow there cm be no other explanation >r all this than the fact that (4od has •oainiitted Ilinistdf to the task of giving :he gospel of His Son to the world. You :ind I may falter and hesitate and with hold aiul n*fuse. but our God is marching • m. and having begun the work He has never iuit. never will quit until all tongues and people are given a chance. In Dayton. Ohio, last October I was at lunch with a rector in a parish of tha* "ity. He said: “A Bishop of oura who has lx‘en in ('hina forty yearn has come home. He deems the task impo.ssible, the dilliculties insurmountable, and he has quit.” My reply wai that “God set Him self to the task a Ion*? time ago and, though the problem is hard and the ways are doubtful, and devious. He has never quit.” Robert Morrison went out to C’hina and alone in an Empire of four hnndred million, 'fhey tried to ahame him, tried to discourage him, tried to kill him; but Robert Morrison never quit. At the end of seven years Morri»*on could only count one convert to Christianity. But in 1JK)7. just 100 yearn after be had arrived, there were 178,251, and today. 124 years after his arrival, there are over five hundred thousand Christians in Chino, and more than half the members of the President's Cabinet in Chin* are pro fessed Christians. Toiling seven yeari be fore he had his irst convert, Morrison stood alone ridiculed, hated, despised and yet unflinching, confident in his faith and in God. Surely, his faith was well fixed and his confidence in God more than jus tified. After forty years of consuming, passion- •ite service, William Carey died in 1834 with only a handful of converts to Chrit- tianity in India. Twenty years after he died, that is to say in 18M, a bold mis sionary had the courage to say that he believed the time would come when a hun dred converts would be baptised in a single year in India. India averages 3,000 con verts a month now, and in the last gov ernment census 4.000,000 people put their names down as Christians. Now when Ghandi's followers wish to describe and compliment him, they say he is “Chrlst- like.” I need not specify and analyze. I am only trying to show that God set Himself to the task and He has never quit. I guess He never will till all the peo pies of the earth, made in His image, shall at least have an opportunity, for our *avionr revealed the (1‘^epest desire of Hip own heart when He said, “Go ye into •ill the world.*’ In obedience to that universal command, there are today throughout the non-Chris- tinn world 20.188 missionaries, I mean those sent out to carry the evangel of >ur liord into the harvest fields of our God. In addition to these there are 151,- 735 native workers seeking to deliver the gc*od news of our Lord in their own native tongue, conducting Christian work in over fifty-five thousand stations and preaching places. There are actually established in what we may term the pagan lands, or in non-Christian countries 30,240 churches, w’ith nearly 10,(XK),OOU communicants and adherents standing upon the threshold of the kingdom of our Lord. There are those who get the thought that the work of Missions is just that of sending out preachers, to establish church es and proclaim the gospel. This, how ever. is only a beginning. There are in the non-Christian world today, supported through Christian Churches, 50,079 MIS SIOXARY SCHOOLS, ranging from kin dergartens to great universities, with 2,- 440,148 pupils. Of these schools more than 2r).(«X) are of college grade and sev eral of high university grade. Springing up from the gospel preached and taught in non-Christian lands, there are today 8o8 hospitals who treated in a recent year 4.7K8.2.‘>8 patients in the spirit of the Great Physician. Our Bible, or portions of it. have been printed in 853 languages and dialects and are being distributed at the rate of over 2.">.tHM>.tMM) copies a year. Out of this work of (Jod and grace, Chris tian syin|>atliy has established hospitals for the insane. 104 leper asylums, 32 schools for the blind and deaf and 301 (’hristinn orphanages. For this vast un dertaking, solely in the name and for the glory of (4od and the love of His Son, the ('hurclies of FiUrope and America of a re- c(‘iit \ear s]jent .$»»J>..“i.').*),148. I relate these ligures not because of their magni tude, hut as a revelation of the fact that this is the work of (iod. carried on through Him. sustained and sup))orted by His majesty and might through consecrated heroes. ADVEXTlTROrS and 1>AR1NG .souls, r.N’SFLFISH men and women who liave risked all to go out to share the lo\e of (Jod and knowledge of God with thos(‘ who were strangers to His will and His way. Surely, this is the work of (iod. and it is marvelous in our sight. He lias begun it, and He will nev(*r. never lit until the task is finished: for the gates of the New Jerusalem are open on all sides, three to the Fast, three to the N'orth. three to tho South and three to the West, a complete and sufficient num ber, that all who know Him and look to Him and call upon Him may have an \buiulant entrance into that houw* not ->de with hands. Second, Victory in God's missionary •Method and motive is assui'ed because in r we see .Tesus of Xazar‘th. at His best. Fnlfss we have lookerl at .fesus through the missionary telescoiw, we haven’t seen Him. we haven’t known Him in the full ilisplay of His might and majesty. We see Him entering the lives of individuals aronnd abont us and changing those lives. There are individuala before me now whose lives have been changed and are different today because of their knowledge of Jetius of Nazareth. It is a wonderful thing that One who lived on earth for a period of about 33 yeaw and was cruci fied nearly 2,000 years ago can enter into a human life here and now and change it. I have seen men and women, boys and girls of the most indifferent typ« and hardest heart, change by coming in con tact with Him. Bat they were living in an atmosphere more or lew clarified by His present; in homes and communities where He ia taught and told abont; where conditions are such that it will be easier and more agreable to live with Him than to live without Him. Here indeed we see the power of Christ nnder the salva tion of the individual. But how about the power of a Christ who is able to go up against, to tiproot, nnd to overthrow strongholds and preju dices entrenched and developed for thous ands of years? As a student in Harvard I had a friend from the Near East. Members of the wame class we walked and talked much together. One day I said : “How happens it that: you are here?” And then he told me a story of his life that revealed the ^race of God and the power of Christ as I had never heard it before. He went in his village for two or three nights to hear ft missionary preach. His father and mother were told that their son was at tending meetings of the missionary. On '\is return and entering his home one night the father confronted him with the plea and threat, “They tell me, Son, that you are going to a meeting to hear a dog of a Christian preach. I am loth to believe it. but if you attend another such service I want you to know that you will not only go under the protest of your father, but of all that your father holds sacred and solemn and reverential, and you can no longer do that and be my Son.” And then the mother said, “Son, I can hardly believe that a child of mine has so far forgot the god that his mother worships, as to go and hear the dog of a Christian preach! And with your father I warn you that you will no longer be a son but a bastard if you attend such a meeting fur ther. I cannot believe that you will thus bring disgrace and shame upon your mother, your mother’s religion and your mother’s god.” And then in secret he went again and once again, and during a service the strong young man said a light shone upon his pathway and some thing strangely moved his heart and he cried out, “I do believe, O Lord help thou my unbelief.” He went back to his home only to be met at the threshold by an enraged father. Never darken this door again, you in grate, you reprobate. You have humili ated your father and insulted and blas phemed his god, I can never call-you son again.” xVnd the mother, whom he loved and cherished, in a scream yelled out the anguish and agony of her heart, in driving a child from her door, declaring that he was no longer her child and that hence forth she could not think of him as hers but as one who is unworthy and unholy, who had dragged into the dust not only tlie name of his family but the name and tradition of their god.” That young man told me of his experience without a tear, or a quiver, of how he walked that night and the next day and kept walking till finally he found a ship and worked his way to America, and here had worked his way through college and now was soon to be a graduate of Harvard Divinity Schoool. And I asked him “what then?” “I shall go back to my country and not far away from the community where fa ther and mother live there to pour out y life, give all that I am and ever hope to be in devotion and consecration to Him whose life lifted me and satisfied the hun- ser of a heart that was famishing without Him.” That I think is the life and the lifting power of our Christ revealing Him at His best. He has gone up against ntrenched prejudices, against hatred and in the face of death : and again and again He has won out. and re-written the life history of imtold thousands of men and women. He is rewriting the history, the attitndo^ and the activity of China and Japan, and Africa and India today. It has been nearly KK) years now. A struggling, emaciated Methodist preacher, when he had physical strength, was preaching on a circuit at Hillsboro, N. C. He M’ent down to Raleigh to his annual conference. Then for some reason he went to the Virginia Methodist Con ference in session at Norfolk. At the close of that Conference, the presiding Bishop stated that the Methodist Church wanted to plant a mission in darkest Africa and had some money with which to start it, but bo man had been found who would dare the risk and the hazard. And then that frail form of Rev. Mr. Cox walked down the aisle and laid his cold and clammy band on the hand of the Bishop and said, like Isaiah of old, “Here am I, send me.” The Bishop told the frail man that he was too weak and emaciated to battle with disease in Africa. The reply of the brave heart was: “If I can’t live there, I hope you will send me out and let me die there for my liord.” They sent him. In less than a year from the time he landed in Africa his wasted body had been planted in Africa’s soil. But in the tribe and the community where Mr. Cex planted his body for the I>ord, churches and schools and hospitals have sprung up and today that part of Africa is one of the mosl orderly and Christianiaed sections of all Afrioi. I think such as that shows the power, the compelling, lifting power of our Lord at HIS best. I need not single them out one by one. They are described in the 11th chapter of Hebrews and in every history of Missions written the last half century, those “Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought right* eousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions. They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy.” These are they who under the compelling power of a courage and a love they could not resist, went out to demonstrate the might and majesty of our Lord. We have never seen our Christ at Ilia best; we never see prayer at its best, nor faith at its best, nor courage at its best, until we have seen it through the missionary effort, that of sharing with others, even unto the re motest parts, and with those in deepest need, the love that has lifted us and the light that has shone upon our pathway. (Continued on Pa jp
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