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Page Four. THE SALEMITE Thursday, October 26, 1933. SOME FAVORITE HYMNS IN SALEM COLLEGE CHAPEL Amongst the old hymns well known in Salem College Chapel service prob ably the oldest is the one, “Fairest Lord Jesus, Ruler of All Nature”, No. 465. This is known as the Crusaders Hynm and dates back to the 3th cen tury. It is sung by us to this 13th century setting and in a rare manner the words and tune seem most appli cable for church. The latter three stanzas were translated by a beloved Moravian educator and missionary, J'’rederio Detterer who died in the Is land-,of Jamaica, British West Indies in 1893. Mr. Detterer was a profes- ,‘or in Moravian College and Tlieolo- gical Seminary and was a-ssistant se cretary of publishing at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His translation of tlie last three verses fits in most complete ly with the original translation of tlie first three verses by N. S. Willis, an English translator. “Rise Crowned with Light, Imper ial Salem Rise”, No. 4S.5, is a stirring hymn with which Salem College sal utes many important patriotic oc casions. It is purely a coincidence that the word “Saleiu” occurs in this hymn, being a poetic allusion to Jeru- salem and the song and the word as wci sing it is friendly and familiar and ..we. may be allowed for the moment to trace back in song the Salem, deri vation to the ancient Palestiniian cap- ' ital city. The tune invariably used appeals to everyone in its ma,jestic march^meas- ure, for it is the ancient Imperial Rus sian hymn than which few national tunes have stronger movement or more impre sive periods. The words wliich trace in a sense the history of Old Testament people were composed by Ah-xander Pope, English Essayist and Poet and known to students of English literature for the strength and delicacy of his diction and for his consistent adherances to form. Hynm No. 1, “Peace, Perfect Peace” is an unusually appealing hymn in which each stanza con-.i.^'s of but two lines, the one being a (luestion and the other an answer. The question ranges through the inner experiences of every single heart and the answers being in simple form fervent convic tion and faith. This hy;\m was com posed a little less than a century ago by Edward Henry Bickersteth, Bishop of Exeter, England, who has made im portant contributions to our Ilymno- logy, amongst which is the distin guished hymn so widely known “O God, The Rock of Ages, Who Ever More Hath Been”. The tune to which “Peace, Perfect Peace” is sung, was composed by A. S. Sullivan, better known as Sir Arthur Sullivan, the great English musician who.se compo sitions vary from gay operatic airs to the more df^nified and satisfying tunes for Christian religion. Every Salem girl knows and loves,- “Jesus Makes My Heart Rejoice”, No. 577. The words were composed by Moravian Deaconess Louise Von Hayn and the hymn has now reached its second full century of use. The tune is likewise two centuries old hav ing been originally a selection con tained in the famous Grim’s Choral Buch of. 1756. “Morning Star”, No. 1156, which introduces the Christmas season, was composed by Johann Scheffler, a phy sician of Silesia who was born in 1624 and became a Roman Catholic, giving to the Universal Cliurch a number of distihiruished hymns amongst which arc T“hy Majesty How Vast It Is” and a familiar “Table Grace”, “Jesus’ Mercies Never Fail, This We Proce At Every Meal.” Every Salem girl who thinks of the hymn, “Morning Star” thinks also at once of the beautiful antiphonal tune composed by F. F. Ilagen, a Mora vian teacher and clergyman, born within sight of Salem College in a liome no longer .standing which oc- cupid the fifth lot on the west side of Main Street just north of Academy Street. This distinguished clergyman loved the old Salem community with all his heart and rendered an extended and lasting service in the Southern Province of the Moravian Church. He was greatly gifted as astudent of literature and music and was himself an able musician and composer. The familiar tune to “Morning Star” is of itself perhajjs his greatest monument. Mr. Hagen was born in 1815 and died in 1907. Other familiar hymns a^id well loved tunes will be presented in suc cessive issues of “The Salemite”. To repeat what has been said a thousand times is commonplace; to contradict it because it has been so said, is not originality. —Hazlitt I dip my ink into the blackest ink, bccau'e I am not afraid of falling in to my inkpot. —E. Emerson HAWAII NEWS NOTES PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE At the time, when the American colonists were organizing the United (States Government, King Kameham- eha I, “Napoleon of the Pacific,” uniting the island governments of the Hawaiian group in one gov- lent. Between 1782 and 1795 Kamehameha formed the government that is today the American Terri tory of Hawaii, an integral unit of the United States. The people there are today fighting to preserve their full American status, threatened by Iverse legislation in Congress. American traders furnished King amehameha I with firearms, in cluding cannon, which he employed conquering the various Island pvernments in the Hawaiian group in 1782, forming the one central ernment that 30 years ago be- le a full-fledged American Terri tory. The people ofHawaii are to day opposing proposed congressional action that would deprive them of their American rights. Dr. G. P. Judd, grandfather of Hawaii’s present governor, Lawrence M. Judd, translated The Life of Lin coln into the Hawaiian language w'hen, as an official of the Hawaiian monarchy, he was laying the founda tion in Americanism that eventually resulted in Hawaii becoming a full- fledged Territory and integral unit of the United States. What does life hold for us Which way shall we turn— Are these vain pleasures For which our hearts yearn? Life is brief; Time races on must choose ere it is too late— 5 it a choice after all Or an unchangeable plan of fate? Shall I be the Stoic scholar Or parade under pleasure’s mask? But to mix these two— That is the impossible task! —Sara Ingram. The small cousin of one of the Sa lemite staff supplies this witticism for the week. Xancy, aged three and one half, has always been told that both of her grandmothers are dead. Her family failed to explain, however, that her great-grandmother was living; so the other day, when this great-grand- mother was to arrive for a visit, Nan cy was told with much enthusiast “Your grandmother is coming see you, today!” The eyes of small Naney grew i believably enormous, and with great astonishment she asked, “Is she fix ed?” Whereupon the fond parent ques tioned, puzzled, “Fixed? What do you mean?” | “Well, she was dead, but is she fixed now?” (Yes, we abhor stories about little Johnnie, too—but this is about little little Nancy, yah-yah!) WAITING All day long I would have welcomed Death Tonight it may come like a fleeting breath; Hot and dusty and weary the day Rocky and steep my upward way; Life that queer and twisted game Had almost quenched Hope’s tiny All day long I would have welcomed Death Tonight it may come like a fleeting breath; Skies with a golden lamp are lit In dark’s peace I do not welcome it; Life is still beautiful—easier the way I wait for the sunrise of a New Day. Sara Ingram NO RIVAL LIKE THE PAST As those who ei sun baked. Full of sweet til they find ished, and their appetite unslak- t a Luscious Fruit, ed, t the pared- For though the most be players, some must be spectators. —Ben Johnson I-ife is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding. —Dr. Johnson WHAT Have We Got That You Haven’t? Just a number of snappy little sport togs that you should have these brisk days for campus wear! If you haven’t visited our Sports Shop, come up some time and call for Mary Katherine Siewers or Edith Kirkland, old Salem “Grads” — they will be glad to show you around. Turtle-Neck Sweaters $2.98 Twin Sweaters $4.98 Suede Jackets $7.95 Tweed Skirts $5.95 SNIK'S West Fourth at Spruce We, who in Youth, set white and less teeth In the Ripe Fruits of Pleasure while they last. Later, creep back to gnaw the cast off sheath. And find there is no rival like the Past, from India’s Love Lyrics arranged by Laurence Hope is wanting, everything SALEM LUNCH Wte Serve Regular Dinner — 35c In Addition to All Kinds of Sandwiches SHOE REPAIRING MINE’S Pat—Do you like spinach? Nat—No. I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t like it, for if I did, I’d eat it, and I hate the stuff. Our Foundation Garments are j moulding the -waist line and | smoothing curves. j Dial 8031 for Appointment i Nettie Stephens Corset Shop | 4 West 4th Street * I Eyebrows and Lashes | I darkened permanently. | I Eliminates Daily I Make Up I Gilda Beauty Salon | I 824 Nissen Bldg. — Dial 9553 i The Very Best Materials in lOc Engraved SALEM STATIONERY 24 Sheets LINEN FINISH SALEM BOOK STORE THE ALOE My life was like an Aloe flower, be neath an orient sky, our sunshine touched it for an hour it blossomed but to die. Torn up, cast out, on rubbish heaps where red flames work their will. Each atom of the Aloe keeps the flo- ^r-time fragrance still. from India’s Love Lyrics, arranged byLaurenceHope Such is the delight of mental super iority, that none on whom nature or study have conferred it, would pur chase tlie gifts of fortune by its loss. —Dr. Johnson I Darlino- I Shop m m» 1 NEW ARRIVALS j FROCKS 3 “It’s a Darling Dress” I 420 N. LIBEETY ST. The REYNOLD’S GRILL For The Best In Food We Cater to Banquets and Dinner Parties ARCADE j Fashon Shop | 3 DAY SALE j THURSDAY FRIDAY AND I SATURDAY IN EVERY I DEPARTMENT | It will pay you girls to come M in and look over our wonderful = values. I Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often lieard indeed, but seldom minded. —Chesterfield WE HAVE BEAUTIFUL SELECTION OF Fown’s Waffle Weave Fabric The Cotton Glove with the Kid fit, in Brown, Black, Tan and Eel Gray Prices From $1.25 to 31.75 GLADYS SHOP ® See the New Indirect Lamps on Dis play in Our Office © Sufficient in Vol ume Without Glare • Soft, Shadow- less In Other W^ords Comfortable Light ® Costs Only One Cent Per Hour to Operate • Trial Without Obligations, SOUTHERN PUBUC UTIUTIES COMPANY ^■“13 O 3 I [] ] [J J y J J, I BEN V. 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