Taylor University - Ilium / Gem Yearbook (Upland, IN)

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think of the nations as passive and indifferent to the Gospel for they are calling for Light. Tyler Bennett expresses it thus: What mankind is really demanding of the Church of Christ today is action — moral action, spiritualized by the idealism of Jesus. This demand must be met by the Christian student of today. The fields are now calling for ten thousand workers. Surely if God has fields of harvest, He will secure reapers to take care of the harvest. Will we be among those privileged to help Him in this gathering of souls? Look again at the map at the head of this article and see that missionaries from Taylor have already gone to darkened Africa, to sunny India, to awakening China, to beautiful Japan, to the Philippines, to war-stricken France, to neglected South America, and to other countries of the world. We believe that if we were to ask each one personally if he felt that he had wasted his life in this work of the Master, a unanimous reply would be, as was the reply of the Cambridge Band of Inland China : Not one of us regret having come out here. Not one of us would retrace a step to- day. If we had a dozen lives, we should wish that they might be so invested. But the Cambridge Band, nor the former students of Taylor University, not even the number from all the churches and denominations are sufficient. We students of today have the opportunity to be among the two thousand now needed to lead the seeking to the Light so that Jesus shall reign where ' er the Sun Does his successive journeys run. —ALICE E. ESKES. The Upper Room, The hours I spend with Thee, dear Lord, Are precious hours, indeed, to me ; Here in the Upper Room at eve, They soon will be but memory. As days pass by me, one by one, These golden days of prayer and praise, I wonder if in Heaven abov e, I soon shall see Thy blessed face. Oh Upper Room, Oh blest retreat, Secure from all of sin and strife, May long your beacon light shine out, To guide souls on to Perfect Life. — J. Edna Edwards.

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Thalonian Literary Society Motto:— Know Thyself To the Thalonian Literary Society belongs the honor of being the pioneer liter- ary society of Taylor University. Organized in the year 1850, it has for nearly seventy years maintained a commanding position in the life of the University. Some- times in the various inter-society contests with her sister society, the Philalethean, she has gone down in defeat, but as often she has come out victorious. Each society has found in the other an opponent worthy of its very best and the strength of both is attested by the fact that after more than fifty years of stubbornly contesting the disputed supremacy each year finds them both ready to take up the gauntlet and uphold the splendid traditions of the past. But the friendly competition between the societies is only incidental to the main objective, the objective which is the end of all education, viz: not only to acquaint the student with the best that the world has thought, said and done, but to develop in him the ability to assimilate the best of the world ' s thought and experience in order that he may give it back enriched and stamped with the seal of his own individuality. From the beginning the Thalonian Society has sought to encourage and develop in its members the possibilities of their individual personalities. It would command its members, as did the Greek philosopher Socrates his followers, Know thyself. No vvorth while achievement is possible for a man until he knows himself; in relation to his own ability, to his limitations and to the world about him. Without this knowledge there can be no worthy aim in life, no grasp of the means for its realization. The history of the society for the year 1919-1920 has been one of progress. We have found in our new members valuable material which in the coming years will en- able the society to continue to stand out as an organization of the University worthy of the consideration of every student. The faithfulness and loyalty of its members has made the society a prominent element in the life of the school this year. The orange and black stands for a clear record, an inspiration to the timid, an opportunity for the untested and an honor to every Thalonian.