Grove City College - Ouija Yearbook (Grove City, PA)

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Hlantrza EEBIQBQ Qlrnai-3 To Jim, a member of our junior class, this Ouija is dedicated. For jim, what can we say that would be fitting? Our words would be but feeble thoughts trying to express our deep feelings towards all that jim was and is in our hearts. Rather than do Jim an injustice by trying to list all of his activities, we have below a portion of the Chapel Service for jim, that was held the day after his passing away on January 23, 195 6. Gllqapel Sarnia: fur jim Qlrnz-ai We are met this morning under the shadow of a great loss. The Angel of death has been in our midst and has taken one who but a few days ago was one of the most active and respected members of our college community. UI am sure I need not appraise to you jim Cross. In the service Sunday evening, in your prayer circles and vigils and in this service this morning, you have shown in an unusual way your high appraisal of him. I am sure to all of us he was a man of ability, a man of character, a man of promise. Death is not an unusual experience in the world in which we live. It is the common destiny of all who live. Once we are born, the most certain thing about life is that we shall die. And yet somehow when death touches one of us near to us and dear to us, we are seldom prepared for the shock. And it is especially hard to accept when death takes suddenly by accident one who had a natural expectation of many years of life ahead. I suppose that we should not measure life simply by the span of years lived but rather by the way life has been lived by the spirit and achievements of him who has lived it. By any such measure jim Cross would rate high. He was a man who lived life vigorously, courageously, he achieved much, he lived it well. This morning as we come into this service we are saddened by the loss of a friend and a fellow student from the campus. The world has lost a man of promise, of great future usefulness, and his family and those who were near to him have lost a beloved son and brother and dear one, and I am sure this morning that our hearts go out especially to his family and those who were especially close to him, and I think it must be the prayer of all of us that even though life for him was relatively brief that the memories of that life may soften the shock and the strain under which they must now live. In our songs and in our worship service this morning, I am sure our thoughts and our prayers will go out to those who were close to him and especially to his family. May we join this morning in singing as our first Hymn, Oh Love That Will Not Let Me Go. At this service dedicated to the memory of him whom we have loved and lost, I hope we may carry away with us something of the inspiration of this hour which Dr. Monsma has brought to us from his scripture and prayer. I hope especially that the memory of Jim Cross will be to us an example of in- spiration. In closing this service, we shall sing as our Hymn a great Hymn of the Church, 'Lead Kindly Lightf -Dr. Ketler.

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