James Madison University - Bluestone Schoolmaam Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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eabtng September 25, 1918 OR this commandment which 1 command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil ; in that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and mul- tiply : and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them ; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: there- fore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: that thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days.

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Draper September 25. 1918 Ri M the borders i a strange land. ' Lord, we call unto Tine! i lur feet arc at the river ' s brink, it may be, and the ark of the covenant is parting the waters . but diir vision siill would lift itself from the moun- tains, that we may see the way. the way that lies beyond, the way that we have not known before. Help us to see afar, hut put thy word also in our mouth and in our heart. Give us cour- age to go forward; give us wisdom to choose life. And for the nations, for all the nations of our troubled world ■ — we pray this wisdom, (live them a courageous wisdom to choose life. And as they pa s over into tin- new time, into the new world, may they indeed find it and make it the land and the time and the world of promise. And help us to he leaders in the crossing of the waters and in the building of our new home. We thank thee that thou hast let us live in a time like this. We have fainted in the wilderness; we have shuddered at the storm; we have sorrowed hi the night; hut we thank thee for a faitli that waits the dawn. May we see the morning break! May we see the blest sunrise! And may we find new light, new hope, new skill in the full new day! We thank thee for our brothers and our sisters who have given their lives and who will give their lives that we may live. If we cannot give our lives now. in the crisis, help us to dedi- cate them to all the future to the same high cause, the same humanity, the same eternal principles. And so may we have a part in a world that has found peace — peace built upon justice. peace that dwells with righteousness. We pray in Jesus ' name. Amen.