La Sierra College Prep School - Memory Trails Yearbook (Arlington, CA)

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' ' lull X. V I VJ 5 -----,fl-.i-A I I in U f m L :-:anl'P-+1-' o f bt -Y 4 ' ll 'J e gr AX 'V ? f i i --'- ' , e as 'N . gi '- ..... Pg A .QQ W1 A r V L TZ 3Life ILSTELLA Coram l.ife, what holdest thou in store for me? To each of us comes a time when we sit down and wonder why we are where we are, of what use we are to the world, and what life has to offer us. Thoughts wander on, and we picture ourselves in many walks of life. We realize that we have more talent along some lines than others, and then we chosse our life's work. 'XVe must decide whether we will serve humanity and be a help to the world, or whether we willdrift vxnth the tide. As we look back over the days we have spent at La Sierra and see how its principles can help us in later life, we would say to those who are yet in school, Determine early that vou will be true and honest men and women. Don't think that your school days are the only ones where you will have decisions to make, where battles must be fought. Life is filled to the brim with all kinds of experiences and the way you meet today's diffi- culties will determine your success for tomorrow. Learn the art of being calm, for it is a rare possession in human life. Dear old Alma Mater! The skies have not always been sunny since we, the Alumni, bade you good-bye. But the principles you taught us have helped us to be brave and to make the best of every circumstance. Since we came to the parting of the wavs, we have followed various paths. Many of us have continued in the search for knowledge and are again in school: some of us are teachers, scme nurses, some colporteursg still others are at work and a few are giving their time and talent to making homes. But wherever we may he, the memory of La Sierra lingers, and in our hearts its les- sons and principles, its friends and associations, have found an abiding place. May each class that is graduated always remember its motto and aim and strive to live up to them individually from day to day. Life is not living just for today: Life is not dreaming all the short way. To live is to do what must he doneg To work and be true, for work is soon done. 'Tis living for others, to lighten their load: 'Tis helping our brothers and trusting in God. uv There are two sciences which every man ought to learn: first the science of speech: second, the more difficult one of silence. Lincoln said, Keep pegging away, For pluck, not luck, will win the dayg And he who will. not he who won't, Will go ahead and reach the front. TWENTY-TWO

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2? l Y' mv 1 . apartment nt Bible IRILNE joi-iNsoN Uh, how dry! is often the expression we hear when one is referring to the Bible. But this is not so at La Sierra, for we have all learned to love and study with great pleasure this wonderful Book. We are told in the Spirit of Prophecy that the Word that points to eternal life should be pursued and studied daily. The oftener and more dili- gently we pursue the Scriptures the more beautiful will they appear. And we surely know this to be true for we have learned by the best teacher, Experience. God desires man to exercise his reasoning powers, and the study of the Bible will strengthen and elevate the mind as no other study can. , Every day as we assemble in our Bible classroom, and before we begin the study of our lesson, we bow our heads reverently in- silent prayer. Then as we continue our study, which is interestingly pictured before us by Elder Young, we see light in subjects that before seemed vague. Did you ever stop to think that people receive injury from reading the Bible? This is a possibility which happens often under certain conditions. There is much reading of the Bible that is without profit, and in many cases a positive injury. Wlien the Word of C-od is opened without reverence and without prayer, when the thoughts and affections are not! fixed upon God, or in harmony with His will, the mind is clouded with doubt: and in the verv study of the Bible, skepticism strengthens. If any man willeth to do His will, he shall know of the teaching. -John 7: l7. The Bible is the most widely read and most influential Book in the world. And the Bible alone has converted thousands of heathen in foreign lands, and even in our land. No other Book is so potent to elevate the thoughts and to give vigor to the faculties as the broad, ennobling truths of the Bible. If God's Vvord were studied as it should be, men would have a breadth of mind. a nobility of character, and a stability of purpose that is rarelv seen in these times. Education is not complete without the Bible, for it is the basis of all true education. TWENTY-THREE