Olivet Nazarene University - Aurora Yearbook (Bourbonnais, IL)

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T HE publication of the 1918 Aurora is ready to appear before A the Public. Look upon it! Digest it! We hope that it will do you good. The managerial staff has met with many unforeseen difficulties, which have made it exceedingly hard to place this issue of the Aurora before the Public. Nevertheless, we have completed our work, and we hope that it will prove a blessing to Students, Faculty, Trustees, and Patrons. Each member of the staff has tried to do his best. We are to do with our might what our hands find to do, and each one feels that he has done it. There is a great responsibility connected with a work of this kind. We feel our incompetence in undertaking to place a work like this before the public, as many unjust criticisms will be made by those who have not understood our motive. We have done what we feel is right and we leave the judging for God to do. The unsettled condition of the business world has made it exceedingly hard to complete this issue. Yet we have some friends in business who have stood nobly by us, and we hope that this will prove a blessing to them; for without their assistance our work would have been doubly hard. We have tried to treat all of our adver- tisers the same. To be successful in the business realm, one must not be partial to any person. That old adage is very fitting: Honesty is the best policy. The staff taking this as their policy have held rigidly to the same. There are two clas?et who will be deeply interested in this publication: firstly, our own people. Those of this class believe in us, and want to see us, as a student body, make good. As a mother is jealcus for her child, they are jealous for our welfare. We believe that they will give us the right hand of fellowship, and also a deep heart-felt God bless you. We are sure that our people want to see us with that keen, alert, agressive spirit. This is the thing that will make us succeed as a Church, in winning souls. Let us as a people do away with fanatical ideas, narrow- ness, and be broadminded men and women that will be a success in this present world, as well as the woild to come. If we are ever to be a success as preachers in the Nazarene Church, we must begin to think for ourselves, and not be governed by narrow- minded people. The students of Olivet are awakening to this fact, and we are going out with that agressive spirit, backed up with the Holy Spirit, to be a blessing tc our own people. Secondly, people not of our fold. Those of this class may or may not believe in us. We hope, nevertheless, that they will appreciate the efforts put forth. Possibly, some will feel as kindly toward us as our people. Yet we know that criticism is forthcoming, and we must take it with as good grace as we would praise. We pray that these people who are not of us will be gentle in their criticisms, because, some day they may become one of us. Success to the 1°19 Business Manager. To you, we wish success in every undertaking. We bequeath to you our old and new friends. Treat them right! And when you shall write success to your successor, you will not only turn over these, but a greater number of friends. Thanking God here for His ever present help in time of need, and wishing you an abundance of success, I remain yours truly, RAYMOND J. CARROLL, Business Manager, ' 18. Page Twenty-five

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1 ft i- m mi: mi mi! iiiiinii .:: i ' uici. .cjiiiiiiniiiiti DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS T T 7 HILE there are some things in which other church schools VV may exceed Olivet University, such as: financial standing, equipment, and even in some instances, strength of courses; yet our Univeisity will compare favorably with others in most of these essentials and has greatly the preeminence over many in the most essential feature, that of spirituality, being manned by spiritual teachers and being free from the erroneous teachings so destructive to the foundation of our salvation, and the undermining of the faith in the triune Godhead. For we believe in God, the Father, acknowledge the deity of Christ and the personality of the Holy Spirit and believe in His revealed will to mankind, — the dear old Bible. I iejoice in the fact o f having had the honored privilege of spending three years as a student within her sacred walls, sitting under the instruction of godly men and women who were, in the main, second to none in their profession, and associating with hundreds of young men and women, the cream of the earth, many of whcm are now laboring both in the homeland and on foreign soil as preachers, missionaries, teachers, farmers, business men and women. Some of my schoolmates have gone to the defense of the . vStars and Stripes and are either now in training or are in the trenches. I feel devoutly thankful to God that He gave me the chance cf spending those years of atduous toil under such hallowed influence and to have the glad opportunity of looking upon Olivet University as my Alma Mater. To let this great institution fail would be a ciime. It would be to sin against thousands of young men and women who would have to turn to other schools, only, in most cases, to have their faith in the essentials of life wrecked, their confidence destroyed and their immortal souls lost through all eternity. It would mean to sin against the many honest hearted, Godfearing, selfsacrificing men and women who have already put their money into it in the years gone by. To save it means only a few dollars from all those of us who are constantly crying out My all is on the altar, My consecra- tion is complete, I ' ll do whatever God requires of me. Let us all come to her assistance with heroic effort, give as God has prospered, invest in an institution where character is built for God. Let us lay up for ourselves treasures in heaven by saving souls with our money through perpetuating this center of education. We can save, we must save, we will save Olivet University. Long live our beloved Alma Mater. BROWN Chicago Central District. Most of the good things that strike the earth, drop in Indiana, or at least we Hoosiers think so. And it may be that Olivet University was meant for the Hoosier state, as it fell so near the line. Perhaps but few people know just how near this beautiful school is to us. About a dozen miles from the state line and about the same distance from the banks of the Wabash, just south of Danville, Illinois, lies the quiet little village of Olivet, where is located the Olivet University. It was the writer ' s privilege once to live for a short time in this Christian village, a town without a saloon, a pool room, or a cigar store. The stores don ' t even sell the filthy weed. No ball room, or moving picture shows to corrupt the minds of the young, but Page Twenty-seven