Presbyterian College - Pac Sac Yearbook (Clinton, SC)

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22 THE COLLEGIAN. However, his personal faith and courage are expressed in Crossing the Bar. Each man truly has a place to fill and no other place will suit him. You may be a hero by performing bravely your duties in this plan of yoiir life. Failure is one of the ways to success. The prodigal was nearer true success when he sat in the swine pasture, a ragged bankrupt, than when he revelefl in his costly vices. Each man is too light for some places, too heavy for others, and just right for others. Failing in a work for which he is uniitted often brings him to his true place. Judge Tourgeeis failure as a reconstruction lawyer led to his success as a great novelist and editor. Raymond Lull, the first misionary to the Moslems, grew into a saint through a school of suffering. Love, not learning, is the key to his character. He died in Africa and was really ahead of his age, but couldn't show it for his environment. Robert Moffat, the missionary hero of Kuruman, Africa, con- verted the people from savages, and now Christianity is grow- ing there. john Eliot, like the apostle to the Gentiles, the apostle to the Indians, spent his life for them, toiling in a strange land. Closer study would reveal the unselfish character of many who wore away their lives doing what not their age but ours enjoys. These are only a few examples of what we call un- rewarded heroes. Some are truly born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. But the general road to success is one of toil and care. We spend our time each day in the careful study of life's problems with little success apparently. The problems of mathematics and Latin have almost proved too great for us at times, and all our work has seemed in vain when the result of it all was a failure, but, as one climbs on his mistakes, so we have applied ourselves more diligently. And now a greater problem than any we have yet confronted lies before us for solution-the problem of choosing our plan for life. May the loving Father direct us and help us to

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THE COLLEGIAN. 21 translating the Bible into English. Late in life he was struck with palsy and his enemies considered him below their resent- ment. He died 3 his life, as far as he knew, a failure. Martin Luther died from sickness before realizing the full and glorious results of his heroic struggle for purity of doctrine and liberty of thought. John Calvin, a man of eminent tal-- ents, clear understanding, solid judgment, and happy mem- ory, was a true friend to civil liberty. He, however, was a man misunderstood and hated. This idea is brought out in the little extract But as the poisons of the deadliest kind Are to their own unhappy coasts confined, So Presbyt'ry and pestilential zeal Can only flourish in a commonwealf' These are only the names of a very few of the many men who have spent their lives for others and for, religion's sake and have passed away unrewarded in this life. Let us now turn and hurriedly call to mind the names of some of our great masters of literatureiwho seemed not to be appreciated in their age, but now are praised by the whole world. Chaucer, who gave to us that splendid production, Canter- bury Tales, near the end of his life had not enough money fox mere living expenses, had to ask the king for a pension, and was not appreciated by his countrymen. No poetry is loftier, purer, or more serious than Milton's. His greatness as a poet is seen in Paradise Lost. But the last great work of this man, Samson Agonistes, gives us in Sampson, a portrait of himself, poor and blind. He, too, was lonely and dishonored amid the triumph of his foes. All the sweetness and music had disap- peared, but majesty and sublimity still remained. John Bun- yan's life may be interpreted from his greatest work-Pil- grim's Progress. Christian fleeing from the city of destruc- tion may seem a type of Bunyan fleeing from the follies of his age. Tennyson had success for a while, but his later poems are rather gloomy in tone, impressing us with a sense of fail- ure and disillusion concerning great movements of the age.

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X . THE COLLEGIAN. 23 labor for I-Iim diligently and earnestly in our realm, where'er it may be, and to be brave and courageous-true heroes whether the world recognizes the fact or not. ANNIE AUSTIN. ...iq-1... The Call of the Enoree My heart is in the sunny South today, 'Mid Carolina's purple, pine-clad hills, Where oft I've heard the soothing liquid lay Of a flowing river whose music thrills. I long to see the cottage on the hill, That sylvan home of sunlit, summer days, VV here no sorrow could find a place to fill, But gladness, joy and peace were mine always. To stroll beside the winding woodland rill, With friends of long ago would joyful beg To wander at will o'er valley and hill, Through forests dense with leafy tapestry. Wotild that once more the gladness, merry ring Of those cheer-laden voices I could hear- , The 1naiden's laugh across the water's Hung Its siren notes to charm the listlning ear. Could I be there again at eventide, NVith joy would I list to the old South songs As they cast their spell through the shadows wide, Like the far-away chant of .angel throngs. ALUMNUS. .1T..0Xv.i...-. Dreamers Dreamers are the architects of greatness. Their vision lies within their souls. The dreams they dream and the things they see are not the mirages of fact, but they look beyond veils and mists of doubt and pierce the Walls of unborn time. As the dreamer lives high upon the mountain top of thought