Presbyterian College - Pac Sac Yearbook (Clinton, SC)

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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

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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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24 THE COLLEGIAN. and purpose, the world below looking up does not understand. The world is not able to grasp the greatness with its cramped mind and its vision is so short that it cannot comprehend the truth and reality of the dreams. And thus not being able to rise to the level of the dreamer, the world has ever given him jeers instead of praise and persecution in the place of reward. Look in the paths of progress and hereyou will find the heart- blood dropped from the broken heart of the dreamer. And for this he has not even received pity. ,The struggles of the dreamers have not been made with an unconquerable ambition for the fame and glory of crowns and thrones. They have made empires, but not to rule them. To receive ostentatious reward from men, to be in the pageant are not the fires which have wrought their resolution into steel. Grief only streaks their hair with silver, but has never greyed their hopes. What noble courage was theirs to dare the uncharted seas. With only courage for a mast and their dreams for a com- pass they sail away undaunted for the far, blind shores. Seek for braver men on tl1e field of battle and you will find none whose valor can surpass the courage of those who untiinch- ingly faced the unknown future where others halted, and in- stead of receiving the aid of their fellow-men they encoun- tered fierce opposition. But untiring energy in their efforts and an undying faith in their dreams have carried them through. Look about you at those things which you would call mira- cles and you will find that these have all been wrought by the brains of dreamersg their great stone spires that tower far over the earth and pierce the skies above, their golden crosses kissing the sun. Through the invention of the innum- erable kinds of machinery they enable man to do former im- possibilities. The powerful steam engine carries you from one side of the continent to the other in a few days. The ponder- ous camels of the ocean carry their enormous cargoes across the boundless desert of the waves in an exceedingly short space of time. The cables beneath the ocean bring us within