Augsburg College - Augsburgian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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DEDICATED TO THE MINISTERS OF THE LUTHERAN FREE CHURCH IN ADMIRATION AND REVERENCE FOR THEIR CONSECRATED AND ENDURING SERVICE IN THE SPREADING OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ☆

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 =— -----------------------------------— AUGSBURG I AN i An Ideal TO be worth your weight in gold! If you ever have 1 een in a tight place, in which whether you were going to get out of it or not depended u| on some other man being true to his duty, then you realized what it meant to you to have a reliable man at your side. In your game, where victory depends upon every man being at his appointed place at the right moment, or otherwise each maneuver will be a failure, you want the player to arrive punctually at his place. 'Phe difference between living and playing is in the consequences. The rules of the game in both are. broadly speaking, the same. For that reason play is education for life. In the one case the results attained are quite immaterial, in the other the consequences arc the important thing. In a game, we play according to rules because otherwise there could Ik no game at all. The rules and the methods spring out of the necessity. There must ; be a certain amount of cooperation and a certain amount of rivalry. Both are defined and limited. That makes fun jjossiblc. In life we subordinate ourselves to standards of action both as to what is permitted and what is not permitted because it is the only way by which to attain the results we have set as ovtr goal. We would like to Ik surrounded by reliable persons in play, but more especially in the earnest efforts of life when the results arc of vital importance. We wish ourselves to be persons who are steadfast, in whom our friends can ; have confidence, and in whom they can trust. It is a good ideal and it is also a Christian ideal. The Christian thought towards men is one of service. It would seem that there can lx; no question of | such a thought direction in the self-centered person. He who thinks of his own : interest and glory first cannot l e a man in whom others can put confidence. ; That a selfish man may be a helpful man is a mere accident. You cannot ; depend upon it. I To lx? worth your weight in gold is a Christian aspiration provided the I balance which measures your value uses as weights the services you have un- : selfishly rendered. Your life is worth that much to your fellowmen. It is, in fact, a far greater value than that of the mere bulk of the metal gold. : It is a worthy ambition for every student of Augsburg, to become a stead- ; fast man. Augsburg knows of no other way in which to become a steadfast man than this, to have a firm ground upon which to stand. Find the truth and stand there. There is no other foundation, than that of truth, which will remain un- shaken. All else will fall. Augsburg wishes to see her students become reliable men and women, every one of them. Therefore Augsburg holds forth the standard of Christ. George Sverdrup. ------- 1922 I'ACK SEVEN