Augsburg College - Augsburgian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Your Impulse to Do Good ijWOOD intentions arc very well. Hut if they are not carried out they do not have any practical value. No matter how much we may be idealists we are realists in this sense that we wish to see our ideals worked out in every-day life. As every student should be an idealist, so every student should be filled with the impulse to put his ideals into practise. No young person is without the impulse to do good. Under the influence of the vision of the glory of right doing he or she is inspired with a desire to practise good. Every life has its more or less strong impulse to translate its vision of good into, action. But in the large majority of opportunities the im- pulse is too weak to stand against the difficulty of the task. The practical con- siderations come in and dull the edge of the impulse to such an extent that little or nothing is done. A reenforcement is needed. A clear-cut faith in the value of the ideal must come to the support of the impulse. This faith can find adequate basis upon which to rest only in a right valuation of life and of the many things which surround life. In addition to faith there must come courage. There is need of a courage which is willing to endure defeat in the present in the assurance that defeat at first only paves the way for the ultimate victory. Faith, courage, and endurance make our impulse a power for good. With- out these qualities impulse becomes merely a start with a certain amount of promise, but devoid of any accomplishment. These three, too, must have a source. In human history it is shown that they are found in men who have a conviction of the conquering power of right, who have a vision of a goal to be reached. The highest examples of these qualities are found in men and women who have found God in their faith in Christ. It is the Spirit of God in the lives of men which is the source of the reenforcement of your impulse to do the right, as it is, in fact, the very source of the impulse to do good. Reenforce your impulse with a conscious acceptance of Christ. The ac- ceptance of Him will give you the necessary faith and courage and endurance to make it possible for you not only to desire to live usefully, but actually to live useful lives in the duties and opportunities of the present. Gf.orcf. Svfrdium . I'Al.K XKVKN

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