Chicago Christian High School - Violet and Maize Yearbook (Palos Heights, IL)

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AN ATTITUDE TOWARD LIFE With the climax of our high school career we have reached one of the out standing peaks in our small lives We pause momentarily, and turn to look back upon those happy hours which we spent together, we think of the struggles we had in common, and how together we reached the goal of our striving While we stand at the summit a thrill of Joy, keen and rejuvenating, runs through our beings In all, it presents to our minds the picture of a pleasant dream, but which IS only transient There are bigger issues demanding our attention, and we must accommodate them For with the finish of our intellectual training, a bigger world places itself before us, a broader life opens to our view and we must assume an attitude towards both Of course, we were not without an attitude before this If we have lived to any extent we must have assumed an attitude But the school career is primarily one of trammg, and our lives have been to a large extent passive Rather than being active participants in the great battle of life, we were being trained to face it, and now that the time has come, we must assume a wholesome controlling attitude which shall be our guide through all the avenues of the life which awaits us The great question which now seeks an answer is, What attitude shall we assume as we enter a world which certainly IS not guided by the highest standards of ethics and religious faith? In determining the answer to this question, the nature of our training will naturally play a large part The impressions received and the influences which have exerted their power are potent factors in developing a state of mind If they are good and true they define right courses of action, move the will to strive for the higher and loftier levels of life, and cultivate in the soul ideals which shall point out to us what must be the ultimate goal of all our endeavors Education is essentially the preparation for the duties and responsibilities of life, but our attitude determines our conception of these duties and responsibilities. It cannot be denied that education is a mighty factor in interpreting life. It may impart a perverted notion of the calling of life, or it may reveal life as it actually is in all its beauty as well as its hideousness, with a true conception of its ulti- mate purpose. We may thank Cvod that our preparation has been a singularly Christian one, and that our minds have been developed by instruction pervaded with Chris- tian principles and ideals. There is only one possible way of finding a solution to the problems of life, and only one means of determining the standards which must regulate our conduct, and that is by ,access to the Word of God. Certainly, then, an education which has been presented from this point of view must possess a value which by far transcends the virtues of any other system of instruction. It rests upon us to make an appropriation of the teachings we have received, and now that we have the opportunity to face life, to bear out characteristically the Christian nature of our training, and to develop for ourselves, our fellow men, and for God ideals which lead to Christian living and service. If a correct interpretation has been made of the instruction received, we must become aware of one supreme principle which has been touched upon daily either implicitly or explicitly, an all-important factor which must play the leading role in determining our attitude toward life. It is this: that God is the center of all things, that he is the sovereign in all spheres of life, that our view of life must How forth from the all-inclusive principle that God is supreme, and that all our actions must be gauged by the standards which God has made, and not by standards set up by men. It is by this great principle that our life must be guided and our conduct regulated. This truth, believed in as such, must constitute our attitude toward all things, if we are to be consistent with the train- 20 ob xt s-4' -1X'!5fi3!Z1llllllllllllIlIllIIIIIlIllIElEFbl-iii f V I 0 L E T A N D M A I Z E g ?Ii-59.PEI9.IIlllllIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUHASTEL'Z' 'Tw 1 to If W 'U W , - . . . H . . . . . ,, C 1 !.':e lSt'i15lI II IliIllIIllIIIIIIIIIIIlllllIIllIIIIIIIIlllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllIIIlIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllIllIllllllIllllIlllllllllllllIIIIEIIIIEIIIIIU ?1ffl'-1 .f V 3 F . .r. L.Hl .JN