Eastern Nazarene College - Nautilus Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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NAUTILUS Time would fail us to mention a tithe of those heroes whose aspirations have enlarged the bounds of life for us: Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, who compelled the silent stars to reveal their mysteries, XVilliam Penn and John Howard, who discovered that in the moral and social world faith and kindness are of more avail than cruelty and distrust, Socrates and Plato, who grasped the harmony of true reason and unseen realities, Bacon, who claimed all scientific knowledge as his province. In all realms-the physical, the aesthetic, the social, the intellectual, the religious- men have been constructing on their given foundation a building which never can be shaken, they have been growing, expanding to fuller life. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, sings Holmes. The students of Eastern Nazarene College have not been mistaken in learn- ing of the nautilus. The records of history are not complete. Much has been achieved, but much remains to be done. In engineering, in business, in the arts, in the professions, in philosophy, in Christian statesmanship and Christian missions, there is room for every young man and young woman to develop individual talents and satisfy loftiest aspiration. VVithout ambition to attain the best a man is worthless. But the students of Eastern Nazarene College read the lesson further from the Chris- tian point of view. The nautilus speaks to them also of an endless growth in spiritual life: of daring exploration, while life shall last, of the unsearchable riches of Christ. And finally, the message of the nautilus is the hope of our college. Eastern Nazarene College is small as yet, but she is growing. .lust as she has for the past two years added new and higher college classes, so she will continue to advance in educational standards. Each leap ahead will mean new success. Year by year also she must deepen in spirituality and relate herself more wisely to the interests of the Kingdom of God. Though she in- creased in equipment and in educational standing, without keeping up her growth in God it would profit her nothing. As individuals and as a college we must be able to say with Paul, Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ jesus. Shall we not remember the message brought us by the nautilus and go on and on, build- ing day by day: not laying up for ourselves treasures on earth, but molding the Chris- tian character, winning souls, and gathering jewels from this earth, with which we can crown Jesus King, when we too at length are free, leaving our outgrown shell by life's un- resting sea. M. N. 2I

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NAUTILUS EDITORIAL-The Nautilus HE students of Eastern Nazarene College are publishing a book-a book which is to represent them and their ideals. They have called it The Nautilus, choosing not a name romantic in associations or lovely in melody, but a name redolent of New England atmos- phere, aglow with the inspiration of noble purpose. Have you learned to know the mes- sage of the Nautilus? Let us study it awhile together. XYe are all pupils in a great school whose halls are as spacious as the reaches of the heavens. The master is God, and as a wise man instructing children, He teaches us by object lessons. He has planned and related every detail of His creation for the benefit of man, its crown, and is constantly showing us truth if we have eyes to see. The leaders of mankind have been responsive to these suggestions and have wrought them into noble thoughts to bless the world. The tree nourished by hidden waters, the snowflake less white than the purified heart, called forth David's songs of trust and worship. .-X lingering gaze at the tiny violet, a quick glance at the still tinier celandine were all XYordsworth needed as inspiration for the most tender lyrics. A gust of autumn wind sweeping away the withered leaves stirred Shelley in The Ode to the H'esf IVind to express once for all the strivings of an impetuous soul. So Oliver 'XYendell Holmes, our loved New England poet, once chanced to examine the shell of a small sea animal which had been washed ashore, and wrote his allegory, The Clzambvred Nautilus, famed for its beauty and its lyric sweep of aspiration. The poet first introduces us to the nautilus as a ship of pearl -you are all familiar with the lines-and then explains its habits of living. Each year the nautilus makes a new home: the First year it lives in a single shell: the second year it adds another chamber. Softly stepping through the shining archway, again it builds up a door, takes possession of the larger abode. and forgets the old. The application is self-evident: the peril of satis- faction with present attainment. As time swiftly passes by, we must leave behind us the past with all its successes and its failures and advance to better and nobler things. The trumpet call of the last stanza will forever serve as a challenge in the hours when we are truest to the heavenly vision: Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! The lesson of the nautilus, then, is the eternal necessity of growth: the living organism must develop and expand: the dead may stagnate and decay. XYe prove that we live only as we advance. History proves the value of the spirit of the nautilus. Humanity was given, to start with, only a small home, a circumscribed outlook. but from year to year it enlarged its hori- zon: for, like the nautilus, it possessed innately the material for building, the potentiality of development. As with our little sea builder, its home was new to it-it knew not whither it went. Had it not been for the instinctive desire for exploration in life, the nautilus never would have stirred from its single shell to give us the chambered spiral, nor would mankind have written in struggle and striving the more wonderful life story of the world. A well- known modern essayist has much to say of the fascination of the secret It is this con- tinual outreach toward the unknown that has brought the race from helpless infancy to the intelligence of a man full grown. 20

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NAUTILUS A PRAYER FOR YISION Dear Christ, hon' little have we unclersttiocl, Through all the intervening centuries, The meaning of Thy flying agnniesg Nailecl high in shame un a rnugh cruss of woml - Though to that torture keen of flesh and mind Methinks Thou avert inseusilile that clay. XYhile on Thy stainless. quivering spirit lay The putrelying guilt of all manlcincl. Could we hut dimly eumprehencl Thy woe, Follow Thine anguished gaze acruss the Hciocl To souls sin-chained that grope in misery, And hear Thy liruken-heartecl vnice plead, Go, Take them their narclun written in My liluocln- Then would our quiekenecl souls fly swift for Thee -Esflzrr A. Haxkrzrd 22