Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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FACULTY C. G. TAYLOR Theology, Philosophy Une thing I have desired ofthe Lord, that will I seek afterg that I n1ay dwell in the house of the liord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple. LOELLA M. HOBSON English, History Blessed are they that do his command- ments, that they may have right to the free of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. L LILLIE E. TAYLOR Greek This is my commandrnent, that ye love one another. as I have loved you. SXQEJ

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ed and led to believe that the meaning is that of the old concept of salvation. Again, it is not always easy to determine the rise, fall and change of thought when fundamentalists and modernists, agnostics, and believers, dis- ciples of Huxley, Darwin, and Freud and disciples of Christ in operation all dwelling together in the same atmosphere with but mild, if any, conflict. When fad succeeds fad with bewildering rapidity, strike relief funds and men of big business with changing conditions hurrying us on, we scarcely know at what point, in the change of one age to the next. we are in. Really then, what has been some of the characteristics of the last few years that reveal the temper of the times in which we live '? First, quoting from a recent writer, t'It has been an era of dissolution. The pumped up idealism and fervor of war times were followed by cynicism, by general smashing of idols, by skepticism of exalted mc-tives: witness reduction of man tin the thought of the sort of people who pride themselves in being up to datej from an immortal soul to a biological mechanism: the substitution of the idea of sex for the idea of romantic love: the vogue of throwing down standards particu- larly in biography, and emptying out of the best in ideals. Second. It has been 311 era of revolt and experiment in sex. The keen minded young people have forsaken radicalism in economics and politics and re- ligion for radicalism in sex and have shocked their fathers by their loud re- marks on the terrany of what the middle class hold sacred in marriage and on the dangers of being inhibited. Having thus left behind the Puritan idea of marriage, t'companionate marriage, furious interest in Freudianism, and a steady tendency toward more and mere frankness in speech and literature are being passed by into the more outright discussion of homosexuality and the more complicated sex perversions. Third. All around us from men of intiuence, we are hearing it stated that since the war it is an era of science enthroned and religion dethroned. A real struggle has been going on between orthodox religion and science, so- calleql. Never before has the public been so ready to accept uncritically new scientific doctrines and theories. While the churches weie losing in numbers and authority, the behaviorists and psycho-analygists have had thousands at their feet. Fourth. It has been an era of non-interference in the relation between politics a11d business and getting rich quick. One direction of the new free- dom has been freedom of the business man from governmental interference. The popular doctrine has been less government in business . The popular president has been the one who gave business its head, reduced the activity of the State to a minimum, did as little as possible to divert the public from its preoccupation with profits. The above analysis is well worth a consideration of Bible students. In every particular almost it agrees with the scriptural view of what shall obtain at the close of the present world age just before the opening of the next. And it gives us the view-point of the man of the world well-versed in the prevailing conditions of the times. But now a strange thing is taking place. VVhile the above mentioned lines of thought and actions have been the movements of the mass public, these activ- ities are now beginning to pass into the background and to give way for some- thing new. The world is in a state of unrest, of turmoil, and of perplexity. We cannot help but believe that Hod's hand is moving in the midst of these things and in general against them. VVith respect to the thought of dissolution and of the revolt of youth toward what they call freedom and of sex experiment the fickle public at la1'gc are again swinging in the first instance toward ideal- ism and toward humanism and in the second to extreme looseness, to sex domin- ation and ultra freedom. tCoutinued on Page 10-lj -Zir- V

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FACULTY 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sentf, STERLING LINVILLE Edueation, Seienee -3 Thou wilt keep him in perteet peace, whose mind IS stayed on thee: hem-ziuse he trusteth in thee. H. IRENE JESTER Mathematics, Physics I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision. MRS. SUSIE B. LORIMOH Spanish, Psychology 363 .-23-. 3