Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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GOSHEN COLLEGE RECORD. 23 t'l'm going to a hospital, mother. '.T':l-1' 3.- cii Cm'- fir'-, gm' rf ,.4 r-4 ,-, H ffl-12 5.-44 ,.,- r--4:2 P444l-1 :JCOP Q+-sf COX Cav-'p-I 'US f-I-Q 47-,,...aO A '32 p-4 f-PV ' rl' I-I' EOE 'Um ,- E50 mC 't ,...,. gqcrqcd O rc NH' 5:5 :sm I-3 lf-i-123 must do it mother . Iler mother said nothing, but being mother she understood. Five years had passed away. Elllfll had tenderly cared for many sick. Many long nights had she soothed aching heads while her own heart was breaking. Many a time had she closed the eyelids of a dead sleeper. Many a weary sufferer smiled as she passed. They turned to her as the sunflower to the sun. Her own sorrows had opened a spring of sympathy within her heart. Everyone felt it, but little did they guess what that sympathy had once cost her. Another evening Edith sat by the window watching the beautiful crim- son tints of a winter sunset. She lived over again her childhood, her girlhood, and then that evening five years ago. All the pain of that night seemed to have returned. t'Shall I never forget? she sobbed. There was a light tap at the door. A nurse entered. HThere has been an accident, Miss Wllite. A patient who is very serious- ly wounded has been brought in. She has called for you . HFor me, who can it be . Edith hastened to the bedside of the sufferer. Suddenly she stood still as if rooted to the spot. Madeline, O how could you? Havenlt you already caused me enough pain? The eyes of the sufferer opened. Don't be hard on me, Edith. I never meant to make you suffer. I did not know you loved him so. I. did not realize until it was too late. But I loved him, too, Edith, I loved himn. Edith did not answer and Madeline continued. 'tC'an't you forgive me now, I need your friendship. I have missed you so much since he is gone. Forgive me, Edithn. Just then a little sweet face by the side of the sufferer smiled up into the nurse 's eyes. HHer eyes are like Edward'sl', said Edith. HYes, Edith . There was a pause and the sufferer continued. 4'Edith, take her. I can't stay here long. All will soon be over and I shall soon be with Edward. But I can't leave her. Take her Edith, and care for her. You always were my friend, ean't you forgive now and take her? The nurse gathered the child in her arms, and as the soft little cheek nestl- ed confidingly against her own she sobbed, Yes, Madeline . The eyes of the sufferer closed peace- fully. Edith clasped the child to her heart and all the pent-up feeling rushed through her being, as she whispered, Someone to love, just to have someone to love7'. And with foregivness the pain in her heart was changed into a gentle sorrow and love.

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AMOS W. GEIGLEY, A.B. Major. Bible East Earl, Pa. great, others will Some people are born to be great. Mr. Geigley may belong to the is no doubt but, former class but Cthere thatj he is typical of the latter. Possessed with indomitable courage and almost excess of perseverance, this man of small stature but imposing brow, knows not defeat. Al- though not brilliant, he attempts much and usually succeeds. His chosen field is eccle- siastical but society and tennis succumb to his efforts and no one is more ready to pro- ject any worthy cause than our unpreten- tious, but dignified Mr. Geigley. GEORGE J. LAPP, AB. Major. Bible Dhamtari, India. After n-early seven years of strenuous. missionary service in Central Province, India. Mr. Lapp came among us and spent his year of rest NJ as a diligent senior. His wholesouled fellowship, cheerful assidu- ousness and natural ability have made him a prominent member of our class. Besides pursuing a regular College course he has helped to win honors for our Alma Mater and given numerous lectures on missionary activities and life in India. ELNORA KAUFFMAN, A.B. Major. Philosophy Goshen, Ind. Miss Kauffman, a daughter of the Hoosier state, completed the Academy course at Goshen in 1908. Since then she has travel- ed to points of interest and taught in the public schools. Kind and courteous, unaffected and sin- cere, diligent and conscientious, she has made a lasting impression upon all who know her. Though practical in all things, she is a dreamer of dreams and we are sure will soon be vitalized into realities.

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24 GOSHEN COLLEGE RECORD. Follow The Gleam William H. Haarer ENN YSON in his beautiful poem of HMerlin and the Gleamw pic- tures Merlin, an old man, looking back over his life 's experiences and relating how through all his life he had fol- lowed the gleam that was ever advanc- ing before him, and how that now, HAH but in heaven Hovers the Gleamn. and now as he looks with tenderness upon the youth by his side he says: 'fNot of the sunlight, Not of the moonlight, Not of the starlight! O young Mariner, Down to the haven, Call your companions, Launch your vessel And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, Follow the ,Gleam. Over nineteen hundred years ago there dwelt in the East some wise men, men who had made a study of the starry heavens. These men as they were exploring the worlds above them one bright starry night discovered a strange wonder. ln the western sky gleamed a star remarkable for its size and brightness. These men had heard that a king was to be born to the Jew- ish nation, whose country lay in the direction of that magnificent star. Con- sequently they at once associated the appearance of the star with the birth of the king. They at once set forth to find and greet this heaven born prince. Following the gleam day after Magi traversed many miles of unknown to them, aside they finally country of Judea. time did the Magi day the country and never turning arrived in the hill Here for the first turn their eyes from their guide and direct their footsteps toward Jerusalem, supposing that there the -object of their search 'could be found. But they searched in vain for the king, they had lost the gleam, and only when they had retraced their steps did that bright gleam light up their way again and finally lead them to the king. The developing youth loses interest in his childish pleasures, he begins .to look forward and aspires to become a man. He looks about himself, he reads he considers his father's profession, he investigates others, he explores the starry heavens of his future possibili- ties and finally finds his star, his aim in life. Such decisions are of great import- ance. The destiny of the world hangs upon them. Had not Columbus con- ceived the idea that the earth is :L globe, suspended in space, and that the coveted treasures of the east could be obtained by sailing west, and had he not upon such a faith determined to spend his every energy in undertaking what no civilized man ever before had dared to undertake, what would be the present condition of the world? Wlio can tell how much the world has been influenced commercially, politically, so- cially, and religiously by the existence and example of the United States? What would be the condition of the